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John V. Quarstein

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

In 1831, a literate, enslaved African American manorganized the largest slave revolt in American history—a violent step toward Emancipation that lit the fires ofabolitionism and the Civil War

Born in 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turnerwas one of millions of enslaved persons of African descentin the United States. Encouraged to learn to read and write,Turner immersed himself in the Bible and preached to hisfellow slaves and others. Believing he had received severalsigns from God about his mission to overthrow the yoke ofslavery, he organized the largest and bloodiest slave revolt inAmerican history. On the evening of August 21, 1831,Turner and his closest followers descended on the farmsand plantations in Southampton. Freeing slaves and killingslave-owning men, women, and children, Turner’s forcegrew to over sixty people. The insurrection, however, wasquickly and brutally put down by local militia, after thedeaths of fifty-seven whites and over one hundred blacks.The court ordered the execution of fifty-six slaves, acquittedfifteen, and ordered the transportation of fourteen out ofVirginia into slavery elsewhere. Turner himself was not cap-tured until October 30, tried on November 5, and hung onNovember 11, 1831. Nat Turner’s Rebellion brought theissue of slavery to the forefront of American politics, withthe Virginia General Assembly nearly ending the institutionduring its 1832 session. New York and Great Britain out-lawed slavery in 1834, while the need to resolve the slaveryissue prompted a widespread expansion of abolitionism,resulting in the end of slavery in the United States in 1865. In Nat Turner’s Rebellion, historian John V. Quarsteinweaves Nat Turner’s own confession, court records, newspa-per accounts, official papers, and his decade-long work withthe Southampton County Historical Society into a freshportrayal of the causes and aftermath of the uprising.Occurring thirty years before the Civil War, Turner’s actionsgave greater focus to the anti-slavery movement that result-ed in a divided nation, war, and the end to America’s “pecu-liar institution.”

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JOHN V. QUARSTEIN is an award-winning historian, preser-vationist, and author. He is director of the USS MonitorCenter at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News,Virginia, and has served as an adjunct professor at theCollege of William & Mary. He is author of fifteen books,including Fort Monroe: The Key to the South and TheMonitor Boys, winner of the Henry Adams Prize forExcellence in Historical Literature. He is also a recipient ofthe National Trust for Historic Preservation’s President’sAward.

“Nat Turner remains elegantly and elabo-rately wrapped in the fabric of resistanceto domination and it is this Turner, aboveall, that African Americans know and holddear.”—Molefi Kete Asante

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Philip Leigh

SouthernReconstruction

While the rest of the country enjoyed a Gilded Age, theDeep South descended into severe poverty, a devastat-ing consequence of Civil War-era legislation

The Reconstruction Era—the years immediately followingthe Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration ofthe former Confederate states into the Union—remains, asEric Foner suggested, “America’s unfinished revolution.” ButReconstruction is more than a story of racial injustice; ithas left a complex legacy involving both whites and blacks,Southerners and Northerners, that is reflected today by thefact that the overwhelming number of states with the high-est rates of poverty were part of the former Confederacy. InSouthern Reconstruction, Philip Leigh examines the legisla-tion enacted during and immediately after the Civil War,and the administrations of presidents Andrew Johnson andUlysses S. Grant, to broaden our understanding ofReconstruction. With the exception of the Emancipation Proclamation,most histories of Reconstruction fail to explain adequatelyhow other Civil War polices affected the South after theCivil War. Among them were the Confiscation Acts (1861),Morrill Tariff (1861), Pacific Railroad Acts (1862–1866),Homestead Act (1862), Legal Tender Act (1862), NationalBanking Acts (1863, 1864), and Veterans Pensions Acts(1862–1865). These laws transformed America’s bankingsystem, built a railroad web, and inflated governmentspending with vote-getting pensions for veterans—a sumthat reached a staggering 40 percent of the federal budget in1893. Civil War era legislation also created a dubiousalliance between banks and government, sparked corrup-tion, trapped Southern farmers—both black and white—inendless annual peonage cycles, and failed to provide landsfor freedmen. While Reconstruction was intended to returnthe South to the Union, it could not be effective with thecrippling wartime legislation and ensuing federal policiesthat disfranchised many whites, fostered racial animosity,abetted Southern poverty, and lined the pockets of wealthyor politically well-connected business leaders.

