11 must-read civil war books like Glory Road by Bruce Catton

Glory Road

By: Bruce Catton

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Volume II of The Army of the Potomac The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1…

If you liked the civil war plot in Glory Road by Bruce Catton , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) by Michael Shaara

1. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

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  • american history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • american civil war
  • war
"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

Cover of Merchanter's Luck (The Company Wars, #2) by C.J. Cherryh

2. Merchanter's Luck (The Company Wars, #2)

By: C.J. Cherryh

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under … read more

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3. 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
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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4. Janesville: An American Story

By: None , Amy Goldstein

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) by Nathaniel Philbrick

5. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

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6. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the defi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
"Even as McClellan conferred with his superiors, sounds of renewed battle came from the direction of Chantilly, a country estate a few miles north of Centreville and on the flank of Pope’s army."

-Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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7. The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

By: Shelby Foote

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the histo… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William T. Sherman, Charles Royster

8. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

By: William T. Sherman , Charles Royster

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One of the most colorful figures in Civil War history, General William Tecumseh Sherman was also on… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Carl Sandburg

9. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

By: Carl Sandburg

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Civil War and history buffs--as well as all lovers of fine writing--will delight in the detail and … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
Cover of The Last Full Measure (The Civil War Trilogy, #3) by Jeff Shaara

10. 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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  • american history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • civil war
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11. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction

12. Glory Road

By: Bruce Catton

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Volume II of The Army of the Potomac The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1… read more

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

13. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II

By: Arthur Herman

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States coul… read more

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14. No Better Place to Die: The Battle Of Stones River

By: Peter Cozzens

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

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15. 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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16. Shiloh

By: Shelby Foote

3.21

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 fulfills the standard set by his m… read more

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17. The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

By: Shelby Foote

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop move… read more

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18. 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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19. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

By: Stephen W. Sears

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This is a history of the largest and bloodiest campaign of the American Civil War - one in which a … read more

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20. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By: Eric Foner

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more

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21. Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1)

By: Jeff Shaara

4.46

Format: 192 pages,

In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara… read more

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22. Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas

By: Benson Bobrick

4.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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23. 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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24. Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman

By: A.J.P. Taylor

3.96

Format: 286 pages,

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25. The Modern Cruiser: The Evolution of the Ships that Fought the Second World War

By: Robert C. Stern

4.14

Format: 833 pages, Kindle Edition

This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth… read more

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  • military fiction
Cover of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson

26. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

By: Rick Atkinson

4.43

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White Jr.

27. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) by Stephen Spotswood

28. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more

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Cover of In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

29. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.11

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon

30. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Sherman's March by Burke Davis

31. Sherman's March

By: Burke Davis

4.18

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the devastating military campaign that broke the C… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • military fiction
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
"if he had attended burial services for one of his bitter enemies, said, “No, I didn’t patronize the funeral, but I approve of it."

-Burke Davis, Sherman's March

"Among the eulogies raised to the departed general, the terse words of his friend Whitelaw Reid seemed to summarize most perceptively the mercurial Sherman: “He never acknowledged an error and never r…"

-Burke Davis, Sherman's March

14 best-selling history books like Glory Road by Bruce Catton

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

Janesville: An American Story

None , Amy Goldstein

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

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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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