The Battle of Gettysburg is the best known battle of the American Civil War and has been hailed as the turning point of the war. In The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, Gabor S. Boritt, director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, has invited nine leading authorities to shed new light on the greatest battle in American history.

"Essays that are uniformly good and that either touch upon seldom studied aspects of the campaign or recast old disputes....A worthwhile addition."--Civil War History "A great read. This book provides the Civil War scholar [with] some very provocative questions on the entire Gettysburg campaign."--Robert F. Donnelly, Virginia State University "Essays that are uniformly good and that either touch upon seldom studied aspects of the campaign or recast old disputes....A worthwhile addition."--Civil War History "Gabor Boritt has assembled a collection of fresh, original, and outstanding essays that explore some less familiar aspects of the Gettysburg story, and which challenge the notion that everything has already been said of Gettysburg."--D. Scott Hartwig, Historian, Gettysburg National Military Park "Fascinated by the battle from boyhood, I have been reading books about Gettysburg since I was eight. Not since I first knew the basic outlines of the battle have I learned so much from one book as I have from Gabor S. Boritt's collection of nine authoritative essays, he Gettysburg Nobody Knows.--Russell F. Weigley, Distinguished University Professor, Temple University "These historians, all eminent in the Civil War field, extract what can be positively know about the tactics of the actual battle and the strategy that led up to it. Astute appraisals that should exert definite appeal on buffs."--Booklist

A fresh look at the greatest battle in American military history Offers the insights of nine leading Civil War scholars Provides new viewpoints on the battlefield actions of Joshua Chamberlain, Jeb Stuart, and Generals Ewell and Daniel Sickles Main Selection of the History Book Club

Gabor Boritt is Director of the Civil War Institute and Fluher Professor at Gettysburg College. He has written or edited numerous volumes on the Civil War era, including Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, Why the Confederacy Lost, and Why the Civil War Came.

A fresh look at the greatest battle in American military history Offers the insights of nine leading Civil War scholars Provides new viewpoints on the battlefield actions of Joshua Chamberlain, Jeb Stuart, and Generals Ewell and Daniel Sickles Main Selection of the History Book Club