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Brian Swartz
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Bradley Gottfried & Linda Gottfried
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 KENYA'S CORNER
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Hello Viking Fans Everywhere!
(Yes, Pop told me to write that.)
So Mom and Pop were watching a movie the other night. Actually, mom lost a bet and Pop got to choose the movie. Their ven diagrams on movies don't overlap all that much.
The movie was 300. When I first heard that name I thought it was about math. It wasn't.
That marching army of Persians and their Devil King scared my pearly white canine enamels to their roots. Leonidas and Dienekes need my help! I ran and grabbed a few things to prepare for the onslaught.
The only pass I could find to defend was the narrow space between the recliner and the sofa, where another spartan was also waiting.
Pop (walking around the corner of the sofa): "Ow! What are you poking me for with that spear?"
Kenya: "Sorry, I thought you were a Persian." Pop: "A what?"
Kenya: "Persian, invading our homeland. I'm blocking the Thermo-something pass."
Pop: "Thermopylae."
Kenya: "The hot gates. And the fireplace is right behind me . . . So is that the pass?"
Mom (laughing): "Kenya, that was 2,500 years ago!"
Kenya: "In dog years?"
Pop: "So all this chaos is because we watched the movie 300? Hey . . . your gear . . . Is that from my library wall?"
Kenya: [Drops spear down] "Stay back, Xerxes!"
Pop: "Put it all back. Now. And stay out of my library."
Kenya: "You won't be telling me that the next time Mark Wade tries to climb in your window."
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So I announced last month that our first release in the Savas Beatie Essential Gettysburg Series has been identified and slated for later this year. One newsletter and nearly 1/3 of the 700 print run has been pre-ordered. Let the SB ladies know your interest. No payment needed until the book arrives. CLICK HERE for all the details.
THE SUMMER BOOKS KEEP POURING IN . . .
Three new releases since the last newsletter. Scroll down and check them out!
And yes, I am upset about not being able to meet everyone at Gettysburg. I am still grounded and can't go. Pop and that Mackowski fellow are talking about smoking cigars. I smoke cigars. This is just not fair.
Have a wonderful August.
Loving Woofs,
Miss Kenya
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IT'S TIME. Taking pre-orders for Book # 1 of
The Savas Beatie Essential Gettysburg Series
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Time to pre-order to reserve your copy, AND to guarantee you get the same # each time for each new release. No payment is needed at this time.
TITLE: "Over a Wide, Hot . . . Crimson Plain": The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863 AUTHOR: Elwood Christ (deceased) NEW FOREWORD: James Hessler (author of The Peach Orchard at Gettysburg and Sickles at Gettysburg)
SPECIFICATIONS: 3-piece high quality cloth case, with vol. # of series stamped on the spine / Series name stamped on front / 80# Rainbow hemp end sheets / sewn binding / 70-lb. matte white art paper / bound-in silk ribbon / matching head and foot bands / facsimile of original edition / 240 pp.
PRINT RUN: 700 copies
SIGNED/NUMBERED: All 700 will be hand-numbered. However, only #s 1-200 will be signed by the publisher next to the SB logo AND include a special newly designed Essential Series bookplate signed by James Hessler. ***#s 1-200 SOLD OUT*** PRICE: Just $35.00 + $6.00 shipping (media in box, well packed, with tracking). RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2021.
SOLE SUPPLIER: This edition will not be available from any other source. Savas Beatie is your sole provider.
HOW TO ORDER. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: Send an email to Books@savasbeatie.com (click to activate). If we have your credit card information on file, there is no need to do anything else. We will let everyone know when the books are coming and we will not charge your card until they are ready to ship. IF WE DO NOT have your card or address from previous orders, send the email so you are in our system and call us to provide your credit card info. We keep it all very secure.
SAMPLE COVER AND SPINE:
Series Editor: Meet Mitchell Yockelson. We wanted a fresh set of eyes on the campaign and battle. Mitch is an award-winning military historian, editor, and investigative archivist with the National Archives. He has studied the Civil War for much of his life, but has primarily published on other military topics. His books include Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918 (2016), Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I (2016), The Paratrooper Generals: Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy (2020), and much more, including articles and book reviews. Mitch is a former professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
We have outstanding original titles under active development for the series!
Feel free to spread the word, and as always thank you for your ongoing support of the American Civil War, independent publishing, and battlefield preservation. It all matters. A lot. --Theodore P. Savas
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SB Gettysburg Meet Up AT CAPACITY!
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Thank you to all who were interested in attending the August SB Gettysburg Meet Up.
We are at capacity for the event now. We have our permits, and are looking forward to seeing those attending. If you are NOT on the RSVP list, you missed out for this year. But we are already planning for next year and hope to see you there.
Stay tuned for an event recap and some memorable photos.
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NEW RELEASES NOW AVAILABLE
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Don't miss out on these new releases!
Call the office at 916-941-6896, visit our website, or email us to order your copies.
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| | The fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 fundamentally changed the strategic picture of the American Civil War, though its outcome had been anything but certain. The Tullahoma Campaign has stood nearly forgotten compared to events along the Mississippi and in south-central Pennsylvania. |
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Audio Feature and a Contest!
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The audio books keep rolling in! This month, we are proud to announce that Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777 by Michael C. Harris is now available in audio.
