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

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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…

If you liked the history plot in P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoffs Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg

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

By: Eric J. Wittenberg

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Few aspects of the battle of Gettysburg are as misunderstood as the role played by the cavalry of b… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • military history
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2. 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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  • 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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3. General William J. Hardee: Old Reliable

By: None

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In 1861, William J. Hardee left the United States Army after twenty-five years of service and becam… read more

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  • civil war
  • biography
  • american civil war
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4. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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5. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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

6. Glory Road

By: Bruce Catton

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Volume II of The Army of the Potomac The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1… read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg by Eric J. Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi

7. Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

By: Eric J. Wittenberg , J. David Petruzzi

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Conf… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Suzanne Toren

8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

9. 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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10. The Siege of Lexington, Missouri: The Battle of the Hemp Bales

By: Larry Wood

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Following victories at Carthage and Wilson's Creek in the summer of 1861, the Confederate-allied Mi… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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Cover of The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones by Elijah Nicholas Wilson

13. The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones

By: Elijah Nicholas Wilson

4.17

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

What was life like to live among the Native Americans in the nineteenth century? At twelve years o… read more

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

14. 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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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

15. 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
  • american civil war
  • history
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16. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • southern
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Battle of Glendale: Robert E. Lee's Lost Opportunity by Douglas Crenshaw

17. The Battle of Glendale: Robert E. Lee's Lost Opportunity

By: Douglas Crenshaw

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

By late June 1862, the Union army, under George B. McClellan, stood at the doorstep of Richmond. In… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
Cover of Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade by John O. Casler

18. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

By: John O. Casler

4.19

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

“Look yonder! There is Jackson and his brigade standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862 by Kendall D. Gott

19. 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 Dreams of Victory: General P. G. T. Beauregard in the Civil War by Sean Michael Chick

20. Dreams of Victory: General P. G. T. Beauregard in the Civil War

By: Sean Michael Chick

4.00

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard… read more

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  • civil war
  • biography
  • american civil war
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21. The Campaigns Of General Nathan Bedford Forrest And Of Forrest's Cavalry

By: Thomas Jordan

4.36

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

“I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side … he had a geniu… read more

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  • civil war

9 must-read nonfiction books like P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams

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

Glory Road

Bruce Catton

3.71

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24 Best history books like The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy by Christian B. Keller

Transform Your Habits

The Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Laurence Rees

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Scipio Africanus

B.H. Liddell Hart , Michael Grant , Michael Grant

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began

Jack Beatty

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

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