Biographies & History

Hearing that his home state, Georgia, had declared its secession, 2nd Lieutenant Edward Porter Alexander resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and left to join the Confederates. His work has been described as "altogether the best critique of the operations of the Army of Northern Virginia.” — Douglas Southall Freeman

“What is it like up there?” Spitfire first became a household word during the Blitz, but it was not the first service the valiant aircraft had performed. In an attempt to answer the questions of the man on the street, Brian Lane, who wrote under the pseudonym of B. J. Ellan, tells of what it is that a fighter pilot thinks and feels when he is fighting in the skies, from the sunlit coast of Belgium to the lovely countryside of Kent.

1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they could and headed West to find their fortune. This is the diary of one of those intrepid men, and the trials and tribulations that he faces in his search for riches.

When all else is gone, "Love is all that matters." Where Memories Meet is two stories: a daughter's memoir of losing her father to Alzheimer's interwoven with a father's account of his life's defining moments. It is an insider's view of the physical and emotional toll Alzheimer's takes on a family. An unconventional story structure and timeline allow the author to move past memories of the heartbreak of her father's last years, and in effect, reclaim her father after Alzheimer's.

Levant Fever is a memoir from the political underground darkness of Assad's Syria. Seen through the eyes of a boy growing into a man, in the middle of feverish historic events. Not widely understood, or told before in the West but at the roots of the current conflicts. The narrative grips the reader with its honesty, brutality and beauty.