by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Hess, Earl J. In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Earl J. Hess has created a masterful trilogy on trench warfare during the Civil War. The first book in the series Field...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Revolution
Rose, Alexander. Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring New York: Bantam Dell, 2006. Wars are not always fought in the open. They can be quiet, secretive, and won from the shadows. Though the mind wants to conjure explosions, black and eye-watering...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Revolution
Richards, Leonard L. Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Leonard L. Richards, in Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle walks the reader through the unsuccessful rebellion...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Revolution
Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. John Buchanan details the struggles and triumphs of the heroic, yet humble George Washington in The Road...
by annegregor | Jun 10, 2018 | WWI
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999. Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War: Explaining World War I is not a chronological account of the war, but rather he has attacked...
