19 Best nonfiction books like The Battle of Gettysburg by Craig L. Symonds

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The Battle of Gettysburg

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.37

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

This stunning narrative of the epic Battle of Gettysburg begins with the clash of Union and Confede…

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1. Washington: A Life

By: Ron Chernow

4.16

Format: 904 pages, Hardcover

The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Many mickles make a muckle."

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

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2. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

By: Ian W. Toll

4.61

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challe… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

By: Jill Jonnes

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's G… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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  • war

5. An Officer and a Spy

By: Robert Harris

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more

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6. 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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7. The Coming Fury

By: Bruce Catton , E.B. Long

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Volume I of The Centennial History of the Civil War (3 Vols.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the… read more

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8. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

By: Candice Millard

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more

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9. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

By: William Craig

4.25

Format: None pages,

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more

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10. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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11. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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12. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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13. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

By: Buzz Bissinger

3.81

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more

Similar categories in Buzz Bissinger's The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
"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

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15. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

Similar categories in Liz Cheney's Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

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17. Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb (Casemate Illustrated)

By: Jim Winchester

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

This “unnerving exposé” of a lost American nuclear bomb “is a valuable contribution to the history … read more

Similar categories in Jim Winchester's Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb (Casemate Illustrated) book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow

19. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

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20. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll

21. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

By: Ian W. Toll

4.59

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a … read more

Similar categories in Ian W. Toll's Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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22. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

Similar categories in George Stephanopoulos's The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"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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24. The Eagle's Claw

By: Jeff Shaara

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a “riveting” ( Booklist ) tale that picks up where To Wake the Giant left … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Shaara's The Eagle's Claw book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • american history
  • war
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25. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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26. Blacktop Wasteland

By: S.A. Cosby

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North … read more

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"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

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27. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST

By: Martin Baron

4.20

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more

Similar categories in Martin Baron's Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST book and Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Gettysburg

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War by James B. Conroy

28. The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War

By: James B. Conroy

4.08

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Written with “a cinematic sense of urgency and realism” (Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning au… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham

29. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

By: John Grisham

4.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Cent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster

30. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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31. The Battle of Gettysburg

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.37

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

This stunning narrative of the epic Battle of Gettysburg begins with the clash of Union and Confede… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

19 Best history books like The Battle of Gettysburg by Craig L. Symonds

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Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

4.16

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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

Jill Jonnes

3.50

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

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