[.ca] Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War (ISBN 1402583648)

What if General Lee Had Triumphed?:
What if the South had won the American Civil War? That is the question and the premise of this novel. Even though as a Canadian my knowledge of the particulars of the war were a bit hazy, I found this well-researched speculative work of fiction highly engrossing and believably written. For whatever some people may have thought of Newt Gingrich in office, he's since certainly proven himself to be a fine novelist! David Rehak author of "Love and Madness"

We won you lost get over it:
Last I checked the Union WON at Gettsburg and WON the war. And no matter how many times you want to rewrite history the fact STILL REMAINS the NORTH kicked the living crap out of the South. Get over it.

Please Listen General Lee:
When I first visited Gettysburg I found myself looking out at the distance that Pickett's division had to go in the face of cannon and musket fire and thought, "No Way." This place was exactly like Fredericksburg: uphill, against an entrenched enemy that was waiting for them, only the attacking uniforms were Butternut Grey rather than Blue. The result couldn't have turned out any different. I looked south, towards Washington, there had to be a place down there where Lee could find a hill for the Union to have to charge. Lincoln wouldn't have let the Army of the Potomac not attack. I looked, I thought, I didn't do anything about it. Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen looked at the same situation and researched it some more. They found that Meade had really wanted Lee to attack him at Pipe Creek. They found that Longstreet had told Lee that going around to the south and letting Meade attack them, but was overruled.==Then instead of forgetting it, they wrote a book where Lee responded to Longstreet with an "OK, let's do that." -- Excellent reading, obviously this is the first of a series. I'm anxiously awaiting to see what happens when Gingrich and Forstchen bring Grant back east.

Honest...:
I don't think this book rewrites history at all. The guy below is mad. The North kicked the crap out of the South? That's going a bit far. Indeed, the North won the war. No one disputes that. But..."kicked the crap out of?" I mean, the fact remains that families in the North had a lot more graves to visit after the war was over. Despite having about 1,500,000 more men enlisted than the South had, the North still managed to have about 16,000 more combat casualties. But when a side has over 2.5 million men going up against 1 million, they SHOULD win the war for crying out loud. The South had arguably better generals though... It shouldn't have even been a fight. How so few men managed to keep in a heated war with an army twice as big is to me, win or lose, rather stunning. That's what makes these stories interesting. Not who won or who lost...

Book Review for Gettysburg a Novel of the Civil War:
The book Gettysburg by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen is a good book if you are really into the Civil War. If you have read The Killer Angels by Michel Shaara then you might find this book very much the same. If you've just started to learn about the Civil War then you probably should not start with this book because it is a fictional book and may be confusing. In Gettysburg the confederates win the battle of Gettysburg. Robert E. Lee the general of the Confederate States of America's Army of Northern Virginia listens to James Longstreet's plan to move in between the Union army and Washington to cut them off on July 2,1863. If you have seen the movie Gettysburg that is based on the Killer Angels this book will make more sense to you. The authors have used characters that were real people during the battle but they are people who were not extremely famous in the battle of Gettysburg. One example is Brig. Gen. Henry Hunt who is the Chief of Artillery for the Union army. I would recommend this book who any one who really likes reading about the Civil War.