Pilietinis karas

Epinė Amerikos pilietinio karo kova tarp Šiaurės ir Pietų atgyja per įtraukiančius mūšio lauko pasakojimus, įžvalgius lyderių portretus ir paprastų karių, patekusių į neįprastus laikus, istorijas. Šios galingos knygos tyrinėja karo politinį sudėtingumą, karines strategijas ir gilų žmogiškąjį kainą, kai susiskaldžiusi tauta kovojo dėl savo ateities ir sielos apibrėžimo.

Pilietinis karas knygų santraukos

Auksinis sūnus

parašė Pierce Brown

The Red agent inside Gold society must fracture an empire before his heart betrays him.

4.50

500 000+

🚀 Space Opera 🪖 Military Sci-Fi 👤 Deep Cover Agent 🫂 Found Family ⛓️ Caste System

Įtraukiantys

Auksinis sūnus

The Red agent inside Gold society must fracture an empire before his heart betrays him.

parašė Pierce Brown 2015 466 puslapiai

4.50

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🚀 Space Opera 🪖 Military Sci-Fi 👤 Deep Cover Agent 🫂 Found Family ⛓️ Caste System

The Fountains of Silence

parašė Ruta Sepetys • 2019

An American photographer falls for a hotel maid in 1957 Madrid, where her silence hides a crime.

4.30

83 000+

🕊️ Post-Civil War Spain 🏴 Franco's Dictatorship 🇺🇸 American Abroad 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏨 Hotel Setting

The Fountains of Silence

An American photographer falls for a hotel maid in 1957 Madrid, where her silence hides a crime.

parašė Ruta Sepetys 2019 495 puslapiai

4.30

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🕊️ Post-Civil War Spain 🏴 Franco's Dictatorship 🇺🇸 American Abroad 💔 Forbidden Romance 🏨 Hotel Setting

Vėjo nublokšti

parašė Margaret Mitchell • 1936

War burns down her world. Starvation sharpens her. The men she marries are just survival.

4.31

1 000 000+

🏛️ Antebellum South ⚔️ Civil War Epic 💚 Morally Gray Heroine 💔 Unrequited Love 🥀 Tragic Romance

Įtraukiantys

Vėjo nublokšti

War burns down her world. Starvation sharpens her. The men she marries are just survival.

parašė Margaret Mitchell 1936 1037 puslapiai

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🏛️ Antebellum South ⚔️ Civil War Epic 💚 Morally Gray Heroine 💔 Unrequited Love 🥀 Tragic Romance

March

parašė Geraldine Brooks • 2005

The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.

3.82

79 000+

🔥 Civil War Fiction ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 📖 Reimagined Classic 🌟 Idealistic Protagonist 💔 Marriage Under Strain

March

The father of Little Women writes home from war, hiding the brutality eroding his faith.

parašė Geraldine Brooks 2005 280 puslapiai

3.82

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🔥 Civil War Fiction ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 📖 Reimagined Classic 🌟 Idealistic Protagonist 💔 Marriage Under Strain

Amity

parašė Nathan Harris • 2025

To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.

3.76

5 000+

🕊️ Post-Emancipation 💔 Separated Siblings 🏜️ Survival Journey 🏘️ Freedom Settlement 🏚️ Post-Civil War South

Amity

To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.

parašė Nathan Harris 2025 320 puslapiai

3.76

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🕊️ Post-Emancipation 💔 Separated Siblings 🏜️ Survival Journey 🏘️ Freedom Settlement 🏚️ Post-Civil War South

Master Slave Husband Wife

parašė Ilyon Woo • 2023

Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.

3.97

18 000+

🏃 Slave Escapes ⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement 🎭 Racial Passing ⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law 🏛️ Antebellum America

Master Slave Husband Wife

Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.

parašė Ilyon Woo 2023 416 puslapiai

3.97

18 000+ įvertinimai

🏃 Slave Escapes ⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement 🎭 Racial Passing ⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Widow of the South

parašė Robert Hicks • 2005

A grieving widow buries 1,500 fallen soldiers in her garden, seeking purpose among the dead.

