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Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"History comes alive" (Richard J... -
![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... -
![War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony by Nelson A. Denis]()
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony by Nelson A. Denis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down...Categorized as:
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![Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer]()
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life—and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.” — Patrick Radden Keefe “[A] searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account... -
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![Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois]()
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Glory Road by Bruce Catton]()
Glory Road by Bruce Catton
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVolume II of The Army of the PotomacThe critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1863 is the focus of Glory Road. During this time the outcome of the Civil War is determined, as the battles at Fredericksburg, Rappahannock and Chancellorsville set the state for Union victory as Gettysburg... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan]()
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNational Book Award winner Timothy Egan delivers a story of one of the most famous Irish Americans of all time. A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life... -
![This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton]()
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis fascinating book tells the story of the Civil War as seen from the Union side. Through his brilliant and stirring narrative, Bruce Catton conveys the human aspect of history and translates meticulously researched historical fact into an absorbing chronicle of the war... -
![Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo]()
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the legendary battle: a brilliant new history—the most intimate and richly readable account we have had—that draws the reader into the muck and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts, as never before, the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced one of the great... -
![How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter]()
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCivil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. This is a new phenomenon... -
![After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes]()
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhy is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidante to President Barack Obama -- and New York Times bestselling author of The World as It Is -- travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers...Categorized as:
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![Lincoln by David Herbert Donald]()
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war... -
![1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof]()
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe author's research leads to some surprising conclusions. Documents from foreign ministries, and notes and memoranda from British, French, Italian and American leaders, ministers, diplomats and military commanders, prove that quite a number of countries were involved in instigating World War II. Interconnections, hitherto overlooked, are made clear... -
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![When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini]()
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRuntime: 19 hours and 33 minutes, read by the author, Edoardo Ballerini, and a full castFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World War II... -
![The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler]()
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Napoleonic Wars were nothing if not complex -- an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat... -
![Andersonville Diary by John L. Ransom, Bruce Catton]()
Andersonville Diary by John L. Ransom, Bruce Catton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohn Ransom was a 20-year-old Union soldier when he became a prisoner of war in 1863. In his unforgettable diary, Ransom reveals the true story of his day-to-day struggle in the worst of Confederate prison camps--where hundreds of prisoners died daily. Ransom's story of survival is, according to Publishers Weekly, "a great adventure . . . observant, eloquent, and moving... -
![John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds]()
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause... -
![Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel]()
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice - and reparationsBorn into slavery, in 1848 Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed by her owner. In 1855, a Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved through the Civil War, and for two years after it had ended...Categorized as:
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![The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco]()
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis book tells the story of America's original sin--slavery--through politics, law, literature, and above all, through the eyes of enslavedblack people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, thereby forcing the nation to confront the truth about itself...Categorized as:
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