11 must-read nonfiction books like Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend by Clifford Dowdey

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Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend

By: Clifford Dowdey

4.08

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

The Seven Days Campaign was a series of battles fought near Richmond at the end of June 1862. Gener…

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1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

By: Tom Holland

4.16

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Andrew O'Shaughnessy

2. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

By: Andrew O'Shaughnessy

4.17

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A unique account of the American Revolution, told from the perspective of the leaders who conducted… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. If the South Had Won the Civil War

By: Harry Turtledove , MacKinlay Kantor , Dan Nance

3.43

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

The Past is a strange place indeed . . . everything could have been so different so easily.Just a t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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4. The Children of Húrin

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more

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5. Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War

By: Sam R. Watkins

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A classic Civil War memoir,Co. Aytchis the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of… read more

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

6. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

By: S.C. Gwynne

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Mooncomes a thri… read more

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7. Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809

By: Dumas Malone

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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8. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

By: None

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant… read more

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9. Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet

By: Iain Ballantyne

4.23

Format: None pages,

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out in… read more

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10. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

By: James M. McPherson

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small per… read more

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11. 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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12. Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War

By: Winston Groom

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Forrest Gump weaves together eyewitness accounts, journal entries, milita… read more

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13. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbreakin… read more

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14. Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas

By: Benson Bobrick

4.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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15. 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
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • 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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16. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

By: John Oller

4.15

Format: 563 pages, Kindle Edition

A popular, comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," covering his famous engageme… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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  • military history
  • nonfiction
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17. Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East

By: Uri Kaufman

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Pacy and enthralling." ― Financial Times "Tells the story brilliantly." ―Senator Joseph I. Lieber… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy by Christian B. Keller

18. The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy

By: Christian B. Keller

3.79

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

The story of the unique relationship between Lee and Jackson, two leaders who chiseled a strategic … read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

19. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.65

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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20. Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend

By: Clifford Dowdey

4.08

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

The Seven Days Campaign was a series of battles fought near Richmond at the end of June 1862. Gener… read more

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  • military fiction
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  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.

21. Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest

By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

At fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the ro… read more

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  • history
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  • military fiction
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11 must-read history books like Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend by Clifford Dowdey

Transform Your Habits

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

Andrew O'Shaughnessy

4.17

Transform Your Habits

If the South Had Won the Civil War

Harry Turtledove , MacKinlay Kantor , Dan Nance

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War

Sam R. Watkins

3.64

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Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.16

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

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I'm Staying With My Boys...: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC

Jim Proser

4.17

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Coolidge

Amity Shlaes

3.76

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