Review: Catton, Gettysburg (1963)

[truepenny]

The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce Catton

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


[library]
Does exactly what it promises on the tin.

This is a short book, and very tightly focused: a little bit of lead up, the three days of Gettysburg, and a little bit of aftermath. Catton is one of the great historians of the American Civil War, so the explanation is very clear and the prose is top-notch. I never quite got the who's who sorted out, but that's my problem as much as his.



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Comments

[jhetley]

I read a lot of Catton when the books first came out. As you say, well researched and well written. Thank you for bringing them to the attention of a history-deficient generation.