Anthony S Pitch: 5 books

“Delves into the fevered world of John Wilkes Booth. . . . Races along through the manhunt, the trials, the executions. A treat for the Lincoln fanatic” (USA Today). Anthony S. Pitch’s thrilling account of the Lincoln conspiracy and its aftermath transcends the mere facts of that awful...

With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode many call a defining moment in the coming-of-age of the United States. The British torched the Capitol, the White House, and many other public...

A chilling and thoroughly researched account of the racially motivated killing of two black couples by a white mob in 1946 rural Georgia. In 1946, the bodies of two black couples—Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey—were found near a bridge in rural Monroe, Georgia....

In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, “If you get out, maybe you can tell the story! Who else will tell it?” Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of...

On August 5, 1964, while Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez was flying a retaliatory air strike against naval targets in North Vietnam, antiaircraft fire crippled his A-4 fighter-bomber, forcing him to eject over water at low altitude. Alvarez relates the engrossing tale of his capture by fishermen, brutal treatment...