Series
Gettysburg / Civil War Trilogy
Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen · 3 novels · 2003–2005
Gettysburg opens Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen's alternate-history trilogy imagining a Confederate victory at the battle of Gettysburg, then follows the shifted course of the Civil War across two further novels tracking the changed war's political and military fallout. The series leans on close military detail and real historical figures reimagined under altered circumstances. It was published between 2003 and 2005.
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The order the books came out.
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- 2000s3
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Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
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- Gettysburgdarkest · most intense
- Grant Comes East: A Novel of the Civil Warbrightest · calmest