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Gettysburg & Harper's Ferry
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO8216. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Gettysburg - The First Day
Harry W. Pfanz
HISTORY
A tactical study of the first day of conflict at Gettysburg.
(WAR96, $42.50) |
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Gettysburg - The Second Day
Harry W. Pfanz
HISTORY
A tactical study of the second day of conflict at Gettysburg.
(WAR97, $22.50) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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