Into the Fight: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
- ISBN-10
- 1940669502
- ISBN-13
- 9781940669502
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-06-11
- Publisher
- Savas Publishing
- Author
- John Michael Priest
Description
Challenging conventional views, stretching the minds of Civil War enthusiasts and scholars as only John Michael Priest can, Into the Fight is both a scholarly and a revisionist interpretation of the most famous charge in American history. Using a wide array of sources, ranging from the monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield to the accounts of the participants themselves, Priest here rewrites the conventional thinking about this unusually emotional, yet serious, moment in our Civil War. Starting with a fresh point of view, and with no axes to grind, Into the Fight challenges all interested in that stunning moment in history to rethink their assumptions. Worthwhile for its use of soldiersÕ accounts, valuable for its forcing the reader to rethink the common assumptions about the charge, critics may disagree with this research, but they cannot ignore it.
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Other editions
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- 2002-07
- - pages
- Paperback
- White Mane Publishing Company
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