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Gettysburg Book Wins $50,000 History Prize

Posted by Joseph & Jazmin on March 18, 2014

Gettysburg Book Wins $50,000 History Prize | TIME.com

Allen C. Guelzo’s “Gettysburg: The Last Invasion” has received the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.

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