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Rent Gettysburg
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: May 2004
Genre: Fiction - Alternative History
Retail Price: $8.99
Pages: 516
Synopsis
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'...
Reviews
This is the battle of Gettysburg as the Generals fought it. Gingrich gives us little of the fighting man's look at the war, with the exception of the necessary brief look at Joshua Chamberlain of Maine.As the war rolls into the last day, July 4, Gingrich suspends history as we know it, so that the final desperate charge is AGAINST Pickens,and it is the Army of the Potomac that limps home licking it's wounds.You won't learn history from this version, but you will get a good look at the was from the viewpoint of the generals on both sides, all of whom knew each other at West Point and in the Mexican War,