Winston Groom Books in Order

This narrative history braids together the lives of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton, charting their friendship, rivalries, and ideas as they argue over constitutions, finance, and foreign policy while trying to keep a fragile new republic alive.

Groom follows Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin from uneasy early contacts through wartime summits and fierce strategic debates, showing how mistrust, compromise, and shared necessity held the Allied coalition together long enough to defeat the Axis.

Set along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Mexican Revolution, this novel follows a wealthy railroad baron and his adopted son as they assemble a motley posse to chase Pancho Villa into the Sierra Madre after the bandit kidnaps the family’s grandchildren.

This group portrait traces George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall from cadet days and early commands through the crises of World War II, exploring how clashes of ego, discipline, and vision produced the American way of war.

Blending three intertwined biographies, this book follows Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, and Charles Lindbergh from barnstorming and record flights to World War II combat and survival at sea, showing how their courage helped define aviation's most dramatic decades.

Groom's account of Shiloh recreates the surprise Confederate assault on Grant's army in Tennessee, the chaotic first day, and the bloody counterattack that followed, revealing how this early battle shattered hopes for a short, relatively painless Civil War.

Written in clear, straightforward prose for teens, this biography follows Ronald Reagan from small town Illinois to Hollywood, the governor's office, and the presidency, emphasizing the choices and convictions that shaped his role in the Cold War and American life.

Here Groom recounts General Stephen Kearny's 1846-47 march with the Army of the West from Missouri toward New Mexico and California, weaving in politicians, mountain men, Mormons, and emigrant families as American expansion collides with war and hardship on the trail.

This study of the Vicksburg campaign follows Grant from early river operations through failed approaches and the final siege, explaining how capture of the city gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.

Focusing on the Battle of New Orleans, this book brings together Andrew Jackson, frontier militia, free Black troops, Creole volunteers, and pirate Jean Laffite, showing how their unlikely alliance repelled a veteran British army at the close of the War of 1812.

Groom's narrative of World War II's pivotal year begins with American unpreparedness after Pearl Harbor, then follows the seesaw of defeats and hard fought victories from the Philippines and the Coral Sea to Midway, Guadalcanal, El Alamein, and North Africa.

This World War I history chronicles the years long fight for the Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders, showing how repeated offensives, new weapons, and exhausted troops turned a small patch of ground into one of the war's most feared battlefields.

An illustrated chronicle of Alabama Crimson Tide football, this book traces the program from its 19th century beginnings through classic bowl games and championship seasons, using hundreds of photographs to celebrate coaches, players, fans, and traditions.

Delia Jamison, a glamorous Los Angeles news anchor, is being blackmailed by someone from her tangled romantic past, and her former lover Johnny Lightfoot agrees to investigate, drawing them into a glitzy, dangerous world where every suspect has something to hide.

Beau Gunn, a decorated Vietnam veteran and once promising playwright, returns to his Alabama port city to edit the struggling local paper, only to uncover a web of murder and corruption that forces him to choose between loyalty and the truth.

This Civil War history follows Confederate General John Bell Hood's ill fated 1864 campaign from the fall of Atlanta through Franklin and Nashville, showing how bold gambles and exhausted armies led to one of the Confederacy's final disasters.

In this sequel to Forrest Gump, Forrest stumbles through the greed and spectacle of the 1980s, from brief pro football glory to busted business schemes, while trying to raise his son and stay true to the people he loves.

Inspired by the Bubba Gump world, this cookbook pairs more than seventy shrimp recipes and Southern style dishes with short in character asides, inviting fans to bring Forrest's homespun comfort food into their own kitchens.

A pocket sized collection of Forrest Gump's sayings, this companion book gathers his funniest, plainspoken bits of advice about work, love, luck, and muddling through life's surprises with a kind of sideways wisdom.

Forrest Gump tells his own story in a rough edged Southern voice, from a difficult childhood in Alabama to college football stardom, combat in Vietnam, celebrity, and a shrimping fortune that never quite changes how he sees the world.

Only, the lone surviving pup from a litter of sheepdogs, grows up with newlyweds George and Alice Martin, and his restless urge to roam tests their marriage, their patience, and the fragile line between protecting a beloved pet and letting him be free.

This nonfiction narrative investigates the life of PFC Robert Garwood, a Marine captured in Vietnam who spent years in brutal prison camps and later faced a wrenching court martial at home on charges that he had aided the enemy to survive.

Set in late 1950s Louisiana, small town lawyer Willie Croft takes on a case over land that may hold oil, joining forces with an aging heiress and a Black family to challenge greed, bigotry, and the town's most powerful clan.

Following a Vietnam rifle company from deployment to disaster, this novel tracks young American soldiers whose patriotism, friendships, and illusions are stripped away by punishing missions, flawed officers, and the slow realization that the war may be unwinnable.