It was Lieutenant Morrison, Anna's younger brother. Morrison said, in an anxious whisper, “Sir . . . we are beyond our lines. This is no place for you, sir.” Jackson stopped the horse, raised his hand, halting the group.
But Collins had the absolute support and confidence of Omar Bradley, and with Utah secured so quickly, Collins had done nothing to harm his own reputation. It was natural for Collins to take the next step, to drive his infantry across ...
The corps commander, Joe Collins, began to understand what others across the Atlantic had once feared, that the Ninetieth had been woefully undertrained. Bradley realized that, for reasons no one at SHAEF could adequately explain, ...
You remember Levinson, in Baker Company? We went through boot with him. Okinawa, too.” “Yeah, I think. He the one who went nutso? He never came back, did he?” Riley pictured the man in his mind, the screaming tantrum that ended only ...
Sherman tried to keep his eyes off the man's face as well, couldn't ignore the thought that Foster looked exactly like a pumpkin. He waited for Foster to finish, though after the first blatheringsentence, Sherman had ignored half of ...
Willis was prepared, held out the twenty-five-cent piece, Foster taking it without comment. Bauer wanted to ask Willis what had just happened, thought better of it, couldn't avoid staring at the absurd hat. Bauer waited for the next ...
Stacy Allen, chief ranger, National Park Service, Shiloh National Military Park Sheila Amdur, West Hartford, Connecticut Alan Doyle, Memphis, Tennessee Roy Durrenberg, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Patrick Falci, Rosedale, New York Colonel Keith ...
Written just before the fatal shootings of four students at Kent State in Ohio, and then forgotten in a drawer for nearly 45 years, The Rebel in Autumn is now published for the first time anywhere, ready to take its place as one of the ...
In this story of innocence, heroism, sacrifice, and unfathomable blindness, Shaara's gift for storytelling uses these familiar wartime themes to shine a light on the personal, the painful, the tragic, and the thrilling--and on a crucial ...
Complemented by maps and photographs, a comprehensive overview of America's hallowed Civil War battlefields offers detailed descriptions of the landmarks, attractions, history, and more of such locales as Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, ...
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's Blaze of Glory.
The Frozen Hours tells the story of "Frozen Chosin" from multiple points of view: Oliver P. Smith, the commanding general of the American 1st Marine Division, who famously redefined defeat as "advancing in a different direction"; Marine ...
As the forces of Nazi Germany overrun Europe and America is drawn into the war, American troops and their British allies launch a campaign to stop Hitler on battlefields in the deserts of North Africa and in the mountains of Sicily.
"Spring 1942.
Yet, The Glorious Cause is more than just a story of the legendary six-year struggle. It is a tribute to an amazing people who turned ideas into action and fought to declare themselves free.
When the United States military targets the island of Okinawa as part of a plan to halt conflicts that are inflicting massive casualties on both sides, B-29 pilot Paul Tibbets accepts a mission with world-changing implications.
This dramatic concluding volume is a tribute to the amazing people who turned ideas into action and fought to declare themselves free.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's Blaze of Glory.
A fictional account of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, told from the perspectives of participants on both sides, recreates the April 1862 surprise attack by Confederate forces on the Union Army at Shiloh.
Eight thousand marines land in Vera Cruz bound for a war against the Mexican army, including Winfield Scott, a general who made history in the War of 1812, and Robert E. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer as yet untested in battle.