14 Best history books like Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

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Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (Modern War Studies)

By: Timothy B. Smith

4.44

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at o…

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1. 1776

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more

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"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-David McCullough, 1776

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

-David McCullough, 1776

"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."

-David McCullough, 1776

"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

-David McCullough, 1776

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2. The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

4.37

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderne… read more

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3. Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage

By: Noah Andre Trudeau

4.20

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pen… read more

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4. Jaws

By: Peter Benchley

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating ter… read more

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5. Shiloh: Bloody April

By: Wiley Sword

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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6. Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics

By: Gary W. Gallagher , Charles P. Roland

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

" With a new foreword by Gary W. Gallagher Selected as one of the best one hundred books ever writt… read more

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  • civil war
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7. Gettysburg--Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill

By: Harry W. Pfanz

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg--The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides … read more

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8. 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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9. Gettysburg--The First Day

By: Harry W. Pfanz

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's sha… read more

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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. 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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12. 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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13. The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach

By: John C. McManus

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern secto… read more

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14. 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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15. Three Months in the Southern States: April-June 1863

By: Gary W. Gallagher , Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The American Civil War was at a turning point in 1863 when Lt. Col. Arthur J. L. Fremantle of the B… read more

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16. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.21

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America'… read more

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17. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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18. The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863

By: Bradley M. Gottfried

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

More academic and photographic accounts on the battle of Gettysburg exist than for all other battle… read more

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19. This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga

By: Peter Cozzens

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began o… read more

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20. Robert E. Lee: A Life

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.25

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion comes a sweeping, intimate biography of … read more

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21. I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign

By: D. Scott Hartwig

4.79

Format: 984 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
Cover of Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller

22. Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

By: Donald L. Miller

4.41

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksb… read more

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  • american civil war
  • military history
Cover of The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) by Kenneth W. Noe

23. The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

By: Kenneth W. Noe

4.46

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenn… read more

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24. Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (Modern War Studies)

By: Timothy B. Smith

4.44

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at o… read more

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  • military fiction
  • american civil war
  • military history
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25. Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy

By: Huston Horn

4.20

Format: 600 pages, Hardcover

Leonidas Polk was a graduate of West Point who resigned his commission to enter the Episcopal pries… 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

26. 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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Cover of 'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North by Paul Taylor

27. 'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North

By: Paul Taylor

3.75

Format: 529 pages, Kindle Edition

James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and… read more

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Cover of Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg, July 4–14, 1863 (Emerging Civil War) by Bradley M. Gottfried

28. Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg, July 4–14, 1863 (Emerging Civil War)

By: Bradley M. Gottfried

4.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Even before the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was preparing for the arduous task of… read more

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Cover of "Tell Mother Not to Worry": Soldier Stories From Gettysburg’s George Spangler Farm by Ronald D. Kirkwood

29. "Tell Mother Not to Worry": Soldier Stories From Gettysburg’s George Spangler Farm

By: Ronald D. Kirkwood

5.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dying sold… read more

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Cover of Dranesville: A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861 by Ryan T. Quint

30. Dranesville: A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861

By: Ryan T. Quint

5.00

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

After the guns of Manassas fell silent, the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what wo… read more

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Cover of Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich

31. Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

4.36

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senat… read more

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4.20

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