Stephen W. Sears

Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution....

The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. In Gettysburg Sears tells the whole story in a single volume....

The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through seven commanding generals in three years....

From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac.

At dusk on December 8, 1941, the carrier Enterprise and her escort of cruisers and destroyers entered Pearl Harbor....

A former editor of American Heritage, Stephen W. Sears has collected a wealth of new sources for this definitive portrait of one of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War....

The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against....

It was the largest campaign ever attempted in the Civil War: the Peninsula campaign of 1862....

Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on the climactic and bitter battle at Antietam Creek....

The air war over Europe during World War II proved that combat in the sky can be even more devastating than combat on the ground....

In this provocative book, acclaimed historian and award-winning author Stephen W. Sears takes a fascinating look at some of the intriguing Union generals and the controversies that swirled around them....