Books About Military History and Battlefield

• 1805: Austerlitz by Robert Goetz
• 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
• 1815: The Waterloo Campaign - The German Victory by Peter Hofschroer
• 1918 A Very British Victory by Peter Hart
• 24 Hours at Waterloo: 18 June 1815 by Col Bob Kershaw
• A Bold and Ambitious Enterprise: The British Army in the Low Countries, 1813 - 1814 by Dr Andrew Bamford
• A Brief History of Ancient Greece by Various Authors
• A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps Blazed a Trail for Hitler by Nigel Jones
• A Commanding Presence: Wellington in the Peninsula 1808-14 : Wellington in the Peninsula 1808-14 by Ian Robertson
• A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William R. Trotter
• A Great and Glorious Adventure - A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England by Major Gordon Corrigan MBE FRHistS
• A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• A History of the Peninsular War by Sir Charles Oman
• A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr
• A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph P Martin
• A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of TE Lawrence by John E Mack
• A Short History of the Korean War by James Stokesbury
• A Street in Arnhem by Col Bob Kershaw
• A Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields. by J Waddy
• A Week at Waterloo - Diary of Lady Magdalene de Lancey by Lady Magdalene de Lancey
• Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Albuera 1811 by Guy Dempsey
• Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
• Alfred the Great by Barbara Yorke
• Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Abels
• Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age by Prof Ryan Lavelle
• Alfred: Warrior King by John Peddie
• Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling
• An Atlas of the Peninsular War (Historical Atlas) by Ian Robertson
• Angels One Five by George More O'Ferrall
• Another Such Victory. President Truman and the Cold War, 1945 - 1953 by Arnold Offner
• Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
• Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor
• Assault on Moscow 1941 by Werner Haupt
• At Them with the Bayonet - The First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-1846 by Donald Featherstone
• At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy 1944-45 by Christian Jennings
• Attack: An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by Edward G.D. Liveing
• Bannockburn 1314: Robert Bruce's Great Victory by Peter Armstrong
• Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict: The Russian German Conflict, 1941-45 (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) by Alan Clark
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Penguin history) by James M McPherson
• Battle for Burma by Roy .C. Nesbit
• Battle of Britain by Guy Hamilton
• Battle of Crete by Albert Palazzo
• Battleground Europe: Touring the Italian Front by Francis MacKay
• Bayonne and Toulouse 1813-14 by Col Nick Lipscombe
• Before the Harvest: August 1914 by Anthony Bird
• Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War, 1914-1918 by Peter Barton
• Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich (Campaign) by Peter D Antill
• Berlin and the British ally, 1945-1990 by General R.J. Corbett
• Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
• Berlin Battlefield Guide: Third Reich and Cold War by Tony Le Tissier
• Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor
• Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 by Antony Beevor
• Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy by Joseph Balkoski
• Blenheim, Battle for Europe by Lord Charles Spencer
• Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century by William Philpott
• Boer Commando 1876 - 1902 by Ian Knight
• Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldiers: South Africa 1880-1902 by Ian Knight
• Border Fury by Dr John Sadler
• Borodino and the War of 1812 by Christopher Duffy
• Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
• Bright Eyes of Danger: An Account of the Anglo-Sikh Wars 1845-1849 by Bill Whitburn
• Britain's Gurkhas by Christopher Bullock
• Brixmis: The Untold Exploits of Britain's Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission by Tony Geraghty
• Bussaco 1810 by Rene Chartrand
• Calais - A Fight to the Finish-May 1940 ( Battleground Europe ) by Jon Cooksey
• Calculated Risk: The Memoirs of a Great Commanding General of WWII by Mark Clark
• Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War by G.W.L. Nicholson
• Catastrophe by Max Hastings
• Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X Pham
• Chancellorsville: The Souls of the Brave by Ernest Furguson
• Chavasse, Double VC by John and Caroline Stephens
• Chavasse, Double VC, by Ann Clayton
• Cheerful Sacrifice: Battle of Arras, 1917 by Jonathan Nicholls
• Cheerful Sacrifice; Battle of Arras, 1917 by Martin Middlebrooke
• Civil War, The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 by T Royale
• Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-45 by Michael D. Doubler
• Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division by Robert H Ferrell
• Commando by Deneys Reitz
• Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War by Ian Knight
• Corunna 1809 by Philip J Haythornthwaite
• Countdown to Valkyrie: The July Plot to Assassinate Hitler by Nigel Jones
• Crete by Antony Beevor
• Crete 1941 by Peter D Antill
• Crossing the Berezina by Francois-Guy Hourtoulle
• Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed by Robert Utley
