The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of Ambassador David K.E. Bruce, 1898-1977

By Nelson D. Lankford

Born into the Virginia gentry, David K. E. Bruce was, and in the words of his brother-in-law Paul Mellon, "the very epitome of the Greek Aristos." Handsome, brilliant, and entirely at ease with his...

Richmond Burning

By Nelson Lankford

Nelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuo...

Cry Havoc!

By Nelson D. Lankford, Nelson Lankford

A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of...

Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital

By Nelson D. Lankford, Nelson Lankford

"Through the winter and early spring of 1865, while Union armies ranged at will across the South, Richmond still glittered with the hard defiance of a city long at war. But this last flicker of res...

OSS against the Reich

By David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce

Cry Havoc

By Nelson D. Lankford

Cry Havoc

By Nelson D. Lankford

Cry Havoc

By Nelson D. Lankford

Cry Havoc

By Nelson D. Lankford, Michael Prichard

Cry Havoc

By Nelson Lankford

"When Abraham Lincoln became president on March 4, 1861, crisis had already gripped the nation. Perhaps by then it was too late to avert civil war, but the conflict that broke out a few weeks later...