11 must-read history books like Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War by Tom McMillan

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Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War

By: Tom McMillan

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In a war of brother versus brother, theirs has become the most famous broken Union general Winfiel…

If you liked the history plot in Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War by Tom McMillan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

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  • civil war
"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

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2. Munich

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more

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3. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

By: David McCullough

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurou… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon

By: Peter Ames Carlin

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling roc… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Martin Van Buren

By: Ted Widmer , Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

3.89

Format: 310 pages,

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  • history
  • nonfiction

6. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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7. Dragon Teeth

By: Michael Crichton

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel--an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden a… read more

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8. Gettysburg

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more

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9. The Iron Brigade: A Military History

By: Alan T. Nolan

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army. Originally called the "Black Hat Briga… read more

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10. Rainbow Six (Jack Ryan Universe, #10)

By: Tom Clancy

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At its heart is ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, now the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task… read more

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11. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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12. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
"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

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14. The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

By: Jon Meacham

4.26

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for a group to which we belong. Fear feeds anxiety and produces anger; hope, particularly in a poli…"

-Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

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16. Flash Point (Jack Ryan Jr.)

By: Don Bentley

4.42

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

One split second is all it can take . . .Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself at the scene of a conspiracy … read more

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17. The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Jeff Shaara

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of th… read more

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18. Lovers at the Museum

By: Isabel Allende

3.48

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind Knows My Name comes a mesmerizing tale of tw… read more

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19. Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg

By: James A. Hessler

4.15

Format: 505 pages, Kindle Edition

FINALIST, 2009, ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDWINNER, 2009, THE BACHELDER-CODD… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
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20. The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War

By: Hans G. Myers

4.24

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The story of the true savior of Little Round Top at Gettysburg―a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawye… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
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21. Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War

By: Tom McMillan

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In a war of brother versus brother, theirs has become the most famous broken Union general Winfiel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • civil war

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3.89

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