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PHILIP LEIGH is the author of a number of books, includingLee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies andTrading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During theAmerican Civil War. From 2012 to 2015 he was a regularcontributor to the New York Times Disunion Series, whichcommemorated the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Hehas an engineering degree from the Florida Institute ofTechnology and an MBA from the Kellogg School ofManagement at Northwestern University.

Praise for Trading with the Enemy:“Leigh's short but thorough account pro-vides a window into the frequent but ille-gal trading that took place betweenNorth and South. . . . A damning portraitof greed and its consequences.”

—Publishers Weekly“A brief and exceptionally readableaccount of wartime trade between north-erners and southerners.”

—Civil War Monitor


Hugh D. Wise, III

The Little Lead SoldierWorld War I Letters from a Father to His Son

An extraordinary account from the front lines written atthe request of an American soldier’s young son

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Arriving in France in April 1918, Col. Hugh D. Wise, com-mander of the U.S. 61st Infantry Division, held a preciousobject. It was a toy soldier given to him by his six-year-oldson, Hugh, Jr. The boy had asked the little lead soldier towrite him with news of his father. The colonel saw action intwo of the most important campaigns the Americansfought, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne, and the little leadsoldier dutifully assured a boy thousands of miles away thathis father was safe: “The men had been shelled, gassed, andraked by machine guns constantly: and undergone severalintense bombardments; and made a difficult though suc-cessful attack; and had resisted a fierce counter-attack. Theyhad dug trenches, moved, and dug again. All this time theyhad been without shelter, exposed to a cold driving rainand without warm food—They were wet, chilled, and tiredwhen called upon for even greater efforts but they respond-ed with the energy and spirit of fresh troops.” A treasuredfamily heirloom, these wartime letters are presented for thefirst time along with letters from Colonel Wise to his wife,and engrossing historical context provided by his grandson,Hugh D. Wise, III. The Little Lead Soldier: World War ILetters from a Father to His Son is a remarkable story of howa father performed his dangerous duty while keeping apromise to his boy.

“After the Civil War, Walt Whitman observed that ‘the realwar will never get in the books.’ This collection of lettersprovides keen insight into ‘the real’ First World War. Col.Hugh D. Wise, who commanded a U.S. regiment thatfought in the epic battles of St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne,penned not only vivid accounts of the carnage, blunders,and confusion of combat but also lyrical description ofpeaceful scenes he observed. Anyone interested in under-standing the real ‘War to End All Wars’ will read this ablyedited compendium with pleasure and profit.”—MichaelBurlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life

HUGH D. WISE, III graduated from Princeton University withhonors in history and received a law degree from theUniversity of Pennsylvania. He also served in the PeaceCorps in Brazil, where he was guest lecturer in Americanhistory at Universidade do Brasil and Universidade Catolicado Rio de Janeiro. He is a trial attorney, residing in Aspen,Colorado.

“Particularly moving to me are the twoelements of this book. One is how hisgrandfather’s letters bring alive the nitty-gritty of that terrible conflict. The other isthe way the letters, vivid as they are, stillomit some of the worst of what combattroops had to endure, details which Wiseskillfully fills in.”—Adam Hochschild, author of To End AllWars


