Gettysburg: The Final Fury [VINTAGE 1974]

Catton, Bruce

Verlag: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1974

Beschreibung

Fine condition blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped illustrated dust jacket which is in turn contained within a fine condition illustrated slipcase. Includes List of Other Books by Bruce Catton; List of Illustrations and Maps; and Index. Illustrated with forty-one black-and-white photographs, paintings, drawings, five maps, and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. Second Printing. "The great armies of North and South came to Gettysburg because the roads led them there. A little country market town, Gettysburg was touched by fate, early in July 1863, to become important because of those roads. If General Lee, with most of the Confederate Army concealed behind South Mountain, wanted to concentrate in the east for the battle that might win the war, he had to come through Gettysburg. If General Meade, in Maryland, wanted to bring the Federal Army north to intercept Lee, he had to come to Gettysburg. In this battle account, Bruce Catton has clarified for all time the causes of the conflict; he has narrated and analyzed the course of events, paying full heed to the human tragedies brought about, and he has examined th military and political consequences of Gettysburg. Further, Mr. Catton has selected 41 illustrations - Civil War photographs by Mathew Brady and others, along with contemporary drawings, paintings, and engravings reproduced in black and white - and has directed the preparation of new maps of the area and the battle. Maps and pictures are made doubly helpful by the informative captions in depth that he has written. Gettysburg: The Final Fury is a fresh new document. It is a total view of the battle of Gettysburg, which was the determining event of the Civil War." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008175

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Gettysburg: The Final Fury [VINTAGE 1974]

Verlag: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1974

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Palacios, Rafael (maps); Library of Congress (photographs, drawings, and paintings); The Bettmann Archive (painting and photograph) ; Bruderer, Rolf (jacket design)

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine