Genre: Biography & Autobiography

Shifty’s War

From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers.

Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life

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 under MacArthur in the Philippines, and involvement in D-Day.

The Wild Blue

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.

A Full Life

Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and reveals private thoughts and recollections of a businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian career.

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

Freeman's achievement is the full portrait of a great American - a distinguished, scholarly, yet eminently readable classic.

Grant

A complete understanding of General and President Grant whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.

1776

David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.