About
David Alan Johnson has been a working non-fiction writer for more than 40 years. Since 1980, he has written thirteen histories and biographies:
The City Ablaze
The London Blitz
V for Vengeance
Union: The Archives Photographs Series
The Battle of Britain: The American Factor
Germany’s Spies and Saboteurs
Righteous Deception: German Officers Against Hitler
Betrayal: The True Story of J. Edgar Hoover and the Nazi Saboteurs
Decided On the Battlefield: Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and the Election of 1864. This was reissued in paperback in November 2020.
Union Revisited
Battle of Wills: Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Last year of the Civil War
Yanks in the RAF
The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln. Paperback edition to be published on April 15, 2022.
His fourteenth book, non-fiction about the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany during the Second World War and their efforts to rescue Jews and other "undesirables" from Nazi-occupied territory, is currently with his agent.
Featured Work
The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln
THE LAST WEEKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, is a day-by-day account of President Abraham Lincoln's last days, from his Second Inaugural on March 4, 1865, to his assassination at Ford's Theatre of April 14, 1865. The Last Weeks has received nothing but good reviews, as well as good sales, since publication.
