Savas Beatie: 172 books
Death, Disease, and Life at War
The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of letters throughout the war to his family relating...
The Second Day at Gettysburg
The Attack and Defense of the Union Center on Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a massive blow that collapsed Dan Sickles’ advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a large gap in the center of the Federal line on Cemetery Ridge. Fresh Confederates from...
Confederate Courage on Other Fields
Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness offers four valuable but little-studied events of the Civil War. Each story explores the hardships of battle, and demonstrations of courage and other human attributes, away from the glare of well-known...
Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes
The Lives of the Extraordinary Patriots Who Followed Arnold to Canada at the Start of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This “gripping” history recounts the lives of American patriots who were a part of Arnold’s failed Canadian invasion during the Revolutionary War (Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty! The American Revolution).
Hundreds of men followed Col. Benedict Arnold in an expedition to capture Quebec...
Quest For The Lost Roman Legions Discovering The Varus Battlefield
Discovering the Varus Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
In 9 A.D. the 17th 18th & 19th Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius-a Roman-trained German warrior determined...
by Bill Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
This fascinating illustrated guide is “a must for any Civil War buff visiting or living in New York City” (New York Journal of Books).
Few Americans associate New York City with the Civil War, but the most populated metropolitan area in the nation, then and now, is filled with scores of monuments,...
Robert E. Lee in War and Peace
The Photographic History of a Confederate and American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America’s most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serious study of Lee in photographs, and with Don Hopkins’s...
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
Volume III: The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
As bloody and horrific as the battle of Antietam was, historian Ezra Carman—who penned a 1,800-page manuscript on the Maryland campaign—did...
The Maps of Chickamauga
The Tullahoma Campaign, June 22 – July 1, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil War. Track individual...
Divided Loyalties
Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
On May 16, 1861, the Kentucky state legislature passed an ordinance declaring its neutrality, which the state’s governor, Beriah Magoffin, confirmed four days later. Kentucky’s declaration and ultimate support for the Union stood at odds with the state’s social and cultural heritage....
Flying Drunk: The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight Three Drunk Pilots and One Man's Fight for Redemption
The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight, Three Drunk Pilots, and One Man's Fight for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
March 8 1990: An intoxicated three-man crew including Flight Engineer Joseph Balzer fly a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo North Dakota to Minneapolis Minnesota. July 25 1990: All three pilots stand trial for flying a commercial airliner while under the influence...
Fighting for General Lee
Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A remarkable biography of a Confederate brigadier general’s experiences during—and after—the Civil War: “Well-written and deeply researched” (Eric J. Wittenberg, author of Out Flew the Sabers).
Rufus Barringer fought on horseback through most of the Civil War with General Lee’s Army...
Sickles at Gettysburg
The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
“Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review).
Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award
Winner...
by David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Almost nobody noticed. In January 2011, President Obama completely changed the structure of his speeches. A few people, like Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal and Gustav Niebuhr in The Huffington Post, figured out something was up. But neither could pin it down.
Now the complete story...