The First Day on the Somme by Martin MiddlebrookSeparate Little War by Andrew D. BirdA Bridge Too Far by Cornelius RyanWar Without Garlands by Robert KershawStalingrad by Antony Beevor
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,229 books — 2,744 voters
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Black Echo by Michael ConnellyA Drink Before the War by Dennis LehaneDarkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Best Hardboiled & Noir fiction
777 books — 1,018 voters

The Coldest Winter by David HalberstamThe Korean War by Max HastingsTo the Last Round by Andrew  SalmonScorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew  Salmon
Korean War
135 books — 53 voters
The Last Valley by Martin WindrowWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreMarine Sniper by Charles HendersonBorn on the Fourth of July by Ron KovicMatterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Vietnam War Books
224 books — 141 voters

Stalingrad by Antony BeevorGulag by Anne Applebaum
Best Russian History Books
590 books — 424 voters