From Chancellorsville, where General Robert E. Lee launched his high-risk campaign into the North, to the Confederates’ last daring and ultimately-doomed act, forever known as…
Stephen W. Sears describes the series of controversial events that define this crucial battle, including General Lee's radical decision to divide his small army.
Complete with detailed maps, Stars in Their Courses brilliantly recreates the three-day conflict: It is a masterly treatment of a key great battle and the…
Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, toil…