18 best-selling history books like Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series) by Gregory A. Mertz

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Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Gregory A. Mertz

3.97

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"Attack at daylight and whip them" —that was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. …

If you liked the history plot in Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series) by Gregory A. Mertz , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened The Mississippi

By: Michael B. Ballard

3.89

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial riv… read more

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Cover of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

2. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

By: Garry Wills

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence t… read more

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3. Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War Series, Volume 2

By: Bruce Catton

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, … read more

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4. Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

By: Edmund Morris

4.10

Format: 766 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK •  “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling readi… read more

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"If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred especially.His radicalism was a matter of energy rather than urgency."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot o…"

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

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5. Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns

By: Steven E. Woodworth

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against th… read more

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6. Grant Takes Command 1863-1865

By: Bruce Catton

3.50

Format: None pages,

A classic work of military history, follows the enigmatic commander in chief of the Union forces th… read more

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7. Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861

By: David Detzer

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In April 1861, Confederate artillery blasted Fort Sumter into surrender. Within weeks, the Confeder… read more

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8. Theodore Rex

By: Edmund Morris

4.18

Format: 772 pages, Paperback

Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biograph… read more

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"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

"Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his chara…"

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

9. Never Call Retreat

By: Bruce Catton , E.B. Long

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

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10. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

By: Candice Millard

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

From New York Timesbestselling author of Destiny of the Republicand The River of Doubt, a thrilling… read more

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11. 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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12. Sycamore Row

By: John Grisham

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from … read more

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13. Personal Memoirs

By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more

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14. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

By: Stacy Schiff

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more

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15. 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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Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

16. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

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Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

17. 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

Cover of The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H.W. Brands

18. The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America

By: H.W. Brands

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of Gen… read more

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Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

19. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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Cover of Path of Deceit (Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase II: Quest of the Jedi #1) by Tessa  Gratton

20. Path of Deceit (Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase II: Quest of the Jedi #1)

By: Tessa Gratton

4.09

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Set in the world of the High Republic, 150 years before the storytelling of Phase I, an era of chan… read more

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21. Look Out For The Little Guy!

By: Scott Lang

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is the incredible story of an ex-con turned world-saving superhero. In Look Out for the Lit… read more

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22. Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)

By: Timothy Zahn

4.38

Format: 416 pages, Audible Audio

The fate of the Chiss Ascendancy hangs in the balance in the epic finale of the Star Wars: Thrawn A… read more

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"You're my brother, and my friend." Thrass countered. "If it's important to you, it's important to me."

-Timothy Zahn, Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)

"Did Thrawn even recognize the depth of loyalty he inspired in those who worked with him? Knowing Thrawn, probably not."

-Timothy Zahn, Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)

"He cares about non-Chiss lives." "Yes, he does," Samakro agreed. "You threaten his people, and see how fast that changes."

-Timothy Zahn, Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)

"All beings begin their lives with hopes and aspirations. Among these aspirations is the desire that there will be a straight path to those goals. It is seldom so. Perhaps never."

-Timothy Zahn, Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)

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23. 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

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24. Path of Vengeance (Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase II: Quest of the Jedi #2)

By: Cavan Scott

4.17

Format: 517 pages, Hardcover

This enthralling follow up to Path of Deceit finds cousins Marda and Yana Ro bound by blood but dri… read more

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25. Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War

By: Peter G. Tsouras

4.35

Format: 1066 pages, Kindle Edition

This biography of the Civil War officer who established the Union’s intelligence network “is an abs… read more

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Cover of To Hazard All: A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series) by Robert Orrison

26. To Hazard All: A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Robert Orrison

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

“The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confede… read more

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27. The Eye of Darkness

By: George Mann

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One year after the tragic events of The Fallen Star, the Jedi fight to break the Nihil’s control ov… read more

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Cover of Small but Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville by Robert F. O'Neill

28. Small but Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville

By: Robert F. O'Neill

4.36

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Re… read more

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Cover of Let Us Die Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series) by William Lee White

29. Let Us Die Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: William Lee White

4.06

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

The Army of Tennessee’s grueling and costly victory against a fortified Union encampment is expertl… read more

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Cover of The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar

30. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns

By: Joseph T. Glatthaar

4.07

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

In November, 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led an army of veteran Union troops throu… read more

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Cover of Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series) by Gregory A. Mertz

31. Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Gregory A. Mertz

3.97

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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13 must-read civil war books like Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series) by Gregory A. Mertz

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Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened The Mississippi

Michael B. Ballard

3.89

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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

3.95

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Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War Series, Volume 2

Bruce Catton

3.37

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Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns

Steven E. Woodworth

3.80

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Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

4.16

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David McCullough

4.09

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Scott Miller

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Amity Shlaes

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