15 Top audiobook books like Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin

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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

1. Washington's Crossing

By: David Hackett Fischer

4.15

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A power… read more

Similar categories in David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
"Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again."

-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing

"Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning."

-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing

Cover of To Hell and Back by Tom Brokaw, Audie Murphy

2. 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

Similar categories in Tom Brokaw's To Hell and Back book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"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

3. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

By: Buddy Levy

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Stacy Schiff's The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

5. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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

6. 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
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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 Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin

7. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more

Similar categories in Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • military history
  • pirates
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Jeff Shaara

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Shaara's The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • historical
  • american history
  • war
  • audiobook
Cover of Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin

9. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

By: Tom Clavin

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more

Similar categories in Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West by Chris Wimmer

10. The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

By: Chris Wimmer

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narrati… read more

Similar categories in Chris Wimmer's The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

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

11. 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
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

12. 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

Similar categories in Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang by Tom Clavin

13. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

Similar categories in Tom Clavin's The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Richard Snow

14. Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

By: Richard Snow

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known event… read more

Similar categories in Richard Snow's Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark    Harmon

15. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

Similar categories in Mark Harmon's Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis

16. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution by H.W. Brands

17. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

By: H.W. Brands

3.92

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and dramatic narrative of the Amer… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins

18. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson

19. Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

By: Keith Thomson

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirat… read more

Similar categories in Keith Thomson's Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • history
  • historical
  • pirates
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy by Alexander   Rose

20. The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

By: Alexander Rose

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confed… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II by Scott McGaugh

21. Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II

By: Scott McGaugh

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by New… read more

Similar categories in Scott McGaugh's Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II book and Eric Jay Dolin's Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.25

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Stacy Schiff

3.74

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4.19

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Thomas R. Weaver

4.09

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Evan Winter

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