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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.

Save 40% when you order now: https://bit.ly/4i0W7Wx

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.

Save 40% when you order now: https://bit.ly/4ctggDL

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!

03/19/2025

From the Desk of Edward H. Carpenter: How Effective is UN Peacekeeping?

Carpenter's new book 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. https://wp.me/p4J9AE-guf

03/18/2025

90 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT tells the gripping and thought-provoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a thirteen-year-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb, and her ensuing quest to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Save 50% during our Women’s History Month Sale: https://bit.ly/WHMSale25

03/18/2025

"General readers looking for a broad-based overview of the issues would benefit from reading this account of the key projects, triumphs, follies, and impending challenges brought by flood and drought to our built environment, likely sooner rather than later," writes John Dean Davis for Environmental History.

https://bit.ly/43OUQ1k

03/14/2025

POLITICAL GODMOTHER is a biography of Nackey Scripps Loeb, longtime publisher of New Hampshire’s Union Leader, that traces connections between her influence and our current political moment.

Save 50% during our Women’s History Month Sale: https://bit.ly/WHMSale25

03/13/2025

"Imperfect as the German reckoning has been, their Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung—the process of working off the past—has fostered a prevailing sense of what dangers lie behind the lure of radical populism," writes Alexander Nazaryan in discussion with Terrence C. Petty's N***S AT THE WATERCOOLER.

Read the full review essay here: https://arcmag.org/deep-state-german-style/

03/04/2025

IT'S MY COUNTRY TOO conveys the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words—from the Revolutionary War to the wars in the Middle East.

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02/28/2025

"THE GAS AND FLAME MEN was thoroughly researched . . . it will appeal to casual baseball fans, historians, serious students of the game, and those interested in the World War I era of American history," writes J.L. Steele for NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.

Read the review: https://bit.ly/4bf4RGZ

02/27/2025

"What distinguishes Ira Chinoy’s book," PREDICTING THE WINNER, "is that it reminds us how inherently technological our politics has become," writes Alma Steingart for Technology and Culture.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/951090

The history of American elections changed profoundly on the night of November 4, 1952. An outside-the-box approach to predicting winners from early returns w...

02/20/2025

CRISIS AND CROSSFIRE author Peter Hahn shares an essay in TIME delving into the United States' more than 75 years of efforts to broker peace in the Middle East.

https://time.com/7208007/two-state-solution-history/