Identifying discrete geographical areas in order to betterunderstand a conflict that moves across hundreds of thou-sands of square miles of land and water, such as theAmerican Civil War and World War II, has been a valuablehistorical method. During this time of greater study of thewar that made America, the authors of Theaters of theAmerican Revolution take this approach for the first time.The result is a stimulating volume that will allow readers tosee how the war flowed from region to region from 1775 to1781, beginning in the Northern colonies and Canada,through the dark months in the Middle colonies, to a shiftto the South and culmination at Yorktown. Simultaneously,the war raged up and down the western frontier, with thePatriots working to keep the British and their Indian alliesfrom disrupting the main battle armies to the east. Equallyimportant was the war at sea, where American privateersand a fledgling navy attempted to harass the British; butwith the entrance of France to the conflict, the control ofthe sea took a much more balanced—and important—aspect. With specially commissioned maps and colorfuldescriptions of eighteenth century American terrain, settle-ments, and cities, as well as key battles, Theaters of theAmerican Revolution provides an ideal introduction tounderstanding one of the most important wars in worldhistory in its totality.

Contents:

Introduction • James Kirby Martin and David L. Preston

The Northern Theater • James Kirby Martin

The Middle Theater • Edward G. Lengel and Mark EdwardLender

The Southern Theater • Jim Piecuch

The Western Theater • Mark Edward Lender

The War at Sea • Charles Neimeyer

James Kirby Martin andDavid L. Preston, editors

Theaters of theAmerican RevolutionNorthern • Middle • Southern • Western •Naval

Understanding the course of the war for Americanindependence through geographical regions

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“Six award-winning historians look at theAmerican Revolution from a theater per-spective rather than by individual cam-paigns or battles. This is a uniqueapproach, and the result is an important,readable, and groundbreaking volume.”

—Bruce M. Venter, author of The Battle of Hubbardton:

The Rearguard Action that Saved America


DAVID L. PRESTON is the Westvaco Professor of NationalSecurity Studies at The Citadel. He is the author ofBraddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and theRoad to Revolution and The Texture of Contact: Europeanand Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia,1667-1783.

JIM PIECUCH is Professor of History at Kennesaw StateUniversity. He is the author of The Battle of Camden: ADocumentary History, Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists,Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, and editedCavalry in the American Revolution.

CHARLES NEIMEYER is the Director and Chief of MarineCorps History at Marine Corps University, Quantico,Virginia. He has taught at the United States Naval Academy,the University of Maryland, and Georgetown Universityand is the author of America Goes to War: A Social Historyof the Continental Army, 1775–1783.

JAMES KIRBY MARTIN is the Hugh Roy and Lillie CranzCullen University Professor of History at the University ofHouston. Among his many books are Benedict Arnold,Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered; ARespectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic,1763–1789, with Mark Edward Lender; and Forgotten Allies:The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution, withJoseph T. Glatthaar.

EDWARD G. LENGEL is Chief Historian of the White HouseHistorical Association. He is the author of Inventing GeorgeWashington: America’s Founder, in Myth and Memory andGeneral George Washington: A Military Life, finalist for theGeorge Washington Book Prize. As Editor-in-Chief of thePapers of George Washington project at the University ofVirginia, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.

MARK EDWARD LENDER is Emeritus Professor of History atKean University, New Jersey. He has written widely on earlyAmerican military and social history. He is the author ofthe War for American Independence and co-author of theaward-winning Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary WarJournal of Joseph Bloomfield, and Fatal Sunday: GeorgeWashington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics ofBattle, nominated for the 2017 George Washington BookPrize.