3.78

18 000+

🔥 Civil War Fiction 🏥 Field Hospital 🤕 Wounded Soldier ⚰️ War Cemetery 🌿 Quiet Resilience

The Widow of the South

A grieving widow buries 1,500 fallen soldiers in her garden, seeking purpose among the dead.

parašė Robert Hicks 2005 436 puslapiai

3.78

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🔥 Civil War Fiction 🏥 Field Hospital 🤕 Wounded Soldier ⚰️ War Cemetery 🌿 Quiet Resilience

The Republic for Which It Stands

parašė Richard White • 2017

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

4.16

1 000+

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The Republic for Which It Stands

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

parašė Richard White 2017 962 puslapiai

4.16

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

Wilmington's Lie

parašė David Zucchino • 2020

Before Jim Crow there was an 1898 coup that erased a Southern city's black leadership.

4.43

4 000+

💀 White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📰 Yellow Journalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression

Wilmington's Lie

Before Jim Crow there was an 1898 coup that erased a Southern city's black leadership.

parašė David Zucchino 2020 426 puslapiai

4.43

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💀 White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📰 Yellow Journalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression

Personal Memoirs Personal Memoirs Personal Memoirs

parašė Ulysses S. Grant • 1885

Cancer-ridden and bankrupt, a president writes the war he won, racing death to save his family.

4.14

9 000+

🏛️ Civil War Campaigns 🎖️ Military Memoir 🗺️ Strategic Command 🚂 Military Logistics 💡 Military Realism

Personal Memoirs Personal Memoirs Personal Memoirs

Cancer-ridden and bankrupt, a president writes the war he won, racing death to save his family.

parašė Ulysses S. Grant 1885

4.14

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🏛️ Civil War Campaigns 🎖️ Military Memoir 🗺️ Strategic Command 🚂 Military Logistics 💡 Military Realism

Blood on the Moon

parašė Edward Steers Jr. • 2001

Lincoln's assassination was the final act of a secret Confederate campaign of targeted killing.

4.17

500+

🦅 Civil War History 🔫 Political Assassination 🕸️ Conspiracy Networks ⛓️ Racial Violence ⚖️ Military Tribunals

Blood on the Moon

Lincoln's assassination was the final act of a secret Confederate campaign of targeted killing.

parašė Edward Steers Jr. 2001 400 puslapiai

4.17

500+ įvertinimai

🦅 Civil War History 🔫 Political Assassination 🕸️ Conspiracy Networks ⛓️ Racial Violence ⚖️ Military Tribunals

The Wrath of Cochise

parašė Terry Mort • 2013

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

3.73

217

🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

The Wrath of Cochise

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

parašė Terry Mort 2013 400 puslapiai

3.73

217 įvertinimai

🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

Loyal in Love

parašė Jean Plaidy • 1983

A French Catholic queen in exile wonders if her faith destroyed the king she loved.

3.75

1 000+

📜 Stuart England 💍 Political Marriage 👸 Foreign Queen ✝️ Religious Conflict 🗡️ Court Conspiracy

Loyal in Love

A French Catholic queen in exile wonders if her faith destroyed the king she loved.

parašė Jean Plaidy 1983 432 puslapiai

3.75

1 000+ įvertinimai

📜 Stuart England 💍 Political Marriage 👸 Foreign Queen ✝️ Religious Conflict 🗡️ Court Conspiracy

Reconstruction

parašė Eric Foner • 1988

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

4.22

6 000+

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

Reconstruction

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

parašė Eric Foner 1988 690 puslapiai

4.22

6 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

How the South Won the Civil War

parašė Heather Cox Richardson • 2020

Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.

