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War at Saber Point
- Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion
- By: John Knight
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
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- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
The British Legion was one of the most remarkable regiments, not only of the American Revolution, but of any war. A corps made up of American Loyalists, it saw its first action in New York and then engaged in almost every battle in the Southern colonies. Relying on firsthand accounts - letters, diaries, and journals - War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion is the enthralling story of those forgotten Americans and the young Englishman who led them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for Revolutionary War buffs
- By FDal on 12-23-21
By: John Knight
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Rebel Yell
- The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: Cotter Smith
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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General Stonewall Jackson was like no one anyone had ever seen. In April of 1862 he was merely another Confederate general with only a single battle credential in an army fighting in what seemed to be a losing cause. By middle June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western World. He had given the Confederate cause what it had recently lacked: hope.
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Candidate for "My Daguerreotype Boyfriend"
- By Dorothy on 01-10-15
By: S. C. Gwynne
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 965
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 853
In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times best-selling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly 20 years, bringing to life America's greatest and most iconic hero. Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good But Not Great
- By David Wardell on 05-12-15
By: Michael Korda
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Conquered
- Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
- By: Larry J. Daniel
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alas, alas
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By: Larry J. Daniel
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"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken"
- Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863
- By: Thomas J. Ryan, Richard R. Schaus
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863 focuses on the immediate aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia.
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By: Thomas J. Ryan, and others
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumter to Perryville
- By: Shelby Foote
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 42 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,031
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,768
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,761
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!
- By The Louligan on 08-22-13
By: Shelby Foote
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Shiloh
- In Hell before Night
- By: James Lee Mcdonough
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Colorful, dramatic, blundering, and tragic - these are some of the adjectives that have been applied to the two-day engagement at Shiloh. This battle, which bears the biblical name meaning “place of peace,” was one of the bloodiest encounters of the Civil War. The Union colonel, whose words give the present book its title, foretold the losses when he told his men: “Fill your canteens Boys! Some of you will be in hell before night….” Fought in the early spring of 1862 on the west bank of the Mississippi state line, Shiloh was, up to that time, the biggest battle of American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overall not bad
- By J. on 02-02-19
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers
- The Texas Victory That Changed American History
- By: Brian Kilmeade
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,191
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,041
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,036
In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than 200 Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After 13 days of fighting, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans who had moved to Texas looking for a fresh start. It was a crushing blow to Texas' fight for freedom. But the story doesn’t end there. The defeat galvanized the Texian settlers, and under General Sam Houston’s leadership, they rallied. Six weeks after the Alamo, Houston and his band of settlers defeated Santa Anna’s army in a shocking victory.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gotta talk like Texans
- By younggranny on 11-11-19
By: Brian Kilmeade
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. By 1863, Sickles was notorious as a disgraced former Congressman who murdered his wife’s lover on the streets of Washington and used America’s first temporary insanity defense to escape justice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Backbiting
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: James A. Hessler
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Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life
- By: Albert Louis Zambone
- Narrated by: Tom Taverna
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
- By Rob K on 04-08-20
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1776
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,006
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14,466
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14,393
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Front Seat on History
- By Mark on 10-22-05
By: David McCullough
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The River War
- By: Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
The northeastern quarter of the continent of Africa is drained and watered by the Nile. Among and about the headstreams and tributaries of this mighty river lie the wide and fertile provinces of the Egyptian Soudan. Situated in the very centre of the land, these remote regions are on every side divided from the seas by 500 miles of mountain, swamp, or desert. The great river is their only means of growth, their only channel of progress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By TheGoldenGoose on 05-15-17
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Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard
- Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the “Commanding Ground” Along the Emmitsburg Road
- By: James A. Hessler, Britt C. Isenberg
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Licensed battlefield guide James Hessler has produced 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, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. For Civil War enthusiasts who want to understand General Sickles’ scandalous life, Gettysburg’s battlefield strategies, the in-fighting within the Army of the Potomac, and the development of today’s National Park will find Sickles at Gettysburg it is a must-listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional Book
- By Jimbo on 04-07-21
By: James A. Hessler, and others
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They Calle Him Stonewall
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"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken"
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- By: Thomas J. Ryan, Richard R. Schaus
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"Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863 focuses on the immediate aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the "literal or substantial destruction" of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia.
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In this detailed and fascinating account of the legend of the "Wizard of the Saddle," we see a man whose strengths and flaws were both of towering proportions, a man possessed of physical valor perhaps unprecedented among his countrymen. And, ironically, Forrest - the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - was a man whose social attitudes may well have changed farther in the direction of racial enlightenment over the span of his lifetime than those of most American historical figures.
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The complex Forrest
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This Mighty Scourge
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- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Introduction to McPherson
- By Roy on 05-03-09
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Look Away!
- A History of the Confederate States of America
- By: William C. Davis
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 23 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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William C. Davis, one of America’s best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and incipient nation.
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Not even close
- By Anonymous User on 08-28-23
By: William C. Davis
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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War
- By: Tim Rowland
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War moments.
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4 out of 5 stars
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INTERESTING & FUNNY
- By The Louligan on 08-01-14
By: Tim Rowland
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- Marty
- 03-22-24
love the personal accounts
personal accounts from enlisted to generals made the story feel like you lived what the went though on a day to day
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- Joni Jenkins
- 03-06-23
Narrator sounds like "Vampire Bill" Tru blood
I agree with other reviews as this is secondhand information. It jumps around quite a bit. I would recommend the book but not the narrator.
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- Dan Greene
- 07-19-23
A great author
Excellent! You will be taken on a frontline tour of the major battles East and some West.
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- j.kojack
- 03-07-24
souther View
outstanding southern view of the Civil War one one of the general who was there from beginning to the end.
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- fernanda p.
- 08-19-22
A+
Second only to William T. Sherman’s, the best autobiographical account of the Civil War. (Audible is telling me an appropriate review must have a minimum of fifteen words; I disagree.)
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- Max
- 11-06-23
Great Review of History
I really enjoyed reading the perspective of a first-hand account of a general from the Southern side. It is fascinating to hear his push to be a unified American’s after the war.
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- Brian
- 04-29-22
great stories
this is full of stories about the Civil War from the eyes of one of CSA great leaders.
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- KnightT
- 05-05-22
A brave Christian rebel who rejoined the U.S.
This work was written long after the Civil War ended and shows the mindset of a Confederate general turned U.S. politician. There are many kind words from a politician reuniting members of a defeated Lost Cause back into the U.S. A lot of chapters are spent refighting battles if certain plans had changed or who won or lost key battles. It is an excellent view into the mind of a brave Christian general who outlived most Confederate generals and was able to write his version of the Civil War. He was severely wounded and almost died during the war. Many of his friends and fellow generals were killed in the war. This appears to have given him a philosophy regarding southern bravery and ideal manhood.
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- Helpful Citizen
- 12-14-22
Decent story. Bad reading.
Story was good, although it jumps around way too much, and a large portion of the stories are secondhand anecdotes. The reader’s fake southern accent is highly annoying and makes it very hard to enjoy the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-28-22
Narrator kills a great book
This book is a treasure trove of interesting stories from the Civil War, but the narrator ruins it. It is clear that this book is a collection of memories—that do not always “lead” to the next memory—but the narrator tries to read as if all the memories are connected. The end result is a confusing narration that leads you wondering what on earth you’re listening to.
Skip the listen and buy the actual book.
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