Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864

7 best books like Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 (Gordon C. Rhea): The Day of the Jackal, Napoleon: A Life, Forrest Gump, QB VII, Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas, The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan

The Day of the Jackal

Author	Frederick Forsyth
ISBN	0553266306

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

One ...

Napoleon: A Life

Author	Andrew Roberts
ISBN	0670025321

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon  

Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest...

Forrest Gump

Author	Winston Groom
ISBN	0743453255

Форрест Гамп - наивный и доверчивый человек, сохранивший незамутнённый детский взгляд на мир, - рассказывает на страницах романа историю своей жизни....

QB VII

Author

Leon Uris

In Queen’s Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust—born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration Camp was the site of his family’s extermination—Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also  named...

Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

Author

John J. Hennessy

"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee’s triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee’s strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought...

The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command

Author	Edwin B. Coddington
ISBN	0684845695

The Battle of Gettyburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America's history, and one of the most studied.

Professor Coddington's is an analysis not only of the battle proper, but of the actions of both Union and Confederate armies for the six months prior to the battle...

The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan

Author	Gregg Zoroya
ISBN	0306824841

the story is fantastic. the writing is not typical or worthy of award-winning journalist, at least not in my experience reading such books. I cry when I read these books. the disjointed, even ludicrous, writing in this case actually saved me from much of that here, I cynically write. yet nothing can take...