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War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

9 best books like War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (James M. McPherson): The Rape of Nanking, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The Cautious Canine: How to Help Dogs Conquer Their Fears, A Chain of Thunder, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

The Rape of Nanking
AuthorIris Chang
ISBN0140277447
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians.

This book tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured...
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
AuthorEric Schlosser
ISBN1594202273
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons

Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
AuthorRick Atkinson
ISBN1627790438
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0525656340
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in his long career, Robert...
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
AuthorCharles C. Mann
ISBN0449806383
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN0143035282
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...
The Cautious Canine: How to Help Dogs Conquer Their Fears
AuthorPatricia B. McConnell
ISBN1891767003
This book offers a fantastic training program for reactive dogs. Start at the very lowest level of reaction, create a positive association with whatever it is that creates the anxiety and work from there. I know first hand that when your dog reacts, it's easy to let yourself also get anxious and excited....
A Chain of Thunder
AuthorJeff Shaara
ISBN0345527380
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Continuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted...
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
AuthorChristopher Ingraham
The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.  Like...
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