The true story of Hitler's mightiest battleship and how it was hunted, fought, and destroyed by the British in the crucial battle for the Atlantic in 1941. Concise, tightly paced retelling of the Royal Navy's desperate attempt to bring the Bismarck to bay.
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14 weeks a New York Times bestseller. An Indiana author packs up his family and moves 900 miles (by car in a heat wave with four children) to take up residence in Connecticut where he will commute to New York City to work with the team who will transform his book into a musical comedy.
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John Charles Fremont — military officer, explorer, and politician — unpredictable and unstable, gifted, imperious, ambitious and hopelessly complex — is the perfect subject for this Bicentennial novella written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1976.
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An irreverent, journalistic survey about the Civil War. Short and snappy and loaded with sagacious good sense.
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Fictionalized diary of a 12 year old girl growing up in Winnebago, Iowa in 1913. Beautifully illustrated with advertisements, mail-order catalogs, and other period pieces. The pdf format allows gesture zooming on iPads and other touch screen devices so the fine print in the advertisements can be read.
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