• The perfect gift for firefighters, collectors, or historians
• First of its kind book celebrating the colorful history of the fire helmet from 1658 – 1918
• Over 100 pages in length
• More than 200 color photos and detailed illustrations
• Beautifully hardbound – 8 ¾” x 11 ½”

Not very long ago, the Bronx was burning. Day after day, night after night, firefighters responded to vacant and occupied five and six story apartment buildings, rows of attached wood-frame houses, single story commercial buildings, and anything else that greedy and unscrupulous arsonists could set on fire. Taking in up to 1,000 runs in a month, these men waged a desperate fight to save life and property with limited resources and manpower, putting their lives on the line to maintain some degree of order during one of our nation's most chaotic and destructive periods. It was unprecedented. It was exceptional. It was . . . The Usual.

Paul Hashagen was a member of FDNY’s Rescue 1 for over twenty years. His anecdotal history of FDNY, A Distant Fire, is undoubtedly one of the best books DMC ever published. We are, therefore, very proud to publish Paul’s new work of historical fiction, The Twelfth Hour.

The latest from Leo Stapleton! A must for every Stapleton fan. Firefighting Reflections is Boston Fire Commissioner Leo Stapleton’s eleventh book and his first non-fiction book since his 1990 publication of Commish. In Firefighting Reflections, Stapleton offers his own thoughts, insights, and personal opinions about the many duties and responsibilities of this most dangerous job.

Hardcover, 254 pages

Dave Houseal worked in every firehouse and on every platoon and almost on every company of the Harrisburg Fire Department during his almost thirty year firefighting career before he retired in 2003. The author of the popular We Can See It from the Bridge, Dave's got a few more stories in his terrific new collection, We Got ’Em on Point.

Boston Fire Commissioner
Hardcover, 291 pages

Harry Ahearn’s The Donnovans is a story of an FDNY family, the saga of a famed firehouse, and an informal history of the FDNY, from its very beginnings until the early 1990s.

Leo Stapleton continues his very popular chonicle of the Boston Fire Department in Deputy. A must-have for every Stapleton fan!

Bill Noonan’s third book of original fire photos. Almost two hundred of Billy’s most spectacular shots from the early 1990s to early 2005 are included in this remarkable collection. 160 pages, black and white photos.

Billy Simpson's Journals: An informal history of four decades of the American fire service. Hardcover, 253 pages

Ring of Fire: A Rescue One Firefighting Mystery. Hardcover, 259 pages

A Story of FDNY Firefighters
Hardcover, 244 pages

Author of Where It Was Hot.
Hardcover, 214 pages

Manchester, New Hampshire is an old city—the old New England mill city—boasting the world’s largest textile manufacturing complex. The mills needed workers, and the workers needed housing, so Manchester was filled with densely-packed neighborhoods of attached row houses. And like any old East Coast city, it suffered the blight and decay that characterized so many of America’s cities until the urban renaissance of the late 1980s: abandoned and decaying mills and factories, hundreds of crumbling row houses and triple deckers, arson for profit and arson for the hell of it, shifting population demographics, a disinterested citizenry, municipal shortsightedness and greed, and plain old-fashioned political stupidity.

A Henry Hyde Investigation
Hardcover, 254 pages