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Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--and Why It Failed
by Carhart, Tom
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399152490
- ISBN 13
- 9780399152498
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About This Item
Putnam Adult. Used - Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E05A-02191
- Title
- Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--and Why It Failed
- Author
- Carhart, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399152490
- ISBN 13
- 9780399152498
- Publisher
- Putnam Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2005-04
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