9 Best nonfiction books like Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War by Tim Rowland

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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War

By: Tim Rowland

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War by Tim Rowland , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.22

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a … read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Co…"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

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2. Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life

By: John Davis Billings , William L. Shea

4.04

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the f… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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3. Blasphemy (Wyman Ford #2)

By: Douglas Preston

3.83

Format: 216 pages,

The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets o… read more

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4. The Problems of Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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6. Roots: The Saga of an American Family

By: Alex Haley

3.33

Format: None pages,

When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about th… read more

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  • historical

7. The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory

By: Robert V. Remini

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jac… read more

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8. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

9. Lafayette and the American Revolution

By: Russell Freedman

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders o… read more

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10. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

By: Grady Hendrix

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more

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11. An Eye of the Fleet (Nathaniel Drinkwater, #1)

By: Richard Woodman

4.50

Format: None pages,

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12. The Oregon Trail

By: Francis Parkman

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing fr… read more

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13. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
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14. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

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15. Star Scrapper

By: J.N. Chaney

4.43

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The war against the AI was won but a new threat is rising. Hank Spears is content with his life as … read more

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16. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

By: John Oller

4.15

Format: 563 pages, Kindle Edition

A popular, comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," covering his famous engageme… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth o… read more

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"Glory dwelt in that city of Gondolin of the Seven Names, and its ruin was the most dread of all the sacks of cities upon the face of Earth."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

"There long he sojourned alone and roamed about the shore or fared over the rocks at the ebb, marvelling at the pools and the great weeds, the dripping caverns and the strange sea-fowl that he saw and…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

"If I chose to send thee, Tour son of Hour, them believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marveling that…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

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18. Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

By: Jared Knott

4.01

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

How often does it happen that a single tiny mistake causes an entire civilization to collapse? More… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War

By: Tim Rowland

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that … read more

Similar categories in Tim Rowland's Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War book and Tim Rowland's Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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20. Wondrous Times on the Frontier: America During the 1800s

By: Dee Brown

3.72

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times–bestselling “G… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Bright Red Line (Backyard Starship Book 22)

By: J.N. Chaney

4.75

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

When a running battle brings the Fafnir home to earth, it ends with the death of a trusted friend—a… read more

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4.22

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4.04

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4.50

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