4.31

5 000+

🇺🇸 American Political History 🏛️ Oligarchy Studies 🐎 Frontier Mythology ⛓️ Racial Hierarchy 🗳️ Voter Suppression

How the South Won the Civil War

Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.

parašė Heather Cox Richardson 2020 272 puslapiai

4.31

5 000+ įvertinimai

🇺🇸 American Political History 🏛️ Oligarchy Studies 🐎 Frontier Mythology ⛓️ Racial Hierarchy 🗳️ Voter Suppression

Booth

parašė Karen Joy Fowler • 2022

Six Booth siblings grow up among Shakespeare, scandal, and ghosts. One will assassinate a president.

3.82

15 000+

🎭 Family Saga 🎪 Theater Family 🏛️ Antebellum America 👻 Haunted By The Past ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

Booth

Six Booth siblings grow up among Shakespeare, scandal, and ghosts. One will assassinate a president.

parašė Karen Joy Fowler 2022 470 puslapiai

3.82

15 000+ įvertinimai

🎭 Family Saga 🎪 Theater Family 🏛️ Antebellum America 👻 Haunted By The Past ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

The Original Black Elite

parašė Elizabeth Dowling Taylor • 2017

Reconstruction built a Black elite in Washington D.C. Jim Crow buried them and erased their story.

4.03

279

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📜 Black Elite History 🕊️ Racial Uplift 🔍 Forgotten Histories 🚫 Jim Crow America

The Original Black Elite

Reconstruction built a Black elite in Washington D.C. Jim Crow buried them and erased their story.

parašė Elizabeth Dowling Taylor 2017 512 puslapiai

4.03

279 įvertinimai

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📜 Black Elite History 🕊️ Racial Uplift 🔍 Forgotten Histories 🚫 Jim Crow America

A Necessary Evil

parašė Garry Wills • 1999

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

3.78

196

🏛️ Political History 📜 Constitutional History 🏴 Government Distrust 🕵️ Political Myths ⚖️ Federalism

A Necessary Evil

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

parašė Garry Wills 1999 368 puslapiai

3.78

196 įvertinimai

🏛️ Political History 📜 Constitutional History 🏴 Government Distrust 🕵️ Political Myths ⚖️ Federalism

Jews vs. Rome

parašė Barry S. Strauss • 2025

Rome burned the Temple and erased Judea from the map. The Jewish people outlasted the empire.

4.16

390

⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🏛️ Roman History ✡️ Jewish History 🌍 Imperial Overreach 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare

Jews vs. Rome

Rome burned the Temple and erased Judea from the map. The Jewish people outlasted the empire.

parašė Barry S. Strauss 2025 384 puslapiai

4.16

390 įvertinimai

⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🏛️ Roman History ✡️ Jewish History 🌍 Imperial Overreach 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare

Mortal Republic

parašė Edward J. Watts • 2018

Rome's republic wasn't conquered. Its own citizens dismantled it, choice by choice, over a century.

4.06

1 000+

🏛️ Roman Republic 🏺 Ancient Rome 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚔️ Political Violence 💰 Wealth Inequality

Mortal Republic

Rome's republic wasn't conquered. Its own citizens dismantled it, choice by choice, over a century.

parašė Edward J. Watts 2018 336 puslapiai

4.06

1 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Roman Republic 🏺 Ancient Rome 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚔️ Political Violence 💰 Wealth Inequality

Slavery's Constitution

parašė David Waldstreicher • 2009

Six of 84 clauses protected slavery. The compromise that made the Civil War inevitable.

3.69

250

📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Slavery And Law 💥 Sectional Conflict

Slavery's Constitution

Six of 84 clauses protected slavery. The compromise that made the Civil War inevitable.

parašė David Waldstreicher 2009 208 puslapiai

3.69

250 įvertinimai

📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Slavery And Law 💥 Sectional Conflict

Ghosts of Belle Isle

parašė Steven K. Smith • 2014

Chasing ghost stories onto a Civil War prison island, two brothers find the danger is real.

