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MATCH 11
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

Adrian Goldsworthy

2000

NON-FICTION

Definitive modern account of all three Punic Wars, from Hannibal's crossing of the Alps to the final destruction of Carthage.

Tags: Ancient, Combined Arms, Infantry
MATCH 11
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

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

1992

NON-FICTION

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

Tags: Cold War, Combined Arms, Infantry
MATCH 08
Hue 1968

Mark Bowden

2017

NON-FICTION

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

Tags: Cold War, Combined Arms
MATCH 08
Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

1998

FICTION

A vivid fictional account of the 300 Spartans who held the pass at Thermopylae. Widely regarded as the finest military historical novel ever written.

Tags: Ancient, Infantry
MATCH 08
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

2005

NON-FICTION

Holland'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.

Tags: Ancient, Infantry
MATCH 08
The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953

Clay Blair

1987

NON-FICTION

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

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

1990

FICTION

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

Tags: Cold War, Combined Arms
MATCH 08
Dispatches

Michael Herr

1977

MEMOIR

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

Tags: Cold War, Combined Arms
MATCH 08
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History

T. R. Fehrenbach

1963

NON-FICTION

Classic examination of the Korean War that focuses on the experience of the infantry soldier and the failures of American military preparedness.

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

Robert L. O'Connell

2010

NON-FICTION

Account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy and the catastrophic Roman defeat at Cannae, the tactical masterpiece that still influences military thought.

Tags: Ancient, North Africa
MATCH 08
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir

Hampton Sides

2018

NON-FICTION

Gripping narrative of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir — where 15,000 UN troops were surrounded by 120,000 Chinese soldiers in brutal Korean winter and fought their way to the sea.

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World

Paul Cartledge

2006

NON-FICTION

Scholarly 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.

Tags: Ancient, Infantry
MATCH 08
Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 November-11 December 1950

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

1983

NON-FICTION

This battle analysis addresses the battle of Chosin Reservoir from 27 November to 11 December 1950 in northeastern North Korea during which the 1st Marine Division and some attached U.S. Army units fo...

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
Frozen Chosin

Edwin H. Simmons, Usmc (Ret ) Brigadier General Simmons

2014

NON-FICTION

Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, Chosin also called Changjin, campaign early in the Korean War, part of the Chinese Second Offensive (November–December 1950) to drive the United Nations out of North Ko...

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 NOV-11 DEC 1950

F.M. Berger

1983

NON-FICTION

Analyse fra Korea-krigen af kampene ved Chosin, hvor 1. US Marine Division, der var omringet af talstærke kinesiske styrker, slog sig igennem medbringende deres materiel og sårede.

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
Attack at Chosin
Attack at Chosin

Xiaobing Li

2020

NON-FICTION

For members of the U.S. Army’s “Task Force Faith” and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, courage, and ingenuity. Their exploits are well known—wove...

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
Chosin
Chosin

Eric Hammel

2007

NON-FICTION

It was 1950, a brutally cold November in North Korea, and the war seemed all but over. And then a force of nearly 70,000 Chinese "volunteers" crossed the Yalu River, encircling the 30,000 United Natio...

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
35th Anniversary, the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea

Chosin Few (Association)

1985

NON-FICTION
Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 08
East of Chosin
East of Chosin

Roy Edgar Appleman

2002

NON-FICTION

"Well written and meticulously researched ... East of Chosin is military history at its best". -- Harry G. Summers, Jr., Washington Post Book World

Tags: Cold War, Infantry
MATCH 05
The Peloponnesian War

Donald Kagan

2003

NON-FICTION

Kagan's single-volume masterpiece covering the entire war between Athens and Sparta.

Tags: Ancient