
Historian and journalist Stephen Budiansky is the author of twelve books about military history, science, and nature. His latest book is The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox, which chronicles the struggles of five courageous men in the post-Civil War South as they battled a rising tide of terrorist violence aimed at usurping the newly won rights of the freedmen.

The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
2024

The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
2003

The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
2000

The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
2013

NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
2016

Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
2005

Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness
1998

The Life of Kurt Gödel
2021

Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel
2014

2008

The New Science of Nature Management
1995

A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
2019

2010

Terror After the Civil War
2008

The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis Silvestris Catus
2002

Why Animals Choose Domestication
1992

1997

2000

How They Run, See, and Think
2000