Tom Huntington

Auteur van Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments: Find Every Monument and Tablet in the Park

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Tom Huntington is also the author of Ben Franklin's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Civil War Trails, and Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments. His writing has appeared in Civil War Times, America's Civil War, American History, American Heritage, Smithsonian, America in WWII, and Air toon meer Space/Smithsonian. He lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, with his wife and kids. toon minder

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Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments: Find Every Monument and Tablet in the Park (2013) 77 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum: 20th Century
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Woonplaatsen: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
Korte biografie: Tom Huntington is a freelance writer and former editor of American History and Historic Traveler magazines. His articles on various historic topics have appeared in Smithsonian, Air & Space, Invention & Technology, Civil War Times, British Heritage, and numerous other publications. He lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.

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Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten… door Tom Huntington

Probably the best book I have ever read. It combines military history, biography, and travelogue to tell a marvelous story. The travelogue brings the past to the present. The biography and military history are lean depending much on first hand accounts. Great maps!
I just loved this book and can’t say enough about bringing this little remembered figure from our history.

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Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten… door Tom Huntington

While I can't say this is a bad work, the reality is that it wasn't written for me, and was a little bit shallow for my purposes. Still, even if one is a hardened student of the Civil War, you'll enjoy reading about the author's travels in the course of learning about Meade's life. As for why Meade isn't better remembered, besides the shadow of not having made more of the victory of Gettysburg (which was realistically not very likely), Huntington suspects that Meade didn't have the right mindset to play the game of military high command the way that Grant did.… (meer)

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