Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
By: Elizabeth R. Varon
4.12
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues E…
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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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"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)
2. Luck and Judgement (D.C. Smith #3)
By: Peter Grainger
4.18
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, there seem to be just two possible explan… read more
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3. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
By: Karen L. Cox
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have e… read more
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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. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
6. Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more
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7. An Accidental Death (D.C. Smith #1)
By: None
3.68
Format: 265 pages,
The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk coun… read more
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9. Eisenhower in War and Peace
By: Jean Edward Smith
4.06
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-DispatchIn… read more
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"Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
10. Conclave
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more
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11. Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
By: Alan Taylor
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as n… read more
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12. Persons of Interest (D.C. Smith #4)
By: Peter Grainger
3.75
Format: 320 pages,
In the peace and tranquillity of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone beg… read more
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13. 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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14. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
By: Tony Horwitz
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesNotable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston GlobeBe… read more
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15. In This Bright Future (D.C. Smith #5)
By: Peter Grainger
3.84
Format: 95 pages,
Two weeks of rest and recuperation - that's what the doctor ordered. Detective Sergeant DC Smith co… 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. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
By: Liza Mundy
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more
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18. But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
By: Robert Partridge
3.75
Format: 288 pages,
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19. 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
20. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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21. Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5)
By: Travis Baldree
3.63
Format: 33 pages, ebook
Short story prequel to Legends & Lattes. It is available in the book Legends & Lattes, second editi… read more
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22. Another Girl (Kings Lake Investigation #5)
By: Peter Grainger
4.55
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
“She’s just watching, thinking about it again, when a big flash car pulls up outside. No one gets o… read more
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23. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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24. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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25. 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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26. In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet's Countermarch, Johnston's Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863
By: Allen R. Thompson
4.00
Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition
Exciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimp… read more
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27. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
By: Elizabeth Varon
4.15
Format: 516 pages, ebook
An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more
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"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
28. The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky
4.20
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet--the delegates to the Constitutional C… read more
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29. Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588
By: Colin Martin
4.17
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised In July 1588 t… read more
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30. Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
By: Elizabeth R. Varon
4.12
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues E… read more
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- civil war
- military history
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31. Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
By: N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss
4.45
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
Hailed as "the single most effective pilot at Midway" (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck … read more
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