Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments: Find Every Monument and Tablet in the Park (Kindle Edition)

This is an attractive book with lots of helpful information, many color photos, and dozens of maps. The GPS coordinates for each of the monuments is a nice touch. The construction of the book is much better than most paperbacks; the binding is sturdy and the pages are extra thick (possibly coated).So what's not to like about it? I'll tell you what. The book is almost unusable without a cross reference. The monuments and tablets are all numbered by the order they appear on the map. However, THE BOOK ORGANIZES THE DETAILS FOR THE MONUMENTS IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ORDER. The detailed information for each monument contains a reference to where it can be found on the map. However, there is no cross reference to help the reader figure out where to find details of the monument numbers that appear on the map! The reader is required to thumb through nearly 200 pages of randomly numbered monuments to find what they are looking for.For example: Map GG shows a...Read more

This is a great help to understand the many monuments and markers on the Gettysburg battlefield. What is interesting to me is that many of the monuments are fairly new having been erected in the past decade or so. True there are a number of older ones that were erected within a decade or two of the battle in 1863. The monuments help give more human faces to the open fields across the two sides of the battlefield. It is a great guide to assist one in understanding other details of the scenes of death and terrible injury that were witnessed on those fields during the three days of intense battle.