Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

By Allen C. Guelzo

Book Overview

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 the sounds 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307740692
• ISBN13: 9780307740694
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Best Gettysburg Book There Is

This is the most detailed, comprehensive, descriptive, and informative book on the Battle of Gettysburg I have ever read. Guelzo has taken his time with diving into the battle, as well as informing the reader about each party and event that led up to that fateful week in July 1863. U.S. history fans, particularly those of the Civil War, will love it.