Savas Beatie imprint: 172 books
Six Days in September
A Novel of Lee's Army in Maryland, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
September 1862.
After a string of victories in Virginia, Robert E. Lee marches his Army of Northern Virginia northward across the Potomac River in search of one final battlefield triumph as the best way to bring about Southern independence. Little goes right for Lee when the garrison at Harpers...
Playing with the Enemy
A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
A memoir of fathers and sons, baseball, a world at war, and second chances. “I loved [it]. You will, too” (Jim Morris, author of The Oldest Rookie).
Gene Moore was a small-town Illinois farm boy whose passion for “America’s Pastime” made him a local legend. It wasn’t long before...
Don’t Give an Inch
The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpectedly into command of the Army of the Potomac, which was cautiously stalking its long-time foe, the Army of Northern Virginia, as it launched a bold invasion northward. Meade had hardly wrapped his head...
The Last Road North
A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
"“I thought my men were invincible,” admitted Robert E. Lee.
A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee’s greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, confident in the abilities...
Battle above the Clouds
Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies painstakingly hauled over the sketchiest of mountain...
All the Fighting They Want
The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City's Surrender, July 18–September 2, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Civil War’s Atlanta campaign rages on following A Long and Bloody Task: “More than informative . . . challenges simplistic caricatures of Hood and Sherman” (The Civil War Monitor).
John Bell Hood brought a hang-dog look and a hard-fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one...
"The Bloody Fifth" Volume II
Gettysburg to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Second in the sweeping history of the Fifth Texas Infantry that fought with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War.
In the first volume, Secession to the Suffolk Campaign, John F. Schmutz followed the regiment from its inception through the successful foraging campaign...
Decision at Tom’s Brook
George Custer, Tom Rosser, and the Joy of the Fight
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Battle of Tom’s Brook, recalled one Confederate soldier, was “the greatest disaster that ever befell our cavalry during the whole war.” The fight took place during the last autumn of the Civil War, when the Union General Phil Sheridan vowed to turn the crop-rich Shenandoah Valley into “a...
Bloody Autumn
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
An “essential addition to serious students’ libraries” detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War (Civil War News).
In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia’s...
Valley Thunder
The Battle of New Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Charles R. Knight’s 'Valley Thunder' is the first full-length account in more than three decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864—the battle that opened the pivotal 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation...
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
Volume II, Antietam
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Antietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
Many authors have written about the climactic September 17 battle of the 1862 invasion of Maryland, but it is impossible to do so without referencing Carman’s sweeping and...
Maps of Chickamauga
An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Third in a new series of campaign studies that take a different approach toward military history, The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of 120 full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic...
Meade and Lee After Gettysburg
The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14–31, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This “very satisfying blow-by-blow account of the final stages of the Gettysburg Campaign” fills an important gap in Civil War history (Civil War Books and Authors).
Winner of the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table Book Award
This fascinating book exposes what has been hiding in plain...
by Bradley M. Gottfried
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
More academic and photographic accounts on the battle of Gettysburg exist than for all other battles of the Civil War combined—and for good reason. The three days of maneuver, attack, and counterattack consisted of scores of encounters, from corps-size actions to small unit engagements. Despite...