In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were ...
It's one thing to laugh at a man because his job is useless and outdated -- another to depend on him when it suddenly isn't....
Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Michael Shaara’s first novel, The Broken Place, is the triumphant story of Tom McClain -- Korean War hero, wounded veteran, professional boxer, college student, and sufferer from post-trau...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Shaara joins the Pocket Books backlist. Only one man knows why millions of people are dying, and one man must make the choice--save all of mankind or save the future. Includes a newly revised ending....
“Moving, beautiful . . . If Hemingway had written a baseball novel, he might have written For Love of the Game.” -- Los Angeles Times
Billy Chapel is a baseball legend, after seventeen season a sure Hall of Famer. He is a man who has retai...
“The rebel in spring is a sometime thing, but beware the rebel in autumn…” states the epigraph to Michael Shaara’s great unpublished novel, The Rebel in Autumn. Shaara wrote Rebel immediately before The Killer Angels (for which he won the Pul...
Things are very different in 2066: a man is chosen to be President by a computer based on test scores. This has interesting ramifications for an ordinary political science professor with no ambition but high intelligence....
Finding a cause worth dying for is no great trick -- the Universe is full of them. Finding one worth living for is the genuine problem!...
A weird world -- cut off from the Universe, it had universal wisdom; facing death at every moment, it had the secret of peace!...
"Now this here planet," he said cautiously, "is whacky in a lot of ways. First of all they call it Mert. Just plain Mert. And they live in houses strictly from Dickens, all carriages, no sewers, narrow streets, stuff like that." But that wasn't all.....
Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines during the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and hi...