Military History

See also history.

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships.
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes
Sharpe's Assassin (Sharpe, #21)
The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
A Message from Ukraine
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
The Eagle's Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
The Guns of August
The Art of War
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
The First World War
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightDiplomacy by Henry KissingerLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Foreign Policy
403 books — 273 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,697 books — 1,239 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThree Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Great War in Fiction and Non-Fiction
132 books — 138 voters
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn BeerA Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomOn Hitler's Mountain by Irmgard A. HuntMillions Like Us by Virginia Nicholson
Women In World War II---Non-Fiction
195 books — 55 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandLone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Non-fiction War Books
1,721 books — 2,114 voters


Dwight D. Eisenhower
My own recommendation, then as always, was that no operations should be undertaken in the Mediterranean except as a directly supporting move for the Channel attack and that our planned redeployment to England should proceed with all possible speed. Obviously a sufficient strength had to be kept in the Mediterranean to hold what we had already gained and to force the Nazis to maintain sizable forces in that area.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Alistair Urquhart
Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism. Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return.
Alistair Urquhart, The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

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