Books of local interest

A lost New Hampshire story comes to life. Two thousand regiments fought in Union armies during the Civil War. None -- not one -- suffered more deaths in battle than the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. At the center of this regiment's searing experience is Colonel Edward Cross, a journalist and adventurer who infused the Fifth with his formidable personality. Learn More

An illustrated account of 20th-century New Hampshire, told through the lives of those who made it. Learn More

Thousands of men died on the Bataan Death March, and thousands more perished in Japanese prison camps during the war. Steve Raymond survived. Too Dead to Die tells how Raymond did it and what he witnessed ... This is a riveting narrative, one man's desperate struggle for survival in the midst of the greatest crisis in human history. -- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, Florentine Films Learn More

One leg in England, the other in France. Shot from the sky over Holland, China, Italy. Kamikaze, Buchenwald, war at sea. War orphan, war romance, proud Marine. Rain and rats on Biak and Bougainville. Maggots in the Philippines. Trench foot in France. Malaria, nightmares, wounded for life. This is some of the vocabulary of World War II and of this book. In We Went to War, men and women remember how the war transformed and often threatened their lives. They tell their stories in words that are often poignant, sometimes tragic, and always human. Learn More

Pliney Fiske is a timid young man who finds himself sprawled in a barnyard in Concord, New Hampshire, a gun in his face and the Civil War veteran behind it quivering with rage. Fiske is no detective, but he has stumbled into a mystery.

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A human history of New Hampshire in the Civil War. Learn More