![]() In a coma for five weeks, and for many months unable to hear or speak, he was classified as totally and permanently disabled. Shaara nearly died in a traffic accident in Florence, Italy, where he was teaching. In 1972, after completing "The Killer Angels," his second novel, Mr. ![]() The superbly written volume is so meticulously true to the facts that it is used as a source book in many history departments, according to professor Webb Salmon, a colleague of Mr. Shaara won a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for "The Killer Angels," a "nonfiction novel" about the Battle of Gettysburg. ![]() Shaara, 58, author of what many consider to be the best book ever written about the Civil War, died of a heart attack May 5 at his home in Tallahassee, Fla.Ī former sailor, prizefighter, paratrooper, policeman and professor of English, Mr. ![]()
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