21 must-read history books like Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth by Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

3.49

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

A startling new analysis of one of America’s most glorious battles . . . Contrary to movie and lege…

If you liked the history plot in Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth by Phillip Thomas Tucker , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By: Annie Dillard

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Innocence is a better world."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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2. City of God

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Format: 1186 pages, Paperback

No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

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3. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the defi… read more

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  • american history
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Even as McClellan conferred with his superiors, sounds of renewed battle came from the direction of Chantilly, a country estate a few miles north of Centreville and on the flank of Pope’s army."

-Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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4. White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America

By: Stephen Brumwell

4.07

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

"A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In Nort… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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5. The Everlasting Man

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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6. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

By: Hampton Sides

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)

By: John Updike

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has com… read more

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9. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

By: David S. Reynolds

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Pri… read more

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10. Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)

By: John Updike

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In this sequel to Rabbit, Run,John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harr… read more

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11. FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

By: Robert Klara

4.14

Format: 200 pages,

The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbre… read more

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12. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

By: James Holland

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more

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13. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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14. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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15. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more

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Cover of Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors by Tom Bower

18. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

By: Tom Bower

3.86

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"

-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

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19. The Old Lion

By: Jeff Shaara

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion a brilliant novel tracing the life… read more

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  • american history
Cover of Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough

20. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

By: Bryan Burrough

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity by Bill O'Reilly

21. Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor by Valentine Low

22. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor

By: Valentine Low

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)

By: Tom Clavin

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the N… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw by Charles Leerhsen

24. Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw

By: Charles Leerhsen

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaini… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

25. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

26. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
Cover of Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth by Phillip Thomas Tucker

27. Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

3.49

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

A startling new analysis of one of America’s most glorious battles . . . Contrary to movie and lege… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • 19th century
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo by Walter Lord

28. A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo

By: Walter Lord

4.04

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garris… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • 19th century
  • nonfiction
Cover of Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison

29. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

By: Peter Robison

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World by David L. Roll

30. Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

By: David L. Roll

4.44

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Fra… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 by John Michael Priest

31. “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863

By: John Michael Priest

4.50

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, was unexpected, heavy, confusing, and … read more

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22 best-selling nonfiction books like Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

4.08

Transform Your Habits

City of God

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America

Stephen Brumwell

4.07

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9 best-selling civil war books like “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 by John Michael Priest

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The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command

Edwin B. Coddington

3.00

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America

H.W. Brands

3.99

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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Jon Meacham

4.46

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