The release date for the English version of 'The Last Full Measure' by
Jeff Shaara is May 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Note from the librarian: This ISBN also has an alternate cover version available here.
The best Civil War book of our time is Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, a Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Shaara's son Jeff successfully carried on his father's vision in the best-selling Gods and Generals, narrating the epic tale of the events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, in a book that vividly depicts the last two years of the Civil War, Jeff Shaara brings this renowned father-son trilogy to a breathtaking close.
The Last Full Measure begins with Gettysburg having passed and the war in its third bloody year. The divide between the field commanders and the politicians in Washington continues to widen on the Union side. Never before has the unwieldy Union Army required a determined, tough commander so much. Lincoln assigns Ulysses S. Grant to command at this crucial juncture, changing the course of the war.
For Robert E. Lee, the death of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before to Gettysburg was an even greater tragedy. Nobody is more aware than Lee that an attrition-based conflict is unwinnable for the South. But Lee is resolved to fight to the very end because of the unwavering trust in God and the complete commitment of his generals, Longstreet, Hill, and Stuart.
Here, too, is Joshua Chamberlain, the college lecturer who turned into the Gettysburg Union hero and went on to become one of the Civil War's most notable characters.
Shaara dramatizes the growing conflict between complex, courageous, and profoundly tormented men Lee and Grant, fight following breathtaking battle. Shaara depicts the dramatic finale of the Civil War via the thoughts and emotions of the men and women who sacrificed their everything, from the expensive Battle of the Wilderness to the excruciating siege of Petersburg to Lee's historic surrender at Appomattox.
The Last Full Measure, the perfect conclusion to a great literary trilogy, is full of human emotion and the captivating reality of history.
taken from the hardback copy.