PERSICO : My enemy, my brother (fülszöveg)
Lee was boldly marching north into Union Territory, and Lincoln was still without a general he could trust. With grave uncertainty about the outcome and the desperate need for a decisive battle, the Federal and Confederate forces met at Gettysburg in the greatest conflict of the Civil War.
My Enemy, My Brother is the story of that meeting, told not as the military strategists have told it, but the way the privates, the shopkeepers, the farmers, and the generals lived it. Here is the humor as well as the pain of the common soldiers, the avarice and the kindness of the citizenry, the empathy and the determination of the commanders.
Drawing on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the people at Gettysburg, Joseph E. Persico has reconstructed the emotions and attitudes, the hardship and agony, the living and the dying of the people who were caught in this epic battle: Wesley Culp, a Confederate soldier returning to his home town, fighting to capture the hill owned by his family; John Burns, a seventy-year-old citizen grabbing his gun and fighting with the Union soldiers to defend his town; George Pickett, a general of Confederate troops writing optimistic love letters to his fiancee and then having to watch his troops destroyed in the battle; Jennie Wade, a sweetheart of a Union soldier, baking bread for the soldiers who came to the door of her home. These people and others are stripped of their anonymity. Followed the days before, during, and after the battle, they become visible, knowable human beings. My Enemy, My Brother is a grand and evocative work of history.
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