His World War II novel Blame the Dead was featured at the 2020 History Book Festival a sequel, Comes the War, was released in February 2021.Gods and Generals is a novel which serves as a prequel to Michael Shaara's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning work about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels.
Ruggero is a West Point graduate and former Army officer who has written fiction, military history, and titles on leadership. He received the American Library Association’s William Young Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction for Gods and Generals his World War I story, To The Last Man and The Frozen Hours, about the Korean War.Įd Ruggero will be in conversation with Shaara during the event. Jeff Shaara is the author of several bestselling historical novels, including Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure - two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, The Killer Angels. Ultimately, the Battle of Midway will change not only the outcome of a war but the course of global history. forces and the Japanese, who have no idea that the Americans are anticipating their every move. Shaara describes the conflict through the eyes of both U.S. But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought. Now Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. Navy Commander Joe Rochefort cracks the Japanese military encryption. Picking up where To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor left off, Jeff Shaara transports readers to the spring of 1942, when U.S. This event is free but registration is required. Shaara will be in conversation with Ed Ruggero.
Eastern, for a 2021 History Book Festival virtual event with Jeff Shaara, author of The Eagle’s Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway (Penguin Random House, 2021). Please join us on Thursday, June 17, at 5 p.m. The Eagle’s Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway(Penguin Random House, 2021)
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