Best Military History Books

1
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
by Roger Crowley
1,343 members
23 reviews
4
8 Members
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2
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
by John Keegan
3,048 members
32 reviews
4
5 Members
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3
Queen Victoria's Little Wars
by Byron Farwell
343 members
8 reviews
4
5 Members
ABVR, staffordcastle, John_Vaughan, gregchief, Sonesson
4
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
by N. A. M. Rodger
645 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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5
The Norman Conquest
by Marc Morris
804 members
14 reviews
4.2
4 Members
VonKar, pmbrittin, Grokkers, GregC.
7
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T. E. Lawrence
5,337 members
64 reviews
4
4 Members
John_Vaughan, pmbrittin, Grokkers, GregC.
8
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
by Mark Bowden
789 members
19 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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10
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
1,614 members
27 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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11
Decision in Normandy
by Carlo D'Este
575 members
7 reviews
4
3 Members
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12
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
by Max Hastings
1,309 members
27 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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13
The Guns of August
by Barbara Tuchman
7,561 members
143 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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14
Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-west Frontier
by Charles Allen
197 members
1 review
½ 3.4
2 Members
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15
The Washing of the Spears
by Donald R. Morris
710 members
5 reviews
4.2
3 Members
John_Vaughan, gregchief, GregC.
16
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
by Rick Atkinson
3,183 members
72 reviews
4.2
3 Members
EduardoT, VonKar, Grokkers
17
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael R. Gordon
891 members
12 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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18
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
by Carlo D'Este
386 members
8 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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19
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
by Alistair Horne
1,203 members
18 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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20
The Battle: A New History of Waterloo
by Alessandro Barbero
361 members
5 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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21
The Day of the Barbarians
by Alessandro Barbero
386 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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22
Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
by Robert L. O'Connell
206 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ABVR, GregC.
23
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
by William H. McNeill
541 members
2 reviews
4.2
2 Members
pitjrw, GregC.
24
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
by Richard B. Frank
519 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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25
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters
by Mark Urban
489 members
10 reviews
4.2
2 Members
EduardoT, jamespurcell
26
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
by Geoffrey Parker
329 members
2 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ABVR, GregC.
27
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
by Alistair Horne
918 members
22 reviews
4.2
2 Members
EduardoT, VonKar
28
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
6,124 members
84 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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29
The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
by Victor Davis Hanson
644 members
7 reviews
3.9
2 Members
pitjrw, GregC.
30
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
2,428 members
47 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ABVR, pitjrw
31
Wellington's Hidden Heroes: The Dutch and the Belgians at Waterloo
by Veronica Baker-Smith
19 members
1 review
½ 4.4
2 Members
jamespurcell, VonKar
32
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front
by Richard Holmes
420 members
4 reviews
4
2 Members
John_Vaughan, gregchief
34
The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
by Daniel R. Headrick
238 members
1 review
½ 3.7
2 Members
ABVR, GregC.
35
The Fall of Constantinople, 1453
by Steven Runciman
836 members
13 reviews
4.1
2 Members
pitjrw, pmbrittin
37
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
by Mark Bowden
5,018 members
69 reviews
4.2
2 Members
EduardoT, Grokkers
38
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
by Catherine Merridale
852 members
15 reviews
4
2 Members
EduardoT, jamespurcell
39
The Thirty Years War
by Cicely V. Wedgwood
1,503 members
18 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon
by Michael S. Sherry
107 members
1 review
½ 3.7
2 Members
ABVR, GregC.
41
Borodino and the War of 1812
by Christopher Duffy
61 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
jamespurcell, VonKar
42
Horse Soldiers
by Doug Stanton
1,184 members
26 reviews
3.9
2 Members
EduardoT, Grokkers
43
Is Paris Burning?
by Larry Collins
1,217 members
19 reviews
4
2 Members
John_Vaughan, GregC.
44
The Thin Red Line
by James Jones
1,514 members
22 reviews
3.9
2 Members
pitjrw, GregC.
45
Liaison 1914
by Edward Spears
72 members
4.1
2 Members
pitjrw, VonKar
46
The Korean War
by Max Hastings
952 members
12 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ABVR, Grokkers
47
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
by Ian W. Toll
1,188 members
26 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Bretzky1, Grokkers
48
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
by Richard Holmes
498 members
2 reviews
4
2 Members
John_Vaughan, VonKar
49
Patton: A Genius for War
by Carlo D'Este
777 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
VonKar, GregC.
