A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and reveals private thoughts and recollections of a businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian career.
Road to Huertgen: Forest in Hell
Road to Huertgen-Forest in Hell chronicles the 1944 combat experiences of U.S. Army Lieutenant Paul Boesch. The setting is the Huertgen Forest, a 1,300 square mile, densely wooded, hilly region along the German-Belgian border.
Citizen Soldiers
The inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.
The Things Our Fathers Saw: Voices of the Pacific Theater
The previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.
The Rape of Nanking
The story of Nanking from three perspectives: the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese civilians, and of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city.
The Bedford Boys
Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia - population just 3,000 in 1944 - died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. This is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind.
Pegasus Bridge
This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Understanding is more often used to try to alter an outcome than to repeat or perpetuate it. That’s why psychologists try to understand the minds of murderers and rapists, why social historians try to understand genocide, and why physicians try to understand the causes of human disease. Those investigators do…
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson was the most compelling figure of the Civil War and James Robertson has found, and accepted, the key to understanding Jackson.
Lee
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.