19 Top history books like That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth

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That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest

By: John Allan Wyeth

4.14

Format: 586 pages, Kindle Edition

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of twelve children, born to a poor blacksmith and his wife in Bedfor…

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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more

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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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2. Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

By: George MacDonald Fraser

4.05

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780006511250 Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, … read more

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  • war
"It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

"We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down."

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

"Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I’d never seen him with his breeches down,…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

"If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth …"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

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3. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.13

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Even his own speeches bored him."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

"Duty was not untinged by ambition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

"Society's revenge matched its fright."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

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4. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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5. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

By: Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and ad… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Fuck you, God. Nothing gets through HY-80"

-Sherry Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

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6. 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
  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • 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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7. Old Soldier Sahib: Old Soldier Sahib

By: Frank Richards

4.24

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Here, in the author's own words, is the story of his life as a British soldier in India during the … read more

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  • history
Cover of The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby by None, John Singleton Mosby

8. The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

By: None , John Singleton Mosby

3.91

Format: None pages,

Of all the images associated with the Civil War era, there is none more captivating than that of th… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote

9. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more

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

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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11. 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
  • biography
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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12. 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
Cover of Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

13. Peter the Great: His Life and World

By: Robert K. Massie

4.14

Format: 909 pages, Paperback

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

14. Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

By: T.J. Stiles

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse J… read more

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

15. I Rode With Stonewall: Being Chiefly The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson's Staff from John Brown's Raid to the Hanging of Mrs. Surratt

By: Henry Kyd Douglas

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Stonewall Jackson depended on him, General Lee complimented him, Union soldiers admired him, and wo… read more

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16. Lee The Last Years

By: Charles Bracelen Flood

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

After his surrender at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee lived only another five years - the forgotten chap… read more

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17. Three Years in the Klondike (1904)

By: Jeremiah Lynch

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

Jeremiah Lynch was a businessman (and former San Francisco politician) who went to the Klondike in … read more

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18. Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

By: David Fisher

3.60

Format: 212 pages,

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19. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By: Tony Horwitz

4.50

Format: None pages,

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more

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20. Eclipse of Reason

By: Max Horkheimer

3.67

Format: 350 pages,

"Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a leading figure in The Frankfurt School, a renowned body of philos… read more

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21. Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography

By: Jack Hurst

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all b… read more

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22. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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23. A Man in Full

By: Tom Wolfe

4.28

Format: None pages, Paperback

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and… read more

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Cover of Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin

24. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

By: Tom Clavin

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of The Way West: True Stories Of The American Frontier (Observing American History) by James A. Crutchfield

25. The Way West: True Stories Of The American Frontier (Observing American History)

By: James A. Crutchfield

3.80

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

The Texas Rangers, Forty-Niners, the Alamo and clashes with Native Americans — the American West ha… read more

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  • history
Cover of Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn

26. Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter

By: Tom Horn

4.20

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

1903. Tom Horn awaits execution for the murder of fourteen-year-old boy. He writes this memoir. Tom… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw

27. Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth

28. That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest

By: John Allan Wyeth

4.14

Format: 586 pages, Kindle Edition

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of twelve children, born to a poor blacksmith and his wife in Bedfor… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit by John Boessenecker

29. Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

By: John Boessenecker

3.52

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A True West magazine Best Book of 2021, a nominee for the MPIBA Annual Reading the West Book Award,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Border Outlaws: An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Most Noted Bandits of Ancient Or Modern Times: The Younger Brothers, Jesse and Frank James, and Their Comrades In Crime by James William Buel

30. The Border Outlaws: An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Most Noted Bandits of Ancient Or Modern Times: The Younger Brothers, Jesse and Frank James, and Their Comrades In Crime

By: James William Buel

3.95

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Jesse James, Frank James and the Younger brothers were some of the most notorious outlaws of ninete… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry by John Watson Morton

31. The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry

By: John Watson Morton

4.07

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

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5 Top military fiction books like That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth

Transform Your Habits

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II

Alex Kershaw

4.38

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12 Top history books like The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville 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

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

Rick Atkinson

4.29

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

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Napoleon: A Life

Andrew Roberts

4.23

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