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MATCH 08
Infantry Attacks

Erwin Rommel

1937

MEMOIR

Rommel's tactical manual drawn from his WWI experiences as a junior officer, describing the aggressive infiltration tactics he developed and later applied to devastating effect in North Africa.

Tags: Leadership, Tactical
MATCH 08
Shadow on the White House
Shadow on the White House

David L. Anderson

1993

NON-FICTION

Harry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism in 1945. Thirty years and five administrations later, ...

Tags: Europe, Renaissance
MATCH 06
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

Robert Coram

2002

NON-FICTION

Biography of John Boyd — the iconoclastic Air Force colonel who created the OODA loop concept and whose theories on maneuver warfare reshaped modern American military doctrine.

Tags: Leadership, Tactical
MATCH 05
They Shall Not Pass

Ian Ousby

2002

NON-FICTION

The story of the longest and most devastating battle of the Great War.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
The Somme

Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson

2005

NON-FICTION

Definitive modern account of the Battle of the Somme and its horrific toll.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Gallipoli
Gallipoli

Peter Hart

2011

NON-FICTION

Comprehensive account of the doomed Gallipoli campaign using firsthand sources.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

1929

FICTION

The defining anti-war novel — a young German soldier's experience of the Western Front's industrial slaughter, told with devastating simplicity.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

1962

NON-FICTION

Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the first month of WWI. Tuchman shows how miscalculation and momentum dragged Europe into catastrophe.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
The Prince
The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1515

MILITARY HISTORY

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction...

Tags: Renaissance
MATCH 05
Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

1920

MEMOIR

Unflinching memoir of a German stormtrooper on the Western Front, written without sentimentality. One of the most controversial war memoirs ever published.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Goodbye to All That

Robert Graves

1929

MEMOIR

Brilliant and bitter autobiography by the English poet-soldier, covering his harrowing service on the Western Front and disillusionment with England.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Passchendaele: The Untold Story

Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson

1996

NON-FICTION

Meticulous operational analysis of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) that challenges the conventional view of Haig's generalship and reexamines what the battle actually achieved.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Verdun: The Greatest Battle of the First World War

John Mosier

2001

NON-FICTION

Revisionist account of the Battle of Verdun arguing that Germany came far closer to victory than the French official history admits, and that the battle fundamentally shaped French military doctrine.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly

Scott Anderson

2013

NON-FICTION

Gripping account of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt in WWI, drawing on newly available documents to portray the betrayals and imperial maneuvering that shaped the modern Middle East.

Tags: Leadership
MATCH 05
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

David Bellavia

2007

MEMOIR

First-person account of urban combat in Fallujah in November 2004 by a decorated Army staff sergeant. The most visceral account of close-quarters combat in the Iraq War.

Tags: Tactical
MATCH 05
Verdun
Verdun

John Mosier

2013

NON-FICTION

Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during the First World War stands as one of history’s greatest clashes. Perfect for military history buffs, this compelling account of one of Wo...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Verdun 1916
Verdun 1916

William F. Buckingham

2016

NON-FICTION

A gripping narrative of the most infamous Western Front battle of the war. The British remember the Somme, Russia the Brusilov Offensive, and France and Germany remember Verdun

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Battle Story: Verdun 1916
Battle Story: Verdun 1916

Chris McNab

2013

NON-FICTION

The Battle of Verdun was one of the bloodiest engagements of the First World War, resulting in 698,000 deaths, 70,000 for each of the 10 months of battle. The French Army in the area were decimated an...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
Road To Verdun
Road To Verdun

Ian Ousby

2010

NON-FICTION

Verdun was the largest, the longest and the bloodiest battle between the French and Germans in the First World War, lasting from February 1916 until the end of the year and claiming more then 700,000 ...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 05
The Verdun Regiment
The Verdun Regiment

Johnathan Bracken

2018

NON-FICTION

This book on French soldiers during WWI is "a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment" ( The Great War Magazine, Editor's Choice). Altho...

Tags: Europe