These Honored Dead

"How did the story of Gettysburg evolve? Why did the battle become a legend? And how much truth is behind the myth? For seven score years, Americans have shaped and altered the national memory of the battle, fashioning the story of Gettysburg to reflect our changing culture and national character. Now Thomas A. Desjardin, a prominent Civil War historian and keen cultural observer, demonstrates how flawed our knowledge of this enormous event has become and why that has happened. This is, in effect, a biography of a story - the story of Gettysburg."--Jacket.

המשפט הראשון: After the motorcade halted at the base of an observation tower in the midst of the Gettysburg battlefield, President Dwight Eisenhower stepped out of the car just ahead of his guest, British general Bernard Montgomery.

שנה

2003

שפה

English

הוצאה

Da Capo Press

מהדורות

5

עמודים

246

ISBN

9780306813825

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata