Bruce Catton

Bruce Catton

Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan on October 9th, 1899 and passed away at the age of 78 on August 28th, 1978.

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Bruce Catton Stats: The most read book by Bruce Catton on Book Notification is A Stillness at Appomattox, the first novel in the Army of the Potomac Trilogy series. The second most read book is Never Call Retreat (The Centennial History of the Civil War #3).

Below is a complete list of Bruce Catton books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Army of the Potomac Trilogy in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
10
A Stillness at Appomattox
1951
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2
Glory Road
1952
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3
Mr. Lincoln's Army
1962
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List of Grant Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Grant Moves South
1960
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2
Grant Takes Command 1863-1865
1969
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, Waiting for the Morning Train, and A Short History of the Civil War.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The War Lords Of Washington
1948
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2
Banners at Shenandoah
1955
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3
America Goes to War
1958
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4
The Penguin Book of the American Civil War
1960
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5
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War
1960
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6
The Civil War
1960
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7
Gettysburg: The Final Fury
1963
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8
Two Roads to Sumter (With: William Catton)
1963
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9
Waiting for the Morning Train (With: William B. Catton)
1972
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10
A Short History of the Civil War
1976
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11
The Bold and Magnificent Dream (With: William B. Catton)
1978
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12
Reflections on the Civil War
1981
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13
Bruce Catton's Civil War
1984
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14
Grant Moves South, 1861-1863
1990
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15
Waiting For The Morning Train An American Boyhood
2013
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16
Last Days of the Civil War: The Enormous Silence
2015
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17
U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition
2015
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18
Antietam
2016
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19
The Battle of Gettysburg
2017
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20
Shiloh
2017
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21
The Meaning of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Chicago Historical Society, April 12, 1961
2018
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List of States and the Nation Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top States and the Nation books are Michigan, New York, and South Carolina.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
South Carolina (By: Louis B. Wright)
1976
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2
Michigan
1976
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3
Ohio (By: Walter Havighurst)
1976
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4
New Mexico (By: Marc Simmons)
1977
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5
Nevada (By: Robert Laxalt)
1977
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6
Wyoming (By: T.A. Larson)
1977
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7
Missouri (By: Paul C. Nagel)
1977
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8
Montana (By: Clark C. Spence)
1978
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9
Mississippi (By: John Ray Skates)
1979
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10
New York
1981
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11
Colorado (By: Marshall Sprague)
1984
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12
Texas (By: Joe Bertram Frantz)
1984
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13
Kansas (By: Kenneth S. Davis)
1984
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14
New Jersey (By: Thomas Fleming)
1984
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15
West Virginia (By: John Alexander Williams)
1984
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16
Rhode Island (By: William Gerald McLoughlin)
1986
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17
Minnesota (By: William E. Lass)
2000
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List of Great Lakes Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Great Lakes books are Waiting for the Morning Train, Great Girls in Michigan History, and Call It North Country.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens (By: Harry Barnard, David L. Lewis)
1958
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2
The Detroit Riot of 1967 (By: Hubert G. Locke)
1969
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3
Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence (By: B.J. Widick, Horace L. Sheffield Jr.)
1972
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4
Waiting for the Morning Train (With: William B. Catton)
1972
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5
Call It North Country ( By: John Bartlow Martin)
1986
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6
Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow (By: Robert Traver)
1987
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7
Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It (By: Joe Grimm)
1987
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8
Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (By: Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Edmund Cardinal Szoka)
1990
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9
Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit (By: Richard Bak)
1991
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10
John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (By: John D. Haeger)
1991
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11
Queen of the Lakes (By: Mark L. Thompson)
1994
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12
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 (By: Richard Bak)
1994
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13
The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes (By: Charles K. Hyde, Ann Mahan, John Mahan)
1994
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14
Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (By: June Manning Thomas)
1997
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15
The Long Winter Ends (By: Newton G. Thomas, William Mulligan)
1998
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16
All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement (By: Carlotta R. Anderson)
1998
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17
Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (By: Sunnie Wilson, John Cohassey)
1998
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18
Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War (By: Frank B. Woodford, Arthur M. Woodford)
1998
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19
Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake (By: Napier Shelton)
1999
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20
A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters (By: Mark L. Thompson)
1999
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21
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968 (By: Sidney Fine)
2000
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22
Graveyard of the Lakes (By: Mark L. Thompson)
2000
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23
Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast (By: William Ashworth)
2000
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24
History of the Finns in Michigan (By: Armas K.E. Holmio, Ellen M. Ryynanen)
2001
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25
Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 (By: R. Alan Douglas)
2002
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26
Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (By: Joe Grimm, Ivan Walton)
2002
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27
Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War (By: Leroy Barnett)
2003
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28
Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation (By: Charles K. Hyde)
2003
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29
The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 (By: Jean Lamarre)
2003
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30
Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan (By: Elizabeth B. Sherman)
2003
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31
A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law (By: David Gardner Chardavoyne)
2003
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32
Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company (By: Charles K. Hyde, J.C. Long)
2003
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33
Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum (By: Heidi Johnson)
2004
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34
Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood (By: Anne-Marie Oomen)
2004
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35
To Keep the South Manitou Light (By: Anna Egan Smucker)
2004
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36
"I Hope to Do My Country Service" : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry (By: Robert Beasecker, William M. Anderson)
2005
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37
The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy (By: Charles K. Hyde)
2005
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38
Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton (By: Joe Grimm, Ivan H. Walton)
2005
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39
Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils (By: Charles Ferguson Barker)
2005
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40
My Forty Years With Ford (By: John Kenneth Galbraith)
2006
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41
House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education (By: Anne-Marie Oomen)
2006
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42
A Pocketful of Passage (By: Loraine Campbell)
2007
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43
Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 (By: Marijean Levering)
2007
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44
A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke (By: William H. Mulligan Jr.)
2007
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45
Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir (By: Neal Shine)
2007
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46
When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45 (By: Neal Shine, Robert E. Quirk)
2007
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47
Who's Jim Hines? (By: Jean Alicia Elster)
2008
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48
Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors (By: Charles K. Hyde)
2009
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49
Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation (By: Anthony J. Yanik)
2009
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50
The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights (By: Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, David Elsila)
2010
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51
Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent (By: William Greenleaf, David L. Lewis)
2011
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52
Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006 (By: Terry S. Reynolds, Virginia P. Dawson)
2011
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53
The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull (By: Anthony J. Yanik)
2011
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54
Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake (By: John Gagnon)
2012
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55
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics (By: David G. Chardavoyne)
2012
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56
Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier's Civil War Journal (By: Mark Hoffman, William Horton Kimball)
2013
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57
The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise (By: Jayne Morris-Crowther)
2013
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58
The Colored Car (By: Jean Alicia Elster)
2013
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59
Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II (By: Charles K. Hyde)
2013
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60
"Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War (By: Paul Taylor)
2013
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61
8
Great Girls in Michigan History (By: Patricia Majher)
2015
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62
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit (By: Julia Marie Robinson)
2015
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63
Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years (By: Sidney Olsen)
2015
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64
Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933 (By: Michael W. Nagle)
2015
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65
A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek (By: Gerald Wykes)
2016
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66
Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes (By: William Rapai)
2016
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67
Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture (By: Michael G. Smith)
2017
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68
To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey (By: Barbara Carney-Coston)
2017
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69
Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities (By: Gary S. Sands)
2017
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70
Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community (By: Edmund Jefferson Danziger Jr.)
2017
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71
Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company (By: C. Roger Pellett)
2018
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72
Bold Boys in Michigan History (By: Patricia Majher)
2018
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73
John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age (By: Brian C. Wilson)
2018
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74
Rosie, A Detroit Herstory (By: Bailey Sisoy Isgro)
2018
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75
Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit (By: Alesia Montgomery)
2020
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76
What the Chickadee Knows (By: Margaret Noodin)
2020
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77
A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (By: David Gardner Chardavoyne, Hugh W. Brenneman Jr)
2020
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78
I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I (By: Hilary Connor)
2020
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List of The Centennial History of the Civil War Books in Publication Order (with E.B. Long)

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Coming Fury
1961
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2
9
Terrible Swift Sword
1962
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3
9
Never Call Retreat
1965
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List of Wordsworth Military Library Books in Publication Order

Concise military histories covering World War II naval battles, the European theater's politics, and the American Civil War.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Drama Of The Scharnhorst (By: Fritz-Otto Busch)
1951
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2
The Struggle for Europe (By: Chester Wilmot)
1952
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3
The Crecy War (By: Alfred H. Burne)
1955
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4
10
This Hallowed Ground
1955
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5
The Agincourt War (By: Alfred H. Burne)
1956
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6
The Generalship of Alexander the Great (By: J.F.C. Fuller)
1958
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7
8.5
The Longest Day (By: Cornelius Ryan)
1959
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8
Julius Caesar (By: J Fuller)
1965
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9
Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses (By: A.L. Rowse)
1966
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10
A Concise History of Warfare (By: Bernard Montgomery)
1972
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11
Queen Victoria's Little Wars (By: Byron Farwell)
1972
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12
The Peninsular War (By: Roger Parkinson)
1973
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13
Winston Churchill (By: Henry Pelling)
1974
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14
The Hussar General: The Life of Blücher, Man of Waterloo (By: Roger Parkinson)
1975
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15
Rorke's drift (By: Michael Glover)
1975
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16
The Thin Yellow Line (By: William Moore)
1975
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17
The Great Anglo-Boer War (By: Byron Farwell)
1976
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18
The Battle of Loos (By: Philip Warner)
1976
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19
The English Civil War (By: Peter Young, Richard Holmes)
1976
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20
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox (By: David Irving)
1977
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21
Battle of Britain (By: Max Hastings, Len Deighton)
1980
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22
The Great War (By: Correlli Barnett)
1980
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23
Flying Colours: The Epic Story Of Douglas Bader (By: Laddie Lucas)
1981
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24
The Right of the Line (By: John Terraine)
1985
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25
The Military Experience In The Age Of Reason (By: Christopher Duffy)
1987
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26
The 1916 Battle of the Somme Reconsidered (By: Peter H. Liddle)
1988
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27
Business In Great Waters (By: John Terraine)
1989
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28
A Dictionary of Napoleonic Wars (By: David G. Chandler)
1993
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29
Crusades (By: Robert Payne)
1998
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30
Aramada the Planning the Battle and After (By: Robert Milne Tyte)
1998
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31
Slim: The Standardbearer: A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (By: Ronald Lewin)
1999
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32
Midway (By: Walter Lord)
2000
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33
Guide to the Battlefields of Europe (By: David Chandler)
2007
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List of American Heritage History Books in Publication Order

