10 Top military history books like The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert

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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

By: Jeffry D. Wert

4.54

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without …

If you liked the military history plot in The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty by Dan Jones

1. Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

By: Dan Jones

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets, a short, lively, action-packed h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

By: Max Hastings

4.06

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

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3. Washington's Crossing

By: David Hackett Fischer

4.15

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A power… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
"Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again."

-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing

"Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning."

-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing

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4. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

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5. A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864

By: Chris Mackowski , Kristopher D. White

3.75

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant w… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7--12, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Ca… read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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8. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant agai… read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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9. The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock

By: Francis Augustin O'Reilly

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; pro… read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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10. A Bridge Too Far

By: Cornelius Ryan , Yes

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Bridge Too Faris Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history

11. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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12. Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg

By: Rod Gragg

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

In late June, 1863, one of the largest regiments in General Lee's army -- led by the charismatic 21… read more

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13. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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14. Robert E. Lee: A Life

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.25

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion comes a sweeping, intimate biography of … read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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15. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Cover of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert

16. The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

By: Jeffry D. Wert

4.54

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without … read more

Similar categories in Jeffry D. Wert's The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle book and Jeffry D. Wert's The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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17. Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac

By: Frank Wilkeson

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

Who beside the enlisted men can tell how the fierce Confederates looked and fought behind their ear… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
Cover of On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea

18. On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

4.42

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

On to Petersburg is the final book in Gordon Rhea’s five-volume history of the Overland Campaign, a… read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862 by Victor Vignola

19. Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862

By: Victor Vignola

3.86

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

“The author’s new and important study concentrates on the Fair Oaks part of the battle. His researc… read more

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  • civil war
Cover of The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Volume 46) (Campaigns and Commanders Series) by Edward G. Longacre

20. The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Volume 46) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)

By: Edward G. Longacre

4.14

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expecte… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • history
Cover of The Man Behind The Guns: A Military Biography Of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander Of Artillery, Army Of The Potomac by Edward G. Longacre

21. The Man Behind The Guns: A Military Biography Of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander Of Artillery, Army Of The Potomac

By: Edward G. Longacre

4.42

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The deadly accurate guns of the Union artillery were the most feared weapons on Civil War battlefie… read more

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  • civil war
  • history

17 must-read history books like The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert

Transform Your Habits

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

Dan Jones

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Washington's Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Saul Friedländer

4.24

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11 Top history books like Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty by Dan Jones

Transform Your Habits

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

Dan Jones

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Conquistadors

Michael Wood

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Ingenious Mr Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy

Henry Hemming

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-made King

Ian Mortimer

4.29

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