Jeffrey M. "Jeff" Shaara (born February 21, 1952) is an American novelist, the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael 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 lives in Tallahassee. 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. Jeff followed his father's footsteps upon the latter's death, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars and their most historically relevant characters. In total, Jeff has penned eight New York Times bestselling novels. He completed a trilogy in 2010 about World War II in the European and North African theaters. A fourth WWII novel, titled The Final Storm, covers the end of the war in the Pacific, and was released on May 17, 2011. Shaara has received the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction from the American Library Association in 2005 for To The Last Man: A Novel of The First World War and in 1997 for Gods and Generals. The American Library Association's Reference and Users Services Association recognized The Steel Wave as a 2009 Notable Book.[2] He has also been awarded the Lincoln Forum's "Richard Nelson Currant Award", New York Civil War Round Table's "Bell I. Wiley Award", and Florida State University's "Artes Award" as a Distinguished Alumnus. In 2003, Warner Brothers made the major motion picture Gods and Generals, which was based upon his book of the same title. Works Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground (2006) ISBN 9780345464880 Novels Gods and Generals (1996)—Civil War (1858–1863) ISBN 9780345409577 The Last Full Measure (1998)—Civil War (1861–1865) ISBN 9780345404916 Gone for Soldiers (2000)—US-Mexican War (1847–1848) ISBN 9780345427502 Rise to Rebellion (2001)—Pre-American Revolutionary War (1770–1776) ISBN 9780345427533 The Glorious Cause (2002)—American Revolutionary War (1776–1783) ISBN 9780345427564 To the Last Man (2004)—World War I (1914–1918) ISBN 9780345461346 The Rising Tide (2006)—World War II (1939–1945), Trilogy Part 1 of 3 ISBN 9780345461414 The Steel Wave (2008)—World War II (1939–1945), Trilogy Part 2 of 3 ISBN 9780345461421 No Less Than Victory (2009)—World War II (1939–1945), Trilogy Part 3 of 3 ISBN 9780345497925 The Final Storm (2011)—World War II (1939–1945), Pacific Theater ISBN 9780345497949 A Blaze of Glory (2012)—Civil War (1861-1865), Western Theater, Tetralogy Part 1 of 4 ISBN 9780345527356 A Chain of Thunder (2013)—Civil War (1861-1865), Western Theater, Tetralogy Part 2 of 4 ISBN 9780345527387 The Smoke at Dawn (2014)—Civil War (1861-1865), Western Theater, Tetralogy Part 3 of 4 ISBN 9780345527417 The Fateful Lightning (2015)—Civil War (1861-1865), Western Theater, Tetralogy Part 4 of 4 ISBN 9780345549198 He has finished working on the third volume in current Civil War series, which follows many of the same characters through the next major struggle in Tennessee and north Georgia. The fourth and final volume, due out in 2015, will cover the final campaigns of the war from Atlanta through Sherman's last victory against Joe Johnston in North Carolina[3] His next project will focus on the War for Texas Independence.[3] Following this book, Shaara states that he'll move onto "the Korea story, and after that, something set during the Vietnam era." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Shaara

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