The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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David O. Stewart, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I’ve done five books – four histories and one novel – on the American Founding era (1770-1815), beginning with our Constitutional Convention (The Summer of 1787). It is an...
Gordon Corrigan, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? Inspirational history tutors both at school and at Sandhurst gave me a lifelong fascination with history, and my service in the army sharpened the focus to specialise in military history....
General Butler in New Orleans: A History of the Administration of the Department of the Gulf in the Year 1862, by James Parton
Hard Tack and Coffee: A Classic Civil War Memoir, by John D Billings. Billings’ account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier.
Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade, by John O. Casler. An account of a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.
The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Campaigning with Grant: Union Civil War General-in-Chief by Horace Porter.
Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative by General E P Alexander
