12 Best nonfiction books like The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War) by Gary W. Gallagher

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The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

By: Gary W. Gallagher

4.07

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

In the spring of 1864, in the vast Virginia scrub forest known as the Wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War) by Gary W. Gallagher , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)

By: David M. Glantz , Jonathan M. House

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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2. The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

4.37

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderne… read more

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  • civil war history
  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • civil war eastern theater
  • nonfiction
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3. The Spanish Civil War

By: Hugh Thomas

4.14

Format: 1120 pages, Paperback

Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the defi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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4. Jacob's Room

By: Virginia Woolf

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more

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"One must love everything."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"Marvelous are the innocent. "

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"But language is wine upon his lips"

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"It is no use trying to sum people up."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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5. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command

By: Edwin B. Coddington

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Gettyburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America's history… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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6. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

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7. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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8. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7--12, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Ca… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2) by Tony Hillerman

9. Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.50

Format: 92 pages,

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutena… read more

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10. The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1)

By: Django Wexler

4.80

Format: None pages,

Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel--but whe… read more

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11. To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

By: D. Scott Hartwig

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

In September 1862 the Federal army huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and disc… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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12. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

13. Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862

By: None

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

The Valley Campaign conducted by Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson has long fascinated those … read more

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14. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

By: Jon Meacham

4.04

Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."

-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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15. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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16. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

By: Mike Duncan

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more

Similar categories in Mike Duncan's Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution book and Gary W. Gallagher's The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo

17. Robert E. Lee: A Life

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.25

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion comes a sweeping, intimate biography of … read more

Similar categories in Allen C. Guelzo's Robert E. Lee: A Life book and Gary W. Gallagher's The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert

18. 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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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War) by Gary W. Gallagher

19. The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

By: Gary W. Gallagher

4.07

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

In the spring of 1864, in the vast Virginia scrub forest known as the Wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant … read more

Similar categories in Gary W. Gallagher's The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War) book and Gary W. Gallagher's The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

  • civil war history
  • american history
  • history
  • overland campaign
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • civil war eastern theater
  • nonfiction
Cover of Battle above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series) by David A. Powell

20. Battle above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: David A. Powell

4.15

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded b… read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army (Civil War America) by Larry J. Daniel

21. Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army (Civil War America)

By: Larry J. Daniel

4.18

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

In Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee Larry Daniel offers a view from the trenches of the Confeder… read more

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  • civil war
  • history

13 Top history books like The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War) by Gary W. Gallagher

Transform Your Habits

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)

David M. Glantz , Jonathan M. House

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864

Gordon C. Rhea

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Spanish Civil War

Hugh Thomas

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command

Edwin B. Coddington

3.00

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11 Top audiobook books like Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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