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.
Ghost Soldiers
A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II - the rescue of American and British POWs behind enemy lines in the Philippines.
Grant
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.
A Peace to End All Peace
All of the conflicts and challenges in the Middle East are rooted in the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War.
The Nanjing Massacre
The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. Wing Tek Lum's poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy—from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers.
A Bridge Too Far
The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II. A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshaled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day.