Military History  /  American Wars
Fred Grant at Vicksburg Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781611217414
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Description:
On March 29, 1863, 12-year-old Frederick Grant, the eldest son of Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S.
From Camp Douglas to Vicksburg Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781611217407
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Description:
Wars change the course of history and touch in intensely personal ways the lives of everyone involved. Thankfully, surviving firsthand accounts offer modern readers a deeply personal window into earlier times. From Camp Douglas to Vicksburg: The Civil War Letters of William J.
The Campaign for Atlanta & Sherman’s March to the Sea Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781611216974
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 12 images, 6 maps
Description:
By the time Albert Castel’s Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 appeared in 1992, Savas Woodbury Publishers had already made important contributions to the campaign scholarship by publishing a collection of original essays by some of the field’s most noted authors, including Steven Woodworth, writing about the Confederacy’s command options in the Winter of 1863-64. Editors Theodore P. Savas and David A.
The Second Day at Gettysburg Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 552
ISBN: 9781611217261
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 93 images, 37 maps
Description:
So much has been written about Gettysburg, goes the well-worn cliché, that there is nothing new left to write. Now in paperback, The Second Day at Gettysburg: The Attack and Defense of Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863, by David L. Shultz and Scott L.
Feeding Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781611217315
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Description:
Carlton McCarthy, a former artilleryman with the Richmond Howitzers, noted after the war that historians would only write about big battles and campaigns, not how the common soldier fried his bacon and baked his biscuits. McCarthy was correct. Save for a few small references in scattered books, no one has set out to document how an army was fed, or the daily eating habits of Confederate soldiers until Michael C.
The Final Bivouac Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781611217346
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Description:
What actually happened during the first six weeks of new-found peace once General Lee surrendered the remnants of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant? What were the initial reactions of the soldiers and Virginia citizens to the devastating news of Lincoln’s assassination? How did they handle the situation of the emancipated slaves?
The Overland Campaign for Richmond Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636243924
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025
Description:
In the spring of 1864, many in the North, including President Lincoln, were growing frustrated. Although Lincoln’s armies were achieving success on the battle¬fields, the gruesome toll was becoming increasingly unacceptable. The president needed a general who would ¬ finally put an end to the war.
RRP: £24.95
A Grand Opening Squandered Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781611217216
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
Illustrations: 100 images, 10 maps
Description:
May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. After the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor, combined losses for the two armies exceeded 80,000 men killed, wounded, and captured. And the result after all that carnage was a stalemate outside the gates of Richmond.
Break Contact—Continue Mission Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781636245003
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Illustrations: 10 images
Description:
Join Garner, Dodge, and the rest of RT Iowa as they venture “across the fence” to help stem the flow of the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Tense hours of moving in areas “denied” to the U.S.
RRP: £29.95
The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244792
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Illustrations: Over 120 photographs and illustrations
Description:
The summer of 1863 started off disastrously for the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. In early May, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia defeated and humiliated Major General Joseph Hooker’s army at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
RRP: £24.95
A Tempest of Iron and Lead Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781611217179
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 24 images, 16 maps
Description:
May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could imagine a more infernal battlefield.
Tullahoma Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9781611215045
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 16 maps, 50 images
Description:
July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady tumult of events was news that William S.
The Traitor's Homecoming Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 372
ISBN: 9781611216981
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 40 images, 12 maps
Description:
Almost everyone is familiar with the name of at least one Revolutionary War battle. Some, like Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Yorktown are nearly household names. Others are less well known but readily recognized when mentioned.
Holding Charleston by the Bridle Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781611217148
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 62 images, 1 map
Description:
On the eve of the Civil War, the London Times informed its readers that Castle Pinckney has “been kept garrisoned, not to protect Charleston from naval attack from the ocean, but to serve as a bridle upon the city.” Located on a marshy island in the center of Charleston’s magnificent harbor, the large cannons on the ramparts of this horseshoe-shaped masonry fort had the ability to command downtown Charleston and the busy wharves along East Bay Street. This inescapable fact made Castle Pinckney an important chess piece in the secession turmoil of 1832 and 1850, and in the months leading up to the 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter.
John Brown's Raid Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781611215977
Pub Date: 10 May 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
Illustrations: 150 images, 10 maps
Description:
The first shot of the American Civil War was not fired on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, but instead came on October 16, 1859, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia - or so claimed former slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The shot came like a meteor in the dark. John Brown, the infamous fighter on the Kansas plains and detester of slavery, led a band of nineteen men on a desperate nighttime raid that targeted the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
To Hell or Richmond Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781611215236
Pub Date: 10 May 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
Illustrations: 10 maps, 150 images
Description:
In the spring of 1862, George McClellan and his massive army were slowly making their way up the Virginia Peninsula. Their goal: capture the Confederate capital and end the rebellion. “To Hell or Richmond” one Federal artillery unit vowed, sewing the words onto their flag.