6 Best history books like While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Modern War Studies) by Steven E. Woodworth

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While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Modern War Studies)

By: Steven E. Woodworth

4.34

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

They read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, but they faced each other in battle with rage …

If you liked the history plot in While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Modern War Studies) by Steven E. Woodworth , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War by Charles B. Dew

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

By: Charles B. Dew

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the s… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith by Robert A. Slayton

2. Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith

By: Robert A. Slayton

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Roosevelt is said to have explained Al Smith, and his own New Deal, with these words: "Pra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 by Mark Grimsley

3. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865

By: Mark Grimsley

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The Hard Hand of War explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks on Southern property a… read more

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

4. All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

By: None , None

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Uni… read more

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5. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

By: James M. McPherson

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Why did the conventional wisdom - that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as wa… read more

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6. The Screwtape Letters

By: C.S. Lewis

4.27

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s T… read more

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"It is always the novice who exaggerates."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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7. The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.99

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more

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"Carry the fire."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If only my heart were stone."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

8. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By: J.D. Vance

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appal… read more

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9. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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10. While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Modern War Studies)

By: Steven E. Woodworth

4.34

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

They read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, but they faced each other in battle with rage … read more

Similar categories in Steven E. Woodworth's While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Modern War Studies) book and Steven E. Woodworth's While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Modern War Studies)

  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of 1968: The Election That Changed America (American Ways) by Lewis L. Gould

11. 1968: The Election That Changed America (American Ways)

By: Lewis L. Gould

3.58

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A concise and engrossing analysis of the crucial race for the White House that ushered in the Repub… read more

Similar categories in Lewis L. Gould's 1968: The Election That Changed America (American Ways) book and Steven E. Woodworth's While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Modern War Studies)

  • history
Cover of Politics as Usual: Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944 by Michael A. Davis

12. Politics as Usual: Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944

By: Michael A. Davis

4.00

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the… read more

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  • history

8 Best history books like Politics as Usual: Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944 by Michael A. Davis

Transform Your Habits

The Future of History

John Lukacs

3.60

Transform Your Habits

War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

Doris L. Bergen

3.94

Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith

Robert A. Slayton

3.90

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