Selasa, 22 November 2016

A Review of Pickett’s Charge – A New Look at Gettysburg’s Final Attack

Phillip Thomas Tucker’s most recent book Pickett’s Charge – A New Look at Gettysburg’s Final Attack offers a vastly (and intriguingly) different spin on your average assessment of the presumed futility of the attack Robert E. Lee ordered on the final day at Gettysburg. The traditional view of Pickett’s Charge is that it was doomed …

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