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Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (The Civil War: 1861-1865 Book 1) (édition 2000)

par Jeff Shaara (Auteur)

Séries: Civil War trilogy (1)

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The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels   In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history; and Robert E. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Profound in its insights into the minds and hearts of those who fought in the war, Gods and Generals creates a vivid portrait of the soldiers, the battlefields, and the tumultuous times that forever shaped the nation.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (The Civil War: 1861-1865 Book 1)
Auteurs:Jeff Shaara (Auteur)
Info:Ballantine Books (2000), Edition: Reprint, 512 pages
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Mots-clés:general, civil war, historical fiction

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Gods and Generals par Jeff Shaara

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    Long Remember par MacKinlay Kantor (DinadansFriend)
    DinadansFriend: Another Civil war novelist whose Gettysburg novel I found good.
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Re-read (read first time 6 years ago) of Civil War up to attack on Gettysburg. Read as prelude to seeing new movie of same name, but reviews are so bad that I will probably not see the movie now. Book is undoubtedly much better telling the story.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
written by son of author of Killer Angels. Good fiction account of events leading up to Gettysburg.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
I tried to read this. I really did. It was better than watching the film Gettysburg in middle school: names and families and motivations were easier to keep track of than a bunch of matching uniforms were. But the facts were still so tedious to slog though for someone who is not very military yet wants to be informed about U.S. history as an element of civics. ( )
  chellerystick | May 9, 2023 |
GODS AND GENERALS is another Civil War book that sat on my shelf too long before I pulled it down and read it. Written by Jeff Shaara, it is a prequel to THE KILLER ANGELS, the Pulitzer Prize winning historical novel written by his late father, Michael Shaara. The latter was an account of the battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the officers and men who fought it; the son’s book follows a group of men from the years just before the Civil War through the battle of Chancellorsville just prior to Gettysburg. The men, two of whom—Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson—fought for the Confederacy, while the other two—Winfield Scott Hancock and Joshua Chamberlain—remained loyal to the Union. Shaara attempts to give the reader a ground level view of history as it unfolded day by day through the eyes of the participants, who grappled with events without a shred of the hindsight we enjoy in the present day. Shaara has done his research well, and does a good job of presenting the world views of Americans very much of the mid 19th Century, and they saw things very differently than their modern descendants. Robert E. Lee’s sense of duty and honor, as he understood it, would not let him take up arms against his home state of Virginia, even when men with whom he disagreed made the bad choice to lead the Old Dominion into the Confederacy. Jackson’s deep faith in a God who willed all things in accordance with an unknowable plan led him to take up arms against men with whom he trained and served beside in years past. Hancock was a supremely competent career officer with no qualms about what side he was on, while Chamberlain, a teacher at a college inMaine, felt compelled to go and fight alongside the young men he taught. Lee and Jackson have been the subject of many other books, both fiction and non-fiction, and I was familiar with the course of their lives, but it was great to learn about General Hancock, who commanded troops at nearly every major engagement of the war in the East. The Hancock Shaara presents is a man who grieves for the friendships severed with Southerners, but who never shirks when it comes to making war upon them, but whose biggest obstacle were the incompetent superiors whose greatest talent was to lose battles where the Union had the most advantages.

The parts of the book dealing with the armed clashes between Union and Confederates were my favorites, as Shaara has a talent for giving the reader a real sense of what it was like to be caught up in the moment, and carried on the chaos of a battle where the side who is winning or losing changes from one minute to the next. Though he glosses over the battle of Antietam by showing it mostly through Chamberlain’s eyes while his unit is held in reserve, the bloody engagements at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville are vividly portrayed. So too the anger and anguish of officers like Hancock, who had no choice but to obey orders they knew would lead to military disaster, and the frustration of commanders like Jackson who reach for a total victory that is just outside their grasp. It is a true lesson on the definition of “the fortunes of war.” I like Shaara’s writing style, especially his command of character POV. Most of the chapters are relatively short and to the point, and there is a lot of attention given to detail—descriptions of uniforms and landscapes being most prominent—that may not be to everyone’s liking.

And this book—published in 1996—may not be for every reader of history, for it is an example of a kind of historical fiction that would not find favor in many quarters in the 21st Century, where in the eyes of some, American history is solely the story of oppressors, the oppressed, and a few hypocrites who might fall in between. There is no doubt that Shaara’s treatment of Jackson, mainly at the end of the book, falls into outright romanticizing. The issue of race and slavery is barely mentioned, and the one Black character who appears is an emancipated slave who respectfully approaches Lee about buying his brother’s freedom. It comes off as an awkward scene, written to address the underlining and dominant issue of the Civil War, and then be done with it. But it does go the reality that the people of the time lived under a very different moral code, and did not debate the great issue of the day endlessly in every conversation. They were who they were, and not who a modern America thought they should have been. And Shaara makes it very clear that the Civil War was fought by men who very much did not want to go war, and who very much did not want to kill each other on a battlefield.

So, GODS AND GENERALS will certainly “trigger” some, and this book is not for them. But for those interested in a fighting man’s perspective on the Civil War, this is a good book that makes flesh and blood out of some of the dry facts so many of us leaned in American History class. It proves that good history is a good story, one that can be retold endlessly time and again. ( )
  wb4ever1 | Feb 9, 2022 |
Jeff Shaara takes his dads book "The Killer Angels" and tries to extend it to cover not just the early war, but the years leading up to the war. In the end the style and viewpoints ends up spread far too thin to cover such a period of time.

The book claims to cover 4 viewpoints, Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfeld Scott Hancock and Joshua Chamberlin. But in the end it works out that a majority of the book is from Lee's POV.

Which brings us to the second major problem. While Killer Angels seemed to be a repudiation of the Mythos of the Lost Cause, with an attempt to rehab Longstreet's undeserved reputation at Gettysburg. Gods And Generals seemingly pulls out every single cliche it can from the Lost Cause. Kindly Mr Lee who was apolitical (How he can spend 3 years in Arlington across the river from DC during the late 1850s and yet have no idea about politics is beyond me) to kindly Mr Lee who was just looking out for the welfare of his slaves, which is why he kept them enslaved.

Speaking of slaves, after an early appearance by a former slave at Arlington (written in the most white man writing a minority way possible), slaves never again appear in the story. Also somehow never mentioned is the Emancipation Proclamation, which was one of the major results of a battle smack dab in the middle of the novel.

It's not a bad novel persay, but is disappointing because it could have been done much better. If for example the time period of the Seven Days Battles / 2nd Bull Run / Antietam which would have ran from July of 62 to September of 62 was it's own section and given time to build out of there instead of things feeling rushed (while somehow also feeling very slow at points) it could have been better.

It's worth a read, I would definitely read The Killer Angels first, and if you want more then pick this up. Don't read this as a series starting here and going into Killer Angels. ( )
  webbard | Nov 10, 2021 |
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The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels   In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history; and Robert E. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Profound in its insights into the minds and hearts of those who fought in the war, Gods and Generals creates a vivid portrait of the soldiers, the battlefields, and the tumultuous times that forever shaped the nation.

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