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October 2022
232 pp. | 6 x 9 Hardcover |
978-1-68247-804-2 $29.95 | Holiday Price: $14.98
March 2022
528 pp. | 6 x 9 Hardcover |
978-1-68247-743-4 $39.95 | Holiday Price: $19.98
The Steamboat Lexington Calamity
BY BRIAN E. O’CONNOR
“This extraordinarily well-written history provides the ‘who, what, when, why, where and how’ of the disaster of the Lexington. Remarkably, John Q. Adams, Aaron Burr, Currier & Ives, Clive Cussler, Andrew Jackson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain and Daniel Webster are among many whose actions contribute to the story.” —Skip Finley, author of Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy
Death by Fire and Ice tells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840. Built in 1835 by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Lexington left Manhattan bound for Stonington, Connecticut, at four o’clock in the afternoon on a bitterly cold day carrying an estimated one hundred forty-seven passengers and crew and a cargo of, among other things, baled cotton. After making her way up an ice-encrusted East River and into Long Island Sound, she caught fire off Eaton’s Neck on Long Island’s north shore at approximately seven o’clock. With the crew unable to extinguish the fire, the blazing ship drifted aimlessly in the Sound away from shore with the prevailing wind and current.
As the night wore on, the temperature plummeted, reaching nineteen degrees below zero. With no hope of rescue on the dark horizon, the forlorn passengers and crew faced a dreadful decision: remain on board and perish in the searing flames or jump overboard and succumb within minutes to the Sound’s icy waters. All but one passenger and three members of the crew survived. The tragedy remains the worst maritime disaster in the history of Long Island Sound.
BRIAN E. O’CONNOR began his career with a clerkship on the New York Court of Appeals, he became a partner in a prominent Wall Street law firm, where he specialized in complex commercial litigation for thirty-eight years before retiring in 2017. He lives on Eaton’s Neck in Northport, New York, with his wife Helen.
Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana
The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
BY GENE ERIC SALECKER
—Associated Press
The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the boat was seven miles above Memphis, her boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people perished in the worst maritime disaster in United States history. In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crewmembers, rescuers, and eyewitnesses tell their stories in their own words. The true, and complete, story about the Sultana and the disaster has finally, and fully, been told.
GENE ERIC SALECKER is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the Sultana Disaster and owns the largest collection of Sultana memorabilia. A retired police officer and middle school teacher, he is currently the historical consultant for the Sultana Disaster Museum, Marion, Arkansas.
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Elite Souls
Portraits of Valor in Iraq and Afghanistan
BY RAYMOND JAMES RAYMOND
“With keen insight and excellent research, Ray Raymond powerfully demonstrates the importance of personal, moral character on the battlefield through the exploits of five outstanding officers. A must-read for those who serve our nation in the profession of arms.”
—Col. Robert L. McClure (Ret.), former president and CEO (2007–2016), West Point Association of Graduate
The great nineteenth century French military thinker, Ardant du Picq, argued that selfless courage is rooted in a higher moral purpose, and is found among “Elite Souls.” This is a book about five such “Elite Souls,” all highly decorated young West Point graduates and recipients of the USMA’s Nininger Medal.
DR. RAYMOND JAMES RAYMOND is a former British diplomat. He is an adjunct professor in the department of social sciences, United States Military Academy, adjunct fellow of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Newport, Rhode Island, and professor emeritus of government and history at the State University of New York campus at Stone Ridge.
October 2022
384 pp. | 6 x 9 Hardcover |
978-1-68247-713-7 $34.95 | Holiday Price: $17.48
Iran’s Qods Force
Proxy Wars, Terrorism, and the War on America
BY OWEN L. SIRRS
The end of the Cold War ushered in a challenging new era for U.S. defense planners. The certainties of planning for conventional war or, in extremis, nuclear war gave way to a new form of unconventional warfare waged by American adversaries like Al Qaeda, Somali warlords, and Iran. Iran›s Qods Force examines how one nation state, the Islamic Republic of Iran, has exploited the advantages of unconventional warfare to expand its influence in the Middle East while, at the same time, limiting the impact of U.S. power in the region. At the forefront of its efforts is the Qods Force, the elite clandestine wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
OWEN SIRRS is a graduate of Georgetown University, the National Intelligence University, and the Naval War College. He previously served as a senior intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he specialized in Iranian politics and strategy. Currently he teaches the politics, cultures, and history of the Middle East to the U.S. special operations community.
November 2022
384 pp. | 6 x 9 Hardcover |
978-1-68247-805-9 $49.95 | Holiday Price: $24.98
Reflections on Captivity
A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW
BY PORTER ALEXANDER HALYBURTON
“It is a story of friendship, faith, and forgiveness – and a meditation on the human spirit, written by an American hero whose own life has been a model of courage, patriotism, and grace.”
—James S. Hirsch, author of Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam
On October 17, 1965, Navy LT (j.g.) Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam on his 76th mission and listed as killed in action. One-and-a-half years later he was found to be alive and a prisoner of war. Halyburton was held captive for more than seven years. Reflections on Captivity is a collection of fifty short stories about this young naval officer’s experiences as a POW in North Vietnam.
PORTER HALYBURTON grew up in Davidson, NC, spent twenty years on active duty and another twenty on the Naval War College faculty. He is a potter, woodworker, poet, public speaker, and traveler.
November 2022
176 pp. | 5 x 8 Hardcover |
