From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Civil War masterpiece, The Killer Angels.
Coming in May, 2025
The Broken Place
Michael Shaara
Coming in May 2025
If there is such a thing as a born writer, Michael Shaara is certainly that.
Library Journal
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.
Brilliant does not even begin to describe the Shaara gift.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Shaara is not only a born writer, he is a great writer.
Austin American Statesman
