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American Ulysses
- A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 27 hrs and 35 mins
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The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant....
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Full and fair biography
- By Mister Peridot on 10-07-17
By: Ronald C. White
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Clouds of Glory
- The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
- By: Michael Korda
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army....
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Here indeed is what you need to think.
- By Amazon Customer on 17-02-23
By: Michael Korda
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Meade at Gettysburg
- A Study in Command
- By: Kent Masterson Brown
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War's most pivotal battle. Commentators often dismiss Meade....
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Excellent in-depth analysis of Meade; Horrible narration
- By Anonymous User on 29-09-22
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On Great Fields
- The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Ronald C. White
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero....
By: Ronald C. White
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac
- By: Adolfo Ovies
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac is the first installment in a remarkable trilogy to examine the strategy, tactics, and relationships of the leading Union army’s mounted arm....
By: Adolfo Ovies
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Grant Takes Command
- By: Bruce Catton
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
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A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory....
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excellent
- By Pippa on 25-05-22
By: Bruce Catton
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American Ulysses
- A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 27 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant....
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Full and fair biography
- By Mister Peridot on 10-07-17
By: Ronald C. White
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Clouds of Glory
- The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
- By: Michael Korda
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army....
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Here indeed is what you need to think.
- By Amazon Customer on 17-02-23
By: Michael Korda
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Meade at Gettysburg
- A Study in Command
- By: Kent Masterson Brown
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War's most pivotal battle. Commentators often dismiss Meade....
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Excellent in-depth analysis of Meade; Horrible narration
- By Anonymous User on 29-09-22
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On Great Fields
- The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Ronald C. White
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero....
By: Ronald C. White
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac
- By: Adolfo Ovies
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac is the first installment in a remarkable trilogy to examine the strategy, tactics, and relationships of the leading Union army’s mounted arm....
By: Adolfo Ovies
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Grant Takes Command
- By: Bruce Catton
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
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A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory....
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excellent
- By Pippa on 25-05-22
By: Bruce Catton
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J.E.B. Stuart
- The Soldier and the Man
- By: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman.
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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah
- Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
- By: Wiley Sword
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
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The rise of Civil War general John Bell Hood, his command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, and the decisions that led to its downfall....
By: Wiley Sword
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Grant Moves South
- By: Bruce Catton
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the controversial Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy....
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A DISAPPOINTING CONCLUSION TO THE GRANT TRILOGY
- By John Stathatos on 14-08-22
By: Bruce Catton
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Longstreet at Gettysburg
- A Critical Reassessment
- By: Cory M. Pfarr
- Narrated by: Mike Hennessy
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg....
By: Cory M. Pfarr
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Little Powell: The Life and Career of A.P. Hill
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Maxwell Zener
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Little Powell: The Life and Career of A.P. Hill profiles the famous general and examines his Civil War record, analyzing the legacy he's left behind....
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Sickles at Gettysburg
- The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
- By: James A. Hessler
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Sickles at Gettysburg by licensed battlefield guide James Hessler, is the most deeply-researched, full-length biography to appear on this remarkable American icon. No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally....
By: James A. Hessler
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The Man Who Saved the Union
- Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice....
By: H. W. Brands
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American Scoundrel
- The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- By: Tom Kenneally
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions....
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Overlong
- By Eric R on 23-12-15
By: Tom Kenneally
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The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Part 2
- March 4, 1861 - March 26, 1864
- By: Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrated by: Peter Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Covering the pivotal years 1861-1864, General Ulysses S. Grant leads us in his own words from Fort...
By: Ulysses S. Grant
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Benjamin Franklin Butler
- A Noisy, Fearless Life
- By: Elizabeth D. Leonard
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Leonard's nuanced portrait peels away generations of assumptions and characterizations to provide a definitive life of a consequential man....
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The Real Custer
- From Boy General to Tragic Hero
- By: James S Robbins
- Narrated by: E. Roy Worley
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer....
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great story
- By Gary on 10-12-15
By: James S Robbins
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Stonewall Jackson
- The Great Generals Series
- By: Donald A. Davis
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Deemed "irreplaceable" by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War....
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Great Read
- By Denis on 24-12-12
By: Donald A. Davis
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Searching for Stonewall Jackson
- A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America
- By: Ben Cleary
- Narrated by: Ben Cleary
- Length: 12 hrs
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Historian Ben Cleary takes listeners beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads....
By: Ben Cleary
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The Scourge of War
- The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
- By: Brian Holden Reid
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
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In The Scourge of War, preeminent military historian Brian Holden Reid offers a deeply researched life-and-times account of William Tecumseh Sherman....
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Excellent biography
- By ToonW on 24-03-21
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Campaigning with Grant
- By: Horace Porter
- Narrated by: Noah Waterman
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Horace Porter served as lieutenant colonel on Ulysses S. Grant's staff from April 1864 to the end of the Civil War....
By: Horace Porter
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Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life
- By: John D. Billings
- Narrated by: Joe Scarpete
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, who was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War....
By: John D. Billings
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R. E. Lee: Volume One
- By: Douglas Southall Freeman
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
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R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman was the recipient of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Literature....
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James Longstreet and the American Civil War
- The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War
- By: Harold M. Knudsen
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Confederate Gen. James Longstreet made overlooked but profound modern contributions to the art of war. Retired Lt. Col. Harold M. Knudsen explains what Longstreet did and how he did it in James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War.
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Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier
- By: P. C. Zick, Harmon Camburn
- Narrated by: Jeffrey A. Hering
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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His tour of duty ended with a shot through his lung and capture by Confederate soldiers. Fortunately, he survived his wounds and wrote about his time in the Union army....
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Brilliant
- By S. A. Stewart on 16-04-17
By: P. C. Zick, and others
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General Lee
- A Biography of Robert E. Lee
- By: Fitzhugh Lee
- Narrated by: Johann Zeiger
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War. He was the nephew of Robert E. Lee, and the author of the most famous biography of his uncle....
By: Fitzhugh Lee
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R. E. Lee: Volume Two
- By: Douglas Southall Freeman
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
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Volume Two opens in March, 1862 with Lee back in Richmond after a lengthy absence. He was shocked by the chaos and panic evident in the Confederate capital....
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The Long Surrender
- By: Burke Davis
- Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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In April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House. But the Civil War was far from over....
By: Burke Davis
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The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee
- By: R. David Cox
- Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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The first close examination of how Robert E. Lee's faith shaped his life....
By: R. David Cox
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Company Aytch
- A Side Show of the Big Show
- By: Sam Watkins
- Narrated by: Dan Calhoun
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is considered to be the best account of the Civil War ever written from the Confederate point of view....
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Incredible true story marred by narration
- By Pamela on 14-09-18
By: Sam Watkins