Richard Slotkin: 3 books
No Quarter
The Battle of the Crater, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War’s most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union’s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate...
by Richard Slotkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
A masterful account of the Civil War's turning point in the tradition of James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom.
In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy—one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed...
Lost Battalions
The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
"A work of stunning density and penetrating analysis . . . Lost Battalions deploys a narrative symmetry of gratifying complexity."—David Levering Lewis, The Nation
During the bloodiest days of World War I, no soldiers served more valiantly than the African American troops of the...