The American War for Independence was fought in nearlyevery colony, but some colonies witnessed far more conflictthan others. In the first half of the war, the bulk of militaryoperations were concentrated in Massachusetts, New York,New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. A shift in British strategysouthward after the Battle of Monmouth in 1778 triggerednumerous military engagements in 1779 and 1780 inGeorgia and the Carolinas. Surprisingly, Virginia, the largest of the original thirteencolonies, saw relatively little fighting for the first six years ofthe Revolutionary War. This changed in 1781 when Britishand American forces converged on Virginia. The war’sarrival did not result from one particular decision or event,but rather, a series of incidents and battles beginning in thefall of 1780 at Kings Mountain. Benedict Arnold’s sudden appearance in Virginia in early1781 with 1,600 seasoned British troops and his successfulraid up the James River to Richmond and subsequent occu-pation of Portsmouth, demonstrated Virginia’s vulnerabilityto attack and the possibility that the colonies could bedivided and subdued piecemeal, a strategy Britain hadattempted to deploy several times earlier in the war. British General Henry Clinton’s decision to reinforceArnold in Virginia expanded Britain’s hold on the colonywhile events in North Carolina, including the battle ofGuilford Court House, led British General CharlesCornwallis to conclude that Virginia was the key to subdu-ing the entire South. As a result, Cornwallis marched hisarmy north in May 1781 to assume command of what wasnow a very powerful British force of over 7,000 troops. Thewar had returned to Virginia with a vengeance, and how itdid so and what happened as a result is the focus of the lat-est volume in the Journal of the American RevolutionBooks series, The Invasion of Virginia 1781.

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MICHAEL CECERE received a BA at the University of Maine,Farmington, and an MA in history and an MA in politicalscience from the University of Akron. He currently teacheshistory at Robert E. Lee High School, Fairfax County,Virginia, and at Northern Virginia Community College inWoodbridge. He was recognized by the Virginia Society ofthe Sons of the American Revolution as their 2005Outstanding Teacher of the Year. He is the author of anumber of books, including A Universal Appearance of War:The Revolutionary War in Virginia, 1775–1781.

Michael Cecere

The Invasion of Virginia1781A new volume in the Journal of the AmericanRevolution Books series: By the sixth year of theAmerican Revolution, Britain determined that Virginiawould be the key to subduing the South and ultimatelythe entire rebellion

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The military history of New Jersey, from New Netherland’sstruggles with the Lenape through colonial wars of empireto twenty-first-century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, isextensive and significant. New Jersey justly earned the title“Crossroads of the Revolution” in the War for Indepen-dence, and made a significant contribution to the Unionvictory in the Civil War. The state’s position along theAtlantic Coast brought war to the home front in 1812, 1918,and 1942. New Jersey was also the site of Bergen County’sCamp Merritt, which processed most of the American sol-diers who went overseas in World War I, Fort Dix, a majortraining base, and Fort Monmouth, a center for militarytechnology development in the twentieth century. New Jersey: A Military History by military historian JosephG. Bilby tells the long, diverse, and sometimes complicatedstory of New Jersey’s citizens and their significant and con-tinuing role in America’s defense. Over more than 350 yearsas a colony and state, hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyresidents have served in regular armed forces, militia, andNational Guard units or in direct support of those organiza-tions. New Jerseyans in the military include General “ScotchWillie” Maxwell of Sussex County, an unappreciatedRevolutionary War master tactician; First Sergeant GeorgeAshby of Allentown, of Company H, 45th United StatesColored Infantry, the state’s last surviving Civil War veteran;Clara Maas of Newark, a nurse who sacrificed her life in theeffort to eradicate Yellow Fever; Captain William J. Reddan,who led his company into hell during the Meuse-Argonneoffensive in 1918; and Medal of Honor winner JohnBasilone, whose sense of duty and honor led him to returnto combat and death in World War II. Complete with maps, an annotated list of historical sitesin the state, and further reading, New Jersey: A MilitaryHistory is an important reference for those interested in therole of the Garden State in our nation’s wars.

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JOSEPH G. BILBY is Assistant Curator of the National GuardMilitia Museum of New Jersey. A graduate of Seton HallUniversity, he served as a lieutenant in the 1st InfantryDivision in Vietnam. He is the author of a number of booksincluding New Jersey Goes to War and A Revolution in Arms:A History of the First Repeating Rifles. He has received theJane Clayton Award for contributions to MonmouthCounty (NJ) history and an Award of Merit from the NewJersey Historical Commission for his contributions to thestate’s military history.