On October 4, 1777, Germantown was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital whose surrounding fields and streets witnessed one of the largest battles of the American Revolution. The bloody battle represented George Washington's attempt to recapture Philadelphia, but has long been overshadowed by better-known events like Brandywine, Saratoga, and Valley Forge. Harris's Germantown is the first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of this complex operation and important set-piece battle into a single compelling account.
Congrats to our July audio contest winners: Larry A. and Brandon C.
Don't miss your chance! Answer this trivia question to be entered to win your FREE audio copy:
What is the name of the house where the tide of the Battle of Germantown turned?
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A Look Inside a Customer Library - Jane J.
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This month, Jane shares her library photos and answers the following questions. If you are interested in having your library featured, please email us. Take it away, Jane!
1.) How old were you when you got the Civil War "bug" and when did you begin collecting Civil War books?
The Civil War bug seriously bit me when I was ten years old and learned that I had two great-grandfathers (one Union and one Confederate) who served in the conflict. My Confederate great-grandfather interested me the most because an elderly aunt told me that he fought at the battle of Shiloh. I became obsessed with finding out what regiment he served in. Since this was pre-internet, I painstakingly hand wrote letters to three State archives until the Louisiana State Archives informed me that he served throughout the war in the 16th Louisiana Infantry, a combat-hardened regiment in the Army of Tennessee. At about this time a neighbor gave me some copies of Civil War Times Illustrated and besides the articles, I gravitated to the "War In Words" column written by James I. Robertson, Jr. My first serious Civil War book purchase, a Morningside reprint edition of John O. Casler's, Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade, was made when I was sixteen.
2.) How many books do you have and how do you organize your library?
My library has been occasionally "weeded" as my collecting interests have changed over the years, but currently my collection has about 1,000 books. My library is organized by topics and then by author within each topic. My main groupings are reference, trans-Mississippi campaigns, Eastern campaigns, Western campaigns, unit histories, biographies, and personal accounts. Because of the configuration of the house, the collection is in two rooms with some books about the Revolutionary War and U.S. presidents mixed in with the Civil War ones.
3.) I have the most books on ________ , and the count is up to ______.
My unit history collection numbers about 200 books and about 80 percent of those are about Federal units (mostly regimental histories). Books about trans-Mississippi campaigns are next with that category totaling about 130.
4.) If you had to pick a special favorite collectible/rare/special book in your collection, what is it and how did you come to acquire it?
Some of my books have purely sentimental value such as the reprint edition of Battles and Leaders that my parents gave me for Christmas when I was thirteen. It's difficult to narrow down the choice of a special collectible book as I have several favorites. My first edition copy of Charles A. Partridge's History of the Ninety-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry (1887) has some interesting marginalia comments by one of the regiment's soldiers, but the most special is the rather crudely published Story Of The Thirty-Second Iowa Infantry Volunteers (1896) by John Scott. The 32nd Iowa lost 86 men killed or mortally wounded at the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. A large proportion of the book contains the personal, often poignant, accounts of men who survived that searing ordeal, and there's also an excellent fold-out map of the battle in it. I purchased the book several years ago from the G. S. MacManus book company.
5.) I collect Civil War books because...
As a Civil War historian my books are part of my proverbial tool chest, so I regard my collection as a working library. However, my favorite part of the collection is my beloved unit histories. The accounts written by veterans often are full of interesting personal recollections. Many of the first-edition regimental histories have covers that are adorned with Corps badges, stacked rifles, or other emblems of wartime service. Some were owned by soldiers, and it's fun to think about aged veterans perusing the pages of those accounts. In many ways, these books are a tangible link to the Civil War world and to the way that veterans chose to remember their service.
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5 Things with Charlie Knight
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1. Lee intended to write a history of the war in Virginia, and even began collecting materials for it, but died before he wrote anything.
2. Despite what their post-war accounts written for publication say, Lee did not make life pleasant for his staff. The private letters of Walter Taylor and Charles Venable in particular include complaints about him; after one run-in with the general, Venable strongly considered leaving the staff.
3. Lee had no contact with his older sister Anne after his resignation from the U.S. Army in April 1861 because she did not approve of his choice to follow Virginia out of the Union. He was unaware of her death in 1864 until months after it happened.
4. The general came under fire and was in immediate danger far more often than is widely known.
5. A new bride evicted Lee from his HQ in Petersburg in November 1864 because she and her new husband had rented the house and wanted to move in.
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Out and About - well, almost!
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Well, it has been some time since we have featured author photos. With in-person events slowly returning and many new books being released, we are excited to share photos of our authors showcasing their brand new books. Enjoy!
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 Did you know we have excerpts posted on our website? Here are a few, and from now on we will have a list right here for you to view.
Adolfo Ovies,
Jeff Hunt,
Norman Desmarais, editor,
John Bachelder - David and Audrey Ladd, eds,
Charles Knight,
Edwin C. Bearss,
David and Audrey Ladd, eds,
John Bachelder,
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
We have many author events on the books (many of which are virtual!). Be sure to click here to see our full author event calendar.
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"If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The Army of Northern Virginia's and Army of the Potomac's March to Gettysburg, Volume 1: June 3-22, 1863, by Eric J. Wittenberg and Scott L. Mingus Sr.
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My Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas including the Red River Campaign, Imprisonment at Camp Ford, and Escape Overland to Liberated Shreveport, 1864-1865, by Jeaninne S. Honstein and Steven A. Knowlton
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