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ⓘ About John C. McManus
John C. McManus is a history author and an award-winning professor of military history at Missouri University. He’s among America’s known experts on the history of modern American soldiers in Combat. McManus served as an assistant director in the study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee. His coverage starts with a brief part on the training and organization of the 1st division, but the majority of the novel focuses on one day, June 6, 1944. The story has a large cast of characters as the author mixes up the background information about each one of them. One of the plans dictated that tanks were supposed to arrive by boats after the first wave made their landing.
All Book Series by John C. McManus
The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America(0)Description / Buy at AmazonCivil Rights
Series opener · book 1 of 24 · published 2003 Anthology · Erik R. Seeman
King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty
Book 4 of 24 · published 2007 Anthology · Daniel R. Mandell
The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
Book 5 of 24 · published 2010 Anthology · Williamjames Hull Hoffer
Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations
Book 6 of 24 · published 2010 Anthology · Tim Lehman
The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America
Book 7 of 24 · published 2011 Anthology · Erik R. Seeman
When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word
Book 8 of 24 · published 2011 Anthology · Peter Charles Hoffer
My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War
Book 9 of 24 · published 2012 Anthology · William Thomas Allison
Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775
Book 10 of 24 · published 2013 Anthology · Peter Charles Hoffer
Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
Book 11 of 24 · published 2014 Anthology · MichaelDennis
Wolf by the Ears: The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Book 13 of 24 · published 2015 Anthology · John R. Van Atta
Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age
Book 14 of 24 · published 2015 Anthology · Benjamin F. Alexander
Shays's Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America
Book 15 of 24 · published 2015 Anthology · Sean Condon
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution
Book 17 of 24 · published 2016 Anthology · Terri Diane Halperin
The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution
Book 18 of 24 · published 2016 Anthology · Lorri Glover
Selma's Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Book 19 of 24 · published 2016 Anthology · Robert A. Pratt
John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850
Book 20 of 24 · published 2017 Anthology · Peter Charles Hoffer
Charging Up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America
Book 21 of 24 · published 2018 Anthology · John R. Van Atta
The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic
Book 22 of 24 · published 2018 Anthology · Christopher Childers
The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic
Book 23 of 24 · published 2018 Anthology · Christopher Childers
No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America
Latest in the series · book 24 of 24 · published 2022 Anthology · Adam Jortner
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is John C. McManus?
John C. McManus is a history author and an award-winning professor of military history at Missouri University. He’s among America’s known experts on the history of modern American soldiers in Combat. McManus served as an assistant director in the study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee.
Which John C. McManus series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Witness to History series, the earliest of John C. McManus's multi-book series: it opens with The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America(0)Description / Buy at AmazonCivil Rights (2003) and runs to 24 books across 2003–2022, ending with No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America (2022).
How many books has John C. McManus written?
John C. McManus has 39 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1998 and 2023. 24 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Witness to History series with 24 books — and 15 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should John C. McManus's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. John C. McManus's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Witness to History (2003–2022, 24 books).
How are John C. McManus's books organised into series?
This guide splits John C. McManus's 39 books into 1 named series and 15 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Witness to History (24 books, 2003–2022).