6 best-selling historical books like Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

By: James Webb

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stai…

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1. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America

By: Don Jordan , None

3.97

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Bri… read more

Similar categories in Don Jordan's White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America book and James Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
"It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary …"

-Don Jordan, White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America

Cover of The Conquest of Gaul by S.A. Handford, Gaius Julius Caesar, Jane F. Gardner, Aulus Hirtius

2. The Conquest of Gaul

By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People: Doing Business the Chick-fil-A Way by S. Truett Cathy

3. Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People: Doing Business the Chick-fil-A Way

By: S. Truett Cathy

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Truett Cathy is a real-life Horatio Alger story. He grew up in a boarding house his mother operated… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

By: James Webb

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stai… read more

Similar categories in James Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America book and James Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • ireland
Cover of Treasure (Dirk Pitt, #9) by Clive Cussler

5. Treasure (Dirk Pitt, #9)

By: Clive Cussler

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Charts of lost gold... breathtaking art and rare volumes... maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits… read more

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6. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

By: H.G. Bissinger

3.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Pacific Vortex! (Dirk Pitt, #1)

By: Clive Cussler , Michael Pritchard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges … read more

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8. The Mediterranean Caper (Dirk Pitt, #2)

By: Clive Cussler

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler. On an isolated Greek island, a Wo… read more

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Cover of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) by David Hackett Fischer

9. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)

By: David Hackett Fischer

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

10. Iceberg (Dirk Pitt, #3)

By: Clive Cussler

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice-the charred remains of a long missing luxury yacht, vanishe… read more

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11. Zen in the Art of Archery

By: R.F.C. Hull , None , Eugen Herrigel , Φοίβος Ι. Πιομπίνος

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Pro… read more

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12. Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman and Lincoln's Guiding Light

By: Harlow Giles Unger

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A compelling new biography of America's most powerful Speaker of the House, who held the divided na… read more

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13. The Kremlin Letter

By: Noel Behn

3.71

Format: 208 pages,

"De infiltranten" (The Kremlin Letter) zal ongetwijfeld de geschiedenis ingaan als de origineelste … read more

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14. The Long Flight Home

By: Alan Hlad

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here Inspired by fascinating, true, yet … read more

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  • historical
"It wasn't a miracle. You believed. And made it happen."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

"Of wartime London: It looked as if London was being cremated, one piece at a time."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

" Be an egg , Susan thought. One could be soft with fear inside, but hard as slate outside."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

"Ollie watched the cemetery disappear in the distance and wondered if there would be enough trees in all of Britain to build the coffins."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

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15. The County Line

By: Steve Weddle

3.41

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Life has never been easy for Cottonmouth Tomlin. Raised by an uncle in a hardscrabble Arkansas town… read more

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  • historical
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16. Stone Cross (Arliss Cutter #2)

By: Marc Cameron

4.38

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

In a remote Alaskan village, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter searches for a stone-cold killer amid … read more

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17. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

By: David McCullough

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson

18. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

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19. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

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20. Freedom

By: Sebastian Junger

3.76

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One of God’s greatest oversights is that dogs don’t live as long as man."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

"Christianity is a high moral system based on the preaching of a destitute ascetic."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

"In the long run, early failure is probably just as great a generator of freedom as early success."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

"...scripture: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

Cover of Circle of Death (The Shadow 2) by James  Patterson

21. Circle of Death (The Shadow 2)

By: James Patterson

3.51

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

When a ruthless killer seeks to overturn the world order, our only hope is vigilante justice. Si… read more

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8 must-read history books like Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb

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Don Jordan , None

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4.11

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James Webb

3.92

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3.33

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4.51

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Keith O'Brien

4.43

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Sebastian Junger

3.76

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Tom Satterly

4.53

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