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To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. Thomas Jonathan Jackson earned his famous moniker during the Battle of Manassas, when an entire brigade was commanded to rally behind Jackson, whose own company was fighting like a stone wall. One of the finest generals...
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In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I.
This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and how horrible it became.
Tuchman masterfully portrays this transition from the nineteenth
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"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
9) War
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Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
11) Bull Run
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Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
15) Shiloh, 1862
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In this gripping telling of the first "great and terrible" battle of the Civil War, Groom describes the dramatic events of April 6 and 7, 1862, when a bold surprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant's encamped troops and the bloody battle that ensued would alter the timbre of the war.
16) The last battle
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The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater. It devastated Berlin, and brought the downfall of the Third Reich; it was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal moments. In this compelling account, the author delves beneath the military and political forces to explore questions of survival for the cities citizens, their despair, frustration and terror of defeat. [From publisher's description]...
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V. 1 : "This book, in over 650 photographs, covers the last uneasy days of peace, the vicious guerrilla skirmishes in Kansas and Nebraska, and the first battles of a long and bloody war; Bull Run, Shiloh, Murfreesboro ..."
V. 2 : "A photographic account of the military campaigns and ordinary camp life of both Northern and Southern soldiers during the first part of the Civil War. Includes portfolios of two noted photographers, Samuel Cooley and Henry...
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