• D-Day. Piercing the Atlantic Wall. by Col Bob Kershaw
• D-Day: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
• Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 by Albert Castel
• Defending Fortress Europe: The War Diary of the German 7th Army, June-August 1944 by Mark Reardon
• Desert War Trilogy: The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-43 by Alan Moorehead
• Dieppe: Operation Jubilee (Channel Ports) by Tim Saunders
• Edgehill, The Battle Reinterpreted by Christopher Scott
• El Cid and the Reconquista. Warfare in Medieval Spain 1050-1492 by Dr David Nicolle
• Eleven Days in August - The Liberation of Paris in 1944 by Matthew Cobb
• Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front by Diane Atkinson
• Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
• Emerging Civil War Series by Various Authors
• Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763 by William Fowler Jr
• Enemy of Rome : The Epic Campaigns of Hannibal - Immortal Conqueror and Military Genius by Leonard Cottrell
• Essential Histories: The Crimean War by John Sweetman
• Everyday Life of a Soldier on Hadrian's Wall by Paul Elliot
• Falaise, 1944: Death of an Army (Campaign) by Ken Ford
• Fascism: A History by Roger Eatwell
• Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy by Christopher Duggan
• Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40 by Vesa Nenye
• Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914 by Peter Hart
• First Day of the Somme by Martin Middlebrooke
• First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
• First Ypres, 1914 (Osprey Military Campaign) by David Lomas
• Flight of Eagles: The Story of the American Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War 1919-1920 by Robert F. Karolevitz
• Flodden 1513: Scotland's Greatest Defeat by Dr John Sadler
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• Forgotten Voices of the Somme by Joshua Levine
• Fortifications in Wessex c. 800-1066: The Defences of Alfred the Great Against the Vikings by Prof Ryan Lavelle
• Fortress Island Malta by Peter Jacobs
• Fortress Malta - An Island under Siege 1940-43 by James Holland
• Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943 (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) by James Holland
• Frederick the Great: A Military Life by Christopher Duffy
• Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
• Funeral In Berlin by Len Deighton
• Gallantry and Discipline: The 12th Light Dragoons at War with Wellington by Dr Andrew Bamford
• Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
• Gallipoli by Julian Thompson
• Gallipoli by Peter Hart
• Gallipoli (Wordsworth Military Library) by Alan Moorehead
• Gallipoli, 1915: Frontal Assault on Turkey (Osprey Military Campaign) by Philip J Haythornthwaite
• Gallipoli: A Soldier’s Story by Arthur Beecroft
• General Pershing: Winning At All Costs by Major Gordon Corrigan MBE FRHistS
• George Washington: Gentleman Warrior by Stephen Brumwell
• German Defences in Italy in World War II by Neil Short
• Gettysburg by Noah Andre Trudeau
• Gloucester & Newbury 1643: The turning point of the Civil War by John Day
• Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
• Granicus 334 BC: Alexander's First Persian Victory by Michael Thompson
• Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege by Michael B Ballard
• Great Battles: Marston Moor 1644: The Campaign and The Battle by Peter Young
• Gun Button to Fire by Tom Neil
• Guns at Le Cateau: Two Accounts of the B. E. F. in the First World War-The Royal Regiment of Artillery at Le Cateau, 26 August, 1914 by A.F. Becke
• Hadrian's Wall by Brian Dobson
• Hadrian's Wall AD 122-410 by Nic Fields
• Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
• Harold: the Last Saxon King by Ian Walker
• Hastings 1066 by Christopher Gravett
• Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton
• Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
• History of the Campaign of 1866 in Italy by Alexander Hold
• History of the Sixteenth, The Queen's Light Dragoons (Lancers) 1912 to 1925 by Henry Graham
• Hitler by Ian Kershaw
• Hokahey! A Good Day to Die! The Indian Casualties of the Custer Fight by Richard Hardoff
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• In Hell Before Daylight by Ian Fletcher
• In Parenthesis by David Jones
• Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars by Carole Divall
• Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army by Rachel S Cox
• Invasion They’re Coming by P Carell
• Iron Kingdom. The Rise and Fall of Prussia 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark
• Isonzo by John Schindler
• It Never Snows in September by Col Bob Kershaw
• Jena 1806: Napoleon destroys Prussia by David Chandler
• Joan of Arc, a History by Helen Castor
• Joan of Arc, a Military Leader by Kelly deVries
• Journal of the Waterloo Campaign by General Cavalie Mercer
• Kasserine Pass 1943: Rommel's Last Victory (Campaign) by Stephen J Zaloga
• Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears
• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
• Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Dr Neil Faulkner
• Le Cateau (Battleground Europe) by Nigel Cave
• Leipzig 1813: The Battle of the Nations by Peter Hofschroer
• Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee
• Liberty! - The American Revolution by Thomas Fleming
• Lobositz to Leuthen by Neil Cogswell
• MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero by Stanley Weintraub
• Majuba 1881: The Hill of Destiny by Ian Castle
• Malta 1565 - Last Battle of the Crusades by Tim Pickles
