The Battle for the Falklands

Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins

1983

"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands." -James M. Gavin

The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Gregory Fremont-Barnes

2006

This comprehensive three-volume work on the French Revolution and Napoleon's rule and campaigns covers a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural events and personalities during a time ...

An Advanced History of Great Britain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Edward VII

Thomas Frederick Tout

1912

Assassin's Apprentice Volume 2

Robin Hobb

2025

Part two of Assassin's Apprentice, the first book in Robin Hobb's bestselling epic fantasy Farseer Trilogy, brought to life in comics form.

Hue 1968

Mark Bowden

2017

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

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.

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.

Sharpe's Trafalgar

Bernard Cornwell

2009

"The greatest writer of historical adventures today." —Washington Post Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes r...

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

2014

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

Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition

Robert Goetz

2005

Detailed military history of Napoleon's greatest victory.

The Campaigns of Napoleon

David Chandler

1966

The most comprehensive study of Napoleon's military campaigns ever written. An indispensable reference for understanding Napoleonic warfare.

1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

Adam Zamoyski

2004

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

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.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1904

A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism...

War and Peace

Лев Толстой

1864

War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocra...

Vom Kriege

Carl von Clausewitz

1835

*Vom Kriege* is the basic work on the Western way of war. For Clauswitz, war is "politics by other means". It concentrates on defeating the enemy by massing overwhelming force at the enemy's weak poin...

A history of the English-speaking peoples

Winston S. Churchill

1950

Sketches of sixteen of Churchill's favorite historical characters selected from his four-volume A history of the English-speaking Peoples, followed by a profile of Sir Winston drawn from autobiographi...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1900

Contains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_i...

Animal Farm

George Orwell

1945

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' ...