Theorizes that Robert E. Lee had a lesser-known strategy for the battle at Gettysburg that would have enabled a Confederate victory, arguing that the battle-losing decisions attributed to Lee on the third day were in direct contrast with the warfare philosophies he was most likely to employ. 50,000 first printing.

Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--and Why It Failed

History

Carhart, Tom

Americas

Putnam Adult

“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 Battle Cry of Freedom This 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.Conventional 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?
Now, 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.
Destined to be controversial, Lost Triumph is a provocative reassessment of this monumental battle and a vivid, indispensable contribution to Civil War literature.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Berkley Trade

The gripping story of six West Point graduates-including George Armstrong Custer-who fought each other in the Civil War. With Civil War storm clouds darkening the horizon, they were strangers from different states thrown together as West Point cadets: George Armstrong Custer, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Henry Algernon DuPont, John Pelham, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, and Wesley Merritt. Educated and trained there to be not only officers and gentlemen but also courageous battlefield leaders, their shared experience at West Point forged bonds between them stronger than brotherhood. Right after their graduations, war erupted in 1861. They stayed blue or went gray, and even faced each other in battle. Acclaimed military historian Tom Carhart brings to life the human side of valiant victories and crushing defeats, and, most vividly, of these young men of individual valor and personal honor.

Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War

BERKLEY

The gripping story of six West Point graduates who fought each other in the Civil War. With Civil War clouds darkening the horizon, they were strangers from different states thrown together as West Point cadets: George Armstrong Custer, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Henry Algernon DuPont, John Pelham, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, and Wesley Merritt. Right after their graduations, war erupted in 1861. They stayed blue or went gray, and even faced each other in battle. Acclaimed military historian Tom Carhart vividly brings to life these young men of valor and honor, and the valiant victories and crushing defeats of the war. They made their marks on the history of a new nation split apart, then reunited and reborn—but only at the cost of the blood of brothers.

Parenting & Relationships

Penguin Publishing Group

This autobiographical account of a West Point graduate who found himself in a combat zone in Vietnam twenty-four hours after saying farewell to his parents, describes how the young idealist came to grips with the political realities of the Vietnam War

The Offering

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Battlefront Vietnam

The gripping stories in this book detail the 200 year history of the United States Military Academy at WestPoint, capturing the raw physical courage of graduates in the face of death. Tom Carhart was the winner of two Purple Hearts in Vietnam.

West Point Warriors: Profiles of Duty, Honor, and Country in Battle

Grand Central Publishing

Great Battles of the Vietnam War

Bison Books

William Morrow & Co.

Lost Triumph - Large Print

RB Large Print

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