by David McCullough (2005)
In this masterwork of narrative history, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was within an inch of being crushed. A thrilling account of ordinary citizens facing the mighty British empire.
James M. McPherson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The definitive single-volume chronicle of the American Civil War, brilliantly weaving together the political, social, and military forces that tore the United States apart between 1848 and 1865.
Michael Bush
This book studies the largest insurrection to occur in England between the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and the English Civil War of the 164Os. It concentrates upon the nine rebel armies that were mobilised in the North during the month of October 1536, examining their recruitment, organisation, grievances and aims, as well as the impact they made upon the government of Henry VIII. Operating principally from original sources, it revises the standard work of the Dodds and appraises the research produced in the subject over the last thirty years. Bush proposes that, as a rising of the commons, the aim of the rebellion was to safeguard the commonwealth as well as to protect Christ's faith, arguing that it cannot be fully explained as a reaction against the Henrician Reformation. On the other hand, in adopting the idiom of a rising of the commons, it did not become simply a popular uprising, but was rather a conjunction of protest, with gentlemen, clergy and commons establishing working alliances with each other against the government. Besides a study of revolt, this book provides a vital insight into the cultural, religious, political and social beliefs of sixteenth-century England.
Jon Lee Anderson
Anderson reports from five war fronts, telling of passionate, defiant, and idealistic, guerrillas evoking romantic images of struggle for a just cause ...
Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock
Offers a global tour of Italian military history, arranged by country, from the Roman Legionnaires to George Custer's 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn to modern Italian Eurofighter Typhoons, including Italian Americans fighting in WWII.--Publisher.