Jeff Shaara. Ballantine, $28 (528p) ISBN 978-0-345-52741-7
Shaara's third volume of four focusing on the "‘Western' theater of the Civil War," after 2013's A Chain of Thunder, is a top-notch war novel. As in his previous books, whether about the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, or the two World Wars, he...
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Jeff Shaara, Author Ballantine Books $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-42750-2
Shaara's latest historical novel abandons the Civil War era of his two previous works, Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, which completed a trilogy begun by his father with the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels. Striving this time...
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Jeff Shaara, Author Ballantine Books $15 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-40957-7
Shaara, whose father, Michael Shaara, won the Pulitzer in 1975 for his Civil War saga The Killer Angels, penned this prequel, which spent 14 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (May)
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Jeff Shaara, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-42753-3
Once more breathing vigor and passion into the dusty annals of our nation's history, the author of the bestselling Civil War trilogy (Gods and Generals; The Last Full Measure; Gone for Soldiers) demonstrates an ever-growing level of literary...
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Jeff Shaara, Author Ballantine $27.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-345-40491-6
Concluding the Civil War trilogy that began with his father Michael's Pulitzer-winning The Killer Angels, Shaara (Gods and Generals) chronicles Lee's retreat from Gettysburg and his valiant efforts to defend northern Virginia from Grant's superior,...
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Jeff Shaara, Author Ballantine $30 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-40492-3
Like father, like son? The publisher is aggressively linking Shaara's first novel with The Killer Angels, the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning (1974) novel about the Battle of Gettysburg by his father, Michael Shaara (d. 1988). Indeed, the son's...
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Jeff Shaara, Author . Ballantine $28 (449p) ISBN 978-0-345-49792-5
Firmly straddling the ground between war novel and military history, the conclusion to Shaara's WWII European theater series contains the usual mix of real life military leaders and fictional soldiers in combat, recapitulating the last five...
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Jeff Shaara, Author . Ballantine $28 (493p) ISBN 978-0-345-46142-1
This keystone of the bestselling WWII trilogy dramatizes D-Day and ups the bar for military historicals, demonstrating that Shaara (The Rising Tide
) has hit full stride. The epic-scale novel opens on January 25, 1944, with British commandos...
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Jeff Shaara, Author . Ballantine $27.95 (536p) ISBN 978-0345-46141-4
Shaara (To the Last Man
; Gone for Soldiers
), who has written bestselling and critically acclaimed historical novels covering the American Revolution through World War I, takes on World War II in the wonderful first volume of a planned trilogy. As...
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Jeff Shaara, Author . Ballantine $27.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-345-46134-6
Moving on from the American Revolution and the Civil War, Shaara (The Glorious Cause
, etc.) delivers an epic account of the American experience in WWI. As usual, he narrates from the perspective of actual historical figures, moving from the...
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Jeff Shaara, Author . Ballantine $29.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-345-42756-4
Shaara's hefty fifth novel, the second in a two-volume series about the American Revolution, is an epic saga of what Shaara calls our first civil war and the first truly world war, told with emotion, energy and historical precision. Using the...
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Jeff Shaara, Author, Anthony Heald, Read by Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3465-2
Just as his father captured the heart of the Civil War with such fine novels as The Killer Angels, Shaara has done the same with his tremendous non-fiction saga of the Allied landings on Omaha Beach in Normandy. Anthony Heald is an ideal reader; his
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Jeff Shaara. Ballantine, $29.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-12962-3
Shaara (Gods and Generals) dutifully dramatizes the run-up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in a well-researched if overstuffed narrative. Secretary of State Cordell Hull is involved in some intricate diplomacy with Japanese Ambassador Nomura,
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Jeff Shaara. St. Martin’s, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-27994-1
Shaara (The Eagle’s Claw) delivers a ponderous narrative of Theodore Roosevelt. In December 1918, a 60-year-old Roosevelt is near the end of his life, and with his decline exacerbated by news that his son Quentin perished in WWI, he agrees to a...
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Jeff Shaara. St. Martin’s, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-27996-5
Shaara (The Old Lion) dramatizes the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in his lackluster latest. The story draws on the perspectives of various members of the Kennedy administration; Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and his advisers; and fictional English...
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