{"product_id":"lost-triumph-lees-real-plan-at-gettysburg-and-why-it-failed-paperback-1","title":"Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--and Why It Failed - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Carhart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Thanks to Tom Carhart's painstaking and absorbing reconstruction of events, we now have a clear comprehension of what Lee planned for July 3--and why it went wrong.\"--James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBattle Cry of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cp\u003eConventional 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDestined to be controversial, \u003ci\u003eLost Triumph\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative reassessment of this monumental battle and a vivid, indispensable contribution to Civil War literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Carhart has been a lawyer and a historian for the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of West Point, a decorated Vietnam veteran, and has earned a Ph.D. in American and military history from Princeton University. He is the author of four books of military history and teaches at Mary Washington College near his home in the Washington, D.C. area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.96 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47291539423481,"sku":"9780425207918","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/2Fb04ONJaV9780425207918_b816726d-47a7-4fcd-8c62-98e814b3cae6.webp?v=1769162795","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lost-triumph-lees-real-plan-at-gettysburg-and-why-it-failed-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}