Joseph G. Bilby

New JerseyA Military History

A new volume in the Westholme State Military HistorySeries, the Garden State’s story from the first skirmishesbetween the Dutch and American Indians, through thepivotal battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth, tothe blackouts of World War II

Praise for A Revolution in Arms:“Mr. Bilby takes us through Gettysburg,among other places, showing howthe Spencer and Henry rifle played adecisive role.”

—The Wall Street Journal“A valuable study. . . . his research is bal-anced and thorough, his writing islively and clear. . . . his approach givesthe book broad appeal.”

—Journal of Military History


Todd Andrlik, Don N. Hagist, editors

Journal of theAmerican RevolutionAnnual Volume 2017

The year’s best articles from the most popular source ofthe latest research in Revolutionary War studies

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The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume2017, presents the journal’s best historical research andwriting over the past calendar year. The volume is designedfor institutions, scholars, and enthusiasts to provide a con-venient overview of the latest research and scholarship inAmerican Revolution studies. The forty-six articles in the 2017 edition include:

Why the British Lost the Battle of Sullivan’s IslandC. L. Bragg

The Tiger Aids the Eaglet: How India Secured America’sIndependence • Richard Sambasivam

How Yorktown Almost Couldn’t Afford to HappenJohn Smith

Was Richard Stockton a Hero? • Christian M. McBurney

The Southern Expedition of 1776: The American Revolution’sBest Kept Secret • Roger Smith

Religious Liberty and Its Virginia Roots • Alex Colvin

Mount Vernon During the American RevolutionMary V. Thompson

Why God Is in the Declaration but not the ConstitutionAnthony J. Minna

Colonel Tench Tilghman: George Washington’s Eyes and EarsJeff Dacus

The Stockbridge-Mohican Community, 1775–1783Bryan Rindfleisch

Two Years Aboard the Welcome: The American Revolution onLake Huron • Tyler Rudd Putman

TODD ANDRLIK is a professional writer whose work has beenfeatured by media and historical organizations throughoutthe country. He is author of Reporting the RevolutionaryWar, named the 2012 Book of the Year by the New YorkAmerican Revolution Round Table. DON N. HAGIST is a noted expert on the British army in theAmerican Revolution. He is the author of numerous booksand articles, including British Soldiers, American War: Voicesof the American Revolution and The Revolution’s Last Men:The Stories Behind the Photographs.

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William J. Reddan

Other Men’s LivesExperiences of a Doughboy, 1917–1919

A riveting memoir by an American officer whose com-mand was wiped out during the bitter fighting in theMeuse-Argonne offensive

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Receiving orders in March 1917 to report for active servicein the European war, Capt. William J. Reddan and his NewJersey National Guard unit joined the 29th InfantryDivision of the U.S. Army. Following training for “OverThere,” which included maneuvering under live machinegun and grenade fire and constant bayonet drills, Reddanassumed command of Company B, 114th Infantry—twohundred officers and men. Arriving in France in June 1918,Reddan and his company entered the frontline trenchesalong the Alsace front in August. Fighting side-by-side withthe French, the 114th conducted patrols in “no-man’s land,”repulsed attacks, and endured artillery and chemical bar-rages. Toward the end of September, the regiment wasmoved by truck to a new sector: the Argonne Forest. Here,Reddan and his company would be part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the largest in the history of the U.S.Army. This final Allied assault would last until theArmistice, November 11, 1918, and claim the mostAmerican lives of the war. On October 12, Reddan and therest of the 114th Infantry were ordered to take a Germanposition that was supposed to offer little resistance; instead,Reddan watched in horror as his company was destroyed: ofhis two hundred officers and men, only thirteen survivedthe ordeal. Wounded by both shrapnel and gas, Reddan wasevacuated to a field hospital and did not return to his unituntil after peace was declared. Written in 1936, Other Men’sLives: Experiences of a Doughboy, 1917–1919 recounts thecomplete story of Reddan’s company in the World War,including the true story of what happened in that tragicOctober battle as well as the political aftermath that soughtto exonerate the upper command who had bungled theoperation. This is the only edition in any form—print ordigital—to appear since the book was first privately pub-lished.

