- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/3462872/9780425207918.jpg)
- Author: Tom Carhart
- Publisher: Dutton Caliber
- ISBN-10: 0425207919
- ISBN-13: 9780425207918
- Format: 15.4 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
"Thanks to Tom Carhart's painstaking and absorbing reconstruction of events, we now have a clear comprehension of what Lee planned for July 3--and why it went wrong."--James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom This is a fresh and fascinating new look at one of the most pivotal moments in American history: the Battle of Gettysburg, when Union forces repelled the brilliant Robert E. Lee, who had already thrashed a long line of Federal opponents--just as he was poised at the back door of the nation's capital.Conventional wisdom holds that Lee made one profoundly wrong decision on the last day of the battle--launching "Pickett's Charge" uphill across an open field against the heart of the Union defense. But why would he have employed only a fifth of his forces at such a crucial moment?
Now, Tom Carhart offers a bold thesis--that Lee's heretofore unknown strategy at Gettysburg was to combine Pickett's frontal attack with a daring rear assault by the great Jeb Stuart to break the Union Army in half. Only in the battle's final hours was Stuart stopped by a force half the size of his own, led by a young, unproven general--George Armstrong Custer--who helped turn the tide of the war.
Destined to be controversial, Lost Triumph is a provocative reassessment of this monumental battle and a vivid, indispensable contribution to Civil War literature.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 23d.08:35:13
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Tom Carhart
- Publisher: Dutton Caliber
- ISBN-10: 0425207919
- ISBN-13: 9780425207918
- Format: 15.4 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Conventional wisdom holds that Lee made one profoundly wrong decision on the last day of the battle--launching "Pickett's Charge" uphill across an open field against the heart of the Union defense. But why would he have employed only a fifth of his forces at such a crucial moment?
Now, Tom Carhart offers a bold thesis--that Lee's heretofore unknown strategy at Gettysburg was to combine Pickett's frontal attack with a daring rear assault by the great Jeb Stuart to break the Union Army in half. Only in the battle's final hours was Stuart stopped by a force half the size of his own, led by a young, unproven general--George Armstrong Custer--who helped turn the tide of the war.
Destined to be controversial, Lost Triumph is a provocative reassessment of this monumental battle and a vivid, indispensable contribution to Civil War literature.
Reviews