Tom Clavin and Bob Drury. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-24713-1
Clavin and Drury return (after Valley Forge) with an enlightening biography of Daniel Boone set against the backdrop of 18th-century America’s conflicts with England and Native tribes. Born in 1734 to English immigrants in Pennsylvania, Boone was...
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Bob Drury, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-86479-2
Dubbed the ""unknown tip of the military's rescue spear,"" the pararescue units of the U.S. Air Force handle some of the military's most dangerous missions, from plucking downed pilots out of combat zones to saving mountain climbers stranded on ice-c
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Bob Drury, Author, Tom Clavin, Author . Atlantic Monthly $25 (322p) ISBN 978-0-87113-948-1
At the height of the Second World War in 1944, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was struck by a typhoon that sank three destroyers and drowned 800 sailors. Drury (The Rescue Season
) and Clavin (Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican
) draw...
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Bob Drury, Author, Tom Clavin, Author . Atlantic $24 (353p) ISBN 978-0-87113-993-1
The authors of the bestselling Halsey's Typhoon
do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War's darkest moment. In November 1950, as General MacArthur's troops were advancing deep into North Korea,...
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Free Press, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6101-2
The dramatic story of the chaotic last days of the Vietnam War in April 1975 is an iconic chapter in this controversial war. Books, indelible photos, and news footage have recorded the anarchy at the gates of the U.S. embassy and the departing...
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Simon & Schuster, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5466-0
For all of our culture’s fascination with the American Indian, it’s almost impossible to believe that one of the most well-known Indians of his time, the Oglala Sioux warrior chief Red Cloud, could be largely forgotten until now. Yet that’s exactly...
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Simon & Schuster, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5271-9
This gripping, panoramic account of the Continental Army’s 1777–1778 winter encampment at Valley Forge charts, in lively language, the decisions that allowed the American Revolution to survive. George Washington’s ragtag troops had fled the pursuing
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-2502-4716-2
Frequent collaborators Drury and Clavin (Blood and Treasure) revisit the 1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest in this exhaustive history. Before they get to the action, the authors detail the U.S. Army Rangers’ origins in Gen. George Marshall’s admiration...
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Arthur J. Donovan, Author, Bob Drury, Author William Morrow & Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07340-4
The 340-pound Donovan was a professional football player in the 1950s, when the league was taking shape and the game was particularly attractive to players who enjoyed mayhem. Such a player was Donovan, born in the Bronx, son of a famous boxing...
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