Presents vivid accounts of America's history through compelling narratives and historic images.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
American Heritage History of the Pioneers (By: Richard M. Ketchum)
1959
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2
The American Heritage New History of the Civil War
1960
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3
American Heritage History of World War I (By: S.L.A. Marshall)
1964
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4
The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places (By: Richard M. Ketchum)
1973
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5
The American Heritage: Short History Of The Civil War
1978
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6
Bruce Catton's America: Selections From His Greatest Works
1979
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7
American Heritage History of the United States (By: Douglas Brinkley)
1998
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8
American Heritage History of the Presidents (By: Michael R. Beschloss)
2000
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9
American Heritage History of the Great West (By: David Lavender)
2014
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10
American Heritage History of Young America: 1783-1860 (By: Francis Russell)
2015
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11
American Heritage History of the American People (By: Bernard A. Weisberger)
2015
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12
American Heritage History of the Indian Wars (By: Robert M. Utley)
2015
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13
Eyewitness to History: World War II (By: Stephen W. Sears)
2015
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14
American Heritage History of American Business (By: Alex Groner)
2016
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15
7
American Heritage History of Early America (By: Robert G. Ahearn)
2016
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16
American Heritage History of the Presidents Washington to Van Buren
2016
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17
The Erie Canal (By: Ralph K. Andrist)
2016
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18
American Heritage History of the Confident Years: 1866-1914 (By: Francis Russell)
2016
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19
American Heritage History of Mexico (By: Henry Bamford Parkes)
2017
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20
Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston: An Oral History (By: Sheree Scarborough)
2025
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21
South Carolina's Matilda Evans: A Medical Pioneer (By: Dr. Walter B. Curry Jr. EdD)
2025
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List of Bruce Catton Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Non-Fiction Writing, Vol IV
1960
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2
Grant, Lee, Lincoln and the Radicals: Essays on Civil War Leadership
2001
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3
40 Model Essays
2005
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Bruce Catton

Bruce Catton was born on October 9th, 1899. Bruce passed away August 28th, 1978 at 78 years old. Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan.

Bruce Catton has written 21 Non-Fiction Books. The first was released in 1948 with the book The War Lords Of Washington. The most recently released was The Meaning of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Chicago Historical Society, April 12, 1961 which was released in 2018.

Bruce Catton also wrote the American Heritage History series which has 21 books including American Heritage History of the Pioneers and The American Heritage New History of the Civil War.

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Bruce Catton: F.A.Q

When was Bruce Catton Born?

Bruce Catton was born on October 9th, 1899.

When did Bruce Catton die?

Bruce Catton died on August 28th, 1978 at 78 years old.

Where was Bruce Catton Born?

Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan.

What was the first book Bruce Catton wrote?

The first book written by Bruce Catton was The War Lords Of Washington, published in 1948.

What was the most recent book Bruce Catton wrote?

Their most recently released work was The Meaning of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Chicago Historical Society, April 12, 1961 (a short story) on August 4th, 2018.

What is the most popular book by Bruce Catton?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Bruce Catton book is A Stillness at Appomattox. Here are their most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. A Stillness at Appomattox (10.00)
  2. Never Call Retreat (9.00)
  3. Terrible Swift Sword (9.00)
  4. This Hallowed Ground (10.00)

How many books has Bruce Catton written?

Bruce Catton has written 36 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 3 books in the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, 2 books in the Grant Series, 21 Non-Fiction Books, 2 books in the States and the Nation Series, 1 book in the Great Lakes Series, 3 books in The Centennial History of the Civil War Series, 1 book in the Wordsworth Military Library Series, 4 books in the American Heritage History Series.

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