Joseph Wheelan: 7 books
Their Last Full Measure
The Final Days of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
As the Confederacy steadily crumbled under the Union army's relentless hammering, dramatic developments in early 1865 brought the bloody war to a swift climax and denouement. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one another like falling dominoes—from Fort Fisher's...
Libby Prison Breakout
The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that...
Jefferson's War
America's First War on Terror 1801-1805
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with impunity. Jefferson ordered the...
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade
John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
When John Quincy Adams-the sixty-three-year-old former president, U.S. senator, secretary of state, and diplomat-was elected to the House of Representatives by his Massachusetts neighbors, he embarked on a spectacular late-life career.
He became Congress's most acerbic and influential critic...
Midnight in the Pacific
Guadalcanal--The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A sweeping narrative history--the first in over twenty years--of America's first major offensive of World War II, the brutal, no-quarter-given campaign to take Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal
From early August until mid-November of 1942, US Marines, sailors, and pilots struggled for dominance...
Bloody Spring
Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4, Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north-central Virginia, with...
Terrible Swift Sword
The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman’s famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South,...