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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 139,013 ratings — published 1992
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 571,882 ratings — published -500
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 520,691 ratings — published 1928
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 47,784 ratings — published 1981
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,752 ratings — published 1962
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,440 ratings — published 1960
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,364,817 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,195,690 ratings — published 1947
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 998,319 ratings — published 2010
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 69,016 ratings — published 1999
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 248,544 ratings — published 2005
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,860 ratings — published 1997
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 345,135 ratings — published 1990
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,167,289 ratings — published 2018
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,977,532 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 967,924 ratings — published 2006
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,675 ratings — published 1976
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,159 ratings — published 1957
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,346 ratings — published 1998
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 878,786 ratings — published 1946
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,881,100 ratings — published 2005
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,538 ratings — published 1946
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,549 ratings — published 1832
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,726 ratings — published 2005
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,028 ratings — published 1991
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,823 ratings — published 2012
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,183 ratings — published 2006
A History of Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,598 ratings — published 1993
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 91,950 ratings — published 1974
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 137,388 ratings — published 2020
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,974 ratings — published 2004
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,194 ratings — published 2011
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,894 ratings — published 1999
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 161,774 ratings — published 2015
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,747 ratings — published 1997
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 31,477 ratings — published 1994
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,567 ratings — published 1988
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,967 ratings — published 1977
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,075 ratings — published 2006
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,076 ratings — published 2020
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,845 ratings — published 2018
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,527 ratings — published 2018
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,086 ratings — published 2012
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,691 ratings — published 1948
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,830 ratings — published 2014
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 27,827 ratings — published 2012
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,516 ratings — published 2013
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,034 ratings — published 2006
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 43,819 ratings — published 1998
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,641 ratings — published 2006
“It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States into the policeman of the world.”
― The Korean War: A History
― The Korean War: A History
“Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end.”
― The Korean War: A History
― The Korean War: A History










