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    Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign by Scott Bowden, Bill Ward, Bill Ward, Bill Ward

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    • Publisher: Perseus Publishing
    • Pub. Date: May 2003
    • ISBN-13: 9780306812613
    • Sales Rank: 292,786
    • 644pp
     
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    Synopsis

    An award-winning, groundbreaking, and controversial reappraisal of the most written-about battle in American history.

    B. D. Patterson

    Last Chance for Victory is the most insightful work on the generalship of Robert E. Lee and on the character and fighting power of the Army of Northern Virginia since Douglas Southall Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants.

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    Scott Bowden is an award-winning author of twenty- two books on Napoleonic and American military history. He lives in Arlington, Texas.

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    Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaignby Anonymous

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    June 29, 2008: This is a great book for civil war buffs from all thoughts about gettysburg to read.

    Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaignby Anonymous

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    December 12, 2003: Thoughtful and honest. This reappraisal of Lee and the challenges he encountered in Pennsylvania flies in the face of recent revisionists who have sullied Lee's reputation and looked to degrade his battlefield judgements. Faced with overwhelming challenges, this tome clarifies Lee's logical suggestions that the Confederacy's existence and eventual survival required a plan of extraordinary agressiveness. Following success at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, coupled with the necessity that the theatre of battle be transferred onto northern soil, Lee recommended accurately that pressure needed to be applied in an offensive action beyond Virginia soil. The authors of this wonderful book clearly state the case for this reasoning and follow up throughout the ensuing days of struggle with a keen eye for military tactics and strategy. Above all, they present a cogent understanding of the decisions that Lee made as events unfolded. For a marvelous understanding of the truth of Lee's objectives and decisions there is no better narrative available. Those who seek to disparage Lee's battlefield judgements are urged to read this well documented and convincing account that reaffirms Lee's status as one of America's most revered and effective Generals. Highly recommended!


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