Jeffrey Shaara

Jeffrey Shaara was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. He graduated from Florida State University in 1974 with a degree in Criminology and now lives in Sarasota.

He wrote Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure which are the prequel and sequel, respectively, to his father Michael's award-winning novel The Killer Angels. Jeffrey followed his father's footsteps upon the latter's death, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars.

He is currently working on a trilogy about World War II in Europe and North Africa, which will be followed by a novel about World War II in the Pacific and then a novel about the Korean War. The second book in his WWII trilogy,"The Steel Wave", was released on May 13, 2008. The third is due late in 2009.

His book Gods and Generals was produced in 2003 as a major motion picture by Warner Brothers.

Works

Novels

• Gods and Generals (1996) - Civil War (1861-1865)
• The Last Full Measure (1998) - Civil War (1861-1865)
• Gone for Soldiers (2000) - US-Mexican War (1847-1848)
• Rise to Rebellion (2001) - Pre-American Revoltionary War (1770-1776)
• The Glorious Cause (2002) - American Revolutionary War (1776-1783)
• To the Last Man (2004) - World War I (1914-1918)
• Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground (2006)
• The Rising Tide (2006) - World War II (1939-1945), Trilogy Part 1 of 3
• The Steel Wave (2008) - World War II (1939-1945), Trilogy Part 2 of 3

External links

• Author's website
• Interview on The Rising Tide at the Pritzker Military Library
• Video or audio interview by Karen Saupe on Inner Compass
• Video interview on "The Steel Wave"