"And the old man, grinning, had scratched his head and then said stiffly, 'Well, boy, if he's an angel, he's sure a murderin' angel.' And Chamberlain had gone on to school to make an oration on the subject: Man, the Killer Angel." Buster Kilrain says: Well, if he's an angel, all right then. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, one of the major characters, remembers reciting to his father a speech from Hamlet: "What a piece of work is man.in action how like an angel!" Sgt. A film adaptation of the novel, titled Gettysburg, was released in 1993. The story is character-driven and told from the perspective of various historical figures from both the Confederacy and the Union. The book depicts the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and the days leading up to it: June 29, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle was fought. The Killer Angels is a 1974 historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.
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