Timothy B. Smith is a historian and author specializing in military history, particularly the American Civil War. A former National Park Service ranger at Shiloh National Military Park, he brings firsthand knowledge of historic battlefields to his scholarly work. Smith has authored several acclaimed books, including "Shiloh: Conquer or Perish" and "The Union Assaults at Vicksburg," which offer detailed analyses of pivotal Civil War campaigns. His research-driven approach and accessible narrative style have established him as a respected voice in Civil War historiography.
Currently a professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Smith combines academic rigor with a deep commitment to preserving battlefield landscapes. His works frequently explore leadership, strategy, and the human cost of war, drawing from extensive archival research. In addition to his standalone books, he has contributed to collaborative projects and peer-reviewed journals, further solidifying his reputation as a leading Civil War scholar. Smith continues to research, write, and educate, bridging the gap between academic history and public understanding.
Non-Fiction Books
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Year
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1
This Great Battlefield of Shiloh
2004
2
Champion Hill
2004
3
The Untold Story of Shiloh
2006
4
The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation
2008
5
A Chickamauga Memorial
2009
6
James Z. George
2012
7
Rethinking Shiloh
2013
8
The Mississippi Secession Convention
2014
9
Altogether Fitting and Proper
2017
10
The Real Horse Soldiers
2018
11
The Iron Dice of Battle
2023
Civil War Campaigns in the West Books
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Year
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1
The Shiloh Campaign (With: Brooks D. Simpson, Gary D. Joiner, Steven E. Woodworth, Grady McWhiney, Charles D. Grear, John R. Lundberg, Alex Mendoza)
2009
2
The Chickamauga Campaign (With: Lee White, Ethan S. Rafuse, Steven E. Woodworth, David A. Powell, William Glenn Robertson, John R. Lundberg, Alexander Mendoza)
2010
3
The Chattanooga Campaign (With: Brooks D. Simpson, Ethan S. Rafuse, Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Stewart L. Bennett, Justin S. Solonick, Alex Mendoza, Sam Davis Elliott)
2012
4
The Vicksburg Campaign, March 29–May 18, 1863 (With: Gary D. Joiner, Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Michael B. Ballard, Paul L. Schmelzer, J. Parker Hills, John R. Lundberg, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis, Jason M. Frawley)
2013
5
The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 (By: Brooks D. Simpson, Lee White, Steven E. Woodworth, Andrew S. Bledsoe, Scott L. Stabler, Stewart L. Bennett, John J Gaines, John R Lundberg, Jennifer M. Murray, Paul L. Schmelzer, Timothy B Smith, Jonathan M. Steplyk, D. L. Turner, Charles D. Grear)
2015
6
The Vicksburg Assaults, May 19-22, 1863 (By: Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Brandon Franke, J. Parker Hills)
2019
7
Vicksburg Besieged (By: Steven E. Woodworth, Andrew S. Bledsoe, Scott L. Stabler, John J Gaines, Jonathan M. Steplyk, Charles D. Grear, Martin J. Hershock, Richard H. Holloway, Justin S. Solonick)
2020
Heritage of Mississippi Books
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Year
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1
Religion in Mississippi (By: Randy J. Sparks)
2001
2
Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race (By: Stephen Cresswell)
2006
3
Mississippi in the Civil War
2010
4
The Civil War in Mississippi (By: Michael B. Ballard)
2011
5
Mississippi's American Indians (By: James F. Barnett Jr.)
2012
6
A Literary History of Mississippi (By: Lorie Watkins)
2017
Modern War Studies Books
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Year
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary (By: J.B. Jones, James I. Robertson Jr.)
1866
2
Battle Studies (By: Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant Du Picq, Roger J. Spiller, B06)
1880
3
America's First Battles, 1776-1965 (By: Charles E. Heller)
1986
4
Recruiting for Uncle Sam (By: David R. Segal)
1989
5
The Making of a Paratrooper (By: Kurt Gabel)
1990
6
Jefferson Davis and His Generals (By: Steven E. Woodworth)
1990
7
Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience., Volume One (By: David M. Glantz)
1991
8
Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience, Volume Two (By: David M. Glantz)
1991
9
In Deadly Combat (By: Gottlob Herbert Bidermann)
1995
10
Davis and Lee at War (By: Steven E. Woodworth)
1995
11
A Yankee Ace in the RAF (By: John H. Morrow Jr., Earl Rogers)
1996
12
Planning War, Pursuing Peace (By: Paul A.C. Koistinen)
1998
13
Stopped at Stalingrad (By: Joel S.A. Hayward)
1998
14
MacArthur's Airman (By: Thomas E. Griffith Jr.)
