(Hardback)

This book highlights the contributions of a Russian immigrant who became a Union officer during the Civil War. His subsequent court martial turned the trial into a focal point for Northern debate on the conduct of the war and the issue of slavery.

John Basil Turchin left Czarist Russia to embrace democracy in America.

(Paperback)

From the sailors on the USS Ward who fired the first shots at Pearl Harbor to a Japanese-American army medic who served in a devastated Hiroshima, the author chronicles the personal experiences of almost one hundred World War II heroes, from various divisions of the armed services, in every theater.