Soon, that world is upended: The Germans march into Paris and refugees flee south, overrunning Viann’s land. She returns to tending her small farm, Le Jardin, in the Loire Valley, teaching at the local school and coping with daughter Sophie’s adolescent rebellion. Cut to spring, 1940: Viann has said goodbye to husband Antoine, who's off to hold the Maginot line against invading Germans.
This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. After Shaara’s death, his son, Jeff Shaara, wrote a prequel to The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals (1996) as well as a sequel, The Last Full Measure (1998).Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Killer Angels in 1975.
Shaara based The Killer Angels on the recollections of generals and ordinary soldiers instead of on scholarly interpretations of the Civil War. He suffered a serious Vespa accident while teaching in Florence, Italy, which left him unconscious for five weeks and dealing with health repercussions for many years. Over the course of his career, he published more than 70 short stories, many of them science fiction, and several novels, including For Love of the Game, a story about a baseball legend. Petersburg, Florida, before becoming a professor of creative writing at Florida State University.
A decorated amateur boxer, Shaara also worked as a police officer in St. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1951 and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. Michael Shaara was born to an Italian immigrant and World War I POW father and a mother descended from Revolutionary War patriots.
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