Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
By: David Detzer
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Original and deeply human, this tense and surprising story, filled with indecisive bureaucrats, uni…
Want to Read"A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles."-David Detzer, Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
"A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles."-David Detzer, Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
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1. South of Broad
By: Pat Conroy
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to C… read more
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2. The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union
By: Charles Lockwood , John Lockwood
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter, Washington was "put into the condition o… read more
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3. A Stillness at Appomattox
By: Bruce Catton
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the P… read more
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4. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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5. The Scorpio Races
By: Maggie Stiefvater
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their … read more
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6. Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History
By: Marc Leepson
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the… read more
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7. 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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8. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
4.27
Format: 67 pages,
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more
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9. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
10. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign
By: Peter Cozzens
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campai… read more
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11. A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)
By: Deanna Raybourn
3.67
Format: 348 pages,
In her thrilling new series, Deanna Raybourn, the New York Timesbestselling author of the Lady Juli… read more
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12. 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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13. Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
By: Maury Klein
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship… read more
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14. Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War
By: Larry J. Daniel
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The battle of Shiloh, fought in April 1862 in the wilderness of south central Tennessee, marked a s… read more
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15. The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
By: Richard Slotkin
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical ch… read more
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16. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
17. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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18. 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
19. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By: David Maraniss
4.02
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more
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20. The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
By: Alison Weir
4.09
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir explores the life of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth, … read more
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By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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22. The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
By: Elliot Ackerman
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate… read more
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23. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
By: Jonathan M. Katz
4.24
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A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more
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24. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
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By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.84
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
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"When Washington became president of the United States, he was still wrestling with the meaning of the American Revolution. He'd entered the conflict an unrepentant Virginia slaveholder. By the end of…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
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By: Timothy W. Ryback
4.16
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more
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27. Lincoln and His Admirals
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4.22
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Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly c… read more
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28. A Man at Arms
By: Steven Pressfield
4.01
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29. April 1945: The Hinge of History
By: Craig Shirley
3.65
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30. Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
By: David Detzer
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Original and deeply human, this tense and surprising story, filled with indecisive bureaucrats, uni… read more
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31. A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy
By: Andy Kroll
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
CrimeReads' 2022 BEST TRUE CRIME BOOKS, notable selection—Featured on GOOD MORNING AMERICA and MORN… read more
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