Book Genre: Biography & Autobiography

With the Old Breed

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Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time. Eugene B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a classic memoir that has left an indelible mark…

The Wild Blue

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Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war.

Stonewall Jackson

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Stonewall Jackson was the most compelling figure of the Civil War and James Robertson has found, and accepted, the key to understanding Jackson.

Lee

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Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. Stephen Vincent Benét said “There is a monument—and a fine one—to Robert E. Lee at Lexington.

Grant

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This book paints a complex, largely sympathetic portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, seeking to rescue him from historical caricature and highlight his often-overlooked strengths, particularly his moral compass and commitment to civil rights.

Undaunted Courage

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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies. It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, vast land ruled by the Indians.