On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
By: Gordon C. Rhea
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
On to Petersburg is the final book in Gordon Rhea’s five-volume history of the Overland Campaign, a…
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1. Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign
By: Scott C. Patchan
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
Jubal A. Early's disastrous battles in the Shenandoah Valley ultimately resulted in his ignominious… read more
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3. The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock
By: Francis Augustin O'Reilly
3.64
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; pro… read more
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4. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
By: Ian W. Toll
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnip… read more
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5. A Bridge Too Far
By: Cornelius Ryan , Yes
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Bridge Too Faris Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled th… read more
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6. In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat
By: Earl J. Hess
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifica… read more
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7. The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7 - September 19, 1864
By: Scott C. Patchan
3.65
Format: 432 pages,
The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Augu… read more
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8. The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865
By: Noah Andre Trudeau
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Perhaps no other battle or campaign of the American Civil War equalled the siege of Petersburg, Vir… read more
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9. House of Spies (Gabriel Allon #17)
By: Daniel Silva
3.88
Format: 383 pages, ebook
A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva's runaway bestseller, The Black Widow, was one of 2… read more
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10. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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11. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
12. The Appomattox Campaign: March 29 - April 9, 1865
By: None
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Previous accounts of the Civil War's last major campaign have often neglected the actual maneuvers … read more
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13. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
14. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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16. 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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"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
17. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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18. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
By: Tom Clavin
3.67
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more
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19. All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle
By: Troy D Harman
3.78
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. Genera… read more
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20. 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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21. Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
By: Kent Masterson Brown
4.57
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fir… read more
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22. 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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23. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
By: Anthony Almojera
3.84
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more
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24. Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863
By: Scott L. Mingus Sr.
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Finalist - U.S. Army Heritage Foundation's 2011 Distinguished Writing Award. The Gettysburg Campai… read more
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25. "If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22–30, 1863
By: Scott L. Mingus Sr.
4.46
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final… read more
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26. The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
By: Christopher E. Goscha
4.34
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshado… read more
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27. On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
By: Gordon C. Rhea
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
On to Petersburg is the final book in Gordon Rhea’s five-volume history of the Overland Campaign, a… read more
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28. Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac's First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly's Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863
By: Jeffrey Wm Hunt
4.32
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
Contrary to popular belief, the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anythin… read more
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29. A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (Civil War America)
By: A. Wilson Greene
4.17
Format: 712 pages, Hardcover
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and … read more
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30. The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Volume 46) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
By: Edward G. Longacre
4.14
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expecte… read more
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31. Smashing Hitler's Panzers: The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge
By: Steven J. Zaloga
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler’s el… read more
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