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Gettysburg

The Last Invasion

    • 3.9 • 145 Ratings
    • $15.99

Publisher Description

Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History

An Economist Best Book of the Year

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier.

Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge; the reason that the Army of Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen; the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia to the Pennsylvania hills. What emerges is a previously untold story of army life in the Civil War: from the personal politics roiling the Union and Confederate officer ranks, to the peculiar character of artillery units. Through such scrutiny, one of history’s epic battles is given extraordinarily vivid new life.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2013
May 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
656
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
30.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Curt Flugelhorn ,

Wish Guelzo would read his own audio books!

But otherwise, perfect !

Aldo Bender ,

Excellent read

A very detailed yet thoroughly engrossing read that once you get into it, is hard to put down. Highly recommended...

Fred Wackerle ,

Awesomely thorough

Guelso’s deep depiction of the Gettysburg battles, filled with precise revelations of failed leadership decision-making, coupled with man’s reluctance to go for the jugular sets the tone for a great, albeit lengthy, read of this American tragedy. But, the disruption of the war led to emancipation for all...and the cementing of our democratic ethos. A wonderful book.

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