This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In the great constellation of Confederate heroes, no star shone brighter than General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, the subject of G. F. R. Henderson's epic biography Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. For the South, Jackson was the greatest military icon of the early Civil War years and a larger-than-life legend. From 1861 to 1863, Jackson, in his...

Examines great battles of the American Civil War, from the first battle at Bull Run in 1861 to the Battle of the Five Forks in 1865.

"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...

<p>The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy</p><p>The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan&rsquo;s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide...

An account of the struggle between the Allied navies and the German submarine fleet in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.

Hallowed Ground is the story of the Civil War as seen from the Union side. Only Catton, with his magnificent feeling for the human aspects of history and his ability to translate historical fact into absorbing narrative, could have written this book.

Chronicles the 1846-48 Mexican-American War, discussing, among other topics, the experiences of military leaders Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, as well as President Polk's emissary, Nicholas Trist.