Savas Publishing imprint: 52 books
General William Dorsey Pender
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
The talented William Dorsey Pender is a prime example of the advantage held by the Confederacy in junior-level commanders during the opening months of the Civil War. Pender, a native North Carolinian, graduated in the top half of the West Point class of 1856.
One of the first Southern-born officers...
"By the Blood of Our Alumni"
Norwich University Citizen Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college, graduated hundreds of officers into the Federal armies who participated in the long and bloody war to crush the Southern Rebellion of 1861-1865. Robert Poirier’s “By the Blood of Our Alumni”: Norwich University Citizen Soldiers...
For Cause and Country
A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The battles at Spring Hill and Franklin, Tennessee, in the late autumn of 1864 were watershed moments in the American Civil War. Thousands of hardened veterans and a number of recruits, as well as former West Point classmates, found themselves moving through Middle Tennessee in the last great campaign...
by David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Abraham Lincoln’s November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address is generally recognized as one of the greatest leadership speeches ever written. The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address explains the 272-word speech more thoroughly than any book previously published. With the aid of colorized step-by-step...
Victory without Triumph
The Wilderness May 6th and 7th, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In Victory Without Triumph: The Wilderness May 6th & 7th, 1864, John Priest meticulously details the vicious infantry fighting along the Plank Road, Longstreet's counterstrike against the II Corps, the cavalry operations of both armies near Todd's Tavern, and John B. Gordon's daring assault against...
by John W. Schildt
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
*Jackson Day-by-Day details the daily events of the soldier his men called “Stonewall” during those stirring days of 1861-1863. Before the Civil War, Thomas J. Jackson was an obscure, eccentric professor at the Virginia military institute in Lexington, Virginia. For Jackson, everything changed...
by Michelle L. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
In 1862, in the midst of a bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, suffered unspeakable heartache when their young son died. To combat her grief, First Lady Mary Lincoln became a devotee of Spiritualism making the White House a center for Washington, D.C.'s Spiritualist community....
The Sigel Regiment
A History of the Twenty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was quietly mustered into service in Milwaukee on September 17, 1862-the bloodiest day in American history. Composed primarily of German immigrants and Americans of German descent, the 26th fought and bled its way into the record books as one of Fox’s “Fighting...
The Tyranny of Public Discourse
Abraham Lincoln’s Six-Element Antidote for Meaningful and Persuasive Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Are you satisfied with the current state of public discourse? The almost unanimous response from people across the nation is a loud and emphatic “No!”
The reply is always the same regardless of politics. Today’s public discourse typically starts with a “conclusion” and goes downhill...
Im Stahlmantel
Als U-Boot-Fahrer an Bord von U 505
Language: German
Release Date: June 12, 2014
U 505 ist das einzige deutsche U-Boot, das im Zweiten Weltkrieg von amerikanischen Schiffen aufgebracht wurde, und es bildet heute das Wahrzeichen des Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Hans Göbeler kam mit neunzehn Jahren nach dem Besuch der U-Boot-Schule in Pillau im Februar 1942 als Maschinengefreiter...