9 Best civil war books like Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative by Edward Porter Alexander

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Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative

By: Edward Porter Alexander

3.59

Format: 370 pages,

If you liked the civil war plot in Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative by Edward Porter Alexander , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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2. Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life

By: John Davis Billings , William L. Shea

4.04

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the f… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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3. The Last Full Measure (The Civil War Trilogy, #3)

By: Jeff Shaara

4.09

Format: 148 pages,

In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels,Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War… read more

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  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
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4. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more

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  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
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5. Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative

By: Edward Porter Alexander

3.59

Format: 370 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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6. Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

By: Joseph Wheelan

4.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had tu… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

By: Don E. Fehrenbacher , None , David Morris Potter

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the comin… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Adolf Hitler

By: John Toland

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland's classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remain… read more

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9. Why the Allies Won

By: Richard Overy

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany … read more

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10. To Hell and Back

By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy

4.25

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

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11. Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

By: Clive Barker

4.04

Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that h… read more

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"Logic is the last refuge of a coward."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In the Hills, the Cities"

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

12. Gettysburg

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more

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13. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos

4.36

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"

-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

14. Three Months in the Southern States: April-June 1863

By: Gary W. Gallagher , Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The American Civil War was at a turning point in 1863 when Lt. Col. Arthur J. L. Fremantle of the B… read more

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15. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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16. 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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17. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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18. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Il 12 marzo 2034 il commodoro della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti – Sarah Hunt – si trova sul p… read more

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  • war
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19. Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more

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20. 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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  • history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • american 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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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"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

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22. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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23. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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24. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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25. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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26. Where Away: A Modern Odyssey

By: George Sessions Perry

4.37

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

On 4th February 1942, the USS Marblehead was with an American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet patrol… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The Fighting Tenth: The Tenth Submarine Flotilla and the Siege of Malta (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: John Wingate

4.33

Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic account of ‘the most concentrated submarine battle in history’.Ideal for fans of Max Hastin… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Thomas F. Schaller

28. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

By: Donald L. Miller

4.41

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksb… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • war
  • nonfiction
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30. The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II

By: Mike Guardia

4.40

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From the beaches of Normandy to the shores of Iwo Jima. Harrowing tales of combat…as told by the me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley Sorrel

31. Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer

By: G. Moxley Sorrel

4.13

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

“[Longstreet’s] de facto chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Moxley Sorrel, was the best staff offic… read more

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  • american civil war
  • civil war
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8 best-selling american civil war books like Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative by Edward Porter Alexander

Transform Your Habits

Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life

John Davis Billings , William L. Shea

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative

Edward Porter Alexander

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

Joseph Wheelan

4.53

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12 Top history books like The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote

Transform Your Habits

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

Ian W. Toll

4.61

Transform Your Habits

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Rick Atkinson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Napoleon: A Life

Andrew Roberts

4.23

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