15 Top history books like Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

Cover of Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies)

By: Timothy B. Smith

4.15

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy-perhaps in all …

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1. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

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2. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South

By: None , Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.

4.11

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more import… read more

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  • civil war
  • civil war western theater
  • american civil war
  • history
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3. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

By: Rick Atkinson

4.29

Format: 681 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more

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"In battle, topography is fate."

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

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4. Shiloh: Bloody April

By: Wiley Sword

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • history

5. The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

By: Sean Michael Chick

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Ar… read more

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6. Chancellorsville

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sears describes the series of controversial events that define this crucial battle, including Gener… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • history
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7. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862

By: Thomas Lawrence Connelly

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the Confederacy… read more

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  • civil war
  • civil war western theater
  • american civil war
  • history
Cover of Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable

8. Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

By: George C. Rable

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, th… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • history
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9. To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

By: D. Scott Hartwig

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

In September 1862 the Federal army huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and disc… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • history

10. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign

By: Peter Cozzens

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campai… read more

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11. Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling III

2.00

Format: 161 pages,

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12. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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13. Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863

By: Wiley Sword

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Historian Wiley Sword offers a richly detailed account that captures the vivid personalities behind… read more

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14. Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War

By: Larry J. Daniel

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The battle of Shiloh, fought in April 1862 in the wilderness of south central Tennessee, marked a s… read more

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15. Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

By: John J. Hennessy

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. … read more

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16. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

By: Stephen W. Sears

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This is a history of the largest and bloodiest campaign of the American Civil War - one in which a … read more

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17. Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek

By: None

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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18. 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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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • history
"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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19. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

By: Timothy Snyder

4.36

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more

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  • history
"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Cover of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep

20. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

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  • civil war
  • history
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

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21. On Strategy: A Primer

By: Nathan K. Finney

4.22

Format: 276 pages, ebook

What is strategy? This rather mysterious quality does not photograph well, if at all. Despite such … read more

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Cover of Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

22. Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies)

By: Timothy B. Smith

4.15

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy-perhaps in all … read more

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  • civil war
  • civil war western theater
  • american civil war
  • history
Cover of Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein

23. Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

By: Roger Lowenstein

4.24

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigat… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • history
Cover of P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams

24. P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray

By: T. Harry Williams

4.02

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams’ P. G. T. Beauregard is universally rega… read more

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  • american civil war
  • history
Cover of Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862 by Alexander B. Rossino

25. Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862

By: Alexander B. Rossino

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

“Engagingly written and persuasively argued, this daringly revisionist book is an essential additio… read more

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Cover of The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi: May 14, 1863 by Chris Mackowski

26. The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi: May 14, 1863

By: Chris Mackowski

4.28

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

“A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account” of t… read more

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Cover of Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, Volume 1: Classic Essays on America's Civil War (Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi) by Lawrence Lee Hewitt

27. Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, Volume 1: Classic Essays on America's Civil War (Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi)

By: Lawrence Lee Hewitt

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This collection brings together some of the best previously published essays on Confederate command… read more

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  • civil war
Cover of Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864 (Savas Beatie Battles & Leaders Series) by Edwin C Bearss

28. Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864 (Savas Beatie Battles & Leaders Series)

By: Edwin C Bearss

4.00

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Published here for the first time, this is the classic study on the little-known but significant Tu… read more

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Cover of Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862 by Kendall D. Gott

29. Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862

By: Kendall D. Gott

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Selected as Honorable Mention for the 2004 Albert Castel Book Award. With the collapse of the Co… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
Cover of Ironclads and Columbiads: The Civil War in North Carolina, The Coast by William R. Trotter

30. Ironclads and Columbiads: The Civil War in North Carolina, The Coast

By: William R. Trotter

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ironclads and Columbiads recounts the exciting battles and events that shook the coast of North Car… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
Cover of The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David A. Powell

31. The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864

By: David A. Powell

4.50

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

The Atlanta Campaign in 1864 was second only to Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia fo… read more

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19 Top civil war books like Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

Transform Your Habits

The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

Michael Shaara

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South

None , Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Shiloh: Bloody April

Wiley Sword

4.35

The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

Sean Michael Chick

5.00

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13 Best history books like P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams

Transform Your Habits

Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoffs Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863

Eric J. Wittenberg

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

None , John Singleton Mosby

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

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