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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
4.41 average rating, · 34.8k ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
4.10 average rating, · 25.8k ratings
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The Last Full Measure
Jeff Shaara
4.25 average rating, · 18.5k ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Shelby Foote
4.44 average rating, · 13.9k ratings
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik
4.16 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
Shelby Foote
4.53 average rating, · 8.1k ratings
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Dark Chaos: 1863-1864
Virginia Gaffney
4.52 average rating, · 8.3k ratings
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Ashes in the Wind
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
4.19 average rating, · 11.1k ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Shelby Foote
4.54 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
Shelby Foote
4.55 average rating, · 7.6k ratings
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S.C. Gwynne
4.30 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
4.10 average rating, · 8.5k ratings
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A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton
4.38 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
4.04 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner
4.18 average rating, · 6.6k ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Eric Foner
4.22 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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A Blaze of Glory
Jeff Shaara
4.11 average rating, · 6.5k ratings
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horwitz
4.02 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
H.W. Brands
4.13 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Gettysburg
Stephen W. Sears
4.37 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
Adam Goodheart
4.06 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson
4.09 average rating, · 6k ratings
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Shiloh
Shelby Foote
4.10 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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The Bloody Ground
Bernard Cornwell
4.23 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
- American Civil War
- Historical
- Military Fiction
- History
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