Gettysburg by Allen Guelzo

Gettysburg by Allen Guelzo

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 thesounds 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.

The Henry R. Guelzo Award goes to Allen C. Guelzo. Gettysburg College's Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, all of which have won the Lincoln Prize three times.

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ISBN 13	9780307740694
ISBN 10	0307740692
Title	Gettysburg
Author	Allen Guelzo
Series	Vintage Civil War Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Presidio Press
Year published	2014-02-11
Number of pages	656
Prizes	Winner of Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2013, Winner of Lincoln Prize 2014
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