Savas Beatie: 172 books
From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot
The World War I History, Memories, and Photographs of Leonhard Rempe, 1914-1921
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Twenty-one-year-old Leonhard Rempe volunteered to serve Germany in 1914. By the time World War One ended, he had seen action on both major fronts, participated in the war from the back of a horse and the cockpit of a plane, and amassed one of the more unique records of anyone in the Kaiser's army....
Guns Of Independence The Siege Of Yorktown 1781
The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare;...
Flames Beyond Gettysburg
The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
An in-depth look at a Confederate general and the first blood spilled at Gettysburg, with maps, photos, and a guide to historic sites.
This book examines the key role played by Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell’s Second Corps during the final days in June. It is the first in-depth study of these crucial...
Brandywine
A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Winner of the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond Book Award—“An impressive interpretation of the battle” (Arthur S. Lefkowitz, author of Benedict Arnold’s Army).
Long overshadowed by the stunning American victory at Saratoga, the complex British campaign that defeated George Washington’s...
A Strange and Blighted Land
Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) was the largest battle fought on the American continent. Remarkably few who study it contemplate what came after the armies marched away. Who would care for the tens of thousands of wounded? What happened to the thousands of dead men, horses, and tons of detritus scattered...
Seizing Destiny
The Army of the Potomac's "Valley Forge" and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
How fighting Joe Hooker turned things around during a low point in the Civil War: “Exceptionally well-written . . . the result of painstaking research.” —Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle, USA (ret.), former chief of military history, US Army
Depression. Desertion. Disease. The Army of the...
John Bell Hood
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An award-winning biography of one of the Confederacy’s most successful—and most criticized—generals.
Winner of the 2014 Albert Castel Book Award and the 2014 Walt Whitman Award
John Bell Hood died at forty-eight after a brief illness in August 1879, leaving behind the first draft...
National Guard 101
A Handbook for Spouses
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The first time I attended a National Guard family event, I felt like I had been abducted by aliens!” recalls Mary Corbett, author of National Guard 101: A Handbook for Spouses. “I didn’t understand anything! I had never been in an armory before. I didn’t know the difference between an officer...
Wars Against Napoleon Debunking The Myth Of The Napoleonic Wars
Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon a brilliantly written and researched study...
Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy
How War and Hubris Determined the Rise and Fall of the French Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, however, are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and Napoleon is no exception. After all, conquerors are accustomed to imposing...
Foxtrot in Kandahar
A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
A thrilling true story of courage and duty after 9/11—“an extraordinary read from cover to cover . . . Gritty, frustrating, brutal, exhilarating” (Midwest Book Review).
Within hours after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, ex-Green Beret Duane Evans began a personal quest to become...
The Elementary Common Sense of Thomas Paine
An Interactive Adaptation for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Few books or pamphlets have had as much influence on the course of human history as Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. The Declaration of Independence severed political bonds with England, but it was Paine’s dynamic pamphlet that conceptualized the idea of unity and freedom months before Thomas Jefferson...
by David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
The secrets of one of history’s greatest orators are revealed in “one of the most stunningly original works on Abraham Lincoln to appear in years” (John Stauffer, professor of English and history, Harvard University).
For more than 150 years, historians have speculated about what made...
The Second Battle of Winchester
The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia is pushing northward through the Shenandoah Valley toward Pennsylvania, and only one significant force stands in its way: Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy’s Union division of the Eighth Army Corps, in the vicinity...