Books by Joseph E. Garland
Many Joseph Garland books are currently available for purchase from Dogtown Books, The Bookstore of Gloucester or Amazon
Unknown Soldiers: Reliving WWII in Europe
Protean Press. 2008
See Joseph Garland’s WWII Memorabilia
The Fish and the Falcon
The History Press. 1998, 2006
Bear of the Sea
Retitled paperback edition of That Great Pattillo.Commonwealth Editions. Beverly, MA. May 2001
Adventure
The Curious Traveler Press. Gloucester. 2000
Eastern Point: A Nautical, Rustical and More or Less Sociable Chronicle of Gloucester’s Outer Shield and Inner Sanctum, 1606-1990
Dublin, NH. 1971
Commonwealth Editions. Beverly, MA. 1999
The North Shore: A Social History of Summers Among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Rich, Eccentric and Ordinary on Boston’s Gold Coast, 1820-1929
Commonwealth Editions. Beverly, MA. 1998
Beam Reach: Further Voyaging in the Gloucester Daily Times with Other Miscellaneous Musings, 1951 to 1997
The Curious Traveler Press. Gloucester, MA. 1997
Gloucester on the Wind: America’s Greatest Fishing Port in the Days of Sail
Arcadia. Dover, NH. 1995
Beating to Windward: A Voyage in the Gloucester Daily Times Through the Stormy Years from 1967 to 1973
The Curious Traveler Press. Gloucester, MA. 1995
Eastern Point Revisited: Then and Now, 1889-1989
Association of Eastern Point Residents. Gloucester, MA. 1989
To Meet These Wants: The Story of Rhode Island Hospital 1863-1988
Rhode Island Hospital. 1988
Adventure: Queen of the Windjammers
Down East Books. Camden, ME. 1985
Down to the Sea: The Fishing Schooners of Gloucester
1983 Godine
Paperback edition, June 2000.
Boston’s Gold Coast: The North Shore, 1890-1929
Little Brown & Co; 1981
Guns Off Gloucester
Essex County Newspapers 1975
The Centennial History of the Boston Medical Library 1875-1975 Boston Medical Library. 1975
The Gloucester Guide: A Retrospective Ramble. Gloucester 350th Anniversary Celebration
Gloucester, MA. 1973
Note: There have been several updated versions of the Gloucester Guide since the original in 1973. This image is of the most recent version, published by Cape Ann Museum.
Lone Voyager (biography of Howard Blackburn of Gloucester) Little, Brown. 1963.
Every Man Our Neighbor: A Brief History of the Massachusetts General Hospital 1811-1961
Little, Brown. Boston, MA. 1961.
An Experiment in Medicine: A History of the Pratt-New England Center Hospital
Riverside Press. Cambridge, MA. 1960.
Praise for Joe Garland’s most recent work, Unknown Soldiers: Reliving WWII in Europe:
“This intense memoir lands readers in the middle of WWII … a clear, unflinching panorama of the mundanand the horrific.”
___ Publishers Weekly
“He presents a perspective that the parents and loved ones of the common foot soldier might have received from war journalist Ernie Pyle or cartoonist Bill Mauldin, a perspective that has been buried under the broad scope of history and is rapidly vanishing from our ranks with an aging generation.”
___ Mark Hvidsten, the Star Tribune
“One reviewer called Unknown Soldiers a ‘masterpiece;’ another said it is an ‘incredible journalistic monument.’ It is all those things. And more.”
___ WWII History Magazine
“His writing is highly engaging and shares the story of the 45th and its 511 days in combat and four amphibious landings, providing an excellent narrative history of the division during World War II, as well as a personal reckoning. A must have for any World War II collection, especially those focusing on war memoirs.”
___ Patti C. McCall, Library Journal
“Garland’s journals come to life revealing extraordinary detail of his every thought, fear and dream in an eloquent and wise voice. At times gut-wrenching – at other times humorous and always poignant, Unknown Soldiers is a wonderfully insightful narrative into our nation’s history and the price of freedom paid by young people in uniform.”
___ Senator John Kerry
Praise for Garland’s earlier works:
On Lone Voyager : “Brings alive the struggles of the Gloucester men at seas in the era of fishing under sail like no other book I’ve ever read … A wonderful, beautifully written book.”
___ Sebastian Junger, Author, The Perfect Storm
“One of the most remarkable feats of survival in the history of seafaring…. It is one for all whose interest runs to the never-ending conflict between man and the sea.”
___ Henry Beetle Hough, The New York Times Book Review
On The North Shore [of Boston]: Garland is the definitive historian of the North Shore. This book should be on every shelf from Revere to Ipswich.
___ John Updike, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author