Welcome to the WZ Book Club. This is Jordan Rich. There have been so many books written about the Civil War. I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite, but one that history fans really enjoy is called Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears. Well respected historian, Gettysburg was the turning point of the war. Sears covers it all, from the reaction of Lee and Grant, to the men who fought and died on the battlefield, to the shortest and perhaps most memorable presidential speech in
the history of this country. As many as fifty one thousand soldiers on both sides were killed or wounded, captured or missing. The battle took three days, and in November eighteen sixty three, a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield becomes the final resting place for the Union dead. As Lincoln said, the world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did. Here a well drawn history of the Civil War's most
famous battle, Gettysburg by Stephen Sears. The Book Club WZ, Boston's news radio