4.21

500+

🏛️ Civil War History 👻 Ghost Stories 👥 Sibling Dynamics 🔍 Neighborhood Mystery 💪 Bullies To Face

Ghosts of Belle Isle

Chasing ghost stories onto a Civil War prison island, two brothers find the danger is real.

parašė Steven K. Smith 2014 196 puslapiai

4.21

500+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Civil War History 👻 Ghost Stories 👥 Sibling Dynamics 🔍 Neighborhood Mystery 💪 Bullies To Face

Freedom’s Dominion

parašė Jefferson R. Cowie • 2022

One Alabama county's 'freedom' meant the right to dominate. The history and the national fallout.

4.50

500+

🏛️ Southern History 🔥 White Supremacy 🏗️ Reconstruction History 🩸 Racial Violence 🏴 Anti-Statism

Freedom’s Dominion

One Alabama county's 'freedom' meant the right to dominate. The history and the national fallout.

parašė Jefferson R. Cowie 2022 512 puslapiai

4.50

500+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Southern History 🔥 White Supremacy 🏗️ Reconstruction History 🩸 Racial Violence 🏴 Anti-Statism

West of Slavery

parašė Kevin Waite • 2021

The slave South wanted a Pacific empire and nearly built one before the Civil War.

4.54

🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🚂 Railroad Politics ⚔️ Civil War West

West of Slavery

The slave South wanted a Pacific empire and nearly built one before the Civil War.

parašė Kevin Waite 2021 384 puslapiai

4.54

52 įvertinimai

🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🚂 Railroad Politics ⚔️ Civil War West

ROOTS OF SOUTHERN POPULISM

parašė Steven Hahn • 1985

Before Populism, Georgia's yeomen lost their land and independence to merchants, cotton, and debt.

3.78

🌾 Agrarian History 🔨 Reconstruction Era 🌱 Sharecropping 👥 Class Formation 🐄 Common Rights

ROOTS OF SOUTHERN POPULISM

Before Populism, Georgia's yeomen lost their land and independence to merchants, cotton, and debt.

parašė Steven Hahn 1985 373 puslapiai

3.78

74 įvertinimai

🌾 Agrarian History 🔨 Reconstruction Era 🌱 Sharecropping 👥 Class Formation 🐄 Common Rights

Yankee Leviathan

parašė Richard Franklin Bensel • 1991

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

3.69

📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

Yankee Leviathan

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

parašė Richard Franklin Bensel 1991 466 puslapiai

3.69

49 įvertinimai

📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

A Nation Without Borders

parašė Steven Hahn • 2016

The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.

4.00

332

🏛️ American Empire 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🏜️ New Western History ⚔️ Civil War And Reconstruction 🗺️ Continental Expansion

A Nation Without Borders

The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.

parašė Steven Hahn 2016 608 puslapiai

4.00

332 įvertinimai

🏛️ American Empire 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🏜️ New Western History ⚔️ Civil War And Reconstruction 🗺️ Continental Expansion

A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877

parašė Eric Foner • 1990

After the Civil War, America built an interracial democracy, then destroyed it.

4.04

2 000+

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🕊️ Emancipation Studies 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Change

A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877

After the Civil War, America built an interracial democracy, then destroyed it.

parašė Eric Foner 1990 297 puslapiai

4.04

2 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🕊️ Emancipation Studies 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Change

A Nation Under Our Feet

parašė Steven Hahn • 2003

Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.

4.11

500+

🗳️ Reconstruction Era 🌾 Southern History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🧠 Black Political Thought 🛡️ Resistance And Survival

A Nation Under Our Feet

Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.

parašė Steven Hahn 2003 624 puslapiai

4.11

500+ įvertinimai

🗳️ Reconstruction Era 🌾 Southern History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🧠 Black Political Thought 🛡️ Resistance And Survival

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

parašė Herbert Aptheker • 1966

A solar eclipse, a prophet's vision, and 40 hours that forced the South to defend slavery openly.

