The American Civil War Story
-
Просмотров: 10
Описание книги
ONE HUNDRED AND fifty years ago this July, Union and Confederate armies clashed close to the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Although few realised it at the time, this three-day battle – a Union victory – was to become a defining moment of the American Civil War.
“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,” declared Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address, “but it can never forget what they did here”. He may have been wrong on the first count but he was indisputably correct on the second. Gettysburg, and the American Civil War as a whole, continue to loom large in history, not only in the United States, but in the world at large. For, as James M McPherson writes on page 98, “the international consequences of a divided America in two world wars and the Cold War are incalculable”.
On the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, we at
читать полностью
