The Last Full Measure
by Jeff Shaara
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Author: Jeff ShaaraEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-02
ISBN: 0345434811
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Shaara surpasses "Gods & Generals"
Summary: 5 Stars
If you approach a Jeff Shaara book and expect to find his father's "Killer Angles," stop right there. You won't. And this is something that Jeff himself admits. But "The Last Full Measure" comes much closer to the spirit of his father's Pulitizer Prize winning novel than "Gods & Generals" did. This book is darker, gloomier and bloodier than G&G, or even KA for that matter. And therein lies its greatest strength. It is also structured much differently than G&G with fewer main characters and more time spent on the front lines in the heat of combat. Just as the style of combat has changed during these last two years of the war, the charactors have changing too. Lee has grown mentally stronger, physically weaker, but much angrier and less patient with bungling subordinates. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain seems to have discarded his idealism for a far more realistic fatalism. And Jeff has fleshed out the "new" character of General Ulysses S. Grant in grand fashion, making him much more human, caring, and yes, lovable. The "butcher" from Galena has never been more honestly portrayed in a work of ficiton. My only regret is that "Gods & Generals" will be made into a movie long before "Last Full Measure." This is definately the superior story of the two. I can hardly wait to read Jeff's next novel, which will again bring back many of these fascinating people in their younger years during the Mexican War.
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