The Killer Angels (Shaara, 1974)
1863 · Resource
Michael Shaara's Pulitzer-winning historical novelisation of the Battle of Gettysburg — usually shelved as fiction but used in West Point curricula as a study text.
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Around 1863
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)