Savas Beatie LLC is the Recipient of Four Prestigious Book Awards for 2015

EL DORADO HILLS, CA: June 27, 2016 –Savas Beatie, the region’s prominent independent book publisher, has been notified that three of its titles and one of its book series are the recipients of prestigious awards:

1. Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign: How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of Lee’s Invasion of the North, June – July 1863, by Thomas J. Ryan, is the recipient of the Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award for the best book published on Gettysburg (awarded by the Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central New Jersey). Significantly, for the first time in the award’s history, every finalist title was from a single publisher—Savas Beatie.

2. Fighting for General Lee: Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade, by Sheridan R. Barringer, is the recipient of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award “for the best published book of high merit in the field of Southern history” (awarded by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars).

3. The Chickamauga Campaign—Glory or the Grave, by David A. Powell, is the recipient of the Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award for the best Civil War book of the year (awarded by the Atlanta Civil War Round Table). Mr. Powell is the first author to win the award twice.

4. The Emerging Civil War Series, Chris Mackowski (series editor) and Kris White (series historian), is the recipient of Army Historical Foundation’s Lt. Gen. Richard G. Trefry Award, which honors books or a series of books that deserve special recognition for their contribution to the literature on the U.S. Army.

“I cannot tell you how pleased and humbled we all are by these awards,” explained Managing Director Theodore P. Savas. “These authors all work hard, labor in solitude, and hope others will read and enjoy their work. This is confirmation of their individual excellence and dedication to scholarship.”

About the Authors: Thomas J. Ryan served three years in the Army and decades in intelligence operations-related capacities. He is now retired; Sheridan R. Barringer worked decades with NASA and has two other books under contract with Savas Beatie; David A. Powell is a graduate of VMI and works in Chicago. He is the author of two previous award-winning books; Chris Mackowski and Kristopher White are both prolific authors. The former is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York and works as a historian with the National Park Service at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, while Kris works as a historian for the Penn-Trafford Recreation Board and a continuing education instructor for the Community College of Allegheny County near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

About Savas Beatie: Savas Beatie is a leading independent military and general history publishing company with distribution worldwide. Read more about all of our books at www.SavasBeatie.com

Contact: Michele Sams, Savas Beatie LLC
Email: [email protected]

Phone: 916-941-6896, Fax: 916-941-6895