Kent Press: 598 books
Pacific Time on Target
Memoirs of a Marine Artillery Officer, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The gritty combat memoir of a Marine Corps artilleryman and forward observer
As a married man and Stanford graduate student nearing thirty, Christopher Donner would likely have qualified for an exemption from the draft. Like most of his generation, however, he responded promptly to the call...
Taken at the Flood
Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 1996
Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. A fair appraisal of the campaign requires...
Confederate Tide Rising
Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Confederate Tide Rising is one of the most significant evaluations of Civil War strategy to be published in the past fifty years. It contributes critically to our understanding of the war, and it will influence the course of Civil War scholarship for decades to comes. I cannot overemphasize the...
The First Day at Gettysburg
Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Battle of Gettysburg exerts a unique hold on the national imagination. Many writers have argued that it represented the turning point of the Civil War, after which Confederate fortunes moved inexorably toward defeat. Successive generations of historians have not exhausted the topic of leadership...
by Charles P. Hamblen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Charles P. Hamblen’s posthumous text provides the first account in more than 25 years of soldiers from the Nutmeg State and their role during the Battle of Gettysburg.Dramatic narrative is interwoven with excerpts from the letters and diaries of Connecticut’s fighting ranks to produce an extended...
Major General John Alexander McClernand
Politician in Uniform
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army. Although a "political general," he proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Ulysses S. Grant and was relieved of his command of the Thirteenth Corps...
Richmond Must Fall
The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
A study of Grant’s and Lee’s battles in the weeks before the 1864 election
In the fall of 1864, the Civil War’s outcome rested largely on Abraham Lincoln’s success in the upcoming presidential election. As the contest approached, cautious optimism buoyed the President’s supporters...
by Jeffery S King
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Charles Arthur Floyd, better known as Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934), was one of the last of the so-called Robin Hood outlaws in the tradition of Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and John Dillinger. He engaged in numerous bank-robbing exploits across the Midwest until federal agents and local police shot...
A Surgeon's Civil War
The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Daniel M. Holt, a successful country doctor in the upstate village of Newport, New York, accepted the position of assistant surgeon in the 121st New York Volunteer Army in August 1862. At age 42 when he was commissioned, he was the oldest member of the staff. But his experience served him well, as...
The Struggle for the Life of the Republic
A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Although a successful businessman in Newark, Ohio, prior to the Civil War, Charles Dana Miller understood the necessity of leaving his business and his home to take part in the "struggle for the life of the republic." His account of what he saw, how he felt, and the hardships he endured...
The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle
Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949-1958
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and the subsequent conclusion of the Sino-Soviet Alliance Treaty destroyed the old balance of power in East Asia and introduced new forces into the international system. These developments had important implications for Great Britain...
George B. McClellan and Civil War History
In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
A History Book Club Selection
Perhaps no other Union commander’s reputation has been the subject of as much controversy as George B. McClellan’s.
Thomas J. Rowland presents a framework in which early Civil War command can be viewed without direct comparison to that of the final two...
The Fourth Battle of Winchester
Toward a New Civil War Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
“Counterfactual questions, if kept within the parameters of what was possible at the time and place, can often help us better understand events of the past. In so doing, they can sometimes bring about a ‘paradigm shift’—a new way of thinking about history and hence of grasping its meaning......
They Have Left Us Here to Die
The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The chronicle of a Union soldier’s seven months in captivity
Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. It is estimated that one out of every seven soldiers was taken captive—more than 194,000...