NONFICTION
Released: April 5, 2011
"There are few more essential books for Civil War buffs and professional historians alike. A welcome, valuable addition to the vast library devoted to the conflict."
Firsthand accounts of the bloodletting whose 150th anniversary we are about to commemorate, some of which might have saved later historians embarrassment.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"Alternately stomach-wrenching, anger-arousing and spirit-lifting--and always gripping."
The author of
Seabiscuit (2001) returns with another dynamic, well-researched story of guts overcoming odds.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 3, 2010
"Axe's ground-level perspective, as a free agent who is there by choice, makes much war journalism look like an aerial view in comparison."
This war correspondent's graphic memoir packs a smart-bomb blast, as powerful as the volume is slim and elliptical.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
"A timely, artfully written memoir of one man's war."
Art historian and critic Lord (
Mythic Giacometti, 2004, etc.) recounts his life as a gay GI in World War II.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 2009
"A superb account of the burdens soldiers bear."
Did the much-vaunted surge of American troops in Iraq work? Yes, said George W. Bush. A soldierly response differed: "I've had enough of this bullshit."
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NONFICTION
Released: May 13, 2009
"A lucid study of a well-remembered war's forgotten soldiers."
A sympathetic, wide-ranging look at unseen casualties of World War II--those psychologically damaged by battle.
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