Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara (1928-1988) was an American author of science fiction and historical fiction. He is the father of novelists Jeff Shaara and Lila Shaara. Prior to becoming an author, Shaara was an amateur boxer and a police officer. He soon started selling his stories to magazines while at the same time teaching literature at Florida State University. Shaara’s novels The Killer Angels (as Gettysburg) and For the Love of the Game were adapted to film. Jeff Shaara created the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction that gets awarded annually at Gettysburg College.

Michael Shaara became a published novelist in 1968 with the novel The Broken Place, although his short stories date back to 1952. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975 for his novel The Killer Angels. Below is a list of Michael Shaara’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Civil War: 1861-1865 Books

The Killer Angels (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gods and Generals (By: Jeff Shaara) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Full Measure (By: Jeff Shaara) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Chronological Order of Civil War: 1861-1865 Books

Gods and Generals (By: Jeff Shaara)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Killer Angels(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Full Measure (By: Jeff Shaara)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Broken Place (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Herald / The Noah Conspiracy (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
For Love of the Game (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rebel in Autumn (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

All the Way Back (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Be Fruitful and Multiply (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book (1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time Payment (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Holes (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wainer (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Man of Distinction (1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death for a Hunter (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lightning (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sea is Cruel (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wide and Starry Sky (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
You'll Have To Die Now (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Peeping Tom Patrol (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Doctor in Doubt (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Partisan (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Groomsday (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Two Roads to Petra (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Border Incident (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dark Angel (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Starface (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Billion Dollar Grease Job (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
2066 Election Day (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Second Odd Man (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Little Joe...The Hard Way (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Anthologies

Perilous Planets(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Stories(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Note: The Herald was also published as The Noah Conspiracy.

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Michael Shaara Synopsis: In The Broken Place by Michael Shaara, Tom McClain is back from the Korean War, but he feels like he’s been alienated by those closest to him. Now, the only solace he can find is in boxing.

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