Kent Press imprint: 601 books
The Gentle Warrior
General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea were stopped in their advance toward the Yalu River by Chinese Communist forces and were in danger of being overrun. Vastly outnumbered by enemy forces, the First Marine Division was cut off from its base at Wonson.
General Oliver Prince Smith,...
Pantaloons and Power
A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men’s style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women’s fashions continued to be decorative and physically...
Cold War Casualty
The Court-Martial of Major General Robert W. Grow
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
New research data gathered through the Freedom of Information Act and the first use of the Grow files provide the framework for this absorbing account of the general court-martial of one of General George S. Patton’s famous armored division commanders of World War II.
The 1952 court-martial...
April '65
Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book focuses on the Confederate Secret Service's involvement with the Lincoln assassination,...
Phantoms of the South Fork
Captain McNeill and His Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
At 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldiers out that bitterly cold morning paid little attention to them. In the meantime, over 3,500 Yankee...
Struggle for the Shenandoah
Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Few geographical regions played a more critical role in the American Civil War than the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. At no time did the Valley loom larger on the military landscape than in the late summer and fall of 1864, when the armies of Jubal A. Early and Philip H. Sheridan waged their bitter...
by Frederick S. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Frederick S. Calhoun’s new book makes a timely and important contribution to examining one of the most serious questions confronting the nation’s foreign relations: When and how to use military force. By citing numerous examples from the past, Calhoun is able to show that there is an infinite...
The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail
The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., Union Quartermaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Captain Simon Perkins Jr. and his fellow quartermasters helped make the Union’s victory possible by providing the Federal army with clothing and camp equipment, livestock and forage, wagon and railroad transportation, offices, warehouses, and hospitals, despite bad weather, unserviceable railroads,...
Banners South
A Northern Community at War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2002
The personal story of the men and women of Cortland, New York and their efforts to support the war effort
Most regimental histories focus narrowly on military affairs and the battlefield exploits to the exclusion of the broader social and political context, while community studies examine civilian...
The Pattern in the Web
The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1990
Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be remembered as a poet, and trusted his future literary reputation to the two-volume series of poems on the...
Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories
A Collection of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Tales from the Irish Club contains 11 wry accounts of an enclave of Irish Americans in Pittsburgh during and after World War II. In this first collection of short stories by Lester Goran are the often comic, sometimes tragic tales of Jack Lanahan, the transcendental artist who carves nothing but wooden...
A Punishment on the Nation
An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history
Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was God’s punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through...
My Greatest Quarrel with Fortune
Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Who was Lew Wallace's true foe - the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself?
Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinary military talent. With boldness and celerity, he advanced in less than a year from the rank of colonel of the 11th Indiana to that of major general...
by Guy L. Denny, Gary Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous forest region and includes the states of Illinois,...