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|  | | A Fine Likeness
A Civil War horror tale rooted in history.
A Confederate guerrilla and a Union captain discover there’s something more dangerous in the woods than each other.
Jimmy Rawlins is a teenaged bushwhacker who leads his friends on ambushes of Union patrols. They join infamous guerrilla leader Bloody Bill Anderson on a raid through Missouri, but Jimmy questions his commitment to the Cause when he discovers this madman plans to sacrifice a Union prisoner in a hellish ritual to raise the Confederate dead.
Richard Addison is an aging captain of a lackluster Union militia. Depressed over his son’s death in battle, a | |  | | American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics
An examination of irregular warfare during the Civil War.
While the giant armies of the Union and the Confederacy were fighting over cities and strategic strongholds, a large number of warriors from both sides were fighting, smaller, more personal battles. Beginning with the violent struggle known as "Bleeding Kansas," armed bands of irregular fighters began to wage war in every corner of the United States. Many of the names of their commanders have become legendary, including William Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, and John S. Mosby, "The Grey Ghost." To their own people they were heroes; to others they we | |  | | Byzantium: An Illustrated History
Rome did not fall in 476 AD, it survived another thousand years.
div class="productDescriptionWrapper">Long after Rome fell to the Germanic tribes, its culture lived on in Constantinople, the glittering capital of the Byzantine Empire. For more than 1000 years (AD 330-1453) Byzantium was one of the most advanced and complex civilisations the world had ever seen. As the Mediterranean outlet for the silk route, its trade networks stretched from Scandinavia to Sri Lanka; its artists created sombre icons and brilliant gold mosaics; its scholarship served as a vital cultural bridge between the Muslim East and the Catholic West; and it fostered the Orthod | |  | | It Happened in Missouri
Thirty True Tales from the Show-Me State
p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From Dred Scott’s tireless bid for freedom to the Cardinals’ first World Series win, i>It Happened in Missouri/i> gives readers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Show-Me State.
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Find out how a fourteen-year-old boy coordinated the settling of St. Louis. Discover how a steam engine helped save the inaugural ride of the Pony Express through Missouri. And read all about Harry Truman’s come-from-behind victory over Thomas De | |  | | Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons
The first book in the English language to examine the origins of firearms.
Osprey’s new Weapons of War series provides a highly-detailed yet affordable overview of the development, use, and impact of small arms throughout history—from the sword to the machine gun. br />
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Journey back to the time when handguns had no moving parts! Variously called handgonnes, hackbuts, coulevrines, pistolas, schiopettos, tyufyaks, and even bombardelles, the first black powder infantry weapons were extremely crude by today’s standards. In his new book, Sean McLachlan, author of i>American Civil War Guerilla Tactics/i>, dispels the myth that | |  | | Missouri: An Illustrated History
Missouri's history from ancient times to today
The epic tale of Missouri's history from ancient times to today is related here in a concise, accessible format--from the Native American cultures to the territorial period; from the agony of the Civil War to the freewheeling era of jazz and Prohibition; and from 20-century labor and Civil Rights struggles to the triumph of the St. Louis Arch. Descriptions of many of these tumultuous times come from Missourians themselves, the reporters, generals, and everyday people who set down their observations of this great state and the events that made it what it is today.
With more | |  | | Outlaw Tales of Missouri
True Stories of the Show-Me State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
div>Missouri never had to settle for your average everyday gunmen—not when it had such outlaws as Jesse James and Cole Younger to call its own. That’s not to mention the Turk brothers’ Slicker War, which helped earn the Ozarks’ reputation as a hotbed of vigilantism./div>
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All this and more—including Missouri’s own mini version of the Civil War and the Union Station Massacre—is yours for the reading inspan style="font-style: italic;"> /span>i>Outlaw Tales of Missouri/i>, which introduces twelve of the most dramatic eve |
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Fast Track
by John DeDakis
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 Fast Track is a Mystery/Suspense novel about a young, strong-minded woman's quest to find purpose in life as she unravels the mystery of her parents' deaths 25 years earlier when she was an infant. The setting is Southern Wisconsin; the backdrop is j |
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