Set in the 1880s, this riveting story focuses on Whittaker, a former slave who became the third black man to enter West Point. Like his two predecessors, he was ostracized…

This work traces the roots of General Sherman’s hostility toward the press and details his attempts to silence reporters during the American Civil War, culminating in his exclusion of all…

In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. Unable to produce victory for the Union…

This is the first complete annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, fully representing the great military leader’s thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War-including the…