Books published by publisher BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB

The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history: on this single day, the battle claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle.

The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi illustrates in purest form St Francis' love of humanity and of nature, a love so great that he preached to the sparrows as well as to the people around him. The fioretti, or little flowers, are fables, legends, and folk tales that grew up around the saint and his companions, celebrating their kinship with nature - they addressed all God's creatures as sister and brother - and the denial of vanity and things of the flesh that have made Francis at once perhaps the holiest and yet the most approachable of the great saints of legend.