Great military fiction and nonfiction
Explore the best military fiction and nonfiction books. Discover gripping war stories, historical accounts, and tactical insights from top authors in our curated list.
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My Father's Keeper
by Kip Vander Hyde
Jack Macmillan slips back in time to World War II and finds himself among the allied troops fighting on the island of Guadalcanal. One of …
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Citizen Soldiers
by Stephen E. Ambrose
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest …
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Bloody Ridge
by Michael S. Smith
The first book to focus on the World War II battle that helped the United States defeat the Imperial Japanese Army at Guadalcanal: the Battle …
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Guadalcanal Diary
by Richard Tregaskis
This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military …
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Tiger Force
by Michael Sallah
At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be …
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The Double Agents
by W. E. B. Griffin
Canidy, Fulmar, and their colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services work to convince Axis forces that an invasion of the European continent will take …
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Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose’s iconic story of the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st …
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Beyond Band of Brothers
by Dick Winters
“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride …
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Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends
by William Guarnere
The story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were …
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge …
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All for the Union
by Elisha Hunt Rhodes
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted …
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The Rising Tide
by Jeff Shaara
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is Jeff Shaara at his best, giving us another superb [and] historically grounded novel of one of the most …
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Ship of Ghosts
by James D. Hornfischer
The story of the USS Houston, FDR's legendary lost cruiser, and the epic saga of her survivors.
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The March
by E.L. Doctorow
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched …
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library …
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Blood and Thunder
by Hampton Sides
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by …
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The Deadly Brotherhood
by John McManus
In his book Men Against Fire, [historian S. L. A.] Marshall asserted that only 15 to 25 percent of American soldiers ever fired their weapons …
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Ernie Pyle's War
by James Tobin
When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the …
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One Square Mile of Hell
by John F. Wukovits
In November 1943, the men of the 2nd Marine Division were instructed to clear out any token Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio …
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a …
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1634
by Eric Flint
The Baltic War which began in the novel1633is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville'the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century …