Ever since the Vietnam war we've lost faith in our government. We've become suspicious of our own national history. We're fairly starving for heroes. In short, he couldn't stomach it. Space ships hover.
People blow up.
The problem with Battlefield Earth is that the hero just isn't someone we want to rally behind. He doesn't make us proud to be human. Currently residing in Missoula, Montana, Shaara is the author of two best-selling Civil War novels. Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure are the prequel and sequel, respectively, to The Killer Angels , the Pulitzer-winning epic written by Shaara's late father Michael Shaara. That esteemed novel was the basis of the 1993 film Gettysberg .