Lost Triumph - 9780425207918
Un libro in lingua di Tom Carhart edito da Penguin Group USA, 2006
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Lost Triumph
- Sottotitolo: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg-And Why It Failed
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Tom Carhart
- Editore: Penguin Group USA
- Collana: Penguin Group USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 04 Aprile '06
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Military planning United States History 19th century Strategy History 19th century
- Pagine: 288
- Dimensioni mm: 222 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0425207919
- EAN-13: 9780425207918