Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: If history were like this in school, I'd have learned more

I am in no way a Civil War enthusiast, so I picked up "The Killer Angels" simply because it had won the Pulitzer. Well, no wonder. It is an incredibly rich, cinematic work. I was most impressed with Shaara's ability to get into the minds of Lee and the other officers at Gettysberg without reducing them to shopworn cliches. The true genius of the novel is that it is not about a war, or even about a battle, and certainly is not a polemic on the evils of slavery; it is simply about people we come to care about greatly.