50
Why the Allies Won
by Richard Overy
984 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ABVR, EduardoT
51
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
by Dominic Lieven
628 members
9 reviews
4.2
2 Members
VonKar, Grokkers
52
Gallipoli
by Alan Moorehead
663 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
EduardoT, GregC.
54
Six Days of War
by Michael B. Oren
1,734 members
25 reviews
4.1
2 Members
EduardoT, GregC.
55
The Civil War: A Narrative
by Shelby Foote
1,656 members
14 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
ABVR, GregC.
56
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
by Antony Beevor
3,470 members
62 reviews
4.1
2 Members
EduardoT, VonKar
57
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
by Evan Wright
1,760 members
39 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ABVR, EduardoT
58
Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945
by Russell F. Weigley
242 members
4 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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59
Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879
by Noel Perrin
227 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
pitjrw
60
Mr. Kipling's Army
by Byron Farwell
212 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
staffordcastle
61
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
by John Ferling
770 members
9 reviews
4.2
Member
Bretzky1
62
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
by Peter H. Wilson
1,027 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
63
Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945
by Christopher Duffy
159 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
VonKar
64
Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade
by Terry Brighton
137 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
65
Dispatches
by Michael Herr
3,565 members
72 reviews
4.1
Member
EduardoT
66
The Tune That They Play
by William Clive
15 members
1 review
5
Member
John_Vaughan
67
The Forever War
by Dexter Filkins
1,567 members
42 reviews
4.1
Member
EduardoT
68
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle
by Roy Adkins
754 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
71
Storm of Steel
by Ernst Jünger
2,807 members
74 reviews
4.1
Member
EduardoT
72
Wellington and Napoleon: Clash of Arms 1807-1815
by Robin Neillands
121 members
1 review
3.2
Member
John_Vaughan
73
Waterloo: 200 jaar strijd
by Jurriën De Jong
14 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
VonKar
74
Metamorphoses [in translation]
by Ovid
15,267 members
112 reviews
4.1
Member
ABVR
75
Some Desperate Glory: The World War I Diary of a British Officer, 1917
by Edwin Campion Vaughan
150 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
John_Vaughan
76
The Campaign of the Marne
by Sewell Tyng
39 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
pitjrw
77
The First World War: A Complete History
by Martin Gilbert
1,462 members
13 reviews
4
Member
ABVR
78
Soldier from the Wars Returning
by Charles Carrington
34 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan
79
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Scott Anderson
1,681 members
52 reviews
4.1
Member
EduardoT
80
The Secret War against Hanoi
by Richard H. Shultz Jr.
145 members
1 review
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
81
Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944 (Foreign Military Studies)
by Joachim Ludewig
61 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
VonKar
83
Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
by Rick Atkinson
502 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
ABVR
84
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
by Ivan Musicant
167 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
85
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure
by Michael Asher
147 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
EduardoT
86
No True Glory : A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
by Bing West
348 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
EduardoT
87
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
by Eric M. Bergerud
247 members
4 reviews
4.2
Member
ABVR
88
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by Siegfried Sassoon
791 members
13 reviews
3.8
Member
John_Vaughan
89
The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians
by Patrick M. Malone
104 members
2 reviews
4
Member
ABVR
90
The Lion and the Union: The Anglo-American War 1812-15
by Kate Caffrey
20 members
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
91
This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath
by Michael Fellman
49 members
3.1
Member
Bretzky1
92
Glorie zonder helden : de slag bij Waterloo, waarheid en legende
by N. Vels Heijn
7 members
½ 4.5
Member
VonKar
93
Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
4,159 members
74 reviews
4
Member
John_Vaughan
95
The spirit soldiers;: A historical narrative of the Boxer Rebellion
by Richard O'Connor
21 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
Bretzky1
96
Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945
by Frederick Taylor
612 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
VonKar
97
Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe
by Adam Zamoyski
222 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
EduardoT
98
Maquis
by George Reid Millar
65 members
4
Member
John_Vaughan
99
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
by Ian Kershaw
1,224 members
26 reviews
4
Member
VonKar
100
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
by Bob Drury
373 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
EduardoT