• Malta Spitfire Pilot: Ten Weeks of Terror April-June 1942 by Dennis Barnham
• Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus by Dr Waitman Beorn
• Marlborough by Richard Holmes
• Memoirs of the war in Spain, from 1808 to 1814 by Louis Gabriel Suchet
• Men at Arnhem by G Powell
• Minds At War - The Poetry & Experience of the Great War by David Roberts
• Mons, 1914 (Osprey Military Campaign) by David Lomas
• Montcalm and Wolf by Francis Parkman
• Monte Casino - Ten Armies in Hell by Pete Caddick-Adams
• Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War by Major Gordon Corrigan MBE FRHistS
• Mussolini: A New Life by Nicholas Farrell
• Mutiny and Insurgency in India 1857-58: The British Army in a Bloody Civil War by Tony Heathcote
• My War Memories 1914-1918 by General Erich Ludendorff
• Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel by Andrew Roberts
• Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia by F. Lorraine Petre
• Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany by F. Lorraine Petre
• Naseby, The Decisive Campaign by G Foard
• Objective Saint-Lo: 7 June 1944 - 18 July 1944 by Georges Bernage
• Oft in Danger. The Life and Campaigns of General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley. by Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley
• Orientalism by Edward Said
• Other Clay: A Remembrance of the World War II Infantry by Charles R. Cawthon
• Outside Verdun by Arnold Zweig
• Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby by Alex Bowlby
• Riding The Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes
• Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by S McNair
• Roman Art and Architecture by Sir Mortimer Wheeler
• Rome in Africa by Susan Raven
• Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre In The Teutoburg Forest by Adrian Murdoch
• Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC - AD 476 by Dr Neil Faulkner
• Sicily 1943: The debut of Allied joint operations by Stephen J Zaloga
• Sicily and the Surrender of Italy: The Mediterranean Theater of Operations by Centre of Military History United States Army
• St Lô 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows by Stephen J Zaloga
• Stone on Stone: The Men Who Built The Cathedrals by Imogen Corrigan
• Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
• Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, 1914 by Dennis Showalter
• Teutoburg Forest AD 9: The destruction of Varus and his legions by Michael McNally
• The Allied Invasion of Sicily: The History of the Largest Amphibious Campaign of World War II by Charles River Editors
• The Battle for Sicily: Stepping Stone to Victory by Ian Blackwell
• The Battle of Britain by James Holland
• The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest by Peter Wells
• The Berlin Raids by Martin Middlebrooke
• The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
• The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler
• The Clay Pigeons of St. Lo by Glover S. Johns
• The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
• The Desert War: The classic trilogy on the North African campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead
• The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
• The Eastern Front 1914-1920 by Michael Neiberg
• The English Civil War by Peter Gaunt
• The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 by Blair Worden
• The First Anglo-Sikh War by Amarpal Singh
• The Gothic Line by Douglas Orgill
• The Gurkhas: The Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Soldiers by John Parker
• The Histories by . Polybius
• The Korean War 1950 - 1953 by Carter Malkasian
• The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander by Flavius Arrianus
• The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
• The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 by Peter Hart
• The Life of Alexander the Great by . Plutarch
• The Limited War by David Rees
• The New Model Army by I Gentles
• The Peninsular War, A New History by Charles J Esdaile
• The Quest For The Lost Roman Legions: Discovering the Varus Battlefield by Tony Clunn
• The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Mai Elliott
• The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars: The Rise, Conquest, and Annexation of the Punjab State by Charles Gough
• The Spanish Ulcer by David Gates
• The Spy Who Came In from The Cold by John LeCarre
• The Vietnam War: A Concise International History by Mark Atwood Lawrence
• The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 by David W. P. Elliott
• The Waterloo Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Land Battle by Mark Adkin
• The Winter War by Antti Tuuri
• The Winter War - DVD by Pekka Parikka
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre
• Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty by Stephen Brumwell
• Verdun by Jules Romains
• Vietnam's American War: A History by Professor Pierre Asselin
• War of the White Death: Finland Against the Soviet Union 1939 - 40 by Bair Irincheev
• Waterloo Battlefield Guide by David Buttery
• Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe’s Destiny by Tim Clayton
• Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble by Andrew Roberts
• Waterloo: The Decisive Victory by Col Nick Lipscombe
• Westmoreland's War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam by Dr Gregory Daddis
• William Wallace by J Mackay
• William Wallace by A Fisher
• WW1 - A Short History by Norman Stone
• Yorkshire Sieges of the Civil Wars by David Cooke

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