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David McCullough

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War; Volume 3 — Robert Underwood Johnson

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War; Volume 3

Robert Underwood Johnson

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

My Father’s House An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman — John Conyers III

My Father’s House An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman

John Conyers III

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

History of the Army of the Cumberland Its Organization, Campaigns, and Battles, Written at the Request of Major-General George H. Thomas Chiefly From His Private Military Journal and Official and Other Documents Furnished by Him; Volume 1 — Edward Ruger

History of the Army of the Cumberland Its Organization, Campaigns, and Battles, Written at the Request of Major-General George H. Thomas Chiefly From His Private Military Journal and Official and Other Documents Furnished by Him; Volume 1

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden — Mark Owen

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

My Name Is Not Tom The Life of the Reverend Josiah Henson — Susan Cooke Soderberg

My Name Is Not Tom The Life of the Reverend Josiah Henson

Susan Cooke Soderberg

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

The Monitor And The Merrimac: Both Sides Of The Story (1912) — J. L. Worden

The Monitor And The Merrimac: Both Sides Of The Story (1912)

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 — Elbridge J. Copp

Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

Elbridge J. Copp

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

A Confederate Surgeon’s Letters To His Wife — Spencer Glasgow Welch

A Confederate Surgeon’s Letters To His Wife

Spencer Glasgow Welch

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

War Powers of the Executive in the United States — Clarence Arthur Berdahl

War Powers of the Executive in the United States

Clarence Arthur Berdahl

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Rhode Island In The War With Spain (1900) — Frances E. Kinnicutt

Rhode Island In The War With Spain (1900)

Frances E. Kinnicutt

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman The Complete Annotated Edition — William T. Sherman

The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman The Complete Annotated Edition

William T. Sherman

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

The Secret Service Of The Confederate States In Europe: Or How The Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped (1883) — James D. Bulloch

The Secret Service Of The Confederate States In Europe: Or How The Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped (1883)

James D. Bulloch

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, with notices of its principal framers. Vol. I. — George Ticknor Curtis

History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, with notices of its principal framers. Vol. I.

George Ticknor Curtis

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Co. Aytch A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War — Sam R. Watkins

Co. Aytch A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War — Sam R. Watkins

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Voices from the Confederacy: True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South — Samuel W., Jr. Mitcham

Voices from the Confederacy: True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South

Samuel W., Jr. Mitcham

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina From Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War — Alexander Samuel Salley

The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina From Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War

Alexander Samuel Salley

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

War of 1812 Bounty Lands in Illinois — James D. Walker

War of 1812 Bounty Lands in Illinois

James D. Walker

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Life of Robert Edward Lee — Henry Elliot Shepherd

Life of Robert Edward Lee

Henry Elliot Shepherd

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

The Sailing of the Intrepid The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier — Montel Williams

The Sailing of the Intrepid The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier

Montel Williams

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865 — C. A. Stevens

Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

Trespassers at the Golden Gate A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco — Gary Krist

Trespassers at the Golden Gate A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

A Tempest of Iron and Lead Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864 — Chris Mackowski

A Tempest of Iron and Lead Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864

Chris Mackowski

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65 — Isaiah Price

History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65

Themes: Americas • Military • United States

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Americas, Military, United States — the same threads that run through The Flying, Gray-haired Yank by Michael Egan. Among the authors featured: David McCullough, Robert Underwood Johnson, John Conyers III, Edward Ruger, and others.

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