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LOST TRIUMPH:

Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg and Why it Failed

by Tom Carhart, Ph.D.

Available in Bookstores Now

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons

(See book description)

hardcover
April, 2005

paperback
April, 2006

PRAISE FOR LOST TRIUMPH:

"No historian before Carhart has pieced together the whole story. . . . Given the vast number of writings about Gettysburg, it seems impossible to come up with new information and insights about the battle. But Tom Carhart has done it."

---from the foreword by James M. McPherson,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom Tom

“Tom Carhart sheds new light on the grandest battle of the Civil War, a remarkable achievement by any military historian.”

---Sir John Keegan, author of The Face of Battle and Six Armies in Normandy

“A lively and innovative interpretation of the greatest battle ever waged on American soil. Written with verve and a keen eye for the telling detail, Lost Triumph brings to life both the battlefield and the remarkable men who fought there. Tom Carhart has given us not only a fine work of scholarship, but a fine story.”

---Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn

About Tom Carhart:

Tom Carhart has been a lawyer and a historian for the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of West Point, a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran, and has earned a law degree from University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in American and military history from Princeton University. He is the author of five books of military history and adjunct professor of history at University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He lives with his family in Massachusetts.

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Description of Lost Triumph:

Tom Carhart's latest book, Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg and Why it Failed, is now available in bookstores. With a foreword by James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, Lost Triumph artfully and precisely explains Robert E. Lee's actual battle plan for the third day at Gettysburg and what went wrong. Believing that Lee was too astute a commander to rely exclusively on Pickett's Charge, Tom Carhart painstakingly re-examines what happened that day. His dramatic conclusions are drawn from detailed analysis of Lee's knowledge of military strategy gleaned during Lee's military career and years as a cadet at West Point, from intimate knowledge of the actual terrain and military positions at Gettysburg, and from close examination of a wide array of primary source materials.

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