SOURCE: A review of The Last Full Measure in Library Journal, Vol. 123, No. 10, June 1, 1998, pp. 158, 161.

[In the following review, Michaud writes favorably of The Last Full Measure, though he comments that Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels had greater dramatic intensity.]

The late Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels (LJ 9/1/74), about the Battle of Gettysburg, is a classic Civil War novel.

His son Jeff has written two novels that bracket it and complete a trilogy about the Civil War in the East. In his Gods and Generals (LJ 3/15/95), Shaara followed the fortunes of several men destined to fight one another in the great battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville, and in this book [The Last Full Measure] he writes about the course of the war in Virginia from Lee's retreat from Gettysburg to his surrender at Appomattox Court House. Ulysses S. Grant has come East to assume command of all Federal...