Best Books About the Civil WarAn introduction is presented to a section of the journal that is devoted to books on the U.S. Civil War and includes essays from Brenda Wineapple and James M. McPherson.Courteau, Sarah LWilson Quar...
Not a fan of your GCSE history exam? Thankfully the books in our roundup could not be further from your exams.
during which he led the Union to victory. Thetwo-termpresident was fundamentally changed by the bloody US Civil War and the battles he fought. Despite having served two terms in power, he struggled financially after leaving the White House, which encouraged...
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is an epic novel that captures the essence of a tumultuous period in American history. The story follows Scarlett O’Hara, a strong-willed Southern belle, as she navigates through love and loss during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Mitchell’s wr...
lose every major engagement in the war - clearly explaining the motives and beliefs of the men who comprised the battalion. Best of all, he tells the story in an entertaining, engaging style, proving yet again that the best history books are the ones that feel like you're reading a novel...
Apple Books Barnes & Noble Worm ByMark Bowden Subtitled “The First Digital World War,” this “masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of a true-to-life cyber thriller tells the astonishing story of the Conficker worm, a computer virus that infected more than 15 million computers in nearly...
Two Kinds of Timeis the only one of the five books I’ve chosen that’s not actually by a Chinese, but I’ve chosen it because it seems to me, of the fairly wide range of things you can read about World War Two in China, to be the single most evocative. It’s quite a long ...
One of the best LitRPG books of the beginning of 2020, the story follows Grim Jack. He is forced to lead armies and bring people together in only to prevent a war. Dungeons fall one by one and Vogthar seems to take the world over. Grim Jack uses his doomsday weapon, which will take...
Ancient Warfare:Roman Civil War Publisher/Developer:HPS Simulations This game is listed only in the left sidebar of the HPS Ancient Warfare downloads page, so its availability is uncertain as is that of another product in the series, Diadochi covering the wars of Alexander’s successors. Roman ...
93. The Civil War, Shelby Foote 94. The Way the World Works, Jude Wanniski Gilder: "The best book on economics. Shows fatuity of still-dominant demand-side model, with its silly preoccupation with accounting trivia, like the federal budget and trade balance and savings rates, in an economy...