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The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, The Devil's Bankers
Frank Sanello
Taylor Publishing Hardcover, 472pp
They were The Order of the Poor Knights of Christ, and their mission was to create a safe passage for pilgrims visiting war-torn Jerusalem in the early twelfth century. Despite their vows of poverty, the Templars turned out to be brilliant businessmen, renowned for their honesty. Their monasteries served as "banks" in which Europe's rulers and nobles felt safe enough to deposit their money. But the Templars' wealth and influence provoked jealousy and resentment, as their detractors accused them of betraying their original role as poor men of God. But the Templars have survived in myth and legend until the present day.
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The Boys' Crusade
Paul Fussell
Random House Softcover, 208pp
The Boys' Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell's unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman's experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author's own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children - for children they were - who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war's brutal essence.
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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
James M. McPherson
Crown Publishing Hardcover, 144pp
James M. McPherson walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans. The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective memory, as they served to change the course of the Civil War and with it the course of history.
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf Softcover, 304pp
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic -- John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson
Harper Collins Hardcover, 304pp
It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment "Englishness" and the English language had come into its first passionate maturity.
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Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
Alex Kershaw
Da Capo Press Softcover, 274pp
On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia, population 3,000, died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day when their landing craft dropped them in shallow water off Omaha Beach. The Bedford Boys is the intimate true story of these young men and their friends and families.
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Straight Talk from the Heartland