War and Military History Bookshelf

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1.  Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

2.  D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

3.  To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom

4.  A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

5.  The Good Soldiers

6.  Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

7. The American Civil War: A Military History

8.  A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars

9.  The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

10. Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)

11. On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery

12. The Art Of War

13.  The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

14. The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

15. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

16. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

17. Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

18. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

19. Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

20. The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

Recommended Reading

 Maid of Heaven: The Story of Saint Joan of Arc

100 Battles That Shaped World History

The 101st Airborne at Normandy

 Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes

 The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad

1066 : The Year of the Conquest

A-Train : Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman

Achtung - Panzer!

Afrikakorps: Army Luftwaffe Kriegsmarine Waffen-SS : Tropical Uniforms, Insignia & Equipment of the German Soldier in World War II

 The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

 I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography of James H. ""Jimmy"" Doolittle

 Air Raid, Pearl Harbor!: Recollections of a Day of Infamy

 Untold Valor: Forgotten Stories of American Bomber Crews over Europe in World War II

 America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 with Poster (4th Edition)

Art of War

Breakout : The Chosin Reservoir Campaign Korea 1950

Black Valor : Buffalo Soldiers
and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American
Submarine Espionage"

The Buffalo Soldiers

Churchill and Secret Service

Citizen Soldiers

D-Day June 6, 1944 :  The Climactic Battle of World War II

 Devil's Guard

Everything We Had

The First World War

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

 God Help the Irish!: The History of the Irish Brigade

The Killer Angels

The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, 1917-1918

Making the Corps

The Name of War :
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

On War

The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich : A History of Nazi Germany

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young : Ia Drang : The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China

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