Best Civil War Biographies - April 2024

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Manufacturer: Crown

Grant

The #1 New York Times bestseller.New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.   Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159420487X
• ASIN: 159420487X
• ISBN: 9781594204876
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vintage Civil War Library)

• ASIN: B004C43G6A
• ASIN: B004C43G6A
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy

In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman, and fop, Emma became a cunning master of disguise, risking discovery and death at every turn behind Confederate lines.

• ASIN: 0152164278
• ASIN: 0152164278
• ISBN: 9780152164270
• Brand: Graphia
• Manufacturer: Graphia

Generals South, Generals North: The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered

Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-fourcommanders—twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought (emphasizing tactical leadership and outcome produced), and explores each man’s ever-controversial reputation. His consequent rankings are based on both historical and modern-day sources.

• ASIN: 0762761490
• ASIN: 0762761490
• ISBN: 0762761490
• Manufacturer: Lyons Press

Jack Hinson's One-Man War, A Civil War Sniper

The true story of one man's reluctant but relentless war against the invaders of his country.A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed to secession and a friend to Union and Confederate commanders alike, he did not want a war. After Union soldiers seized and murdered his sons, placing their decapitated heads on the gateposts of his estate, Hinson could remain indifferent no longer. He commissioned a special rifle for long-range accuracy, he took to the woods, and he set out for revenge. This remarkable biography presents the sto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1589806409
• ASIN: 1589806409
• ISBN: 1589806409
• Brand: Pelican Publishing Company
• Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing

The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vintage Civil War Library)

• ASIN: B004C43GGU
• ASIN: B004C43GGU
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

• ASIN: 1476795924
• ASIN: 1476795924
• ISBN: 1476795924
• Brand: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography

“Unfailingly vivid—and fair-minded” —The Atlantic “Riveting” —The New York Times Book Review “A biography with the verve and pace of a delicious novel...a polemic and a pleasure.” —The Boston Globe The first biography to reveal Julia Ward Howe—the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic—as a feminist pioneer who fought her own battle for creative freedom and independence.Julia Ward (1819–1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally-acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451645902
• ASIN: 1451645902
• ISBN: 9781451645903
• Brand: Simon Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox (Vintage Civil War Library)

• ASIN: B004C43GI8
• ASIN: B004C43GI8
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ul... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399589813
• ASIN: 0399589813
• ISBN: 0399589813
• Manufacturer: Random House

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374531269
• ASIN: 0374531269
• ISBN: 9780374531263
• Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
• Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books

Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography

In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise, up-to-date, and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life, from pioneer farm boy to politician and lawyer in Springfield, to his stunning election as sixteenth president of the United States. Students will see how Lincoln grew during his years in office, how he developed a keen aptitude for military strategy and displayed enormous skill in dealing... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195151003
• ASIN: 0195151003
• ISBN: 0195151003
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062363603
• ASIN: 0062363603
• ISBN: 9780062363602
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Best Little Stories from World War I: Nearly 100 True Stories

Behind the tangled alliances, feuding royals, and deadly battles are the nearly 100 riveting true stories of the men and women who lived, fought, and survived the first Great War. Based on the writings of soldiers, politicians, kings, nurses, and military leaders, Best Little Stories from World War I humanizes their foibles, triumphs, and tragedies―and chronicles how the emergence of fervent national pride led not only to ruthless combat, but a critical turning point in the twentieth century.Fascinating characters come to life, including:Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnavon, who turned ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1402293437
• UPC: 760789245138
• ASIN: 1402293437
• ISBN: 1402293437
• Manufacturer: Cumberland House

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe : A Biography

A biography of Julia Ward Howe, a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage

• UPC: 55033986
• Rating: 3.0

The Field of Blood : Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S.

• UPC: 473607995
• Rating: 4.667

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy : Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and pioneer of sizzle history (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies

• UPC: 44656059
• Rating: 4.0

The Killer Angels : The Classic Novel of the Civil War

Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at

• UPC: 470118
• Rating: 4.433

Confederate Reckoning : Power and Politics in the Civil War South

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry

• UPC: 17778605
• Rating: 5.0

Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory

Explores the ways that contending memories of the Civil War clashed or intermingled in public memory from 1863 to 1915, focusing on race as the main problem in how Americans decided to remember and forget

• UPC: 1684255
• Rating: 4.4

This Hallowed Ground : A History of the Civil War

Originally published: New York: Doubleday,

• UPC: 16790204
• Rating: 2.75

The Fateful Lightning : A Novel of the Civil War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke

• UPC: 49622688
• Rating: 4.667

Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set

Follows the course of the war from 1862 to 1864, discusses the strategies of both sides in major battles, and assesses the performance of the Union

• UPC: 455195
• Rating: 4.6

The War That Forged a Nation : Why the Civil War Still Matters

More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought

• UPC: 56077722
• Rating: 4.0

Best Little Stories from the Civil War C Brian Kelly SIGNED By Both Authors

• UPC: 324052882021
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 17 USD

Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America, Hardcover by Plumb,...

• UPC: 383409267821
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 25 USD

The Better Angels Five Women Who Changed Civil War America 9781640122239

• UPC: 133317656502
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 26 USD

The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America by Robert Plumb

• UPC: 223909511951
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 21 USD

The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America - VERY GOOD

• UPC: 254525782414
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 22 USD

The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln Best Stories Anthony Gross 1994 Hardcover

• UPC: 303451770367
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 6 USD

The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America by Robert C Plumb

• UPC: 283737159576
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 21 USD

Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America, Hardcover by Plumb,...

• UPC: 362899791713
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 25 USD