Books with author James McPherson

How deep does this flow?When the Exlathars escaped the battle that night, their silhouetted figures merged with the sky, their wings swatted at stars and the Coltis people were too busy celebrating their victory to realise that there wasn’t one.Now the Exlathars are back. And they bring with them remnants of everybody’s past.Back in England, Dezaray discovers just how deep Coldivor’s connection to Earth really goes. But she cannot change their past and she cannot see how to alter their future. It seems the ripples that shake the surface are only a glimpse of what’s brewing beneath.The young adult fantasy ‘Caught in the Ripples’ delves deeper into The Last Elentrice series, answers questions the first book raised and plunges you into an ocean of intrigue and magic.They thought the Elenfar was the end…turns out it was only the beginning.

Elev nos senaremdos: Live on in memoriesMilo is gone, lost beyond the realms, and Vladimir and the others plan to go after him before he gets himself killed…if it isn’t already too late. But they have no way of making the gethadrox and they are not all working as together as they think.Secrets hushed and secrets kept are soon revealed when Dezaray gets a package that leads to her taking matters into her own hands and following a path that leads to the unimaginable.Only Lexovia and a small band of misfits stay behind in an attempt to save the world and Lexovia soon finds herself in a position of power she never truly wanted.There’s a darkness between the waves…and it’s rising.Dive deeper into worlds & war in this thrilling third installment of a dark fantasy. Loved by fans of Cassandra Clare and Sarah J Maas.

Journey back to when it all began. To when Elentri existed and lived amongst the clan. Journey back into the wonder, See where it all went wrong. Dance with the Dragonysius, Sing the Elentri song.Once Upon a Tide tells the tale before Lexovia became the last of her kind. See the glory of Elnorious. Experience Taratesia in the finer days and endure the war that changed it all.ATTENTION: *THIS BOOK IS A PREQUEL BUT INCLUDES A SNEAK PEEK OF BOOK 4 IN THE LAST ELENTRICE SERIES*

Pulitzer Prize award-winning historian James M. McPherson has written for young readers a stirring account of the greatest conflict to happen on our nation's soil, the Civil War, bringing to life the tragic struggle that divided not only a nation, but also friends and family. From the initial Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, to the devastating loss of life at Shiloh as Ulysses S. Grant led the Union to unexpected victory, to the brilliance of Stonewall Jackson's campaign at Shenandoah, to General Pickett's famous charge at Gettysburg, to the Union's triumph at Appo-mattox Court House, Fields of Fury details the war that helped shape us as a nation.Also included are personal anecdotes from the soldiers at the battlefront and the civilians at home, as well as profiles of historical luminaries such as Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. McPherson also explores the varied roles that women played during the war, healthcare on the battlefield, and the demise of slavery.McPherson's narrative is highlighted with black-and-white photographs taken by Civil War photographers Mathew Brady and Timothy O'Sullivan, period oil paintings, and key campaign and battlefield maps, that make Fields of Fury the consummate book on the American Civil War for kids.

Will any survive when the worlds collide?The world has fallen to chaos and adversaries are closing in.Yvane is in the clutches of the enemy. Milo is battling his hidden demons. Lexovia learns a lesson in loyalty. And Dezaray finds herself on a hunt for the ones who may not exist.Shifters, mortals, sorcerers and monsters; the more they try to come together, the more that seems to divide them. But when gearing up for the battle to end all battles, they can’t afford to turn on each other. If they do, none will survive when all the worlds collide. The final instalment of The Last Elentrice series COMING SPRING 2019“This series is a must read!’- Amazon Reviewer“This series just gets better and better.” – Carol M. Phipps, Bestselling Author of WHAM!

From the dean of Civil War historians and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the ConfederacyHistory has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many Americans in Davis’s own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, if not a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause’s failure. In order to understand the Civil War and its outcome, it is essential to give Davis his due as a military leader and as the president of an aspiring Confederate nation.Davis did not make it easy on himself. His subordinates and enemies alike considered him difficult, egotistical, and cold. He was gravely ill throughout much of the war, often working from home and even from his sickbed. Nonetheless, McPherson argues, Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force: the quest for independent nationhood. Although he had not been a fire-breathing secessionist, once he committed himself to a Confederate nation he never deviated from this goal. In a sense, Davis was the last Confederate left standing in 1865.As president of the Confederacy, Davis devoted most of his waking hours to military strategy and operations, along with Commander Robert E. Lee, and delegated the economic and diplomatic functions of strategy to his subordinates. Davis was present on several battlefields with Lee and even took part in some tactical planning; indeed, their close relationship stands as one of the great military-civilian partnerships in history.Most critical appraisals of Davis emphasize his choices in and management of generals rather than his strategies, but no other chief executive in American history exercised such tenacious handson influence in the shaping of military strategy. And while he was imprisoned for two years after the Confederacy’s surrender awaiting a trial for treason that never came, and lived for another twenty-four years, he never once recanted the cause for which he had fought and lost. McPherson gives us Jefferson Davis as the commander in chief he really was, showing persuasively that while Davis did not win the war for the South, he was scarcely responsible for losing it.