19 best-selling history books like The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution by Edward G. Lengel

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The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

By: Edward G. Lengel

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Nation is Born Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Washington, Hamilton, Benedict Arnold. All fami…

If you liked the history plot in The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution by Edward G. Lengel , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

By: Edmund Morris

4.23

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Described by … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Any black or red man who could win admission to “the fellowship of the doers"

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

"He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian."

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

"Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]"

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

"[T]he one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfu…"

-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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2. 1776

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-David McCullough, 1776

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

-David McCullough, 1776

"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."

-David McCullough, 1776

"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

-David McCullough, 1776

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3. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.47

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Brandon Sanderson creates worlds, and those worlds are linked. His universe spans the Stormlight Ar… read more

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"Wow! I hate you already."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"It was like saying that a man drowning in beer was better off than one drowning in acid."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn't have, or a life that terrified her."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elemen…"

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

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4. The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

By: Stephen B. Oates

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that foll… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

By: Joseph J. Ellis

3.50

Format: 218 pages, ebook

A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american revolution
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6. The Battle of Midway

By: Craig L. Symonds

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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7. Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill

By: Richard M. Ketchum

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage's redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees fro… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
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8. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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9. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

By: Colin Woodard

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)

By: Diana Gabaldon

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser's wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he m… read more

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11. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

By: Ian W. Toll

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnip… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

12. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

By: Max Hastings

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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13. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

By: Candice Millard

4.24

Format: None pages,

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more

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14. War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)

By: Herman Wouk

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of… read more

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15. 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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16. Alfred Hitchcock

By: Peter Ackroyd

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood wa… read more

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17. The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Alison Weir

4.50

Format: None pages,

'At last we have the truth about Henry VIII's wives. This book is as reliable and scholarly as it i… read more

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18. George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster

By: John A. Nagy

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

George Washington was America's first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for indep… read more

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19. Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

By: Gordon S. Wood

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Even when the greatness of the founding fathers isn't being debunked, it is a quality that feels ve… read more

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20. 46 Pages

By: None , None

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's coloines with little in the way o… read more

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

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
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23. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.94

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

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24. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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25. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

By: H.W. Brands

3.92

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and dramatic narrative of the Amer… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
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26. The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

By: Alexander Larman

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936 On December 10, 1936, King E… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership

By: Edward J. Larson

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american revolution
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28. The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

On the stormy night of August 29th, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation. After losing the… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
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29. The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Michael Block

4.21

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

“Profusely illustrated . . . an extraordinary and detailed account of a major battle that is often … read more

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30. George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father

By: David O. Stewart

4.36

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the cr… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

By: Edward G. Lengel

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Nation is Born Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Washington, Hamilton, Benedict Arnold. All fami… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction

19 Top nonfiction books like The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution by Edward G. Lengel

Transform Your Habits

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

4.23

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

Stephen B. Oates

2.86

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Joseph J. Ellis

3.50

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16 Top history books like The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Transform Your Habits

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

Scott Miller

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

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