Military History

As the Civil War moved into 1864, people in the North expected newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant to roll over the Confederate ar...

A significant part of the Civil War was fought in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, especially in 1864. Books and articles have been written ab...

'An exciting, highly informative and also enjoyable read: Shepherd writes with clarity and verve this book should find its way into the hands of al...

The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with h...

Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-...

This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not train...

This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 t...

This work tells the personal stories of boys and girls who left home and enlisted in the U.S. military at ages 11 to 16. Many had difficult home...

The Fifth New York Cavalry was a volunteer regiment organized in response to the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. The citize...

This biography of General Edwin Vose Sumner emphasizes his role in developing the mounted arm of the U.S. Army. Born in Boston in 1797 he abando...

The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception--one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common hi...

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and ac...

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigot...

The multi-faceted Revolutionary War career of Benjamin Tallmadge included operations as a dragoon commander, intelligence and counter-intelligen...

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II. This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one s...

William Garrigues Bentley chose to leave the safety of home and family at age 19 fight for the Union. He enlisted in the 104th Ohio Volunteer In...

General David Stanley's Union cavalry at Stones River in Middle Tennessee. The campaign saw some of the most desperately fought mounted engagements...

General Winfield Scott Hancock was perhaps the most influential officer in the federal lines, though he commanded only one of seven Union corps at ...

Union Major General Gouverneur Warren participated in almost every major battle in the Civil War's Eastern Theater, from Big Bethel to Five Fork...

The 1973 Yom Kippur War marked a turning point in the special relationship between the United States and Israel. While previous U.S. administrat...

First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander. It provides a uniq...

In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons an...

This book presents profiles of sixteen individuals born and raised in countries other than America who voluntarily joined the revolutionary caus...

Following the loss of the CSS Arkansas in early August 1862, Union and Confederate eyes turned to the Yazoo River, which formed the developing n...

William Edmondson Grumble Jones (b. 1824) stands among the most notable Southwest Virginians to fight in the Civil War. The Washington County na...

Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in...

Following the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, pro-war arguments in the American press led public opinion to favor engaging in...

U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann had no idea what was in store for him when he arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941. Two months l...

Soldier mortals would not survive if they were not blessed with the gift of imagination and the pictures of hope, wrote Confederate Private Henry G...

The Boston Marine Barracks is one of the oldest in the United States: it stands within eyeshot of the USS Constitution. Lt. Col. John R. Yates, ...

Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th Third Iowa Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force's 42nd ...

When Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart said North Carolina has done nobly in this army, he had one of his own men to thank: Brigadier General...

Now that the United States has declared war upon the German Empire, and that men will more than likely be conscripted into the service, I shall ...

From the turn of the 20th century until the end of World War II, the United States Marine Corps fought a series of small wars, starting in the P...

Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic training he was assigned to Officer Candida...