Product Description: Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall--from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest achievement: leading the allies to victory in World War II...read more

SHILOH, 1862 The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the wilderness of southern Tennessee in April 1862, marked a violent crossroads in the Civil War. What began as a surprise attack by Confederate troops on a Union stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River Valley became a bloody two-day conflict that would eerily foretell the brutal reality of the next three years. Pitting up-and-coming Union general Ulysses S. Grant against Confederate firebrand Albert Sidney Johnston, the engagement was a perfect storm of advanced weaponry, a West Point–educated officer corps, and a decades-long buildup of hatred that bore devastating consequences. One hundred thousand soldiers clashed in the vicious melee, and losses for both sides totaled nearly 24,000, more than had been lost during the American Revolution and the War of 1812 combined. Bestselling author and Civil War historian Winston Groom skillfully re-creates the drama of the event in a gripping, eye-opening, and heartrending narrative that highlights the major personalities, politics, and mind-set of the day. But perhaps the most alarming outcome, Groom poignantly reveals, was the realization that for all its horror, the Battle of Shiloh had not vanquished the Rebel army in the West, and the thousands of maimed and slain were merely wretched symbols of things to come.

Product Description: SHILOH, 1862 The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the wilderness of southern Tennessee in April 1862, marked a violent crossroads in the Civil War. What began as a surprise attack by Confederate troops on a Union stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River Valley became a bloody two-day conflict that would eerily foretell the brutal reality of the next three years...read more

Chronicles the rollicking misadventures of Forrest Gump, an idiot savant college football player whose mathematical genius does not prevent his flunking out and who finds himself drafted for Vietnam

In the wake of Jenny's death and the bankruptcy of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Forrest finds himself in charge of raising his young son alone and has adventures with the Cola-Cola company and Oliver North. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: From the author of Forrest Gump comes the story of Willie Croft, a small townLouisiana lawyer who doesn't ask much of life. When oil is discovered on landheld by black sharecroppers, Bienville's ascendancy mounts its challenge--andWillie discovers, at long last, the power of courage, love and the right kindof dreams...read more

A vivid, action-packed chronicle of the January 1815 Battle of New Orleans describes how American general Andrew Jackson unexpectedly joined forces with raffish French buccaneer Jean Laffite to repell an invasion of British troops from the Louisiana city. Reprint.

A chronicle of the January, 1815 Battle of New Orleans describes how the American general, Andrew Jackson, unexpectedly joined forces with raffish French buccaneer, Jean Laffite, to repel an invasion of British troops from the Louisiana city.

An account of perseverance, innovation, tactics, tragedy, and triumphs vividly recreates the story of America's first year in World War II and portrays 1942 as the defining act in the great drama of the war. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

This is the narrative of one of the most horrific battles in history, by a soldier turned novelist.

Recreates the desperate campaign of Confederate General John Bell Hood to turn the tide of war, from the fall of Atlanta to the climax at Nashville

A close-up analysis of a pivotal battle of World War I revisits the four-year-long Battle of Ypres, an engagement that cost hundreds of thousands of lives, marked the use of terrible new military tactics and technologies--including poison gas, mines, tanks, and air strikes--and forever changed the way that war would be waged. Reprint.

A close-up analysis of a pivotal battle of World War I revisits the four-year-long Battle of Ypres, an engagement that cost hundreds of thousands of lives, marked the use of terrible new military tactics and technologies--including poison gas, mines, tanks, and air strikes--and forever changed the way that war would be waged. 50,000 first printing.

In a firsthand account of the air war over France during World War I, American cowboy-turned-ace-pilot Frederick Libby describes his enlistment in Canada's Royal Flying Corps and his daring exploits in the air over enemy lines. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)