William C Davis

"Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history - and about what really happened in that battle." "Through tremendous research and with unprecedented access to Mexican military archives, Davis strips away the many layers of myth, legend,...

No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called "Father Abraham." In Lincoln's Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries-the voices of the volunteers-to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became "Father" throughout both the army and the North as a whole. How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered...

Fort Sumter to Bull Run.

In extraordinary photographs, as well as essays by some of today's foremost historians of the Civil War, we get a glimpse of the action as it really happened.

Tells the story of the first major conflict between North and South, which also served as an early example of the strategic use of railroads. Includes some of the first war photographs ever taken.

A biography of Jefferson Davis-statesman, Mexican war hero, and President of the Confederate States of America.