The book “Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives under Enemy Fire from Valley Forge to Afghanistan” shines a much-needed light on the all-too-often overlooked service of military corpsmen and medics and the evolution of battlefield medical care.

Gerald M. Carbone’s sole emphasis in Washington: Lessons in Leadership is the performance of George Washington as a senior military leader. He provides readers with a balanced portrayal.

In ‘The Fort’ respected historical novelist Bernard Cornwell departs from his usual eras to tell the story ‘in hauntingly vivid detail’ of an attempt to capture a British fort off the New England coast during the American Revolution.

This is the solution to the Combat Decision Game “Rogers’ Rangers at St. Francis, 1759” that was presented in the July 2011 issue of Armchair General® magazine.

Germantown: Washington Strikes back is a boardgame of the battle that that led French to give serious consideration an alliance with the American colonists in their rebellion against Great Britain.

A review of the Washington’s War card-driven boardgame finds it is much more than just a rehash of its progenitor, We The People, with enhanced tactics, variable leadership factors, beautiful components, and more.

Armchair General Advisory Board Member Barnet Schecter has a new must read book coming out titled George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps.

This review calls Serpents of the Seas a beautiful-looking game of naval warfare from the Seven Years War to the War of 1812, a welcome addition to the genre although it is a bit chart-heavy.

The Purple Heart, now awarded to U.S. military personnel wounded or killed in action or during captivity, has its origins with George Washington and the American Revolution.

Richard Berg’s Flintlock: Black Powder, Cold Steel – Vol. I: Carolina Rebels excels at putting players in the mindset of an 18th-century commander – An ArmchairGeneral wargame review.

Noted historian and ArmchairGeneral Advisory Board member Carlo D’Este examines the true meaning of the Fourth of July.

This review of The Battle of Monmouth from Clash of Arms Games finds it to be an advanced-level board wargame that plays like a good set of miniatures rules, and it says players who look for depth and historical accuracy won’t find a better game.

A game reviewer finds Birth of America 2: Wars In America 1750 – 1815 from AGEOD to be a good strategic simulation of a neglected historical period with a wide variety of units to command.

James L. Nelson’s new book, George Washington’s Secret Navy: How the American Revolution Went to Sea, describes how a fledgling, ramshackle naval flotilla held its own against Britain’s vaunted Royal Navy.

When a deadly storm crashed ashore in the early days of the American Revolution, some saw it as a natural disaster; others swore it was the work of God. An examination of Enlightenment thought versus 18th-century patriotic and religious beliefs.