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Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"History comes alive" (Richard J... -
![A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara]()
A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi... -
![Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara]()
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this stunning, unforgettable novel, Jeff Shaara carries us back thirteen years before the Civil War, when that momentous conflict's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War... -
![The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell, Hayward Morse]()
The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell, Hayward Morse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this, the fourth of the series, Nathaniel Starbuck, the northern preacher's son who fights for the Confederate South, is plunged into the most desperate battle of the Civil War, the fight at Antietam. Replaced as commander of the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck is given command of a punishment battalion, a unit composed of failures, cowards and misfits... -
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![Valley of the Shadow by Ralph Peters]()
Valley of the Shadow by Ralph Peters
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil War—in mighty battles now all but forgotten... -
![The Damned of Petersburg by Ralph Peters]()
The Damned of Petersburg by Ralph Peters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGLORY TURNED GRIM…and warfare changed forever. As Grant pinned Lee to Petersburg and Richmond, the Confederacy’s stubborn Army of Northern Virginia struggled against a relentless Union behemoth, with breathtaking valor and sacrifice on both sides... -
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Northern Wolf by Daniel Greene
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA broken man will be forged in the flames of war... It is late 1862, and the United States has been ripped apart by civil war for over a year with no end in sight. The war is a distant thought to Johannes Wolf, a young German immigrant with a crippled leg keeping him off the muster lists...Categorized as:
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![Battle Flag by Bernard Cornwell, Tom Parker]()
Battle Flag by Bernard Cornwell, Tom Parker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is book three in the Starbuck Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell's exciting Civil War novel series.After distinguishing himself at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck is persecuted by his jealous and suspicious brigade commander, the grandiose General Washington Faulconer... -
![The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr]()
The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this epic novel of violence and redemption by the author of The Black Flower , a Civil War veteran travels back over old battlefields toward a reckoning with the pastIt's been twenty years since Cass Wakefield returned from the Civil War to his hometown in Mississippi, but he is still haunted by battlefield memories...Categorized as:
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![Stars and Stripes Triumphant by Harry Harrison]()
Stars and Stripes Triumphant by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn England, Irish-born citizens are being herded into prison camps. On the high seas, a furious British Navy is seizing American cargo ships bound for Europe. And on the Thames, a new weapon of unparalleled destructive force is sailing toward an impregnable city–spearheaded by a daring act of espionage. For U.S... -
![Master of Paradise by Virginia Henley]()
Master of Paradise by Virginia Henley
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaster Of Paradise is a Plantation Novel; A Southern Family Saga. This is an original book, never before published. When Nicholas Peacock is cheated from his inheritance of Peacock Hall in Kent, he sails to South Carolina. He buys land, clears it, and plants cotton. Eventually he builds a magnificent house known as Paradise Plantation... -
![Stars and Stripes in Peril by Harry Harrison]()
Stars and Stripes in Peril by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"HARRY HARRISON IS ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION’S MOST PROLIFIC AND ACCOMPLISHED CRAFTSMEN."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn the midst of Civil War, a stunned North and South join forces to combat a sudden attack of British troops. Though the Americans are victorious, three years later a new threat emerges. Her Majesty’s Army is massing for a possible attack through Texas... -
![The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote]()
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat... -
![The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat by Pierre Clostermann]()
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat by Pierre Clostermann
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'THE BIG SHOW is as close as you'll ever get to fighting for your life from the cockpit of a Spitfire or Typhoon. Perhaps the most viscerally exciting book ever written by a fighter pilot.' Rowland White Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War... -
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![First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum]()
First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughout its first century... -
![Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule]()
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S... -
![Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote]()
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHistorian/novelist Foote's masterly work has been culled from his critically acclaimed three-volume narrative of the Civil War... -
![Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman]()
Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe former National Security Council staffer who testified against President Trump during his impeachment proceedings early this year is planning to publish a memoir detailing his experience... -
![The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee]()
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife... -
![Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears]()
Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original source material, from soldiers' letters to official military records of the war, Stephen W. Sears's Gettysburg is a remarkable and dramatic account of the legendary campaign... -
![Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom by Sam Pivnik]()
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom by Sam Pivnik
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing.After this harrowing experience, he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp... -
![Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski]()
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNapoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the civilized world. But Britain eluded him. To conquer the island nation, he needed Russia's Tsar Alexander's help. The Tsar refused, and Napoleon vowed to teach him a lesson by intimidation and force... -
![Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer]()
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRichard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America’s greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous foreign policy... -
![A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr., Bill Weideman]()
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr., Bill Weideman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this important new biography, Ronald C. White, Jr. offers a fresh and fascinating definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity—what today’s commentators are calling “authenticity”—whose internal moral compass is the key to understanding his life...Categorized as:
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![How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson]()
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhile the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit...Categorized as:
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![Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg]()
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOriginally published in six volumes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was called “the greatest historical biography of our generation.” Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln...Categorized as:
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![With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates]()
With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“Full, fair, and accurate. . . . Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” —Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book ReviewFrom preeminent Civil War historian Stephen B. Oates comes the book the Washington Post hails as “the standard one-volume biography of Lincoln... -
![Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon]()
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of the New York Times best seller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan - including Ashley White, a beloved soldier who died serving her country's cause... -
![Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander]()
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe New York Times bestseller that tells the true story of the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers in World War II.In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the others... -
![The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan]()
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe freshman book of New York Times Bestselling Author of The End of the World is Just the Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years .Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system...
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