Military History:
Musket Age; Napoleonic & American Revolutionary Wars
Stephen Brumwell. Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas.
Owen Connelly. Blundering to Glory: Napoleon’s Military Campaigns.
Rory Muir. Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon.
Ray Raphael. A People’s History of the American Revolution.
Late Nineteenth Century; U.S. Civil War
Winfried Baumgart. The Crimean War, 1853–1856.
Paddy Griffith. Battle Tactics of the Civil War.
Gerald F. Linderman. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War.
James M. McPherson. What They Fought For.
James M. McPherson. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.
Diana Preston. The Boxer Rebellion.
Charles Royster. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans.
Denis & Peggy Warner. The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War.
World War I; Interwar
Peter N. Carroll. The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War.
Paddy Griffith. Battle Tactics of the Western Front.
Hubert C. Johnson. Breakthrough! Tactics, Technology, and the Search for Victory on the Western Front.
Jennifer D. Keene. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America.
World War II
Rick Atkinson. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943.
Omer Bartov. The Eastern Front, 1941–45: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare.
David French. Raising Churchill’s Army.
David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House. The Battle of Kursk.
John Keegan. The Second World War.
Jon Latimer. Alamein.
Geoffrey P. Megargee. Inside Hitler’s High Command.
R.H.S. Stolfi. Hitler’s Panzers East: World War II Reinterpreted.
Robert Sterling Rush. Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment.
Vietnam, Middle East
Dunnigan and Bay. From Shield to Storm: High-Tech Weapons, Military Strategy, and Coalition Warfare in the Persian Gulf.
James William Gibson. The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam.
Michael B. Oren. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.
Alex Vernon. The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War.
Global Military History; Economics & Technology; Postwar
David Andrew Graff and Robin Higham. A Military History of China.
Robert Harkavy and Stephanie G. Neuman. Warfare and the Third World.
Maurice Pearton. Diplomacy, War and Technology since 1870.
Martin Middlebrook. The Falklands War, 1982.
Air Power
Stephen Ambrose. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany.
Adam A. Claasen. Hitler’s Northern War: The Luftwaffe’s Ill-Fated Campaign.
James S. Corum. The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940.
Max Hastings. Bomber Command.
Ivan Rendall. Rolling Thunder.
Mark K. Wells. Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War.
Sea Power; Intelligence, Psywar
James Cable. The Political Influence of Naval Force in History.
Robert Buderi. The Invention That Changed the World.
Allison Gilmore. You Can’t Fight Tanks With Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army.
John Keegan. Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda.
Timothy P. Mulligan. Neither Sharks Nor Wolves: The Men of Nazi Germany’s U-Boat Arm, 1939–1945.
Ronald H. Spector. At War, at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century.
American Way of War?
Max Boot. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power.
Thomas C. Leonard. Above the Battle: War-Making in America from Appomattox to Versailles.
Edward N. Luttwak. Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace.
Russell F. Weigley. The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy.
Social & Cultural History; Combat Experience
Michael C.C. Adams. Echoes of War: A Thousand Years of Military History in Popular Culture.
Christopher Coker. Waging War Without Warriors? The Changing Culture of Military Conflict.
John Ellis. The Social History of the Machine Gun.
George P. Fletcher. Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism.
J. Glenn Gray. The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle.
Mark Grimsley & Clifford J. Rogers. Civilians in the Path of War.
Victor Davis Hanson. Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power.
Peter S. Kindsvatter. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam.
John A. Lynn. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture.
Lawrence H. Suid. Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film.
Wallace Terry. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans.
Patrick Wright. Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine.
Theory & Practice
Philip Bobbitt. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History.
Robert M. Citino. The Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe.
Jonathan M. House. Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century.
Shimon Naveh. In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational Theory.
Robert H. Scales. Firepower in Limited War.
Martin L. Van Creveld. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton.
Generalship
Josiah Bunting III. Ulysses S. Grant.
Otto Preston Chaney. Zhukov.
Carlo D’Este. Patton: A Genius for War.
Michael Fellman. The Making of Robert E. Lee.
J.F.C. Fuller. Grant & Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship.
Heinz Guderian. Achtung—Panzer!
Stanley P. Hirshson. General Patton: A Soldier’s Life.
F.W. von Mellenthin. Panzer Battles.
Vo Nguyen Giap. Dien Bien Phu.
John Pimlott. Rommel and His Art of War, by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Historiography
Peter Karsten. “The ‘New’ American Military History: A Map of the Territory, Explored and Unexplored.” (1984).
John Whiteclay Chambers. “The New Military History: Myth and Reality.” (1991).
Peter Paret. “The New Military History.” (1991).
Cristina Borreguero Beltran. “Nuevas Perspectivas para la Historia Militar.” (1994).
Jeremy Black. “Determinisms and Other Issues.” (2004)