FOR THE PEOPLE
Gates of Fire
1998
FICTIONA vivid fictional account of the 300 Spartans who held the pass at Thermopylae. Widely regarded as the finest military historical novel ever written.
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
2005
NON-FICTIONHolland's gripping narrative of the Persian invasions of Greece, from Marathon to Salamis, and how a tiny Greek coalition stopped the mightiest empire on earth.
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
2006
NON-FICTIONScholarly account of the Battle of Thermopylae by a leading classicist, examining the historical reality behind the Spartan stand and its extraordinary afterlife in Western culture.
Sicily '43
2020
NON-FICTIONA history of World War II's Operation Husky, the first Allied attack on European soil, by the acclaimed author of Normandy '44. On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took plac...
The Killer Angels
1974
FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning historical novel depicting the Battle of Gettysburg from multiple perspectives.
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
2013
NON-FICTIONDeeply researched modern account of the three-day battle that decided the Civil War.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning single-volume history of the Civil War era. The standard work on the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict.
The Civil War: A Narrative
1958
NON-FICTIONFoote's monumental three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, combining scholarly rigor with the storytelling power of a novelist.
The Red Badge of Courage
1855
MILITARY HISTORYThe Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, w...
The War of the Worlds
MILITARY HISTORYThe ultimate science fiction classic: for more than one hundred years, this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive comme...
Homage to Catalonia
1938
MILITARY HISTORY[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spani...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940
MILITARY HISTORYHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mo...
Tao te Ching
1842
MILITARY HISTORY"Within ancient Chinese, a sole character possesses a broad, and sometimes contradictory, range of meanings. Moreover, the Tao Te Ching is rife with terms and expressions that have no exact counterpar...
Catch-22
1961
MILITARY HISTORY*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is t...
Ἰλιάς
1505
MILITARY HISTORYThis long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, f...
Gettysburg Battle and Battlefield
2002
MILITARY HISTORYGettysburg is a must-have for Civil War enthusiasts. It takes the reader back to a distinguishing moment in American history. Battlefield Guide W. C. Storrick provides more than military tactics and d...
