13 Best nonfiction books like The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote

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The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

By: Shelby Foote

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the histo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

By: Ian W. Toll

4.61

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challe… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

By: Shelby Foote

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the histo… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction

3. A Stillness at Appomattox

By: Bruce Catton

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the P… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
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4. Everybody Sees the Ants

By: A.S. King

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vi… read more

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5. Mr. Lincoln's Army

By: Bruce Catton

3.48

Format: 93 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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6. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

By: Robert Fisk

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an awa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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7. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author ofIn the Heart of the Seaand Mayflower, brings his prod… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

8. Glory Road

By: Bruce Catton

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Volume II of The Army of the Potomac The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction

9. The Coming Fury

By: Bruce Catton , E.B. Long

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Volume I of The Centennial History of the Civil War (3 Vols.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the… read more

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10. Never Call Retreat

By: Bruce Catton , E.B. Long

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

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11. Black Dove, White Raven

By: Elizabeth Wein

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A story of survival, subterfuge, espionage, and identity. Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery… read more

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12. The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

By: M.T. Anderson

3.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of cl… read more

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  • war
"At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you."

-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

"I went to him & put my Hand upon his Shoulder. Said he to me, “God forgive me. Her Name — I never knew her Name."

-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

"Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; t…"

-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

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. Dreadnought

By: Robert K. Massie

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more

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15. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more

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16. Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War

By: Dakota Meyer , None

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.” — President Barack Obama, from r… read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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18. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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19. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

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20. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

By: Rick Atkinson

4.43

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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21. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.11

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

13 Best history books like The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote

Transform Your Habits

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

Shelby Foote

2.60

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Lincoln's Army

Bruce Catton

3.48

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13 Top history books like A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

Transform Your Habits

Washington's Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

Shelby Foote

2.60

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

4.11

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