24 must-read civil war books like “The Bullets Flew Like Hail”: Cutler’s Brigade at Gettysburg, from McPherson’s Ridge to Culp’s Hill by James L McLean

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“The Bullets Flew Like Hail”: Cutler’s Brigade at Gettysburg, from McPherson’s Ridge to Culp’s Hill

By: James L McLean

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of July 1, 1863, Confederate forces pressed east toward the important crossroads tow…

If you liked the civil war plot in “The Bullets Flew Like Hail”: Cutler’s Brigade at Gettysburg, from McPherson’s Ridge to Culp’s Hill by James L McLean , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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2. Gettysburg--The Second Day (Civil War America)

By: Harry W. Pfanz

4.35

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The second day's fighting at Gettysburg--the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the A… read more

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3. Witness to Gettysburg

By: Richard Wheeler

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Describing the Civil War's most crucial battle, personal experiences of Gettysburg residents are co… read more

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4. Strike Them a Blow: Battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Chris Mackowski

2.00

Format: None pages,

For sixteen days the armies had grappled a grueling horror-show of nonstop battle, march, and maneu… read more

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5. 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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6. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and his place in Southern History

By: William Garrett Piston

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic image… read more

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7. Over a Wide, Hot...Crimson Plain : The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863

By: Elwood Christ

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

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8. War in the West: Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove

By: William L. Shea , Grady McWhiney

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Early 1862. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis drive Confederate forces led by Brig. Gen… read more

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9. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command (Volume I: Manassas to Malvern Hill)

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

4.30

Format: None pages,

Douglas Southall Freeman. Lee's Lieutenants. 3 Volume Set. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970… read more

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10. Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War

By: Edwin C. Bearss

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the War Between the States … read more

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11. Last Chance For Victory: Robert E. Lee And The Gettysburg Campaign

By: None , None

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long after nearly fifty thousand soldiers shed their blood there, serious misunderstandings persist… read more

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12. The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

By: Bob Drury , Tom Clavin

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his … read more

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13. 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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14. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

By: Megan Kate Nelson

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more

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Cover of On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White Jr.

15. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.45

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more

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16. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

By: Harry H. Crosby

4.58

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war a… read more

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17. In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet's Countermarch, Johnston's Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863

By: Allen R. Thompson

4.00

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

Exciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimp… read more

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18. The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

By: Jeffry D. Wert

4.54

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without … read more

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Cover of Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series) by Bradley M. Gottfried

19. Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Bradley M. Gottfried

4.16

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times–Bestselling The story of the battle’s aftermath—the burial of the dead, and Lincoln’… read more

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Cover of To Hazard All: A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series) by Robert Orrison

20. To Hazard All: A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Robert Orrison

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

“The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confede… read more

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

21. 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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Cover of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback

22. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power

By: Timothy W. Ryback

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more

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23. Gettysburg's Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the "Commanding Ground" Along the Emmitsburg Road

By: James A. Hessler

4.52

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

A “fascinating illumination of little-known accounts and personalities” by two experts on the Battl… read more

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Cover of Potter's Raid through South Carolina: The Final Days of the Confederacy (Civil War Series) by Tom Elmore

24. Potter's Raid through South Carolina: The Final Days of the Confederacy (Civil War Series)

By: Tom Elmore

4.40

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 1865, Richmond had fallen, and the Confederacy was dying. Robert E. Lee had surrendered hi… read more

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25. “The Bullets Flew Like Hail”: Cutler’s Brigade at Gettysburg, from McPherson’s Ridge to Culp’s Hill

By: James L McLean

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of July 1, 1863, Confederate forces pressed east toward the important crossroads tow… read more

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Cover of Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July–September 1862 by M. Chris Bryan

26. Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July–September 1862

By: M. Chris Bryan

4.50

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

This history of the Union XII Corps “skillfully weaves firsthand accounts into a compelling story a… read more

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Cover of Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain (Civil War America) by Robert K. Krick

27. Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain (Civil War America)

By: Robert K. Krick

4.22

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1990 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, Atlanta Civil War Round Table Winner of the 199… read more

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28. The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict’s Most Intriguing Possibilities

By: Chris Mackowski

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What If . . . ?” Every Civil War armchair general asks the question. Possibilities unfold. Disappo… read more

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Cover of Don't Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—From Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge (Emerging Civil War Series) by Daniel T. Davis

29. Don't Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—From Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Daniel T. Davis

4.60

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpected… read more

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

30. 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

31. 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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21 must-read civil war books like In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet's Countermarch, Johnston's Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863 by Allen R. Thompson

Transform Your Habits

Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History

James A. Hessler , None

4.63

Transform Your Habits

Fury On the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg

John M. Archer

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

Charles B. Dew

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

3.95

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