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Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War
by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
from St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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So Good You Might Think It's Nonfiction
Living in Gettysburg, I like to get books about Gettysburg. The problem is this book isn't about Gettysburg. It starts out familiar enough, but then after the first day of what was the Battle of Gettysburg, the change happens. That change is what creates the alternative history of how the battle might have turned out. Gettysburg is well researched and thought out and truly reads as a book that easily could have happened. The final battle is gut wrenching as it was meant to be. The only problem I have with... more info
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Gettysburg as it might have been
This is a novel about what might or should have been an alternative Gettysburg history. From the very beginning everything makes perfect sense, with Robert E. Lee taking personal charge of the final events of the first day's battle (which he should have done anyway after a reorganization of the ANV)and forces the final assault on Cemetery Hill. Even today historian disagree as to whether it would or would not have been successful.
In this account the assault fails and Lee realizes that Gettysburg is... more info
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An Historical Account of Gettysburg, Is What I Thought ... 
This book is portrayed as an historical account of the battle of Gettysburg with the infusion of a dynamic dimension to the events and characters made possible by what Newt Gingrich refers to as "Active History". Gingrich explains what he means by active history in the introduction to this book. As he describes this active history approach to historical discovery, Gingrich explains that by looking at choices which were "not" made by key figures in this battle as well as uncontrollable circumstances such as... more info
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Gettysburg 
This is a fine alternative history. Being an avid Civil War buff, historical wargame player, and historian, I find the novel to be entertaining and fairly plausible, that is, up until the destruction of the Army Of The Potomac (AP) after the porposed Battle Of Union Mills (BUM).
Indeed, during the whole War Between The States (WBS), no major field army was destroyed in open battle. During the WBS this was so, because of the lethality rifled musket which made defense preeminent in the WBS. The facts are... more info
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