When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home
By: Steven Cowie
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
The Battle of Antietam, fought in and around Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the b…
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1. The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864
By: Gordon C. Rhea
4.37
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderne… read more
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2. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
By: Kate Clifford Larson
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history--a fearless visionary who led scores of her… read more
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3. Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War
By: Thomas P. Lowry
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
First book to cover all aspects of sexuality during the Civil War. Based on area original sources, … read more
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4. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7--12, 1864
By: Gordon C. Rhea
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Ca… read more
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5. John Wayne: The Life and Legend
By: Scott Eyman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more t… read more
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6. Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
3.77
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more
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7. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
8. 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
9. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
By: Maureen Callahan
4.09
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more
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"I've got lots more stories to tell."-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
10. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
11. Enough
By: Cassidy Hutchinson
4.31
Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition
Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more
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12. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
By: Kate Moore
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and moth… read more
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"Insane asylum - a place where insanity is made."-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back."-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not…"-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental healt…"-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
13. 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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14. I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
By: D. Scott Hartwig
4.79
Format: 984 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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
18. The Cornfield: Antietam's Bloody Turning Point
By: David A. Welker
4.27
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Antietam. For generations of Americans this word--the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland-… read more
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19. The Trial of the Century
By: Gregg Jarrett
3.81
Format: None pages, Audiobook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gripping and comprehensive history of the iconic attorney Clarence Darrow and… read more
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20. On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
By: Holger Afflerbach
4.36
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime… read more
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21. When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home
By: Steven Cowie
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
The Battle of Antietam, fought in and around Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the b… read more
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