Speaker 1: Welcome to the WZ Book Club. This is Jordan Rich.
Speaker 1: There have been so many books written about the Civil War.
Speaker 1: I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite, but one
Speaker 1: that history fans really enjoy is called Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears.
Speaker 1: Well respected historian, Gettysburg was the turning point of the war.
Speaker 1: Sears covers it all, from the reaction of Lee and Grant,
Speaker 1: to the men who fought and died on the battlefield,
Speaker 1: to the shortest and perhaps most memorable presidential speech in
Speaker 1: the history of this country. As many as fifty one
Speaker 1: thousand soldiers on both sides were killed or wounded, captured
Speaker 1: or missing. The battle took three days, and in November
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty three, a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield becomes
Speaker 1: the final resting place for the Union dead. As Lincoln said,
Speaker 1: the world will little note nor long remember what we
Speaker 1: say here, but it can never forget what they did.
Speaker 1: Here a well drawn history of the Civil War's most
Speaker 1: famous battle, Gettysburg by Stephen Sears. The Book Club WZ,
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