Cain at Gettysburg by Ralph Peters
Fiction

When I read a review that compared Cain at Gettysburg favorably to Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels I confess I was skeptical. But this book truly rivals—and in some ways surpasses—Shaara’s Civil War literary masterpiece. In Cain at Gettysburg, author Ralph Peters presents an unflinchingly realistic view of the battle. We see the story unfold from the viewpoints of a variety of Union and Confederate privates and officers, and their stories show the grittiness and the camaraderie of war. For Civil War buffs and fans of modern war classics such as The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.