WILLIAM J. REDDAN (1883–1944) was the commander ofCompany B, 114th Infantry, of the 29th “Blue and Gray”Division during World War I. Born in England, his parentsemigrated to the United States in 1894. He joined the NewJersey National Guard in 1904 and he became a naturalizedAmerican citizen in 1906. He retired as a major and wasawarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star, and New JerseyDistinguished Service Medal.

“Who can explain the feelings orthoughts of a soldier during the last fewminutes before a battle? He fixes hisbayonet, sees that his rifle is workingproperly, loads it, turns the safety lock,doing a dozen things, automatically fromforce of training. Just a faint trace ofnervousness. . . . A few of us were think-ing of a wife and children hoping if it wasour turn to ‘Go West,’ that the folks backhome would not feel too badly.”

—from Other Men’s Lives


JAMES P. MUEHLBERGER is a partner at the Shook, Hardy &Bacon law firm in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the authorof The 116: The True Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Guard,and his articles have appeared in a number of publications,including the National Law Journal, For the Defense, andWild West Magazine.

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On a dreary December 7, 1869, two men entered theDaviess County Savings and Loan in Gallatin, Missouri,and shot the cashier at point-blank range. Until now, thiscrime has been considered the first of a string of bank andtrain robberies committed by the James Gang. But a rumorhad circulated for more than a century that the case wasactually brought to trial—and it was through this case thattwenty-two-year-old Jesse was first identified as a criminalto the country. But no evidence for such an action could befound. After years of searching through dusty court archivesacross Missouri, James P. Muehlberger finally discovered thehistoric documents. The Lost Cause: The Trials of Frank and Jesse James is athrilling account of the rise, pursuit, and prosecution of thelegendary outlaw gang. Beginning with the newfound evi-dence of the Gallatin bank teller murder, the authorexplains how Jesse James attempted to avenge the death ofhis Confederate partisan leader, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, butshot the wrong man. Having lost his own horse, Jesse stoleanother. Lawyer Henry McDougal brashly sued Jesse andFrank James for the loss of the property, which would hangthe murder on their heads. While Jesse professed his inno-cence, his case was taken up by John Newman Edwards,editor of the Kansas City Times. Through Edwards’s pen,the James brothers were transformed from petty criminalsto noble outlaws still fighting for Southern honor—the“Lost Cause.” Not fooled, McDougal and others, includingPinkerton detectives and the governor of Missouri, led abehind-the-scenes fight to bring down the gang. After Jessewas shot by a paid informant in 1882, Frank James gavehimself up, and in what was called the “trial of the century,”he was exonerated on all charges. Combining true crimeand western adventure, The Lost Cause is engaging, enter-taining history.

James P. Muehlberger

The Lost CauseThe Trials of Frank and Jesse James

How forgotten legal documents led to the discovery of aCivil War vendetta that sealed the fate of America’smost famous outlaws

“Muehlberger superbly describes the trialand its personalties, building suspenseand revealing much about the time, thecharacter of the place and the personalityof Frank James. He also submits newevidence that puts a distinctively differ-ent spin on the brothers’ motives andexploits.”—New York Times


Gina M. DiNicolo

The Black PanthersThe 761st Tank Battalion in World War II

The first African American armored unit to see combatin the Second World War, the legendary “BlackPanthers”

