Gettysburg: The Killer Angels Comes to the Screen
Posted by Bruce Henrickson on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Gettysburg: The Killer Angels Comes to the Screen Writing about the Civil War in Specimen Days, poet Walt Whitman prophesied that the “real war will never get in the books.” Essentially, he issued a bold challenge to following generations of writers to capture the essence of battle – that cacophony of drama, death, smoke, stench, dauntless battle cries, and soldiers rising – in many cases, vainly – to fight again...read more