{"product_id":"lost-triumph-lees-real-plan-at-gettysburg-and-why-it-failed-9780425207918","title":"Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--and Why It Failed","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Thanks to Tom Carhart's painstaking and absorbing reconstruction of events, we now have a clear comprehension of what Lee planned for July 3--and why it went wrong.\"--James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBattle Cry of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a fresh and fascinating new look at one of the most pivotal moments in American history: the Battle of Gettysburg, when Union forces repelled the brilliant Robert E. Lee, who had already thrashed a long line of Federal opponents--just as he was poised at the back door of the nation's capital.\u003cp\u003eConventional wisdom holds that Lee made one profoundly wrong decision on the last day of the battle--launching \"Pickett's Charge\" uphill across an open field against the heart of the Union defense. But why would he have employed only a fifth of his forces at such a crucial moment?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, Tom Carhart offers a bold thesis--that Lee's heretofore unknown strategy at Gettysburg was to combine Pickett's frontal attack with a daring rear assault by the great Jeb Stuart to break the Union Army in half. Only in the battle's final hours was Stuart stopped by a force half the size of his own, led by a young, unproven general--George Armstrong Custer--who helped turn the tide of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDestined to be controversial, \u003ci\u003eLost Triumph\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative reassessment of this monumental battle and a vivid, indispensable contribution to Civil War literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780425207918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.83d","brand":"Tom Carhart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45038158545077,"sku":"9780425207918","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1e3643b3-38fe-4b74-a01d-388642d779c3.jpg?v=1737474862","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lost-triumph-lees-real-plan-at-gettysburg-and-why-it-failed-9780425207918","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}