Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers by James F. Simon (Simon & Schuster)
Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign by Buck Foster (University of Alabama Press)
Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, 1863 by Bruce Nichols (McFarland & Co.)
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence by A.J. Langguth (Simon & Schuster)
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows by Gabor Boritt (Simon & Schuster)
Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller (Simon & Schuster)
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941 – 1945 by Evan Thomas (Simon & Schuster)