The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War

By Jeff Shaara

The stunning conclusion to the father-son trilogy brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. With Gettysburg past and the war entering its third brutal year, it is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in command of the Union army--and turns the tide of the war. Here too is Robert E. Lee, devastated by Gettysburg but still determined, and Joshua Chamberlain [Bowdoin College Class of 1852], the college professor who will rise to become one of the greatest figures of the Civil War. Shaara dramatizes the minds and hearts of the individuals who fought in the staggering battles that culminated in Lee's epochal surrender at Appomattox.