We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway

1992

Definitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.

We All Died at Breakaway Station

Richard C. Meredith

1969

A crippled fleet battles overwhelming alien forces at a remote station to buy time for civilian evacuation. A classic of military SF — gritty, claustrophobic, and deeply felt.

The Blood Stones

Tori Tecken

2023

A traitor is executed, his name ripped from history. The kingdom stands on the brink of a succession war. Forces stalk the darkness, moving pawns into place in a deadly game.

Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars

Ron Volstad

1995

Hue 1968

Mark Bowden

2017

Gripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

1990

Landmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.

Dispatches

Michael Herr

1977

Iconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.

Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America

Evan Wright

2004

Rolling Stone journalist's embedded account of the 1st Recon Battalion's charge through Iraq in the opening weeks of the 2003 invasion — raw, unfiltered, and unflinching.

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

2003

Gripping narrative of Rome's transformation from republic to empire, from Sulla's march on Rome to Julius Caesar's assassination.

The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953

Clay Blair

1987

The most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.

Soviet storm

Mike Lepine

2016

Soviet Storm tells the complete story of the War on the Eastern Front, profiling the epic campaigns and battles, revealing the tactics employed by both sides and exposing the true horrors of a conflic...

International Cold War Military Records and History

William W. Epley

2002

Canada's post-cold-war military blues and it's lessons for Australia

Graeme Cheeseman

2000

Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex

Youwei Xu

2022

A framework for precision conventional strike in post-Cold War military strategy

J. L. Birkler

1996

Precision conventional strike (PCS) is the practice of attacking selected targets with sufficient accuracy for high probability of kill and low collateral damage. Today's PCS weapons were developed fo...

International cold war military records and history

International Conference on Cold War Military Records and History (1994 Washington, D.C.)

1996

Nothing to Write Home about - a Fictionalized Memoir of Cold War Military Service

Pete Byrne

2015

US foreign policy after the Cold War

Norman Mach

2011

Rough Draft

Amy J. Rutenberg

2019

"America's inequitable system of draft deferments during the Vietnam War was the direct outgrowth of military manpower policies designed to fight the Cold War at home"--

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

1974

"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space a...