audiobook Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by Paul J. Springer in History

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July 1; 1863; had gone poorly for the Union army’s XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg; the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinforcements fortified the position; which extended eastward to include another key piece of high ground; Culp’s Hill. The Federal line also extended southward down Cemetery Ridge; forming what eventually became a long fishhook.July 2 saw a massive Confederate attack against the southernmost part of the line. As the Southern juggernaut rolled inexorably northward; Federal troops shifted away from Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill to meet the threat. Just then; the Army of Northern Virginia’s vaunted Second Corps launched itself at the weakened Federal right. The very men who; just the day before; broke the Union army resolved to break it once again.The ensuing struggle—every bit as desperate and with stakes every bit as high as the more-famous fight at Little Round Top on the far end of the line—left the entire Union position in the balance. “Stay and fight it out;” one Union general counseled.Confederates were all too willing to oblige.Authors Chris Mackowski; Kristopher D. White; and Daniel T. Davis started their Gettysburg account in Don’t Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg; July 2; 1863—from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge. Picking up on the heels of its companion volume; Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg; July 2; 1863—Culp’s Hill and the Northern End of the Battlefield they recount the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the battle’s fateful final day.