Southern War

A Dark Horizon is the story of two young boys growing up with one living on a nearby farm and the other as a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. The two become good friends despite the difficult circumstances of plantation life prior to the Civil War. A series of events occur later that bring these two friends together but on a battlefield of the American Civil War. It's the story of two friends and how life in the Antebellum South and the war created different life paths for them.

Historian Thomas D. Perry, Founder of the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace, edits the first of a projected three volume series of the papers of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart.

Journeyman: A Brighter Sunshine of Their Own is the fourth novel in the award-winning Journeyman Chronicles of the American Revolution. In the fall of 1780, the American cause in the South is teetering on the edge of collapse. The Continental Army has been shattered at Camden, and the future of the Revolution hangs by a thread. Lieutenant Colonel Will Yelverton and his loyal companion Charles Cuthbert answer the call of duty. Their mission: to support the daring guerrilla campaign of the legendary Swamp Fox, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Marion. Will and Cuth ride with Marion’s rag-tag ...

The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.

The society is dangerously polarized. Violent mobs hit the streets. Some whispered a civil war was coming. Then the bombs went off. Survivors recruited freedom-loving citizens to armed resistance, in Manhattan, Boston, and Valley Forge. The globalist enemy knows who to target… the hunt is on, but the resistance is wily, and supplied with technology from a billionaire industrialist. The action is fast and furious on Manhattan, as the UN Peacekeepers fight to take control of the city, the resistance taking them on at every turn. The enemy has new allies coming. Can the resistance handle ...

On June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-Chief Henry Halleck: "All your available force should be concentrated to threaten Richmond, by seizing and destroying their railroad bridges over the South and North Anna Rivers, and do them all the damage possible." With General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia marching toward Gettysburg and only a limited Confederate force guarding Richmond, Halleck sensed a rare opportunity for the Union cause.

After years abroad, Jasper Wainwright returns to Beaufort, South Carolina, home of his unruly youth. Slavery and Sea Island cotton have made this summer seat of plantation owners one of the wealthiest and most cultured cities in America . . . and also the most hotheaded, secessionist city in the South. Jasper’s cousin, Henry Birch, wants him to marry his niece, Cara, a pianist and the prettiest girl in the county. Believing slavery doomed, Jasper has no desire to settle in the South again and so resists both Henry’s matchmaking and his growing fascination with Cara. Then anonymous ...

From Larry J. Musson comes an authentic account of combat with an airborne company in the waterlogged rice paddies and demanding jungles of South Vietnam. Share the experiences of fighting men under punishing conditions, extreme temperatures, and intense monsoon rains as they search for the enemy in the rugged mountains and teeming lowlands. Relive all the terror, humor, and sadness of one man's tour of duty with real-life action in spectacular, stunning detail.

What would you do if the government took your liberty?California citizens wage war against the UN, brought in to enforce martial law as their Islamist henchmen terrorize the countryside. Some citizens feel safer under martial law, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens see this for what it is. Globalist tyranny. Their only choice is to fight the invaders, to the death if necessary. They’re making progress, but the cost is high.In Bug Out! California Book 11, the battle rages as the citizen patriot forces, under the leadership of Ivan the Butcher, make life impossible for ...

The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands. Of all those malicious and greedy potential overlords, none managed to prevail.

In January 1942 19 year old Ronald is in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) training to become a pilot at the Elementary Training Flying School Induna, near Bulawayo. He is very homesick for his girlfriend Joyce (who he marries in 1943) & his family. Ultimately unsuccessful, he is discharged from the RAF in December 1942 after returning via troop ship to Glasgow in late June.Three other diaries, 1937, 1944, 1945 have survived (but are not currently published) which show he was still residing in Port Sunlight, Wirral both before and subsequent to this diary.

A stolen bucket. Two proud cities. One of history’s most peculiar wars. In the annals of medieval conflict, few tales are as bizarre—and as revealing—as the War of the Bucket. What began as a petty provocation between the rival Italian city-states of Modena and Bologna erupted into a bloody clash that claimed hundreds of lives, all over a wooden bucket taken from a city well. In The War of the Bucket: A Deep Dive into the 1325 Conflict, author Terry Sloan unpacks the absurdity and the gravity of this infamous episode. With rich detail and a sharp narrative voice, Sloan explores the ...

On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to the finish, the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.

You never really know where life will take you. These tales are about a few of the places my life took me. Come with me as I travel around the world while serving a twenty-three-year career in the US Army, followed by a twenty-year career in the International Defense Industry. Read exciting and comical stories and tales; witness historical cold war events; and experience both my professional and personal life, as I serve assignments in the Republic of South Korea, the Continental United States, the Panama Canal Zone, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the ...

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America's worst foreign policy disaster of the twentieth century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the January 27, 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam's surrender on April 30, 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit.

Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison and was in power sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seemed poised to fall…until a white supremacist shot and killed Mandela’s popular heir apparent, Chris Hani, in a last desperate attempt to provoke civil war.

The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War, the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War.

Mahala: the Darkness Saga is the prequel to Darkness: A Slave's Story and the sixth book in that series. The latest addition to the saga takes us back to the beginning where Mahala's mother, Trini, is a young slave on a farm owned by an elderly couple, Ebenezer and Corabelle Smith. The Smiths have decided to free their slaves and gift their farm to them upon their deaths. Trini, her husband, Scotty, and the other slaves wait with mixed feelings as events unfold and change their somewhat comfortable lives forever. After her birth, Mahala is sold to Zeke and Mary Jennings, who raise her as ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! Texas is the story of Texas Patriots who fight the invaders. In Bug Out! Texas Book 9, the battle raged in New Mexico, as the Fort Stockton Group struggled to blow bridges and damage sections of road. The DPS Patrol Boaters were rescued from South Padre Island and given a new mission, training at a new base in Canyon Lake. Richardson's team was the last the DPS had, and it was crucial that what they'd learned be preserved and shared with new recruits. Bug Out! Texas Book 10 – The Road Home continues the story of the battle for Texas and the Southwest. The...

Eyewitness accounts from over 50 diaries of southern women facing the hardships of the Civil War. Includes voices of slave women. As Yankee soldiers plundered, and starvation stalked the land, they hid food and heirlooms in wells and swamps. They watched Atlanta and Georgia burn and fed hungry children. Vivid accounts of women who witnessed the battles. Turned into food scavengers at the brink of starvation, southern women devised ways to feed their children.