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Grant by John Mosier is the second book in the Great Generals Series biographies edited by General Wesley K. Clark. Mosier contends that Ulysses S. Grant was a military genius though Grant never intended to make the military a career. He attended West Point with the sole purpose of getting a free education to help [...]
In Talons of Eagles , the third book in the Eagles Series by William W. Johnstone, Jamie Ian MacCallister leads a group of Confederate Marauders in various Civil War battles. MacCallister has decided to fight for the South based on the issue of the federal government staying out of people’s business. Some of his sons [...]
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The Bloody Ground is the fourth volume in the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I love Cornwell books especially his Sharpe Series and the Starbuck Chronicles . In this book Nathaniel Starbuck, the Northerner fighting for the South, takes command of a punishment battalion. A punishment battalion is a group of criminals or deserters that [...]
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The Rebel Spy is a Floating Outfit story by J.T. Edson . In this book, Dusty Fog must work with Belle Boyd to break up a Northern spy counterfeiting ring during the Civil War. The ring is discovered after Dusty and the Texas Light Cavalry makes a raid across enemy lines and ends up capturing [...]
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a historical fiction classic. I read this book in high school for fun, not as required reading. Back in high school, I read anything and everything around the Civil War. I thoroughly enjoyed The Red Badge of Courage when a lot of my friends absolutely hated [...]
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Below is a list of the top 20 military books published by Military History Magazine in late 2008. I either already had or purchased most of these and I am slowly reading them. They are everything from military tactics to first hand accounts to fiction. Half-Price Books is a great place to start if you [...]
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Traveller was a very entertaining book told from Robert E. Lee’s horse, Traveller ’s perspective. Traveller speaks to J.E.B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson’s horses during the book. The thing that is really crazy about this one is that I was reading this book back when I was taking a summer school course in college (US [...]
