The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
By: Gary W. Gallagher
4.52
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary …
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1. The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization
By: Barry S. Strauss
4.09
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow … read more
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2. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.35
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the ci… read more
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- history
3. 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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- civil war
- american civil war
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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
4. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
By: Charles B. Dew
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the s… read more
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5. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
By: Garry Wills
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence t… read more
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6. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning author of Founding Brothersand American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--… read more
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7. Chancellorsville
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sears describes the series of controversial events that define this crucial battle, including Gener… read more
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9. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
By: Antony Beevor
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more
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10. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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11. Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
By: Gary Paulsen
3.67
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers.… read more
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- civil war
12. Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
By: Grady McWhiney , None
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In the first twenty-seven months of combat 175,000 Southern soldiers died. This number was more th… read more
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13. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
By: Tony Horwitz
4.50
Format: None pages,
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more
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14. John Adams
By: David McCullough
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more
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15. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
By: James Oakes
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and t… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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19. Gettysburg: The Final Fury
By: Bruce Catton
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and respected authority on the Civil War clarifies the causes of th… read more
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20. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
21. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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22. 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
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23. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
24. The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
By: Michael Connelly
4.21
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it… read more
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" There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962."-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him …"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for li…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
"The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system’s checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizatio…"-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
25. 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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26. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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27. In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
By: Terry Alford
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Here is Lincoln in the Bardo ―for real. You couldn’t make it up―necromancers, mad actors, frauds, … read more
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28. 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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29. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
By: Allen C. Guelzo
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more
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30. Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.34
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel… read more
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31. The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
By: Gary W. Gallagher
4.52
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary … read more
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