William M Fowler: 4 books
Empires at War
The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister...
Steam Titans
Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History
The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic.
Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution...
American Crisis
George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The story of the dramatic two years (October 1781-November 1783) after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact...
Under Two Flags
The American Navy in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory. Neither ponderous nor hagiographic, the work presents characters and events that have been previously neglected and offers candid assessments...