Knox Press

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Road to Assunpink Creek: Liberty’s Desperate Hour and the Ten Crucial Days of the American Revolution

Publication Date: 01/22/2019

THE ROAD TO ASSUNPINK CREEK puts a spotlight on what may be the most unappreciated moment of a young nation’s revolutionary struggle when George Washington’s army narrowly escaped destruction to keep alive its fight for American independence Perhaps no military action in our country’s history is more paradoxical than the…

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Crossroads of the Revolution: Trenton 1774-1783

Publication Date: 06/06/2017

A history of Trenton during the American Revolution Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, this it he story of revolutionary Trenton, New Jersey both a critical supply post and a crucial junction halfway between loyalist New York, and patriot Philadelphia. Trenton between 1774 and 1783 is a microcosm of the challenges…

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