Book Report on The Killer Angels and Avalon

Honors English 12 The Killer Angels and Avalon are very interesting and informative fictional pieces of literature. The Killer Angels, written by Michael Shaara, depicts the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War and involves several famous Civil War Generals. Stephen R. Lawhead is the British author of Avalon, which is a story about a man who is told that he is the heir to the throne of England, and must drastically change his life as …

…consisting of different ideas. Although they were very different, they both possessed an essence of history; one pertaining to the tale of King Arthur, and the other displaying the American Civil War. Avalon provided a modern fictional depiction of the King Arthur legend and how it changed the life of an average man destined for greatness, while The Killer Angels allowed the reader to see the battle of Gettysburg from both sides of the spectrum.