The Spy Lover

6 best books like The Spy Lover (Kiana Davenport): They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos, Pickett's Charge, The Army of the Potomac, 3 Vols, Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
AuthorDeAnne Blanton
ISBN1400033152
“Albert Cashier” served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her at the Battle of Murfreesboro. And more than...
AuthorElizabeth R. Varon
ISBN0195179897
Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides...
AuthorPeter Allison
ISBN1599214695
I got a little mixed up and read Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos before Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide. But I get the sense it didn't matter very much which order you read them in, in much...
AuthorGeorge R. Stewart
ISBN0395597722
A Classic Study Of Pickett's Charge

Both as symbol and as history, Pickett's charge, the climactic Southern attack on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, exerts a powerful hold on the American imagination. Although other more recent works may show more ability to assess and choose among...
The Army of the Potomac, 3 Vols
AuthorBruce Catton
This isn't anything like Shelby Foote's trilogy. Let's start with that.

When you're a respected scholar of the Civil War, and you write a trilogy on that subject, there are going to be comparisons to Foote's enormous and consistently awesome The Civil War: A Narrative. It's not fair, of course,...
Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War
AuthorH. Donald Winkler
ISBN1402242743
The clever, devious, daring women who helped turn the tides of the Civil War

During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female spies of the Civil War participated in...
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