Richard Wheeler, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-016582-6
The latest entry in Wheeler's Civil War history covers Grant's Virginia campaign against Lee from May 5 through July 30, 1864. Told largely through the memoirs and letters of participants, quotations are linked together in a smooth chronological...
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Richard Wheeler, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-06-016078-4
As he did so successfully in Witness to Gettysburg (1987), Wheeler links together the words of participants and eyewitnesses in a moving chronological narrative, this time covering the final three months of the Civil War. The accounts of fighting at
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Richard Wheeler, Author HarperCollins Publishers $30 (430p) ISBN 978-0-06-016650-2
Here Wheeler powerfully retells the ever-new drama of the great battles of the Southern armies, which, until Gettysburg, made the North tremble. Using letters from soldiers, housewives, adjutants and generals and other accounts of participants or...
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Richard Wheeler, Author Plume Books $15.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-452-28139-4
Although he sheds no new light on the well-known story of the Civil War's greatest battle, Wheeler (Voices of the Civil War) provides a generally reliable account of the altercation that ended the South's desperate attempt to win the war by invading
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Richard Wheeler, Author HarperCollins Publishers $21.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-06-015529-2
Union General George McClellan's attempt to capture the Confederate capital in 1862, one of the most significant campaigns of the Civil War, has been comparatively neglected by popular historians, probably because of its complexity and seeming lack...
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Richard Wheeler, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-06-015760-9
The three-day battle of Gettysburg, generally regarded as the turning point of the Civil War, is described in these pages largely in the words of participants. The confrontation between General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the Union army...
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Richard Wheeler, Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86526-9
This deftly crafted western is the 10th in Spur Award-winning Wheeler's Skye's West series, the adventures of fledgling mountainman Barnaby Skye (last seen in 1997's Rendezvous, which, like this novel, is a prequel to the earlier books). It is now...
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Richard Wheeler, Author Forge $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-87310-3
Wheeler's 11th novel in his Spur Award--winning Skye's West series continues the mountain man adventures of Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian wife, Victoria. The time is 1832, six years after Skye deserted from the Royal Navy to hide out as a...
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Richard Wheeler, Author, Bruce Catton, Foreword by Plume Books $16.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-452-01066-6
Eyewitness accounts from men and women who experienced the Civil War make up the narrative of this volume. ``It could hardly be better done,'' PW concluded. ``The extracts are without exception memorable. . . . The story unfolds with immediacy and...
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