PATTON
By Alan Axelrod

Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Feb 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 1-4039-7139-0

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One of World War II’s greatest tacticians and most controversial commanders, George S. Patton was a master of modern mechanized warfare. Known for his intemperate manner, Patton is considered one of the most passionate and successful field commanders in United States history.

"Concise, incisive, and authoritative, Axelrod's Patton is a clear and entertaining biography of the famous general that captures both his complicated personality and the monumental events that made him perhaps the most controversial warrior in American history… Axelrod has cut through the politics and chaff to get to the man."

—Robert K. Wilcox, author of First Blue and Wings of Fury

GRANT
By John Mosier

Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Jun 2006
224 pages
8 b/w Illus on Reg Stock
ISBN: 1-4039-7136-6

A brilliant military strategist who led the Union to victory over the confederacy and was then elected president, Ulysses S. Grant was also a writer, his Memoirs being considered an American classic. Grant’s superior understanding of strategy caused the Union’s victory of Robert E. Lee and his troops.

"John Mosier has written the best appraisal of Ulysses S. Grant's generalship ever to appear."

—Charles Bracelen Flood, author of Grant and Sherman:
The Friendship that Won the Civil War and Lee: The Last Years

EISENHOWER
By John Wukovits

Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Oct 2006
224 pages
8 pp. b/w photo insert
ISBN: 1-4039-7137-4

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American general and 34th president of the United States, Eisenhower was the principal architect of the successful Allied invasion of Europe during World War II and of the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany. He led the assault on the French coast at Normandy and held together the Allied units through the European campaign that followed, concentrating everyone’s attention on a single objective: the defeat of Nazi Germany.


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LEMAY
By Barrett Tillman

Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Jan 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 1-4039-7135-8

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General Curtis Lemay became known as the “Father of the Strategic Air Command,” having transformed SAC by the time he left command into the most powerful military force the world had ever seen. The Cold War’s fiercest warrior, Lemay is famous for having said “if you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much…you’ll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy’s, too.”


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MACARTHUR
By Richard B. Frank

Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Jul 2007
224 pages
Includes 8 b/w photos
ISBN: 1-4039-7658-9

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Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability that hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability now reigns as the most indispensable trait for high military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. No American figure better exemplifies this trait than the man who was commissioned before the Wright Brothers’ first flight but became a keen exponent of an entirely new dimension in warfare. He was also in charge of the US occupation of the Philippines, the most successful occupation in history.


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JACKSON
By Donald A. Davis

Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Sep 2007
224 pages
Includes 8 pages b/w photos
ISBN: 1-4039-7477-2

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Deemed “irreplaceable” by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. Skilled and determined to win, Jackson impressed his Confederate compatriots by distinguishing himself in several battles, including the Battle of second Manassas and the Battle of Fredericksburg. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall’s leadership when he died in 1863, during his last march of the Civil War.



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