Books
Class And Race In The Frontier Army: Military Life In The West, 1870-1890Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University Kevin Adams' latest book entitled "Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890", travels back in time and offers an interesting insight to the complexities and hierarchies of class, race and ethnicity in the late 1900s in America. |
Lincoln's Political GeneralsIn his book "Lincoln's Political Generals", highly acclaimed Civil War studies author David Work indulges his readers through Lincoln's policy, which would have build a national coalition in America to fight and win the Civil War. He does this through the stories and career biographies of all sixteen generals that were appointed by Lincoln and outlined their significant contributions to the war. |
Soldiers West: Biographies From The Military FrontierBack in 1987, author Paul Andrew Hutton released a book entitled "Soldiers West" which chronicled the lives and careers of ten American officers of the Western Frontier from the beginning of the War in 1812, up to the end of the Indian Wars (the end of the 19th century). These U.S. Army officers shaped the history and outcome of the American West. |
Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter OsterhausIn her new book published earlier this year entitled "Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus", Mary Bobbit Townsend (great-grand daughter of General Osterhaus) sets to complete General Osterhaus's full biography which outlined his background in middle class Germany, his service as a volunteer officer and eventually commanding the liberal volunteers in Baden in 1948. |
San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American HeroAuthor John Lynch wrote the very first full English-language biography of Jose de San Martin (1778-1850), and spreading the victory and tales of the Spanish America's revolutionary wars, with the general that would lead the course of their history. |
The Virgin Warrior: The Life And Death Of Joan Of ArcIt is without a doubt that France's very own legendary heroine "Joan of Arc" is a name that everyone is familiar with. |
Captain Cook's War And Peace: The Royal Navy Years, 1755-1768As a map librarian at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and an author of two critically acclaimed books entitled "The Captain Cook Encyclopedia" and "Captain Cook's World", John Robson added a new book to his Captain Cook roster called "Captain Cook's War and Peace: The Royal Navy Years, 1755-1768" released last year. |
Hyperion To Publish Rare Interviews Of Jacqueline KennedyHyperion recently announced that it will be publishing a new book scheduled for a September 2011 release that contained "never-before-disclosed interviews with former U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy," as reported by United Press International. In a recent public news release, Hyperion said, "Conducted in the spring of 1964 and intended for deposit at the John F. |
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"Hellhound On His Trail" - A Story Of Martin Luther King's AssassinatorAs an ex-editor-at-large for "Outside" magazine and author of acclaimed historical books such as "Ghost Soldiers" and "Blood and Thunder", Hampton Sides new book entitled "Hellhound on His Trail" focuses on the topic of Martin Luther King's assassination. During the King's assassination on April 4, 1968, Sides was only a 6-year-old living in Memphis. "I remember the tension," Sides recalled. |
Roman WarfareAcclaimed scholar and author of the infamous "The Logistics of the Roman Army at War", Professor Jonathan Roth of San Jose State University has recently released his latest masterpiece entitled "Roman Warfare." In his book, Roth takes his readers into a time capsule that dates far away back into the 7th century BCE, and eventually traveling into the time period which dictated the fall of the West |
Laura Bush Sets Off On Her Book Release TourOn Tuesday, former United States First Lady Laura Bush set out her national book tour in northern Virginia, inviting up to hundreds of fans who waited hours in line for a chance to meet her. In no time, Bush was signing up to 10 autographs per minute. The tour kicked off at the Books-A-Million in McLean and by 7 am, it was certainly much more crowded than usual. |
George Bush's "Decision Points" Awaits A Fall ReleaseEver wondered what happened to Ex-U.S. President George W. Bush? Crown Publishing may have an answer for all of us. "Since leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency. |
Clancy's New Book "Dead Or Alive" Awaits A December 7 ReleaseRecently, Penguin Group announced that Tom Clancy's new book entitled "Dead or Alive" will soon be available for release in the United States and the United Kingdom on December 7th, 2010. Seeing how I'm a big Clancy fan, it's certainly worth the wait! United Press International through Military.com wrote that the novel will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in the U.S. |
428 AD, An Ordinary Year At The End Of The Roman EmpireAn acclaimed professor at the University of Rouen and a historian, Guisto Traina offers his readers an insight to some of Rome's most interesting historical moments in "428 AD, An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire." Traina took on the topic of the "Fall of the Roman Empire" and the logic behind its inevitability. |
The Grand Strategy Of The Byzantine EmpireAs a distinguished writer and military historian, Edward Luttwak's latest book entitled "The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire" can be seen as a companion to his first book entitled "The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: from the First Century AD to the Third" back in 1976. |
Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men, And Warfare, 1649-1689AsAs chairman of the Naval Dockyards Society in Great Britain and author of the highly acclaimed book entitled "Gentlemen and Tarpaulins", J. D. Davies is the one man you can count to complete or further your research on the English navy. |
Captain Richard Phillips' Releases New BookWe're all familiar with Captain Richard Phillips story: he was captured by Somali pirates for five days, but his tenacity, bravery and courage refused to give up hope even if it meant that his life may end at any given moment in a situation like this. With his wife and children in his thoughts Phillips recalled, "At no time did I think about giving up. I wouldn't bend to the pirates' will. |
