LINCOLN'S MEN: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation
By: William C. Davis
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did t…
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1. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
3.98
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and… read more
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"But a choice made is made, it cannot be changed. Things happened as they happened. It is possible to imagine all kinds of different routes across the continent, or a better way for the government to …"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
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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"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
3. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
4. Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.37
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who le… read more
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5. Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
By: Nigel Hamilton
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times), Ni… read more
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7. 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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8. The Book of Lost Things
By: John Connolly
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the book… read more
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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. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century… read more
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11. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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12. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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13. Stanton: Lincoln's Staunch Secretary of War
By: Walter Stahr
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Timesbestseller Seward, tells the story of Abrah… read more
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14. Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
By: Walter Stahr
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "tea… read more
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15. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… 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. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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18. The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
By: H.W. Brands
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of Gen… read more
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19. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
By: Dan Jones
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more
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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
20. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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21. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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22. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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23. 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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24. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
25. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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26. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
By: Lisa McCubbin Hill
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First… read more
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27. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
By: H.W. Brands
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more
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28. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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29. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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30. Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis
By: Volker Ullrich
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough kno… read more
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31. LINCOLN'S MEN: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation
By: William C. Davis
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did t… read more
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