Military
Oh, Johnny
In the opening scene of Jim Lehrer’s Oh, Johnny, we encounter nineteen-year-old Johnny Wrigley aboard a marine troop train bound…
To Play the Fox: A Novel of Fighter Pilots in World War Two
The fighter pilots in question are an urbane Englishman, a licentious American, and a cynical German. We follow their wayward…
Zulu Hart
George Hart is the illegitimate son of a half-Irish, half-Zulu actress and a pillar of the British military establishment. His…
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
Students of the American Civil War have been blessed over the years by an astonishing number of truly talented scholarly…
The Antigallican
With its captivating, pungent, and sharply drawn characters, this first installment in a series of sea stories is a welcome…
Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty
Fourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile enters the Royal Navy in 1787 in the same way as many other 18th-century lower-class English…
Bedlam South
In 1863, Alabama native Dr. Joseph Bryarly reluctantly accepts an invitation from a family friend, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, to…
Nor The Battle To The Strong
Editors' choice
This novel of the American Revolution in the South is told from the contrasting viewpoints of Major General Nathanial Greene…
Rommel and the Rebel/Rommel’s Peace
Erwin Rommel occupies a special place in the historical and fictional accounts of World War II. The praise awarded him…
Ship of Rome
This is the first of a series of naval warfare adventures set during the Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome.…
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