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Gettysburg & Harper's Ferry   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg  •  Jay Luvaas  •  Harold W. Nelson
GUIDEBOOK •  1994 •  PAPER  • 254 PAGES
Designed for the traveler, this is a history and guide to the battlefield at Gettysburg, with directions for navigating the area. Each "stop" along the guided tour presents an important phase of the battle, and many are accompanied by an excerpt of an officer's first-hand account from the battlefield. Complemented by maps, many of which show the area as it was during the battle. (USE192, $12.95)
  Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg
Stars in Their Courses, The Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863  •  Shelby Foote
HISTORY •  1994 •  HARD COVER  • 290 PAGES
Shelby Foote's gift for prose makes this military history a page-turning narrative, deftly capturing the monumental battle in a concise, informative text. A volume in his three-part history of the Civil War, originally published in 1963. (USE191, $19.95)
  Stars in Their Courses, The Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863
The Killer Angels  •  Michael Shaara
LITERATURE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 374 PAGES
A powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Gettysburg that recreates the battle, personalities and anguish of those fateful days. (USS36, $13.95)
  The Killer Angels
Gettysburg National Military Park Map  •   Trailhead Graphics
MAP
Part of a series of Civil War battlefield maps, this is a map of the park and battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at a scale of 1:12,000. (USE193, $9.95)
  Gettysburg National Military Park Map
 

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg  •  General Abner Doubleday   • HISTORY  •  Originally published in 1882, this is a history of the two campaigns by the famed Union general. (WAR92, $16.95)
 
 
Gettysburg - Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill  •  Harry W. Pfanz   • HISTORY  •  A tactical study of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on the second and third days of the battle of Gettysburg. (WAR98, $19.95)
 
 
Gettysburg - The First Day  •  Harry W. Pfanz   • HISTORY  •  A tactical study of the first day of conflict at Gettysburg. (WAR96, $42.50)
 
 
Gettysburg - The Second Day  •  Harry W. Pfanz   • HISTORY  •  A tactical study of the second day of conflict at Gettysburg. (WAR97, $22.50)
 
 
Lee and His Men at Gettysburg, The Death of a Nation  •  Clifford Dowdey   • HISTORY  •  An absorbing, almost cinematic study of Lee's defeat at Gettysburg, concentrating on the costly decisions of his chief lieutenants. (WAR103, $18.95)
 
 
Nine Months to Gettysburg: Stannard's Vermonters and the Repulse of Pickett's Charge  •  Howard Coffin  •  Edwin C. Bearss   • HISTORY  •  An account of the battle at Gettysburg based on letters from young soldiers of Stannard's Vermonters. (USE147, $29.95)
 
 
Pickett's Charge, A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863  •  George Rippey Stewart   • HISTORY  •  A moment-by-moment recontruction of the climactic final 15 hours at Gettysburg. Originally published in 1959, the book is still considered definitive. (WAR101, $16.00)
 
 
Roads from Gettysburg  •  John W. Schildt   • HISTORY  •  A reconstruction of the days immediately following the Battle of Gettysburg drawing on original accounts by soldiers and civilians. (WAR99, $9.95)
 
 
Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine of the Gettysburg Campaign  •  Thomas A. Desjardin   • HISTORY  •  Drawn from the accounts of soldiers and officers, this is a visceral portrait of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's legendary 20th Maine Regiment and their battle at Gettysburg for Vincent's Spur. (USE242, $18.95)
 
 
The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top: Gettysburg, July 2, 1863  •  Oliver W. Norton   • HISTORY  •  A memoir, originally published in 1913 by a bugler in the Union army. Norton focuses on the defense of the position by Colonel Strong Vincent's brigade. (WAR95, $17.95)
 
 
The Battle of Gettysburg  •  Louis Phillipe D'Orleans   • HISTORY  •  An eyewitness report and history of the Gettysburg Campaign, first published in 1886, by the Count of Paris (son of King Louis Phillippe and aide to General McClellan). (WAR91, $18.95)
 
 
The Battle of Gettysburg  •  Frank Aretas Haskell   • HISTORY  •  A short, first-hand account of the campaign, written by a Union lieutenant as a letter to his brother that was never intended for publication. (WAR93, $9.95)
 
 
The Gettysburg Campaign, A Study in Command  •  Edwin Coddington   • HISTORY  •  A well respected (and massive) history of the battle at Gettsyburg, celebrated for its scholarship, analysis and readability. Originally published in 1968. (WAR90, $26.00)
 
 
The Great Invasion of 1863, The Battle of Gettysburg, General Lee in Pennsylvania  •  Jacob Hoke   • HISTORY  •  A short report of the battle at Gettysburg published in 1887 by Jacob Hoke, a Chambersburg store owner. (WAR94, $17.95)
 
 
They Met at Gettysburg  •  Edward J. Stackpole   • HISTORY  •  A concise summary of the events leading up to and including the battle at Gettysburg, originally published in 1956. (WAR100, $19.95)
 
 
Why the Confederacy Lost  •  Gabor S. Boritt   • HISTORY  •  A series of essays analyzing the various factors contributing to the Confederate defeat, written by a series of experts. (WAR89, $17.95)
 
 
Cloudsplitter  •  Russell Banks   • LITERATURE  •  The incomparable Russell Banks tries his hand at historical fiction. Owen Brown, son of John Brown, is the narrator, telling the story of his father and how the events of the great abolitionist's life have ultimately shaped his own. Epic, well researched and powerful. (USS196, $16.95)
 
 
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman finds himself at the center of extraordinary events in this 10th installment in the entertaining, meticulously researched series. Flashy is kidnapped in Cape Town (talk about reluctant) and soon with John Brown on his fateful 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry. (USS371, $15.00)
 
 


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