Local author Tom Ryan signing copies of new book July 23 at Browseabout

Author Tom Ryan will be signing copies of his newly released book, “Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign: How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of Lee’s Invasion of the North, June-July 1863,” from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, July 23, at Browseabout Books, 133 Rehoboth Ave. in Rehoboth Beach. 

 

As intelligence experts have long asserted, “Information in regard to the enemy is the indispensable basis of all military plans.” Despite the thousands of books and articles written about Gettysburg, Ryan’s groundbreaking “Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign: How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of Lee’s Invasion of the North, June - July 1863” is the first to offer a unique and incisive comparative study of intelligence operations during what many consider the war’s decisive campaign.

 

Ryan is the former president of the Central Delaware Civil War Round Table, and a longtime member of the Gettysburg Foundation and the Civil War Trust. He has published more than 125 articles and book reviews on Civil War subjects, many dealing with intelligence operations, and writes a biweekly column called Civil War Profiles for Coastal Point, a Delaware newspaper. He is the author of “Essays on Delaware during the Civil War: A Political, Military and Social Perspective” (2012). Ryan served three years in the U.S. Army and more than three decades with the U.S. Department of Defense in various intelligence operations-related capacities.

Now retired, he and his wife live in Bethany Beach.

 

Read more about “Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign,” including excerpts and an interview with the author at http://tinyurl.com/k5ycbns.