Saturday, July 2, 2016

Gettysburg National Military Park

Author: The Gettysburg Foundation
Stars: 4
Review by: Mandy Apgar


As guides go, this is certainly one of the better ones. Normally I do not buy these as I find them overly flashy and loaded with incorrect data but I didn't see an error in this and the subject was treated totally with respect but not too overly somber. It was published in house more or less, 149 pages of very fine quality with battlefield charts, persons of interest, firearms in the field, all sorts of things that you could think of. The only thing that knocks this from a 5 is that they gave really funny times as indicators for how long to spend at certain sites, and having been at Gettysburg many times I can say that most of them made no sense. Way too long or way too short and quite a few major places one should see were left out on the tour timeline (but not in the book itself, which despite the size is very comprehensive).

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