Killer Angels is the story of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. It is told from multiple perspectives by a number of narrators on both sides of the conflict. The novel is meticulously researched and presents the tragedy of the conflict in the context of honor-driven culture and the propaganda-based need for General Lee to achieve a victory on Union soil. It dwells powerfully on the horrors of war.
A universal theme for war is that war is bad and it is not the answer In The Killer Angels the plot is about the Civil War so there is a lot of fighting War is not the answer and it is really bad because a lot of people die homes and jobs are destroyed and the economy suffers Many people died in the Civil War It had the most American casualties in any war because both sides were American In the book a lot of people died and some of them were important people like A P Hill and Johnston Pettigrew