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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

E. B. Sledge

1981

MEMOIR

One of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.

Same eventSame warTags: Infantry, Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
MATCH 21
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

James D. Hornfischer

2011

NON-FICTION

Definitive account of the brutal naval campaign for Guadalcanal, covering six major sea battles fought in Iron Bottom Sound.

Same warTags: Infantry, Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
MATCH 21
Guadalcanal Diary

Richard Tregaskis

1943

MEMOIR

War correspondent's firsthand diary of the Marines' desperate first weeks on Guadalcanal — one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of WWII Pacific combat.

Same warTags: Infantry, Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
MATCH 21
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

William Manchester

1980

MEMOIR

Manchester revisits the Pacific battlefields of his youth, weaving personal memoir with historical narrative across Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa.

Same warTags: Infantry, Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
MATCH 11
A Time for Trumpets

Charles B. MacDonald

1985

NON-FICTION

Comprehensive history of the Battle of the Bulge by a historian who fought in it.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, WWII
MATCH 11
Shattered Sword

Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully

2005

NON-FICTION

Revolutionary account of Midway from the Japanese perspective, debunking many myths.

Tags: Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
MATCH 11
Miracle at Midway
Miracle at Midway

Gordon W. Prange

1982

NON-FICTION

Detailed reconstruction of the battle that turned the tide in the Pacific.

Tags: Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
MATCH 11
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

2014

NON-FICTION

Cornwell brings the chaos and drama of Waterloo to life in vivid narrative history.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, Napoleonic
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1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

Adam Zamoyski

2004

NON-FICTION

Zamoyski's devastating account of the Grande Armée's catastrophic Russian campaign, told through the voices of soldiers on both sides.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, Napoleonic
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Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

1992

NON-FICTION

The story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe. Basis for the HBO miniseries.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, WWII
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Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan

Ronald H. Spector

1985

NON-FICTION

Comprehensive single-volume history of the Pacific War covering strategy, tactics, leadership, and the experience of soldiers and sailors on both sides.

Tags: Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
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Citizen Soldiers
Citizen Soldiers

Stephen E. Ambrose

1997

NON-FICTION

The story of the American infantryman in the ETO from the breakout after D-Day to the fall of Germany, based on hundreds of veteran interviews.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, WWII
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Sharpe's Rifles

Bernard Cornwell

1988

FICTION

First in Cornwell's beloved series following Richard Sharpe through the Peninsular War — vivid, historically grounded Napoleonic military fiction.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, Napoleonic
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully

2005

NON-FICTION

Revisionist operational account of Midway from the Japanese perspective, drawing on previously unavailable Japanese records to overturn the conventional American narrative.

Tags: Pacific, Pacific Theater, WWII
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Peleliu 1944: The Forgotten Corner of Hell

Bill Sloan

2005

NON-FICTION

Harrowing account of the First Marine Division's assault on Peleliu — one of the bloodiest and most controversial battles of the Pacific War, fought over an island of questionable strategic value.

Tags: Infantry, Pacific, Pacific Theater
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Kokoda

Peter Fitzsimons

2004

NON-FICTION

The dramatic story of Australian and American troops fighting Japanese forces along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea — the campaign that stopped Japan's advance toward Australia.

Tags: Infantry, Pacific, Pacific Theater
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

2014

NON-FICTION

Cornwell's narrative account of Waterloo — the 100 Hours campaign from Ligny and Quatre Bras to the final clash at Waterloo — drawing on eyewitness accounts from soldiers on all sides.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, Napoleonic
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Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation]
Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation]

Rick Atkinson

2015

FICTION

On the 16th of December, 1944, in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, the German army attacked American Allied forces, launching a final bid to turn the tide of World War II. Thus began the long, hard...

Tags: Europe, Infantry, WWII
MATCH 11
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

Andrew Roberts

2010

NON-FICTION

Part of the ‘Making History Series’ – Waterloo is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, Napoleonic
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Waterloo
Waterloo

Andrew Roberts

2005

NON-FICTION

The author of "Napoleon & Wellington" takes a brilliant look at the conflict that ended Napoleon's reign and ushered in the modern world, with new evidence of just how the battle was lost.

Tags: Europe, Infantry, Napoleonic