"Tell Them All About It, Won't You?": Images of the Present, Voices of the Past -Gettysburg

Photographs by Helen S. Schwartz, text by Katherine A. Sloan
Bibliography, 96 pp., 2006. Artistry in Photography, P.O. Box 491, Langhorne, PA 19047, $19.95 plus shipping.

Reviewer: Blake Magner
Blake A. Magner is the Book Review Editor of Civil War News. He makes his living as an editor, writer, cartographer and photographer of Civil War history. He is author of At Peace With Honor: The Civil War Burials of Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Review:
Do we really need another picture book about Gettysburg focusing on today's battlefield with a few quotes thrown in to give us something to read? No. Is this book a waste of paper? Again no because, in fact, it is nicely presented.

"Tell Them All About It, Won't You?" is a collection of 43 photographs taken in various seasons of monuments and landscapes on the battlefield. Each photograph is accompanied by a quotation by a participant with citation and a short description of the image itself. If the reader can think of an image that he or she would include in this book, it is probably here.

The photographer does an excellent job. While the text was easier to produce, its author went through a rather extensive number of books to get the associated quotes.

If you like picture books of today's Gettysburg battlefield this short volume would probably be of interest to you.