1998
15
Civil War Generals in Defeat (By: Steven E. Woodworth)
1999
16
The GI Offensive In Europe (By: Peter R. Mansoor)
1999
17
The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (By: Brian McAllister Linn)
2000
18
Secret Messages (By: David Alvarez)
2000
19
Hammer and Rifle (By: David R. Stone)
2000
20
Lee, Grant and Sherman (By: Douglas Southall Freeman, Albert E. Castel, Alfred H. Burne)
2000
21
While God Is Marching On (By: Steven E. Woodworth)
2001
22
Hell in Hürtgen Forest (By: Robert S. Rush)
2001
23
Diem's Final Failure (By: Philip E. Catton)
2002
24
Victory in Vietnam (By: Merle L. Pribbenow)
2002
25
Hitler's Volkssturm (By: David K. Yelton)
2002
26
Spies in the Vatican (By: David Alvarez)
2002
27
American Soldiers (By: Peter S. Kindsvatter)
2003
28
Hitler Strikes Poland (By: Alexander B. Rossino)
2003
29
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm (By: Robert M. Citino)
2004
30
Arsenal of World War II (By: Paul A.C. Koistinen)
2004
31
Abandoning Vietnam (By: James H. Willbanks)
2004
32
Honoring the Civil War Dead (By: John R. Neff)
2005
33
Launch the Intruders (By: Carol Reardon)
2005
34
Hitler's Police Battalions (By: Edward B. Westermann)
2005
35
The War for Korea, 1945-1950 (By: Allan Reed Millett)
2005
36
Germany and the Axis Powers (By: Richard L. DiNardo)
2005
37
ARVN (By: Robert K. Brigham)
2006
38
Commanding the Army of the Potomac (By: Stephen R. Taaffe)
2006
39
Military Justice in Vietnam (By: William Thomas Allison)
2006
40
Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers (By: Bryan Mark Rigg)
2007
41
General Walter Krueger (By: Kevin C. Holzimmer)
2007
42
800 Days on the Eastern Front (By: Stuart Britton, Nikolai Litvin)
2007
43
Churchill and His Generals (By: Raymond Callahan)
2007
44
A Gallant Little Army (By: Timothy D. Johnson)
2007
45
From Stalingrad to Pillau (By: Stuart Britton, Isaak Kobylyanskiy)
2008
46
The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat (By: Earl J. Hess)
2008
47
Through the Maelstrom (By: David M. Glantz, Boris Gorbachevsky, Stuart Britton)
2008
48
Targeting the Third Reich (By: Robert S. Ehlers Jr.)
