{"product_id":"lost-triumph-isbn-9780425207918","title":"Lost Triumph","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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\u003eList of Maps\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. In Mexico\u003cbr\u003e2. Building Up to the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e3. West Point and West Pointers\u003cbr\u003e4. Classic Battles of History\u003cbr\u003e5. Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry in the Last Napoleonic War\u003cbr\u003e6. The Fighting Begins\u003cbr\u003e7. Early Confederate Victories\u003cbr\u003e8. Chancellorsville\u003cbr\u003e9. Lee Moves North\u003cbr\u003e10. The Gettysburg Fight Begins\u003cbr\u003e11. Gettysburg, Day Two\u003cbr\u003e12. Plans for Day Three\u003cbr\u003e13. The Final Plan\u003cbr\u003e14. The Implementation\u003cbr\u003e15. Stuart Meets Custer\u003cbr\u003e16. Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Sheds new light on the grandest battle of the Civil War, a remarkable achievement by any military historian.”\u003cb\u003e—Sir John Keegan, New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Face of Battle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Bold and provocative...sure to stimulate debate among even the most seasoned Civil War buffs.”\u003cb\u003e—Jay Winik, New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eApril 1865\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Tom Carhart's Lost Triumph is, amazingly, a new, original and important contribution to our understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg.”\u003cb\u003e—David Hackett Fischer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWashington's Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePaul Revere’s Ride\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Not only a fine work of scholarship but a fine story.”\u003cb\u003e—Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAn Army at Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Day of Battle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTom 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 decorated Vietnam veteran, and has earned a Ph.D. in American and military history from Princeton University. He is the author of four books of military history and teaches at Mary Washington College near his home in the Washington, D.C. area.","brand":"Dutton Caliber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304640303333,"sku":"NP9780425207918","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425207918.jpg?v=1767731834","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lost-triumph-isbn-9780425207918","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}