Jeff Shaara's name is nearly synonymous with military fiction. His bestselling Civil War series includes the books A Blaze of Glory, A Chain of Thunder, The Smoke at Dawn, and The Fateful Lightning. Jeff wrote both a prequel and a sequel to his father Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Killer Angels. He is also the author of an acclaimed trilogy on World War II — The Rising Tide, The Steel Wave and No Less Than Victory.