Father's Day
If you are a Civil War buff and also wish to travel to historical locations this summer try Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields. In ten chapters Shaara takes you to the most important battlefields and tells you in a succint fashion what happened here, why is this battle important and what you should see if you visit. It is extremely compelling and profusely illustrated.
In light of Father's Day on Sunday June 17 it is touching to read his story in the introduction of how this book and his other books resulted from a journey that he made with his father, Michael Shaara, to the Gettysburg battlefield in 1964. His father told him stories about the battle while they were walking it which captivated his imagination and destined him to be a writer who would vindicate his father's reputation for writing The Killer Angels and create his own career.