Britain and France fought Russia in the Crimean War of 1854- 1856, a campaign that saw the Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, and Tolstoy manning the guns of Sevastopol. ...

This series draws on the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich to illustrate the great maritime events of the prephotographic era. ...

Richard Sauer is extremely knowledgeable about Civil War sources, and clearly indicates where Bolton drew on other sources or where his recollections or information were in error in this carefully edited work. ...

Silas T. Grisamore was born in Indiana in 1825 and moved to Louisiana in 1846, settling first in Napoleonville and then in Thibodaux. He engaged in a variety of occupations but found most success as a merchant, selling goods from a flatboat that plied the waterways of the southern part of the state. When the Civil War began, Grisamore enlisted with the Lafourche Creoles, soon to become Company G of the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Because ...

Confederate Letters and Diaries brings to modern readers many interesting, fascinating writings of Confederate soldiers. Colonel Swank has included numerous eyewitness, and often heart rending accounts of battlefield scenes, hardships faced in camp, on the march, or in prison-this collection even includes a diary of a Virginia cavalryman held in a Federal military prison. The words of those soldiers from Dixie bring their turbulent years ...

First time in paperback: A unique portrait of American military action through the stories of the seventy-one U.S. destroyers sunk in World War II.. Seventy-one American destroyers went down during World War II, and this meticulously researched book describes the history of eachfrom launch to the ship's final hours. Through these stories we travel from the stormy North Atlantic to the calm Mediterranean, from the East Coast of the United States ...

This is the first full-scale, step-by-step account of the climatic 28-day struggle of the poorly armed Jews against their Nazi exterminators. ...

In between tours of duty at Buckingham Palace, the Scots Guards are regularly deployed to the world's trouble spots. This very up-to-date history covers the regiment's service in the Falklands and Persian Gulf. ...

The study of the way in which political and economic changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and the aims of war, this book examines the limited wars that were possible in an age of absolute rulers and the destructive impact of revolutionary government on this state of affairs. ...

Civil War Stories is the account of the actual participants in the war who make any historical work worth noting. ...