content: The danger and seduction of bad history for amateurs is that they cannot detect errors, misleading conclusions and faulty judgments. This book is riddled, indeed swamped, with factual mistakes. Professional historians and guides dismiss it, yet it remains publicized and for sale at supposedly legitimate literature outlets such as the visitors center at Gettysburg National Military Park. Admirers of this work, who enjoy its terse and lively prose, proceed onto the battlefield with a bag full of erroneous perceptions that will slant or damage their view and full comprehension of America's most sacred ground.