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With dramatic text and pictures, Gettysburg humanizes this crucial battle: the thoughts, emotions, and actions of the men who commanded, fought, and died there. As Abraham Lincoln said four months after the battle, those who died at Gettysburg gave their last full measure of devotion that the nation might experience a new birth of freedom. This is the story of those brave men. Prepared as a companion to Ron Maxwell's epic film Gettysburg, this book combines the verbal skills of historian James M. McPherson with the artistic ability of Mort Kunstler to tell the memorable story of the three days of Gettysburg and its aftermath. Illustrated and indexed.… (meer)
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There are probably more people in these United States who know the opening lines of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address than there are citizens aware of the details of that momentous battle, the turning point of the Civil War. (Foreword by Martin Sheen.)
I went to Gettysburg for the first time in March 1988. (The Artist's Acknowledgments by Mort Kunstler.)
In the spring of 1863 the American Civil War entered its third year. (Part one)
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Everett recognized this; the next day he penned a gracious note to Lincoln: "I should flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
With dramatic text and pictures, Gettysburg humanizes this crucial battle: the thoughts, emotions, and actions of the men who commanded, fought, and died there. As Abraham Lincoln said four months after the battle, those who died at Gettysburg gave their last full measure of devotion that the nation might experience a new birth of freedom. This is the story of those brave men. Prepared as a companion to Ron Maxwell's epic film Gettysburg, this book combines the verbal skills of historian James M. McPherson with the artistic ability of Mort Kunstler to tell the memorable story of the three days of Gettysburg and its aftermath. Illustrated and indexed.