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The Gettysburg Nobody Knows

Gabor S Boritt editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:15th Apr '99

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On the first three days of July in 1863, more than 160,000 Union and Rebel soldiers fought a monumental battle in Gettysburg, a bloody contest that has been hailed as "the turning point of the Civil War". It is without a doubt the best known engagement of the war and may in fact be the best known battle in American military history. It is certainly the most studied battle Americans have ever fought in. And yet, for all its prominence, this singular moment in our history still stirs heated debate. Did Jeb Stuart's absence leave General Lee blind? Should Ewell have attacked Cemetery Hill? Was Joshua Chamberlain really the hero of Little Round Top? How close did the Confederates come to winning at Gettysburg? And if the Confederates had won, how would history have been different? Now, Gabor Boritt has invited nine leading authorities to shed new light on the greatest battle in our history. The Gettysburg Nobody Knows offers a marvellous reconsideration of this epic event. It will be must reading for the legions of Civil War buffs around the country and for everyone interested in American history.

"Essays that are uniformly good and that either touch upon seldom studied aspects of the campaign or recast old disputes....A worthwhile addition."--Civil War History "A great read. This book provides the Civil War scholar [with] some very provocative questions on the entire Gettysburg campaign."--Robert F. Donnelly, Virginia State University "Essays that are uniformly good and that either touch upon seldom studied aspects of the campaign or recast old disputes....A worthwhile addition."--Civil War History "Gabor Boritt has assembled a collection of fresh, original, and outstanding essays that explore some less familiar aspects of the Gettysburg story, and which challenge the notion that everything has already been said of Gettysburg."--D. Scott Hartwig, Historian, Gettysburg National Military Park "Fascinated by the battle from boyhood, I have been reading books about Gettysburg since I was eight. Not since I first knew the basic outlines of the battle have I learned so much from one book as I have from Gabor S. Boritt's collection of nine authoritative essays, he Gettysburg Nobody Knows.--Russell F. Weigley, Distinguished University Professor, Temple University "These historians, all eminent in the Civil War field, extract what can be positively know about the tactics of the actual battle and the strategy that led up to it. Astute appraisals that should exert definite appeal on buffs."--Booklist

ISBN: 9780195129069

Dimensions: 205mm x 134mm x 19mm

Weight: 349g

288 pages