Gettysburg
A Civil War, History, Military History book. Despite having a history degree and teaching this subject for eight years during...
The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great "what if" of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable entry in the pantheon of Civil War literature and as a vivid novel of the realities of war.The year is 1863, and General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia are poised to attack the North and claim the victory that could end the brutal conflict. Launching his men into a vast sweeping operation, General Lee, acting as he did at Chancellorsville, Second Manassas, and Antietam, displays the audacity of old. He knows he has but one more good chance to gain ultimate victory. Now Lee's lieutenants and the men in the ranks, imbued with this renewed spirit of the offensive, embark on the Gettysburg Campaign that many dream "should have been"...An action-packed and painstakingly researched masterwork by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen, Gettysburg stands as the first book in a series to tell the story of how history...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 544 pages
- ISBN: 9780312987251 / 312987250
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Despite having a history degree and teaching this subject for eight years during the first part of my career, I don't read much alternate history. This book may change that. It's beautifully written, and provides a visceral and heart-wrenching depiction of warfare. The alternate history that is explored is realistic and the characters... I really enjoy reading this book because it mostly discuss the conflict between certain events happening. As civil war rages upon both sides- Union and Confederate, I was able to imagine how certain things and events took place.Even the depiction and imagery of death and getting shot was very descriptive that it was unbelievable disgusting.... Definitely action-packed but I had a hard time getting through it knowing it is a "what-if" idea of how Gettysburg could have been won by the Confederacy. Because Gingrich and Forstchen did write this so well with "memorable observations on the ways of war and vivid, technically accurate descriptions of combat" I would suggest those...
