Soaring high above the chaos on the ground, these solitary knights duel in the splendor and terror of the skies, their courage and steel tested with every flight.Īs the conflict stretches into its third year, a neutral America is goaded into war, its reluctant president, Woodrow Wilson, finally accepting the repeated challenges to his stance of nonalignment.

In the skies, meanwhile, technology has provided a devastating new tool, the aeroplane, and with it a different kind of hero emerges–the flying ace. Shaara opens the window onto the otherworldly tableau of trench warfare as seen through the eyes of a typical British soldier who experiences the bizarre and the horrible–a “Tommy” whose innocent youth is cast into the hell of a terrifying war. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire, a fierce German army is on the other. Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe’s western front. Jeff currently resides in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with his lovely wife Stephanie.

His writing journey began after he was approached to write a prequel and sequel to his father’s book, The Killer Angels (1974), which had witnessed great success in both print and film.Ĭonsidering that Jeff had no prior writing experience, he has excelled in his writing career, becoming a three-time recipient of the American Library Association's 'William Young Boyd Award' for Excellence in Military Fiction. However, when his father passed away in 1988, Jeff sold his business and took over the management of his father's estate. Upon moving to Tampa, he became one of the most renowned coin and precious-metals dealers in Florida. Jeff Shaara, the son of Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Shaara, and brother of author Lila Shaara, is an American New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction novels.īorn in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he holds a degree in Criminology from Florida State University.Īt sixteen, Jeff ran a rare coin business which he first operated from his home, before moving to a retail store.

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