The Drum of Destiny: Gabriel Cooper & the Road to Revolution
Publication Date: 08/11/2020
A discarded drum and a dream, at the dawn of the American Revolution. Twelve-year-old orphan, Gabriel Cooper, dodges Tories, overcomes sickness and the perils of a patriot, as he journeys from New York to Boston along the Post Road, to join the fight for freedom. Accessible and exciting, The Drum…
Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783: The Biography of an American Town in the Heart of a Civil War
Publication Date: 07/28/2020
Discover how eighteenth-century Princeton and its residents—including two signers of the Declaration of Independence—contributed to and were affected by the American Revolution. The battles of Trenton and Princeton have been the subject of several recent books, but this story complements them by expanding the story to include the many experiences…
Spies of the Deep: The Untold Truth About the Most Terrifying Incident in Submarine Naval History and How Putin Used The Tragedy To Ignite a New Cold War
Publication Date: 07/14/2020
Readers’ Favorite Bronze Medal Winner for Best Military Non-Fiction Book of the Year Twenty years after the most terrifying submarine disaster in naval history, the untold story about why the Russians buried the truth and how Vladimir Putin used the incident to ignite a new Cold War finally comes to…
Braided in Fire: Black GIs and Tuscan Villagers on the Gothic Line 1944
Publication Date: 06/30/2020
BRAIDED IN FIRE is the stirring author’s search to understand the drama that unfolded between the Italian peasants and African-American infantrymen of the 366th Infantry Regiment, - attached to the celebrated "Buffalo Division, 92nd Infantry"- whose lives were lost, or changed irrevocably by a village battle in Tuscany during the…
Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater
Publication Date: 05/26/2020
From the American Battlefield Trust comes the collection of their popular maps of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. “I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a phrase that the staff of the American Battlefield Trust hears on a weekly basis. The…
Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse’s 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
Publication Date: 05/26/2020
Healing Wounds is the story that inspired Kristin Hannah's bestseller, The Women. What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question—and the answer was a heavy one. In 1983, when Evans came up with the vision for the…
Japan’s Secret War: How Japan’s Race to Build its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North Korea’s Nuclear Program Third Edition: Revised and Updated
Publication Date: 12/10/2019
How Japan’s World War II race to build an atomic bomb fathered North Korea’s nuclear threat. This revised and greatly updated third edition of Japan’s Secret War is a groundbreaking, thoroughly sourced investigation into one of the least-known, yet highly significant episodes of World War II: Japan’s frantic race to…
50 Weapons That Changed Warfare
Publication Date: 08/27/2019
From the spear to the nuclear bomb, this is a reckoning of the most significant weapons throughout history. William Weir, author of 50 Battles That Changed the World, takes another look at the history of warfare by focusing on the hardware that served those famous battles. In this text, you’ll uncover:…
The 30 Most Influential People of World War II: A Ranking
Publication Date: 06/05/2018
Here are the true stories of the thirty people who shaped, conducted, won, and lost the biggest, most complex, and most destructive armed conflict the world has ever known. General Patton said, “The soldier is the army.” This book says, “People are the war.” And even World War II –…
50 Battles That Changed the World
Publication Date: 05/29/2018
Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Ranked in order of their relevance to the modern world, these struggles range from the ancient past to the present day and span the…