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Jeff Shaara

1952

21 fiction · 1 non-fiction

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

Allied Invasion of Sicily1943 American Civil War1861–1865 CE American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE Battle of Gettysburg1863 CE Battle of the Bulge16 December 1944–25 January 1945 D-Day and Normandy Campaign1944 CE First Battle of Bull Run21 July 1861 Gilded Age Americac. 1870–1900 CE North African Campaign1940–1943 CE Pearl Harbor1941 CE Siege of Vicksburg1863 CE Surrender at Appomattox Court House9 April 1865 World War I Air War1914–1918

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Jeff Shaara (5 series)

Pacific War Series in Order

by Jeff Shaara 2 books 4.5(15,453)

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;…

Civil War Trilogy in Order

by various authors 3 books 4.3(164,675)

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…

World War II in Order

by Jeff Shaara 4 books 4.3(40,573)

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…

The Civil War in the West in Order

by Jeff Shaara 4 books 4.3(22,684)

The Civil War in the West is a four-volume sequence following the principal campaigns that decided control of the Mississippi Valley and the Deep South. A Blaze of Glory reconstructs Shiloh; A Chain of Thunder follows Grant’s Vicksburg campaign; The Smoke at Dawn moves through Chickamauga and Chattanooga;…

The American Revolutionary War in Order

by Jeff Shaara 2 books 4.3(14,148)

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…

Historical fiction

Standalone historical fiction by Jeff Shaara (6 books)

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction by Jeff Shaara (1 book)

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