2009
49
Japan's Imperial Army (By: Edward J. Drea)
2009
50
Punitive War (By: Clay Mountcastle)
2009
51
Kesselring's Last Battle (By: Kerstin von Lingen, Alexandra Klemm)
2009
52
Vietnam (By: John Prados)
2009
53
Allies against the Rising Sun (By: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes)
2009
54
The War for Korea, 1950-1951 (By: Allan Reed Millett)
2010
55
Hitler's Generals on Trial (By: Valerie Genevieve Hebert)
2010
56
America's Captives (By: Paul J. Springer)
2010
57
Forgotten Warriors (By: Thomas X. Hammes)
2010
58
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I (By: Glenn E. Torrey)
2011
59
Enduring Battle (By: Christopher H. Hamner)
2011
60
The Pope's Soldiers (By: David Alvarez)
2011
61
Reconstructing Iraq (By: Gordon W. Rudd)
2011
62
U.S. Army Doctrine (By: Walter E. Kretchik)
2011
63
Marshall and His Generals (By: Stephen R. Taaffe)
2011
64
Victors in Blue (By: Albert E. Castel, Brooks Simpson)
2011
65
The Wehrmacht Retreats (By: Robert M. Citino)
2012
66
Corinth 1862
2012
67
Yamashita's Ghost (By: Allan A. Ryan)
2012
68
Clash of Empires in South China (By: Franco David Macri)
2012
69
Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience, Volume Three (By: David M. Glantz, Harold S. Orenstein)
2013
70
Devil Dogs Chronicle (By: George B. Clark)
2013
71
The OSS in Burma (By: Troy J. Sacquety)
2013
72
Battalion Commanders at War (By: Steven Thomas Barry)
2013
73
The Morenci Marines (By: Kyle Longley)
2013
74
Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War (By: John H. Morrow Jr., Jeffrey T. Sammons)
2014
75
Scarlet Fields (By: John Lewis Barkley)
2014
76
Doughboys on the Great War (By: Edward A. Gutièrrez)
2014
77
Shiloh
2014
78
Sacrificing Childhood (By: Julie K. Degraffenried)
2014
79
Stopping the Panzers (By: Marc Milner)
2014
80
Holocaust versus Wehrmacht (By: Yaron Pasher)
2014
81
The Mediterranean Air War (By: Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.)
2015
82
The Pacific War and Contingent Victory (By: Michael W. Myers)
2015
83
Thunder and Flames (By: Edward G. Lengel)
2015
84
General Lesley J. McNair (By: Mark T. Calhoun)
2015
85
The Russian Army in the Great War (By: David R. Stone)
2015
86
Vietnam Rough Riders (By: Frank McAdams)
2015
87
Nixon's Nuclear Specter (By: William Burr, Jeffrey P. Kimball)
2015
88
The Red Army and the Great Terror (By: Peter Whitewood)
2015
89
Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 (By: Samuel Hideo Yamashita)
2015
90
When Titans Clashed (By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House)
2015
91
Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War (By: Laurie S. Stoff)
2015
92
Barbarossa 1941 (By: Frank Ellis)
2015
93
MacArthur's Korean War Generals (By: Stephen R. Taaffe)
2016
94
Vietnam's High Ground (By: John Paul Harris)
2016
95
Grant Invades Tennessee
2016
96
Military Service and American Democracy (By: William A. Taylor)
2016
97
Losing Binh Dinh (By: Kevin M. Boylan)
2016
98
Stalin's World War II Evacuations (By: Larry E. Holmes)
2017
99
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War (By: Michael M. Walker)
2017
100
A Military History of Afghanistan (By: Ali Ahmad Jalali)
2017
101
Pershing's Crusaders (By: Richard S. Faulkner)
2017
102
Stalingrad (By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House)
2017
103
Triumph at Imphal-Kohima (By: Raymond Callahan)
2017
104
The Big Red One (By: First Division Museum at Cantigny)
2017
105
FDR and the Soviet Union (By: Mary E. Glantz)
2017
106
Inglorious Passages (By: Brian Steel Wills)
2017
107
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand (By: Robert M. Citino)
2017
108
The Salvadoran Crucible (By: Brian D'Haeseleer)
2017
109
Operation Don's Main Attack (By: David M. Glantz)
2018
110
MacArthur's Coalition (By: Peter J. Dean)
2018
111
The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War (By: Jonathan M. House, Sean M. Judge, A23)
2018
112
Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 (By: Richard L. DiNardo, Daniel J. Hughes)
2018
113
Early Struggles for Vicksburg
2022
114
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg
2023
115
Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg (By: Steven E. Woodworth)
2024
116
Grant’s Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox (By: Steven E. Woodworth)
2024
117
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg
2024
118
Battle for Belorussia (By: David M. Glantz, Mary Elizabeth Glantz)
2024
119
Beyond Black Hawk Down (By: Jonathan Carroll)
2025
Vicksburg Campaign Books
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Year
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1
The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863
2020
2
The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863
2021
World of Ulysses S. Grant Books
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Year
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1
The Best Writings of Ulysses S. Grant (By: John F. Marszalek)
2015
2
Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth (By: Edwina S. Campbell)
2016
3
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (By: Julia Dent Grant)