BERKLEY CALIBER
Marshaling the Faithful: The Marines' First Year in Vietnam (July, $14) is by Charles Henderson, author of Marine Sniper.
BLACK WHITE (dist. by Interlink)
Skull and Saltire: Stories of Scottish Piracy (Mar., $16.95) by Jim Hewitson explores the swashbuckling Golden Age of piracy.
BOSTON MILLS PRESS
At the Controls: The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Book of Cockpits (Mar., $24.95), edited by Tom Alison and Dana Bell, photos by Eric F. Long and Mark A. Avino. Photographers duplicate the sensation of being at the controls of 45 legendary aircraft.
BOYDELL BREWER
The Black Death 1346—1353: The Complete History (Mar., $37.95) by Ole J. Benedictow. New research casts light on the plague's nature, origin and impact on history.
CHECKMARK BOOKS
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Third Edition (July, $21.95) by Carl Waldman covers more than 200 tribes as well as prehistoric peoples and civilizations.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America (June, $34.50) by Jon C. Teaford covers the period from the end of WWII to the present.
COUNTRYMAN PRESS
The Great Divide (July, $16.95) by Gary Ferguson traces the geologic, historic and cultural evolution of the Rocky Mountain region.
CRANE HILL PRESS
Lighthouse Families (Apr., $14.95) by Cheryl Shelton-Roberts and Bruce Roberts describes the dangerous and romantic lives of 13 lighthouse families.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE
The History Buff's Guide to Gettysburg (May, $16.95) by Thomas R. Flagel and Kenn Allers Jr. covers the largest and deadliest battle of the Civil War.
GLOBE PEQUOT PRESS
Niagara Falls (May, $29.95) by John Grant and Ray Jones is the companion book to the national PBS program celebrating Niagara Falls.
GRAPHIC ARTS CENTER
In Search of Ancient Alaska (Apr., $16.95) by Ellen Bielawski chronicles life in Alaska before Europeans first interacted with the Native Americans.
GROVE PRESS
1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls (May, $15) by Winston Groom. The author of Forrest Gumpdetails America's most critical hour. 35,000 first printing.
HILL WANG
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (Aug., $14) by Harvey J. Kaye looks at the political writer and radical who turned a rebellion into a revolutionary war.
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY (dist. by Univ. of California Press)
Uncle Sam's Camels: The Journal of May Humphreys Stacey Supplemented by the Report of Edward FitzgeraldBeale (May, $24.95), edited by Lewis Burt Lesley, looks at the 1850s U.S. Army "camel experiment," which tested camels as pack animals.
MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS
Campaign for Corinth: Blood in Mississippi (Apr., $14.95) by Steven Nathaniel Dossman describes one of the Civil War's most violent and bloody assaults.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
The Golden King: The World of Tutankhamun (May, $19.95) by Zahi Hawass is an illustrated history of the life of King Tut.
NEW PAGE BOOKS
The Templar Papers: Ancient Mysteries, Secret Societies, and the Holy Grail (Mar., $14.99), compiled and edited by Oddvar Olsen, unravels the mystery and legacy of the Knights Templar.
NYU PRESS
Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names (July; $17.95, cloth $55) by Leonard Benardo and Jennifer L. Weiss presents a concise overview of the history of place names in Brooklyn.
OLIVE BRANCH PRESS
Arab Americans: A Quest for Their History and Culture (Apr., $20) by Greg Orfalea follows the more than 100 years of history of Arab Americans.
PRESIDIO PRESS
A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces (Mar., $15.95) by John Nadler tells the story of the First Special Services Force, created in 1942.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair—A History of Fifty Years of Independence (July, $18.95) by Martin Meredith illuminates the continent's most serious problems.
ROWMAN LITTLEFIELD
Hitler's Shadow War: The Holocaust and World War II (Apr., $18.95) by Donald M. McKale contends that the war was the direct result of Hitler's racial hatred.
SERIF (dist. by Interlink)
The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730—1848, Second Edition (Mar., $19.95) by George Rudé depicts the role of ordinary people during turning points in modern history.
SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Booked: The Last 150 Years in 366 Mug Shots (Apr., $16.95) by Giacomo Papi. Mug shots tell an alternative history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
STATE HOUSE PRESS
The Road to Dr Pepper, Texas: The Story of Dublin Dr Pepper (Mar., $16.95) by Karen Wright is the story of the world's first Dr Pepper bottling plant.
TEXAS AM UNIV. PRESS
The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West (Mar., $19.95) by Annalies Corbin celebrates the steamboat that carried both passengers and cargo and was called a "floating palace."
THREE RIVERS PRESS
Ten Days That Changed America (Apr., $13.95) by Steve Gillon chronicles 10 of the most influential and important events in America's past. Tie-in with the History Channel's 10-hour series.
THUNDERS MOUTH
From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Videogames (June, $15.95) by Ed Halter presents a history of the relationship between videogames and their ancestors and military culture.
Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust (July, $16.95), edited by Marijo Moore. Some 20 essays by 20 American Indian writers tell the history of their people.
TWO DOT
Pistol Packin' Madams (July, $12.95) by Chris Enss celebrates the nonconforming, gun-toting women who, between 1840 and 1870, headed for the frontier.
UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Sticks and Stones: Living with Uncertain Wars (June, $24.95), edited by Padraig O'Malley et al., assesses what we have learned from the wars of the 20th century.
UNIV. OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead (June; $19.95, cloth $65) by Bruce A. McClelland investigates the origins of the vampire slayer.
UNIV. OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
When Stars and Stripes Met Hammer and Sickle: The Chautauqua Conferences on U.S.—Soviet Relations, 1985—1989 (June, $19.95) by Ross Mackenzie discusses a gathering of artists, diplomats and government officials in a story of Cold War citizen diplomacy.
VANDERBILT UNIV. PRESS
That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Camp (Apr., $27.95) by Munú Actis et al. reveals a horrific world of torturers and their victims.
WATERBROOK PRESS
Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag (June, $14.99) by Karl Tobien recounts the story of Detroit families sent by Henry Ford to work in Gorki, Russia, in 1932.
WHITE MANE/BURD STREET PRESS
More Strange Tales of the Civil War (June, $9.95) by Michael Sander is the second collection of stories of the unusual, bizarre and peculiar.
