Dec 27, 2009

The Killer Angels | Critical Overview

Published by a small independent publisher in 1974, The Killer Angels at first attracted little attention from major review sources. In a very brief review in Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe Adams notes that Shaara had taken “a novelist’s liberty of invention with [selected officers’] motives and reactions.” Adams concludes that the novel was “an unusual project and has worked out well, with excitement and plausibility.” The reviewer for Publishers Weekly comments that Shaara “fashions a compelling version of what America’s Armageddon must have been like.”...