Potomac Books

05/19/2025

Excerpt: WAGING WAR FOR FREEDOM WITH THE 54TH MASSACHUSETTS

Taking John W. M. Appleton’s civil war memoir as their foundation, the editors contextualize the service of the 54th regiment through its disbanding in 1865. https://wp.me/p4J9AE-gJj

05/01/2025

WAGING WAR FOR FREEDOM WITH THE 54TH MASSACHUSETTS is a fresh look at the service of this famed regiment as told through Appleton's memoir—the most complete first-person account available about the service of the men in the 54th Massachusetts regiment.

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04/29/2025

Thursday, May 1 at 7pm CDT, Bill Thorness will be at Magers & Quinn Booksellers to discuss his book ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME with Juliet Patterson! The event is free to attend in-store.

Register online here: https://bit.ly/431wuk9

04/24/2025

Bill Thorness will be at Magers & Quinn Booksellers on May 1st to discuss his book ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME with Juliet Patterson! The event is free and open to the public.

About the book 📘: When a slim packet of his father’s letters came to light after his mother’s death, Bill Thorness began a quest to rediscover his father, who was an army commando battling in Italy to liberate Rome in World War II.

Register online here: https://www.magersandquinn.com/event/Bill-Thorness-presents-All-Roads-Lead-To-Rome/459

04/21/2025

Lynn Hamilton's CHASING CYNTHIANA "is a book for connoisseurs and casual wine drinkers who pursue the reward of discovering a quality vintage from grapes native to America," writes Charles E. Rankin for Roundup Magazine

Read the full review here: https://westernwriters.org/roundup/current-issue/ -apr-25/2/

04/14/2025

Excerpt: BLUE HELMET by Edward H. Carpenter

BLUE HELMET is the story of a U.S. Marine working to translate the words of his UN leaders into actions capable of protecting civilians in South Sudan.

Edward H. Carpenter is a retired lieutenant colonel, a veteran of America’s “Long Wars” who served in the U.S. Army and Marines for a total of twenty-nine years, from Afghanistan to Japan, Indonesi…

04/08/2025

"Scott D. Seligman, a national award-winning author of books about the immigrant experience in the early 20th century, has written an important book about the riot, or what some might term a pogrom, that accompanied the 1902 funeral march of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of New York City," writes J. Fischel for CHOICE.

Order your copy of the book: https://bit.ly/4jjRNTc

04/07/2025

CRISIS AND CROSSFIRE traces the origins of the contemporary challenges facing the United States in the Middle East by analyzing the broad contours of U.S. policy in the region since the government's first involvement there in the 1940s.

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04/04/2025

Today at 3pm EST, Retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Edward H. Carpenter, former chief of policy and planning for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, will share insights from his new book, BLUE HELMET: MY YEAR AS A UN PEACEKEEPER in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall at UMass Amherst.

BLUE HELMET tells the story of a U.S. Marine working to translate the words of his UN leaders into actions capable of protecting civilians in South Sudan.

More details on the event: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/former-un-peacekeeper-discuss-protection-civilians-campus-talk-april-4

04/03/2025

"Seiff’s empathetic, grounded approach to clearly explaining the issues faced by communities on the Tonlé Sap and commitment to, as much as possible, allowing representatives of those communities to tell their own stories are what make TROUBLING THE WATER such an engaging book," writes David J. McCaskey for H-Environment.

Read the full review: https://bit.ly/41NJg5h

04/02/2025

BLUE HELMET by Edward Carpenter tells the story of a country, a conflict, and the institution of peacekeeping through the eyes of a senior American military officer working on the ground in one of the most dangerous countries on the planet.

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03/28/2025

If you're attending The Society for Military History Public Page's annual conference, join Edward Carpenter, author of BLUE HELMET, for a book signing today from 12:00-1:00pm!