Fireship Press: Historical Nonfiction

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity." -- Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

"History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Historical Non Fiction: New Releases

AnahereoKristin Gleeson Anahareo, A Wilderness Spirit: Growing up with the name Gertrude, an Algonquin/Mohawk girl in a small Ontario town during the First World War, Anahareo was more at home climbing trees and swimming in the river than sewing samplers. When she was nineteen, she convinced her father to let her work at Camp Wabikon, a vacation spot for New Yorkers hoping to experience the wilderness. There she met charismatic trail guide, Archie Belaney. With his long hair and buckskin pants, Archie symbolized everything she desired — an adventurous man of the wilderness. Archie wasted no time in inviting Gertrude to see his traplines in the bush. That decision would change her life forever.

Historical Nonfiction

Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, The Ifs of History: How the World Might Have Changed If Things Had Gone Slightly Differently

W. H. Fitchett, Retribution: The Story of the Sepoy Mutiny

 Christopher Herold, Bonaparte in Egypt

John Camden Hotten, The Dictionary of Nautical, University, Gypsy, and Other Vulgar Tongues.

Historical Memoir and Biography

Louisa May Alcott and Kate Cumming, Blue, Grey, and Red: Two Nurses' View of the Civil War

Mary Anne Butler, Down But Not Out: A Little Rich Girl Grows Up Poor in the Great Depression

W. H. Fitchett, Wellington's Men

Geronimo,  Geronimo: My Life, The Autobiography of Geronimo

George Fenn, By Conduct and Courage: The Life of George Alfred Henty

Kristen Gleeson, Anahereo, Wilderness Spirit

Thomas Higgins, Black Soldiers/Blue Uniforms: The Story of the First South Carolina Volunteers

Carlton MacCarthy, Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861--1865

Sarah Fowler Morgan, Morgan's War: Volume I, A Confederate Girl's Diary

Barbara Marriott, ed: In Our Own Words, The Lives of Arizona Pioneer Women

James Morgan, Morgan's War: Volume II, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer

George Peck, How Private George Peck Single-handedly Won the Civil War

Deneys Reitz, God Does not Forget: The Story of a Boer War Commando

Lytton Strathey, Cornerstones: Portraits of Four Eminent Victorians

Loreta Velasquez, Lady Rebel, The Story of Loreta Velasquez

Cole Younger, Confessions of a Missouri Guerilla: The Autobiography of Cole Younger