9 Top civil war books like Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg by Gregory A. Coco

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Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg

By: Gregory A. Coco

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

At least 10,000 soldiers were killed or mortally wounded in the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Ove…

If you liked the civil war plot in Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg by Gregory A. Coco , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the defi… read more

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"Even as McClellan conferred with his superiors, sounds of renewed battle came from the direction of Chantilly, a country estate a few miles north of Centreville and on the flank of Pope’s army."

-Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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2. The Aftermath of Battle: The Burial of the Civil War Dead

By: Kathleen Thompson , Meg Groeling

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The clash of armies in the American Civil War left hundreds of thousands of men dead, wounded, or p… read more

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3. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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4. Ghosts of Gettysburg VII: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield

By: Mark Nesbitt

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

"Ghosts of Gettysburg VII" is the newest addition to Mark Nesbitt's popular book series. It contain… read more

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5. Pickett's Charge in History and Memory

By: Carol Reardon

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysbu… read more

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6. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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7. The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach

By: John C. McManus

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern secto… read more

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8. The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle

By: None

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Gettysburg has been written about and studied in great detail over the last 140 years, but there ar… read more

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9. 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

Cover of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift

10. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more

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Cover of Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series) by Bradley M. Gottfried

11. Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Bradley M. Gottfried

4.16

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times–Bestselling The story of the battle’s aftermath—the burial of the dead, and Lincoln’… read more

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Cover of The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 by John L. Hopkins

12. The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913

By: John L. Hopkins

4.28

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout th… read more

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Cover of "Stand to It and Give Them Hell": Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 by John Michael Priest

13. "Stand to It and Give Them Hell": Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863

By: John Michael Priest

4.24

Format: 529 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier's experiences on the southern end of the battlefield … read more

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Cover of Don't Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—From Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge (Emerging Civil War Series) by Daniel T. Davis

14. Don't Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—From Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Daniel T. Davis

4.60

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpected… read more

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Cover of Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers by Tom McMillan

15. Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers

By: Tom McMillan

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Gettysburg Rebels is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved sou… read more

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Cover of Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg by Gregory A. Coco

16. Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg

By: Gregory A. Coco

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

At least 10,000 soldiers were killed or mortally wounded in the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Ove… read more

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17. Ghosts of Gettysburg IV: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places of the Battlefield

By: Mark Nesbitt

4.04

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

What ever became of Joshua Chamberlain's siblings; sister Sarah and brothers Horace,Tom, & John? Th… read more

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9 must-read history books like Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg by Gregory A. Coco

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Aftermath of Battle: The Burial of the Civil War Dead

Kathleen Thompson , Meg Groeling

3.43

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Earl Swift

3.98

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19 Top civil war books like Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series) by Bradley M. Gottfried

Transform Your Habits

Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoffs Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863

Eric J. Wittenberg

4.40

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

James L. Swanson

3.78

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"The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour.

Eric J. Wittenberg

5.00

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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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