2007 has been referred to, by film and media critics, as the "year of the threequels", a nickname referring to both the 2004 summer movie season and several film franchises which premiered or had installments released in 2004, which appear again this year: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Ocean's Thirteen, Resident Evil: Extinction, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, High School Musical 2, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Live Free or Die Hard, Hannibal Rising, Saw IV and The Bourne Ultimatum, and in a larger sense to the large number of third installment films released that summer, such as: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Rush Hour 3.
The Last Full Measure (published May 19, 1998 by Ballantine Books; ISBN 0-345-40491-2) is the sequel to The Killer Angels and Gods and Generals. Together, the three novels complete an American Civil War trilogy relating events from 1858 to 1865.
The Last Full Measure (and Gods and Generals) was written by Jeffrey Shaara after his father, Michael Shaara, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels died in 1988. Employing the same style as the previous two books in the series, The Last Full Measure takes the reader inside the minds of several of the most important officers of the Union and Confederate Armies as they regroup after Gettysburg and march on into the final two years of the war. Returning from the previous novels are General Robert E. Lee and General Joshua Chamberlain. The new addition to this volume is General Ulysses S. Grant, who is given control of the Northern troops after a series of poor commanders have failed to ensure victory.
From the Overland Campaign to the Siege of Petersburg, from Chamberlain's home in Maine to Appomattox Court House, Shaara gives a detailed account of honorable men whose heroism, egotism, and occasional outright incompetence changed the course of United States history.
The novel's title comes from a line in the Gettysburg Address: "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion"
The Last Full Measure is a 2004 short film written and directed by Alexandra Kerry, daughter of U.S. Democratic Senator John Kerry. Set in 1973, during the Vietnam War, it explores the emotions of a nine-year-old girl awaiting her father's return from the war. The cast includes 24 stars Xander Berkeley and Reiko Aylesworth.
The title is drawn from the Gettysburg Address of President Abraham Lincoln.
An ambitious government bureaucrat is given an unwelcome assignment that could harm his carefully orchestrated career, to complete a long-unfinished report on whether the nation's highest award for bravery should, after 40 years, be given to a fallen hero. His investigation leads him down a path he could not have imagined and changes his life and the lives of others in the process. Written by Capitol Films