3.55

🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery ✊ Slave Rebellion 🩸 Racial Violence 🕊️ Abolitionism

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

A solar eclipse, a prophet's vision, and 40 hours that forced the South to defend slavery openly.

parašė Herbert Aptheker 1966 176 puslapiai

3.55

64 įvertinimai

🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery ✊ Slave Rebellion 🩸 Racial Violence 🕊️ Abolitionism

October

parašė China Miéville • 2017

Ten months, one empire, and a revolution that no one had written the ending for.

3.91

6 000+

🇷🇺 Russian Revolution ☭ Soviet History ✊ Revolutionary Movements 🏴 Political Insurrection 👥 Mass Movements

October

Ten months, one empire, and a revolution that no one had written the ending for.

parašė China Miéville 2017 369 puslapiai

3.91

6 000+ įvertinimai

🇷🇺 Russian Revolution ☭ Soviet History ✊ Revolutionary Movements 🏴 Political Insurrection 👥 Mass Movements

The Republic of Violence

parašė J.D. Dickey • 2022

The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.

4.03

🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ American Abolitionism 🔥 Racial Violence 🎩 Jacksonian Era ⛪ Evangelical Reform

The Republic of Violence

The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.

parašė J.D. Dickey 2022 408 puslapiai

4.03

34 įvertinimai

🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ American Abolitionism 🔥 Racial Violence 🎩 Jacksonian Era ⛪ Evangelical Reform

The Interbellum Constitution

parašė Alison L. LaCroix • 2024

Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.

4.47

⚖️ American Legal History 🏛️ Federalism ⏳ Antebellum America 📜 States' Rights ⛓️ Slavery And The Law

The Interbellum Constitution

Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.

parašė Alison L. LaCroix 2024 576 puslapiai

4.47

17 įvertinimai

⚖️ American Legal History 🏛️ Federalism ⏳ Antebellum America 📜 States' Rights ⛓️ Slavery And The Law

Gods and Generals

parašė Jeff Shaara • 1996

Lee, Jackson, Hancock, Chamberlain: four men, one civil war, and the private agonies behind command.

4.09

37 000+

📚 Civil War Epic 💔 Divided Loyalties ⚔️ Brothers In Arms 🙏 Faith Under Fire 🎭 Tragic Inevitability

Gods and Generals

Lee, Jackson, Hancock, Chamberlain: four men, one civil war, and the private agonies behind command.

parašė Jeff Shaara 1996 498 puslapiai

4.09

37 000+ įvertinimai

📚 Civil War Epic 💔 Divided Loyalties ⚔️ Brothers In Arms 🙏 Faith Under Fire 🎭 Tragic Inevitability

Spying on the South

parašė Tony Horwitz • 2019

America's red-blue fault line was forged in the 1850s South. Retracing Olmsted's journey proves it.

4.00

4 000+

🚙 American Travelogues ⛓️ Antebellum South ⚡ Political Polarization 🏞️ Democratic Public Space ⚖️ Systemic Inequality

Spying on the South

America's red-blue fault line was forged in the 1850s South. Retracing Olmsted's journey proves it.

parašė Tony Horwitz 2019

4.00

4 000+ įvertinimai

🚙 American Travelogues ⛓️ Antebellum South ⚡ Political Polarization 🏞️ Democratic Public Space ⚖️ Systemic Inequality

The Wars of Reconstruction

parašė Douglas R. Egerton • 2013

Black voters were the majority in several southern states. Then the targeted assassinations began.

4.07

338

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Power ⚰️ Racial Terrorism 🌾 Land Redistribution 📜 Historical Revisionism

The Wars of Reconstruction

Black voters were the majority in several southern states. Then the targeted assassinations began.

parašė Douglas R. Egerton 2013 448 puslapiai

4.07

338 įvertinimai

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Power ⚰️ Racial Terrorism 🌾 Land Redistribution 📜 Historical Revisionism

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