I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
By: D. Scott Hartwig
4.79
Format: 984 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory…
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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Similar categories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative book and D. Scott Hartwig's I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
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4. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
By: John Toland
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Ja… read more
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5. Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
By: James D. Hornfischer
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailorsand Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essentia… read more
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6. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.41
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
"[O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a master… read more
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"You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack."-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
"They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop ab…"-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
7. The Second World War
By: John Keegan , Winston S. Churchill
3.12
Format: 56 pages,
The definitive, Nobel Prize-winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnific… read more
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8. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle
By: Kenneth W. Noe
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club Selection On October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate… read more
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9. This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga
By: Peter Cozzens
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began o… read more
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10. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
By: H.R. McMaster
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York T… read more
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11. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
12. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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13. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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14. Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
By: Harold Holzer
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grapp… read more
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15. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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16. I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
By: D. Scott Hartwig
4.79
Format: 984 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory… read more
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17. In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet's Countermarch, Johnston's Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863
By: Allen R. Thompson
4.00
Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition
Exciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimp… read more
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18. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
By: Elizabeth Varon
4.15
Format: 516 pages, ebook
An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more
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"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
19. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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20. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
By: Gregory J. Wallance
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more
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21. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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22. Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
By: Lorien Foote
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, an… read more
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23. The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works
By: Gaius Julius Caesar
4.48
Format: 793 pages, Hardcover
Gallic War - Civil War - Alexandrian War - African War - Spanish War Between 58 and 50 B.C., Cae… read more
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24. A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
By: John Matteson
4.21
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and… read more
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25. Small but Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville
By: Robert F. O'Neill
4.36
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Re… read more
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26. Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
By: George C. Rable
3.82
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so tha… read more
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27. "If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22–30, 1863
By: Scott L. Mingus Sr.
4.46
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final… read more
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28. King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
By: Brooke Barbier
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American in… read more
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29. Lincoln In Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President
By: Ronald C. White
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, a revelatory glimpse… read more
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30. Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
By: John Reeves
3.81
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Presenting an original, thought-provoking look at Ulysses S. Grant, Soldier of Destiny evokes the l… read more
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31. The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee’s Lost Orders
By: Gene M. Thorp
4.45
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on Septembe… read more
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