The Life and Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson

8 best books like The Life and Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson (Robert Lewis Dabney): The Complete Stories and Poems, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice, The Last Full Measure, Small Sacrifices, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

The Complete Stories and Poems

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0385074077

I’ve been reading this book for almost three years and it feels so good to finally have finished it!

I was surprised by what I found in here. Poe was slightly different to what I thought. He is very much shrouded in shadow and the macabre, at least, his more successful stories and poems were. But...

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Author	William Styron
ISBN	0679736638

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession,...

Sophie's Choice

Author	William Styron
ISBN	0679736379

”Mercifully, I was at the age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. I could not have made it through those evenings otherwise. But I was an abandoned reader and, besides, outlandishly eclectic, with...

The Last Full Measure

Author	Jeff Shaara
ISBN	0345434811

In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg....

Small Sacrifices

Author	Ann Rule
ISBN	0451166604

This is one of the best books from Ann Rule's best stretch of writing, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. "Small Sacrifices" is leaner, fairer and more balanced than Rule's bloated, often slanted later works in which saccharine philosophizing pushes its way into the narratives.

The irony...

The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

Author	Steve Sheinkin
ISBN	1596434864

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle...

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Author	Steve Sheinkin
ISBN	1596439548

Jim Thorpe: super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American.

Pop Warner: indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad.

Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams...

Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

Author	James I. Robertson Jr.
ISBN	0028650646

One of the most successful Civil War books in history, Robertson's insightful examination of the life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson has touched the hearts and minds of readers on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. As Robertson notes in his preface to Stonewall Jackson, this study "is not a biography...