The book "Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives under Enemy Fire from Valley Forge to Afghanistan" shines a much-needed light on the all-too-often overlooked service of military corpsmen and medics and the evolution of battlefield medical care.
Read MoreA new book on the Second Battle of Manassas, or Second Bull Run, provides a blow-by-blow account of the fighting for Chinn Ridge and Henry Hill, "one of the clearest descriptions of Civil War combat this reviewer has ever read."
Read MoreA review calls "The New York Times: The Complete Civil War 1861-1865" and its accompanying DVD-ROM "a MUST HAVE."
Read MoreIn "Hitler’s Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler’s Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS" Bill Yenne explores how Hitler and Himmler used a variety of social movements in 1920s Germany to create the mythic images of the SS.
Read MoreAfter the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped, by David Hardin, tells the post-war stories of 11 figures from the Civil War, ranging from U.S. Grant to Mary Chestnut.
Read More
HistoryNet
