Jeff Shaara

Jeff Shaara is an American author best known for historical novels centred on warfare, military leadership and the individuals caught within major conflicts. He is the son of Michael Shaara, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War novel The Killer Angels. Jeff Shaara continued that story with Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, creating a trilogy that follows the principal commanders and campaigns of the American Civil War.

Shaara has since written novels covering the American Revolution, the Mexican–American War, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. His works include Rise to Rebellion, To the Last Man, The Rising Tide, The Frozen Hours and The Shadow of War. His fiction combines extensive historical research with multiple viewpoints, placing senior commanders, political leaders and ordinary soldiers within detailed accounts of strategy, combat and the human consequences of war.

Periods and events

American Revolutionary War American Revolutionary Era Battle of Gettysburg American Civil War D-Day and Normandy Campaign World War I Air War North African Campaign Allied Invasion of Sicily

Series

Series by Jeff Shaara (5 series)

The Civil War in the West in Order

by Jeff Shaara 1 book 5.0

The Civil War in the West is Jeff Shaara’s four-volume sequence about campaigns beyond the more familiar eastern battlefields. It begins with A Blaze of Glory at Shiloh and continues through Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Sherman’s final campaigns across Georgia and the Carolinas. The books follow Ulysses S.…

A Blaze of Glory

5.0

The American Revolutionary War in Order

by Jeff Shaara 2 books 4.6

Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…

Rise to Rebellion

4.6

The Glorious Cause

4.7

Pacific War Series in Order

by Jeff Shaara 2 books 4.5

The Pacific War Series is a two-book sequence covering the transformation of the Pacific conflict from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway. To Wake the Giant follows diplomacy, Japanese planning, American intelligence failures and the sailors caught in the assault of 7 December 1941;…

To Wake the Giant

4.6

The Eagle’s Claw

4.5

Civil War Trilogy in Order

by Jeff Shaara 3 books 4.2

The Civil War Trilogy presents the eastern theatre of the American Civil War through three connected novels. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows the principal commanders from the approach of secession to Chancellorsville; Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels reconstructs Gettysburg; and Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full…

Gods and Generals

4.1

The Killer Angels

4.5

The Last Full Measure

4.3

World War II in Order

by Jeff Shaara 4 books 4.3

The World War II series traces the principal American campaigns from North Africa in 1942 to the end of the Pacific War in 1945. The Rising Tide covers North Africa and Sicily; The Steel Wave reconstructs D-Day and Normandy; No Less Than Victory follows the Battle of the…