The Broken Place
The Broken Place

The Broken Place

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Civil War masterpiece, The Killer Angels.

This item will be released on April 15, 2025

The Broken Place

Michael Shaara

Coming in April 2025

The story of a deeply-scarred young man who returns from war a decorated hero only to find that the former college life he left behind is now an alien world. Compass Rose Publishing is proud to publish a new edition of this lost classic by Michael Shaara.

Michael Shaara is celebrated for the brilliance of his second novel, The Killer Angels, which in April 1975 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Later, the book was the basis for the 1993 film Gettysburg, and continues, after fifty years, to be a perennial top seller. It is still considered, by historians and readers alike, to be the finest story told about the American Civil War.

His first novel, The Broken Place, was initially published by Little, Brown in 1968. Although it covers a much smaller landscape than the battle of Gettysburg, the same rich tone of his singular writing style comes alive on these pages, along with his almost perfect calibration of action, character, and back story.

A treasured read with an introduction by acclaimed novelist Jeff Shaara, the author’s son.

Michael Shaara

An American author of science fiction, sports fiction, historical fiction and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Civil War masterpiece, The Killer Angels.