Deployed to the European front in November 1944, the761st Tank Battalion was almost immediately ambushed bya veteran German force. Despite suffering heavy casualties,the unit cut its way out of the trap. Quickly battle hardened,the tankers continued to see intense combat and foughtside-by-side with Patton's Third Army when Germanylaunched its last-ditch offensive through the Ardennes inDecember. The 761st helped check the German advance, cutresupply routes to the enemy forces surrounding belea-guered Bastogne, and drove the enemy back, recapturingtowns crucial to the final defeat of Nazi Germany. In The Black Panthers: The 761st Tank Battalion in WorldWar II historian Gina M. DiNicolo tells the full history ofthis important American fighting unit, from its inception toits deactivation soon after the war. Relying on extensivearchival research, including documents that had not beenconsulted in previous accounts, and personal interviewswith surviving soldiers and family members, the authordescribes the unit’s training, deployment, and combat, aswell as individuals, such as future baseball star JackieRobinson, who served briefly with the unit stateside, theircommander, Maj. Paul Bates, a white officer who foughtagainst institutionalized racism while struggling with hisown demons, and Sgt. Ruben Rivers, who gave his life toprotect his fellow soldiers, one of only seven AfricanAmerican men awarded the Medal of Honor for World WarII heroism.

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GINA M. DINICOLO is a military historian and award-winningjournalist who has written on military topics for nearly twodecades. She was a contributing editor at Military Officermagazine, where more than twenty of her stories graced thepublication’s cover. She is a graduate of the U.S. NavalAcademy with a degree in history and served as an officerin the Marine Corps.

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“Written in fine detail and in a spiritedstyle, DiNicolo’s tribute to the 761st TankBattalion illuminates a fighting armoredunit that made both their community andtheir country proud.”—Publishers Weekly


ROBERT SWEATMON attended North Texas State Universitybefore entering the United States Army. After being dis-charged, he taught history for almost three decades. In the1990s he entered the entertainment industry, playing roleson television shows such as Walker, Texas Ranger, America’sMost Wanted, and Barney and Friends. He lives with his wifein rural Wise County, Texas, where he writes screenplaysand directs independent films.

“An excellent memoir. . . . a compellingnarrative. . . . Sweatmon also delivers avery accurate depiction of what he andother Vietnam veterans faced cominghome.”—Vietnam Veterans of America“Taught, poignant writing.”

—Si Dunn, Dallas Morning News“Without realizing it . . . I was hooked. Bythe end I was stunned by the impact.” —John M. Del Vecchio, author of The13th Valley

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Robert Sweatmon

Five Four WhiskeyA Memory of War

One of the finest personal accounts of a front line sol-dier’s experience in the Vietnam War, from call up to thefinal flight home

Taking its title from the nighttime radio code call andresponse between base camp and those on ambush patrol,Five Four Whiskey: A Memory of War by Robert Sweatmonis a moving account of life as a combat soldier in theVietnam War. Set mostly in the sprawling woods and rub-ber plantations northwest of Saigon, the author explainswhat his unit was asked to do and what obstacles theyfaced, including an elusive but deadly enemy, booby traps,and antitank mines. The author, a notable television per-sonality following the war, does not sensationalize hisaccount; rather, his book allows a new generation to under-stand the emotional and physical pressures of the times.Coming of age in the maelstrom of civil rights and the freelove culture, the author and his fellow soldiers saw theiridealism quickly vaporize in the face of the grim realities ofwar. Here they learned to compartmentalize their lives as away to survive, but it was their strong bonds that ultimatelykept them from succumbing to the madness that surround-ed them. Kept in the field for almost the entire time of his tour, theauthor was in a unit selected to conduct a clandestinereconnaissance in Cambodia and then lead the 1970 inva-sion, where he was wounded. Following his convalescence,he was sent to Nui Ba Den, the fabled ghost mountainhaunted by the spirit of a Vietnamese princess, until hereceived his papers that he had completed his combat serv-ice. At that moment, his year-long mental wall between sol-dier and civilian fell away as he counted the last terrifyinghours before he was safely out of Vietnam. A tour-de-forceof military memoir, written in an objective and often liter-ary prose, Five Four Whiskey perfectly captures how ordi-nary civilian-soldiers survived an ordeal set in one of themost turbulent times in American history.

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