As commander he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in the public memory, due mostly to his daring march through the Alps with his elephants. At the Battle of the Ticinus, Hannibal’s initial encounter with Roman arms, young Scipio first tasted warfare, rescuing his dangerously wounded, encircled father, who was also the Roman commander. By nineteen Scipio was the equivalent of a staff colonel and in 210 B.C. he was placed in supreme command. In three years he destroyed Carthaginian power in Spain and, after being made consul, took his forces to Africa, where he conquered Carthage’s great ally, Syphax. Two years later he clashed with Hannibal himself, annihilating his army in the decisive Battle of Zama. For this triumph and his other exploits in the Punic Wars, Scipio was awarded the title Africanus.In his fascinating portrait of this extraordinary commander, B. H. Liddell Hart writes, ”The age of generalship does not age, and it is because Scipio’s battles are richer in stratagems and ruses—many still feasible today—than those of any other commander in history that they are an unfailing object lesson.” Not only military enthusiasts and historians but all those interested in outstanding men will find this magnificent study absorbing and gripping.

     Born on a Dakota Sioux reservation he was taught the ways of the Native Americans from as soon as he could walk. At the tender age of fourteen, having had little formal education, he was supporting himself and learning from some of the last cowboys and frontiersmen of the Old West. These lessons would pay dividend in his later life, first as a tracker for the United States Army in the Apache Wars and later as a scout for the British Army in the Matebele Wars in Southern Africa. Frederick Burnham Russell was a remarkable figure who revolutionized the art of scouting in both the British and United States armies. Indeed his influence would lead his friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to begin the international Scouting Movement. In Scouting on Two Continents Burnham records the details of his brilliant life in fascinating detail and provides insight into the life of an unique adventurer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “Burnham in real life is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance.” Rider Haggard “Burnham is a most delightful companion ... amusing, interesting, and most instructive. Having seen service against the Red Indians he brings quite a new experience to bear on the Scouting work here. And while he talks away there’s not a thing escapes his quick roving eye, whether it is on the horizon or at his feet.” Robert Baden-Powell Frederick Burnham Russell has been described as the “Father of Scouting.” He fought in the Pleasant Valley War, Apache Wars, the First and Second Matabele Wars as well as the Second Boer War. His book Scouting on Two Continents was first published in 1926. He passed away in 1947.

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    By Carl Sandburg. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 1939. An exhaustive work on Abraham Lincoln, with hundreds of photographs, maps. letters and other illustrations. Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln was called "the greatest historical biography of our generation."Abraham Lincoln: The War Years received the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History.Volume I: The Prairie Years - 1, 1926, 480 p., frontispiece plus 20 illustrations and 16 p. of photographs. Volume II: The Prairie Years - 2, 1926, 482 p., index, frontispiece plus 16 illustrations and 16 p. of photographs. Volume III: The War Years - 1, 1939, 660 p., 77 illustrations plus 15 p. of photographs. Volume IV: The War Years - 2, 1939, 655 p., 53 illustrations plus 31 p. of photographs. Volume V: The War Years - 3, 1939, 673 p., 59 illustrations plus 31 p. of photographs. Volume VI: The War Years - 4, 1939, 515 p., index, 46 illustrations plus 31 p. of photographs. The Sangamon Edition. Six Volumes. Each 9.5" x 6.25", original red cloth with blind-stamped Lincoln profile on front covers, gilt and black ruled and lettered spines, illustrated with photographs, cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters.