15 best-selling history books like Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess

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Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield

By: Earl J. Hess

4.36

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed i…

If you liked the history plot in Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command by Edwin B. Coddington

1. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command

By: Edwin B. Coddington

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Gettyburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America's history… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
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2. The Lost World

By: Michael Crichton

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary d… read more

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3. The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

By: Donald Stoker

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fac… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
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4. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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5. Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

By: Eric J. Wittenberg , J. David Petruzzi

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Conf… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
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6. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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7. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles

By: None

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the S… read more

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8. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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9. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

By: Peter Cozzens

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate … read more

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10. Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

By: John J. Hennessy

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. … read more

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11. 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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12. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453

By: Desmond Seward

3.80

Format: 240 pages,

"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT I LIVE BY WAR AND THAT PEACE WOULD BE MY UNDOING?" -Sir John Hawkwood From 13… read more

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13. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

By: Evan Thomas

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more

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  • history
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14. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

By: Ian W. Toll

4.76

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more

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  • history
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"

-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

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15. 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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  • civil war
  • history
Cover of All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle by Troy D Harman

16. All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle

By: Troy D Harman

3.78

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. Genera… read more

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  • civil war
  • history
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17. 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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  • civil war
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18. The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

By: Jeffry D. Wert

4.54

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without … read more

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  • civil war
  • history
Cover of His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne

19. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more

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  • history
Cover of Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M. Scott

20. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

By: James M. Scott

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies o… read more

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  • history
Cover of Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney

21. Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox

By: Caroline E. Janney

4.14

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox… read more

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  • history
Cover of General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War by Frank P. Varney

22. General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War

By: Frank P. Varney

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

General Ulysses S. Grant is best remembered today as a war-winning general, and he certainly deserv… read more

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Cover of Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed by Larry J. Daniel

23. Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

By: Larry J. Daniel

3.97

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Operating in the vast trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the … read more

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  • history
Cover of Regular Army O!: Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891 by Douglas C. McChristian

24. Regular Army O!: Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891

By: Douglas C. McChristian

4.69

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Ha… read more

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  • history
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25. The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi: May 14, 1863

By: Chris Mackowski

4.28

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

“A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account” of t… read more

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26. Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield

By: Earl J. Hess

4.36

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed i… read more

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  • history
Cover of Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) by Eric Michael Burke

27. Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

By: Eric Michael Burke

4.50

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In Soldiers from Experience, Eric Michael Burke examines the tactical behavior and operational per… read more

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  • history
Cover of Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Modern War Studies) by Hampton Newsome

28. Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Modern War Studies)

By: Hampton Newsome

4.45

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

On June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-… read more

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14 must-read civil war books like Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess

Transform Your Habits

The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command

Edwin B. Coddington

3.00

Transform Your Habits

The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

Donald Stoker

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

Eric J. Wittenberg , J. David Petruzzi

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

H.W. Brands

3.92

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21 must-read civil war books like 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

Transform Your Habits

Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History

James A. Hessler , None

4.63

Transform Your Habits

Fury On the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg

John M. Archer

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

Charles B. Dew

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

3.95

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