Jeff Shaara
Autore di Gods and Generals
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Jeff Shaara was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on February 21, 1952. He received a degree in criminology from Florida State University in 1974. He was a professional dealer in rare coins for many years and operated his own business in Tampa until the death of his father, Michael Shaara, in 1988, mostra altro when he became actively involved in the elder Shaara's literary estate. He continued his father's work by researching the history of the characters his father had brought to life in The Killer Angels, and in 1996 his prequel, Gods and Generals, was published. The book was awarded the American Library Association's Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction and was adapted into a motion picture in 2003. His other works include The Last Full Measure, Rise to Rebellion, The Glorious Cause, The Steel Wave, No Less Than Victory, The Final Storm, A Blaze of Glory, A Chain of Thunder, The Smoke at Dawn, and The Fateful Lightning. He received another Boyd Award for To the Last Man. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Jeff Shaara
The Civil War Trilogy: Gods and Generals / The Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure (1999) 176 copie
Novels by Jeffrey Shaara: Rise to Rebellion, Gods and Generals, the Steel Wave, No Less Than Victory, Gone for… (2010) — Autore — 1 copia
Gettysburg 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Shaara, Jeffrey M.
- Data di nascita
- 1952-02-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- Istruzione
- Florida State University (Criminology|1974)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Relazioni
- Shaara, Michael (father)
Shaara, Lila (sister) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Richard Nelson Currant Award
Artes Award
Bell I. Wiley Award
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 38
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 16,331
- Popolarità
- #1,391
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 299
- ISBN
- 234
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 36
This was a work of fiction but I think it had a lot of facts, the non fiction parts would have included the "thoughts of the various characters"; Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, etc. (in fact - the perspectives of multiple characters, including Sentry Hugh White of the British army, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, George Washington, Governor Thomas Hutchinson, Captain James Hall, Abigail Adams, Paul Revere, Dr. Joseph Warren, and Major John Pitcairn. Other characters in the book include King George the Third, George Greenville, Samuel Adams, Issac Barre, John Hancock, John Wilkes, William Pitt, Edmund Burke, Sir Charles Townshend, Sir Will Hills, Francis Bernard, Deborah Franklin, William Franklin, Martha Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, General Jeffrey Amherst, Margaret Kemble Gage, Captain Thomas Preston, Josiah Quincy, Samuel Johnson, Will Strahan, John Quincy Adams, Lord Wedderburn, Thomas Paine, Lord Admiral Richard Howe, John Montagu, Paul Revere, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, Captain John Parker, Walter Laurie, Admiral Graves, Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, Artemas Ward, William Prescott, General Putnam, Major Gridley, Charles Lee, Horatio Gates, William Tryon, Daniel Morgan, Bonvouloir, Richard Montgomery, Hiram Jones, Lady Germain, Henry Knox, Nathaniel Green, and Robert Livingston. ) Written in 2001 and it mostly is about what led up to the war of independence. How many did not want to break from England. It spans the Boston Massacre to the Declaration of Independence. The second book, The Glorious Cause, covers the actual war. I think it was a good review of American History.… (altro)