tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post8299144117732862986..comments2024-03-16T17:50:13.312-07:00Comments on Tim Kent's Civil War tales: The Myth of Joshua Lawrence ChamberlainTim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-15602268153342132862013-02-27T17:07:09.496-08:002013-02-27T17:07:09.496-08:00You are correct Mark. I remember my first time to ...You are correct Mark. I remember my first time to read The Killer Angels. You need to read These Honored Dead by Thomas Desjardin if you haven't already. He goes into all the myths created by Shaara and extended further by the movie. I still think The Killer Angels is a great book, but I think too many people unlike you and I don't understand that it is historic fiction.Tim Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-50390398508303688382013-02-25T09:03:01.933-08:002013-02-25T09:03:01.933-08:00Tim, the modern legend of Chamerlain's role st...Tim, the modern legend of Chamerlain's role started long before the movie "Gettysburg" was produced. It began with the publication of "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara and the adoption of that book as suggested reading by tactics instructors in the US Army. As a new Infantry leutenant in 1980, I read the book. (As a Civil War geek, I would have anyway!) The tactical lessons from the book were very valid, even if the history lesson was lacking. The 20th Maine did great things on the extreme left of the Union line that day. Had they failed to secure the flank would the outcome have been different? Probably not. Historic fiction is what it is - fiction. The great benifit of historic fiction is that it can fire the imagination and bring the past to life for the averager reader, not just the history geeks! In the end, it always has to be tempered with history read from scholarly works.M.E.Hubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04635645425921860293noreply@blogger.com