Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster-compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Grant in command-and turns the tide of war. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time.
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