Tom Huntington
Autor de Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments: Find Every Monument and Tablet in the Park
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más Space/Smithsonian. He lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, with his wife and kids. mostrar menos
Obras de Tom Huntington
Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments: Find Every Monument and Tablet in the Park (2013) 77 copias
Pennsylvania Civil War Trails: The Guide to Battle Sites, Monuments, Museums and Towns (2007) 43 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
- Biografía breve
- 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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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.… (más)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 212
- Popularidad
- #104,834
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 15
I just loved this book and can’t say enough about bringing this little remembered figure from our history.