8 must-read civil war books like Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps by The Editors of Stackpole Books

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Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps

By: The Editors of Stackpole Books

4.37

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

70 color maps and insightful text tell the hour-by-hour story of the 3-day Battle of Gettysburg.

If you liked the civil war plot in Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps by The Editors of Stackpole Books , here is a list of 8 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
  • american 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. The Sociopath Next Door

By: Martha Stout

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teac… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matt…"

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

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3. Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage

By: Noah Andre Trudeau

4.20

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pen… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of The Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, Including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2 - 20, 1862

By: Bradley M. Gottfried

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign is the eagerly awaited compani… read more

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7. Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863

By: Shelby Foote

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Historian/novelist Foote's masterly work has been culled from his critically acclaimed three-volume… read more

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8. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

By: Allen C. Guelzo

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the legendary … read more

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9. 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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10. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

By: Candice Millard

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more

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11. The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

By: Shelby Foote

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop move… read more

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12. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

By: Stephen W. Sears

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This is a history of the largest and bloodiest campaign of the American Civil War - one in which a … read more

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13. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

By: James M. McPherson

4.34

Format: 640 pages,

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14. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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15. This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga

By: Peter Cozzens

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began o… read more

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16. Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1)

By: Jeff Shaara

4.46

Format: 192 pages,

In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara… read more

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17. Red Winter (Jack Ryan #22)

By: Marc Cameron

4.30

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

"In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the tr… read more

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18. The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

By: Brian Kilmeade

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. 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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20. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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21. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

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22. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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23. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

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24. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

By: Rick Atkinson

4.43

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives

By: Adam Gamal

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit―an ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command

By: Kent Masterson Brown

4.57

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fir… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment

By: Cory M. Pfarr

4.50

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, 2019, Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable's Distinguished Book Award, best book published on th… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Shakespeare for Squirrels

By: Christopher Moore

3.91

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder… read more

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"I confess, a wall of worry rises for even the most confident fool when he realizes that his plot for saving the day lies with three squirrels, a troupe of earnest nitwits, a donkey-headed weaver, a s…"

-Christopher Moore, Shakespeare for Squirrels

"The devil was smaller and rather younger than I would have guessed. He danced barefoot around the fire as he stoked it in preparation for my torment. The fiend wore a tunic of rough linen, leaves and…"

-Christopher Moore, Shakespeare for Squirrels

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29. Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps

By: The Editors of Stackpole Books

4.37

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

70 color maps and insightful text tell the hour-by-hour story of the 3-day Battle of Gettysburg. read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • maps
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30. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

By: James Carl Nelson

3.55

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War I: the story of America’s year-long invas… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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31. The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee’s Lost Orders

By: Gene M. Thorp

4.45

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on Septembe… read more

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  • history

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Noah Andre Trudeau

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

Brian Kilmeade

4.23

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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Rick Atkinson

4.29

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

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Napoleon: A Life

Andrew Roberts

4.23

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