Landmark books

The lives of five women of unusual courage: Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Mary McLeod Bethune, Amelia Earhart, and Margaret Mead.

This biography of the Confederate general who led his armies in the battles at Bull Run, Richmond and Chancellorsville describes many of the events and actions of the Civil War.

An account of the background events leading to the battle at the Alamo, of the battle itself, and of some of the men who fought there.

Most likely the Erie Canal would never been built but for the strong-minded De Witt Clinton. On the Fourth of July, 1817, digging for the canal was finally started at Rome, New York. How it was carried through to success is told in this book.

A day-by-day account of the United States Marine Corps battle on the black sands and in the green jungles of the Pacific island which brought the Second World War to Japan.

Presents one of the most important naval battles of World War II, in which the Japanese unsuccessfully sought to gain control of the last American outpost in the central Pacific, from which they could threaten Hawaii and the United States.