World LiteraryWar and Military Fiction books

A Brotherhood Of Valor: The Common Soldiers Of The Stonewall Brigade C S A And The Iron Brigade U S A

This unusual and moving chronicle covers some of the most important battles of the Civil War—Sharpsburg (Antietam), Gettysburg, and Chancellorsville—through the stories of the two brigades who confronted each other on the bloody fields...

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A. Lincoln

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD Everyone wants to define...

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The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy

By: William C. Davis

‘Mythology about the South and its leaders – and the Civil War as a whole, incidentally – commenced the moment the war ended, if not before.’ We have come a long way in interpreting the Confederacy, yet traditional history does...

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Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg

By: Timothy B. Smith

The Mississippi battle between Grant’s and Pemberton’s forces that sealed Vicksburg’s fate. The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The fighting on May 16, 1863, took place...

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Gettysburg

By: Stephen W. Sears

A 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...

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Chancellorsville

By: Stephen W. Sears

A new look at the Civil War battle that led to Stonewall Jackson’s death: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and “tour de force in military history” (Library Journal). From the award-winning, national bestselling author of...

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

By: David W. Blight

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of...

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Civil War Brockport:: A Canal Town and the Union Army

By: William G. Andrews

The Civil War left no corner of the United States untouched, and Brockport–a small western New York town–was no exception. Brockport more than answered the call of duty, sending hundreds of its sons to battle. Brockporters were...

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