Gettysburg

Allen C. Guelzo

The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about extensively and thoroughly dissected for its strategic importance, but never before has any book brought readers as close to the individual soldiers' experience as this one.

En Gettysburg, two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. Guelzo reveals the face, sights, and sounds of 19th-century combat: the stone walls and clouds of gunpowder of Pickett's Charge; the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock, in Virginia, to the hills of Pennsylvania...

From all of this emerges an untold story about life in the armies of the Civil War, from the political divisions that shook the ranks of the Unionist and Confederate officers to the particular character of the artillery units. Such exhaustive analysis gives extraordinary and renewed vividness to one of the most epic battles in history.

Its author, Allen Guelzo, is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War era and the director of studies of the same period at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America y Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, both winners of the Lincoln Prize.

With Gettysburg It won the prestigious Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, and was chosen Best Book of the Year by The Economist and Non-Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. Allen Guelzo's essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, from the American Historical Review and Wilson Quarterly to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Wall Street Journal.