Dramatization of the rise and fall of Civil War general Stonewall Jackson.

Offers a portrait of President Lincoln as commander-in-chief of the Union forces during the Civil War and his emergence as a master strategist.

Hitler's Generals, first published in 1944, is an insider's look at 9 important German military leaders of World War II: 6 in the army, 2 in the navy, and one a head of the air force (Luftwaffe). Included are profiles of: Colonel General Baron Werner von Fritsch, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Field Marshal Erhard Milch, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock,...

The senior British generals of the Victorian era - men like Wolseley, Roberts, Gordon and Kitchener - were heroes of their time. As soldiers, administrators and battlefield commanders they represented the empire at the height of its power. But they were a disparate, sometimes fractious group of men. They exhibited many of the failings as well as the strengths of the British army of the late nineteenth-century. And now, when the Victorian period is...

Admirals and Generals: describes in vivid detail what may have occurred in the United States military from 1833 to 1877. It is the continuation of The Caldwell Series. The narration is by a career naval officer, born in Beaufort, South Carolina. The historical events of 1833 through 1877 are carefully followed. The imagination of the author provides rich characters in powerful settings from the playing fields of West Point to the summer cruises from...

The fleet came in at four o'clock. With no one to help him, it seemed the General was lost. But the enemy was soon to discover that Generals Help Themselves.

The murder of a prostitute, who is also a German agent, draws the attention of Major Grau of German Intelligence, who discovers that the evidence points to three top-ranking Nazi generals. After following leads, Grau winds up in Paris and discovers that two of the generals are deeply involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Grau's case will go unfinished for twenty years until the true killer is brought to justice.

Success leaves clues. So does failure. Some of history's best known commanders are remembered not for their brilliant victories but for their catastrophic blunders. Throughout the centuries countless armies have gone down to defeat, succumbing to greater numbers, more advanced technology, or more skilled opponents. A few armies have been defeated because of the blundering incompetence of their own commanders. What are the elements of leadership failure?...