Savas Beatie: 172 books
"Stand to It and Give Them Hell"
Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
“[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier’s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.” —Civil War News
“Stand to It and Give Them Hell” chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863,...
One Continuous Fight
The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
The titanic three-day battle of Gettysburg left 50,000 casualties in its wake, a battered Southern army far from its base of supplies, and a rich historiographic legacy. Thousands of books and articles cover nearly every aspect of the battle, but not a single volume focuses on the military aspects...
A Long and Bloody Task
The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5–July 18, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
“Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise” (The Civil War Monitor).
Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union’s western...
Determined to Stand and Fight
The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River. Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the capital of the United States, open to attack.
Facing...
Failure in the Saddle Nahan Bedford Forrest Joe Wheeler and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Confederate cavalry has a storied and favorable relationship with the history of the Civil War. Tales of raids and daring exploits create a whiff of lingering romance about the horse soldiers of the Lost Cause. Sometimes however romance obscures history. In August 1863 William Rosecrans Union Army...
Simply Murder
The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
They melted like snow on the ground, one officer said—wave after wave of Federal soldiers charging uphill across an open muddy plain. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken road, poured a hail of lead into them as they charged . . . and faltered . . . and died. “I had never...
Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale
The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The battle of Chickamauga brought an early fall to the Georgia countryside in 1863, where men fell like autumn leaves in some of the heaviest fighting of the war. The battlefield consisted of a nearly impenetrable, vine-choked forest around Chickamauga Creek. Unable to see beyond their immediate surroundings,...
Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg
The Battles for Brinkerhoffs Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2 -3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Few aspects of the battle of Gettysburg are as misunderstood as the role played by the cavalry of both sides. Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoffs Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863 by award-winning author Eric J. Wittenberg is the first and only book to examine...
"The Devil's to Pay"
John Buford at Gettysburg: A History and Walking Tour
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
An award-winning Civil War historian’s profile of the brilliant Union cavalry officer and the strategies he employed to prevent catastrophe at Gettysburg.
The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the Civil War. But the outcome of the decisive confrontation between North and South might...
The Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the Grave
The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave is the winner of the 2015 Richard Harwell Award, Given by the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta. Dave Powell is the first recipient to win the award twice. He also won in 2011 for Failure in the Saddle David Powell’s The Chickamauga Campaign—Glory or...
Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions
Farnsworths Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
An award-winning historical study of the important role played by Union and Confederate horse soldiers on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg.
The Union army’s victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863, is widely considered to have been the turning point in America’s War between...
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Presented here, for the first time in any language, are more than 800 detailed biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, together with 440 b&x portraits. This amazing study spans the critical years of 1792 to 1815, but also includes...
A Civil War Captain and His Lady
A True Story of Love, Courtship, and Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
“Barr’s engaging and revealing collection of letters from Lincoln country directly links the battlefield with the home front” (Randall M. Miller, editor of Lincoln & Leadership).
More than 150 years ago, twenty-seven-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met nineteen-year-old Jennie...
University of Oklahoma Football
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2007
The first title in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the Numbers series!
The University of Oklahoma Sooners Football program has produced seven national championship teams, four Heisman Trophy winners, and countless legendary coaches, players, and characters. This inaugural...