Tom Carhart has been a lawyer and a historian for the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of West Point, a decorated Vietnam veteran, and has earned a Ph.D. in American and military history from Princeton University. He is the author of four books of military history and teaches at Mary Washington College near his home in the Washington, D.C. area.
Praise for Tom Carhart's Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at
Gettysburg and Why It Failed
"Sheds new light on the grandest battle of the Civil War, a
remarkable achievement by any military historian"
-John Keegan, author of The Face of Battle
"Bold and provocative...sure to stimulate debate among even the
most seasoned Civil War buffs."
-Jay Winik, author of April 1865
"Thanks to Tom Carhart's painstaking and absorbing reconstruction
of events, we now have a clear comprehension of what Lee planned
for July 3-and why it went wrong... Given the vast number of
writings on Gettysburg, it seems impossible to come up with new
information and insights about the battle. But Tom Carhart has done
it."
-James M. McPherson, author of Pulitzer Prize winner Battle Cry of
Freedom
"Tom Carhart's Lost Triumph is, amazingly, a new, original and
important contribution to our understanding of the Battle of
Gettysburg."
-David Hackett Fischer, author of Pulitzer Prize winner
Washington's Crossing
"Not only a fine work of scholarship but a fine story."
-Rick Atkinson, author of Pulitzer Prize winner An Army at Dawn
"Provocative and exciting. A very good read."
-Gabor Boritt, author of The Gettysburg Gospel, Director, Civil War
Institute, Gettysburg College
"An exciting, wonderful book rivaling anything yet written about
the battle of Gettysburg. It is mandatory reading for Civil War
buffs"
-Bruce Lee, author of Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World
War II
"A mark of true genius is a writer's ability to show us the
familiar in a new light. Carhart does just that in Lost Triumph ...
truly a ground-breaking contribution to American military
history."
-Dan Cragg, author of Generals in Muddy Boots
"With Lost Triumph, Carhart swats a stupendous, historical,
out-of-the- park four-bagger. History is seldom page-turning; here,
the true events of Gettysburg compose a thriller."
-Gus Lee, author of Courage: The Backbone of Leadership
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