THE SOUL OF BATTLE
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
1981
MEMOIROne of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
Panzer Battles
1956
MEMOIRMemoir of a senior German staff officer covering tank operations on all fronts, with detailed analysis of armored doctrine and tactics.
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
MEMOIRWar correspondent's firsthand diary of the Marines' desperate first weeks on Guadalcanal — one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of WWII Pacific combat.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
1980
MEMOIRManchester revisits the Pacific battlefields of his youth, weaving personal memoir with historical narrative across Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa.
The Rommel Papers
1953
MEMOIRRommel's own diaries and notes from the North Africa campaign, edited by military historian Liddell Hart after Rommel's death.
Storm of Steel
1920
MEMOIRUnflinching memoir of a German stormtrooper on the Western Front, written without sentimentality. One of the most controversial war memoirs ever published.
Goodbye to All That
1929
MEMOIRBrilliant and bitter autobiography by the English poet-soldier, covering his harrowing service on the Western Front and disillusionment with England.
Company Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
1882
MEMOIRThe most celebrated Confederate private's memoir of the war in the Western theater, written with wry humor and devastating honesty about the cost of the conflict.
Dispatches
1977
MEMOIRIconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
1992
MEMOIRCelebrated memoir by the author of Flashman about his service as a private soldier fighting Japanese forces in Burma in 1944–45. Gritty, funny, and deeply human.
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
2007
MEMOIRFirst-person account of urban combat in Fallujah in November 2004 by a decorated Army staff sergeant. The most visceral account of close-quarters combat in the Iraq War.
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing
2007
MEMOIRThe story of Operation Red Wings — a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan that went catastrophically wrong, told by the only survivor.
Infantry Attacks
1937
MEMOIRRommel's tactical manual drawn from his WWI experiences as a junior officer, describing the aggressive infiltration tactics he developed and later applied to devastating effect in North Africa.
The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros
2015
MEMOIRA "geadl" or hagiography, originally written by Gealawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
Herbert Corey’s Great War
2022
MEMOIRIn 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain,...
The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography
1992
MEMOIRProvides profiles of some 3,000 major military leaders and thinkers, from Julius Caesar and before, to Norman Schwarzkopf. Arranged alphabetically, the biographical entries range from 200 to 1,000 wor...
Odat
2022
MEMOIRThis is an autobiography presented in a science fiction background, very similar to Kurt Vonnegut's, the American Author who wrote "brave New World", method of writing an autobiography. Many (but not ...
No Other Road to Take
1976
MEMOIRNow in its seventh printing!The memoir of a woman whose strength, courage, and intelligence had a profound impact on Vietnamese history. Not simply a participant in the Viet Minh resistance against th...
The Viet Nam War/the American War
1995
MEMOIRThis book seeks to reformulate the canon of writings on what is called "the Viet Nam War" in America and "the American War" in Viet Nam. Until recently, the accepted canon has consisted almost exclusi...