Best Books on War & Military

The great wars, the battles and the machines that fought them. The top-rated non-fiction to read alongside the war & military documentaries.

1. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
2. A World Undone by G. J. Meyer - View on Amazon
3. The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
4. Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie - View on Amazon
5. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves - View on Amazon
6. Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
7. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - View on Amazon
8. The Second World War by Antony Beevor - View on Amazon
9. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
10. Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
11. The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan - View on Amazon
12. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
13. Hitler by Ian Kershaw (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
14. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
15. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson - View on Amazon
16. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
17. Night by Elie Wiesel - View on Amazon
18. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
19. If This Is a Man by Primo Levi (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
20. Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre - View on Amazon
21. Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
22. The Code Book by Simon Singh (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
23. Enigma by Robert Harris - View on Amazon
24. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (4.2/5) - View on Amazon

Best Books on World War I

1. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
2. A World Undone by G. J. Meyer - View on Amazon
3. The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
4. Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie - View on Amazon
5. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves - View on Amazon
6. Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
7. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - View on Amazon
8. Laws, etc by Great Britain. (3.5/5) - View on Amazon

Best Books on World War II

1. The Second World War by Antony Beevor - View on Amazon
2. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
3. Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
4. The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan - View on Amazon
5. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
6. Hitler by Ian Kershaw (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
7. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
8. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson - View on Amazon

Best Books on Cold War & Modern Conflicts

1. The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
3. Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum - View on Amazon
4. One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs (historian) - View on Amazon
5. A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan - View on Amazon
6. Vietnam by Max Hastings - View on Amazon
7. The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam - View on Amazon
8. Dispatches by Michael Herr (4.2/5) - View on Amazon

Best Books on War & Conflict

1. The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy - View on Amazon
2. Putin's People by Catherine Belton - View on Amazon
3. Red Famine by Anne Applebaum - View on Amazon
4. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev (4/5) - View on Amazon
5. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
6. From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
7. A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
8. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins - View on Amazon