1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History...
Charles Bracelen FloodIn a masterful narrative, historian and biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic...
First to Fly: The Story of the Lafaye...
Charles Bracelen FloodIf the Wright brothers’ 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescencea brief but bloody era that completely changed the way planes were designed, fabricated, and flown. ...
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship Tha...
Charles Bracelen FloodThey were both prewar failures—Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military academy—in the years before th...
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Gra...
Charles Bracelen FloodShortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial rui...