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Title: Gettysburg July 1 by David G. Martin ISBN: 0-306-81240-1 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Middle of the road
Comment: The irony of Mr. Ploskunak's title -- "Spelling counts" -- and his review aside, he raises important points regarding Martin's "Gettysburg - July 1." Civil War historians as a whole have an unfortunate penchant for speculation, especially with regard to commanders' motives and intentions. Academicians call this "going beyond the data." Martin does this a bit too often for my taste, but he also handles his narrative reasonably well. If we're concerned about amateurs, as another reviewer is, perhaps we should be specific in describing the errors found in a text. As for proof-reading, maps, and editing, those chores are all too often neglected because they cost money. One might equally ask why online book sellers present favorable reviews first as "spotlighted," with less favorable reviews follwing "below the fold," so to speak. Read Coddington above all, and for the first day, Pfanz.
Rating: 3
Summary: Spelling Counts
Comment: I was so taken by the Regimental Strenths book I was among the first to buy this book. WHO did the proof reading? WHO did the editing? And why can no one do a decent map, considering the technology? Aside of that is the issue of "military probability" and "informed speculation". They are legtimate as long as that point is made clear. My copy is the only book I own that has as many markings of corrections, completely wrong Generals, and questions marks as this one. A work that strove for greatness, insteads rates the status of "Great Verbal Hulk". The man who brought numbers to history in a substantive way, should have put as much care in the editing. Complexity is an inherant quality, it cannot be made simple, but can be made CLEAR!. CLARITY - the only true hope of a historian. Thus the lousey editing and errors mage what could have been a great work amuddled confusing mess. Next time, Mr Martin edit, edit, edit - think clarity and hire Mr Pfranz's mapmaker. It was a work of love, but love is not enough.
Rating: 1
Summary: PROOFREAD!
Comment: Just to echo the thoughts of the perceptive reviewers above: please God, never let me screw up as much as David Martin has in this book.
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Title: Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0395867614 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Gettysburg-Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill by Harry W. Pfanz ISBN: 0807821187 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Hallowed Ground : A Walk at Gettysburg by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0609610236 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Gettysburg: The Second Day by Harry W. Pfanz ISBN: 0807847305 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.54 |
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Title: Gettysburg: The First Day by Harry W. Pfanz ISBN: 0807826243 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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