I did feel that the author went overboard on the details of the casualty figures. There are numerous references to primary sources that provide the reader with numerous details of the action. The author shows a good command of the source material going through the action step by step. This was a thorough narrative history of the Battle of Gettysburg. In short, this is the one book on Gettysburg that anyone interested in the Civil War should own. Even the most knowledgeable of Civil War buffs will find fascinating new material and new interpretations, and Sears’s famously accessible style will make the book just as appealing to the general reader.
Based on years of research, this is the first book in a generation that brings everything together, sorts it all out, makes informed judgments, and takes stands.
From the first gleam in Lee’s eye to the last Rebel hightailing it back across the Potomac, every moment of the battle is brought to life with the vivid narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that has made Stephen Sears’s other histories so successful. In Gettysburg Sears tells the whole story in a single volume. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle-even on single charges-or on the daily lives of the soldiers.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history.
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