The Battle of Gettyburg was, even before the guns fell silent, a focal point of debate, and it has become the great what if of American history. The highly-acclaimed New York Times bestseller Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee and his Army the victory they might have won on the fields of Gettysburg. Thoroughly researched for five years, Gingrich and Forstchen infuse this masterwork with dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details. An important entry in the pantheon of civil war literature, Gettysburg is a vivid novel of the realities of war.