Amazon Offers “Fight” Special on Kindle
In case you haven’t seen it, Amazon is running a special deal on the Kindle version of the Emerging Civil War Series title Fight Like the Devil: The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis.
Read more...Creating Music For A Historical Drama: An Interview With Dane B. Frazier
Have you ever tried to watch a movie that has no soundtrack? Plots and conflicts may be perfect and paired with dialogue that is realistic, but the film will probably lack the emotional context. Music has a way playing with human emotions, giving us a sense of thrill, satisfaction, or sadness. It sets the mood […]
Read more...The Rebirth of the Army of the Potomac (part four)
Part four of a series. Desertion and “Demagogues” Desertion was also a disease in the army, though of a different kind. With Hooker assuming command the army officially went into winter camp. Morale was still dangerously low and homesickness was a real problem. The men of the Army of the Potomac had been through a great deal […]
Read more...Don’t Give an Inch is “one big adrenaline rush”
Emerging Civil War’s latest book about Gettysburg tells the story of a battle hailed as “one, big adrenaline rush” by one of the book’s co-authors. Don’t Give An Inch: The Second Day At Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge, co-written by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis, focuses […]
Read more...Stonewall and the Chindit II: Unfinished Adventure Stories
In my last post, I compared and contrasted Generals Stonewall Jackson and Orde Wingate. I then closed with a question: Why are these men objects of such interest and fascination? There are two main reasons, and they seem to say as much about us today as about these two men.
Read more...Forging a State: The Western Virginia Campaign of July 1861-Part IV
Robert Garnett received word of his army’s defeat at Rich Mountain on the night of July 11. He had to move quickly, as a Federal force advancing from the Rich Mountain battlefield that occupied the town of Beverly would be in a position to cut off his line of retreat back to the Shenandoah Valley. […]
Read more...Stonewall and the Chindit I: On Character and Generalship
Contemporaries of British Major General Orde Charles Wingate, famed leader of the Chindit special forces in Burma and a noted guerrilla commander in Africa and Palestine before that, often searched for someone with which to compare him. They usually hit upon Chinese Gordon, Lawrence of Arabia, and . . . Stonewall Jackson. Wingate himself largely […]
Read more...Civil War Echoes: Burma Guerrillas
I’ve lately been reading about World War II’s China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater at length. Fought 1942-45 between the Japanese and puppet Indian and Burmese forces against British, Indian, Gurkha, African, American, and Chinese forces, the campaign moved up and down Burma with a bit of back-and-forth into and out of eastern India and areas that are […]
Read more...Forging a State: The Western Virginia Campaign of July 1861, Part III
So far, George McClellan’s plan was working. Robert Garnett remained transfixed by Thomas Morris, convinced that was the main force. Besides, Garnett felt that he did not have to worry for the 1,300-man force south of him at Rich Mountain. It held a strong position, and he thought they could hold back “five times their […]
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