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Jeff Shaara

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Fateful Lightning, The Smoke at Dawn, A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure—two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Gettysburg.
The Eagle's Claw
To Wake the Giant
The Frozen Hours
The Fateful Lightning
The Smoke at Dawn
A Chain of Thunder
A Blaze of Glory
Two Novels of the Revolutionary War
The Final Storm
No Less Than Victory
The Steel Wave
The Rising Tide
Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
The Wilderness and Spotsylvania: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Vicksburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
To the Last Man
Rise to Rebellion
The Glorious Cause
Gone for Soldiers
The Last Full Measure
Gods and Generals

Inside the Book: Jeff Shaara (THE EAGLE'S CLAW)

Books

The Eagle's Claw
To Wake the Giant
The Frozen Hours
The Fateful Lightning
The Smoke at Dawn
A Chain of Thunder
A Blaze of Glory
Two Novels of the Revolutionary War
The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)
The Final Storm
No Less Than Victory
The Steel Wave
The Rising Tide
Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Cold Harbor: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
New Market: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
The Wilderness and Spotsylvania: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Chickamauga: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Vicksburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Shiloh: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
To the Last Man
Rise to Rebellion
The Glorious Cause
Gone for Soldiers
The Last Full Measure
Gods and Generals

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Inside the Book: Jeff Shaara (THE EAGLE'S CLAW)

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