What are some top tier military history books?
ITT: Military History
Evan Murphy
Other urls found in this thread:
goodreads.com
twitter.com
Xavier Wood
Probably the best pure work of military history that I know of that isnt either a narrative history or a biography. Richard Evan's third volume of his Third Reich Trilogy is also very good.
Parker Rodriguez
caesar's gallic wars too
Jose Sullivan
We Were Soldiers Once
Henry Morgan
Together with this: Dispatches by Michael Herr, although that is more journalism
Hunter Lopez
The TV miniseries based on this book is fantastic.
Noah Collins
Anything by Antony Beevor
Brody Sanders
Anyone have any recommendations of military memoirs of post-vietnam conflicts from non-Americans?
Christian Scott
I mean post-Vietnam just as a reference point to more modern conflicts, not to focus on an American conflict.
Kevin Harris
Chester G Hearn has a good coverage of all US Branches except the Coast Guard. It's far reaching and generalized, but to brush up on each branch his books are great.
Also, if you like military shit in general, /k/ has some great stories and experiences between the board. Pic related, a /k/ommando acting as a medic in the YPG.
Oliver Martinez
Check out Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall
goodreads.com
Tyler Bailey
Rick Atkinson is the man. I highly recommend The Long Gray Line.
Zachary Wilson
C L A U S E W I T Z
Jeremiah Ross
Supplying War by Martin van Creveld. Good book on military logistics.
Cameron Scott
Guadalcanal Diary
Grayson Martinez
The Bear Went Over The Mountain/The Other Side of the Mountain (Soviets in Afghanistan from both perspectives, rather technical)
Arkady Babchenko's One Soldier's War in Chechnya
Kevin Mitchell
Most books by Antony Beevor and Max Hastings.
If you want the best by both then Stalingrad and The Korean War respectively are their best works.
Robert Wright
People need to get off military history's dick. I don't care how many times the NYT puts it on its best seller list, your perspective on WWII and Caesar is not new. Least innovative genre of history right now baka
Ethan Baker
Im reading this now. Moore was one legit badass motherfucker.
Jonathan Sanders
Mostly because he poops on Clausewitz
Jace Richardson
Chickenhawk is the only war book that matters besides Johnny got his Gun.
Jackson Diaz
...
Jace Gray
One of my all time favorite, because I knew nothing about it, and it turned into an all time great shitshow with very few comparable episodes in history.
Jaxson Ortiz
Why is that?
Parker Davis
The amount of butthurt that military history's continuing unenforced popularity generates among "academic" (i r r e l e v a n t) historians is part of the appeal.
Oliver Hernandez
The Guns of August is well researched, vibrant, and really pulls the curtain back on the clown show that was the start of WWI
Jaxon Moore
dont forget its less popular but superior brother
Jose Jenkins
In which things go badly.
CV Wedgwoods history is good too
Evan Campbell
Worth reading? Is it of a similar style to GoA? I assume it's much more generalized and sweeping, given its scope
Colton Allen
After reading this, I still have no idea what the 30 years war was about, or even really the basic facts of it.
This book absolutely drowns the reader in these irrelevant and monotonous details of the time, and completely disregards the big picture. Fuck this hope, i hope it gets a book stroke and gets put into a book old age home to be forgotten and die.
Ian Turner
t. brainlet
Couldn't look up all the cool characters on sparknotes, huh?
Aaron Ward
>£90 on Amazon
I wanted to read this but fuck that.
William Long
>"waaa I'm poor"
>buys books on fucking amazon
Give up on reading lad, reading and education are a past time reserved for the rich, and the only way you will get around that fact is by not being a fucking idiot
Colton Foster
Absolutely the best book I've read on WW2.
Cooper Long
"Stridens skönhet och sorg" by Peter Englund is a great portrait of WW1 but I think his prose loses a bit in translation. He is very much inspired by Barbara Tuchman and has his eye on the absurd logic of war and the cultural context through which it was seen.
Jackson Brown
filetea DOT me/n3wz3alMs2HRUuxLs5JsNK5vg
pdf of said file, I have azw3 if you want too
Carter Brooks
The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss
Hudson Collins
eh
it's ok
best bit was when i read his view on the chariot thing compared to what i heard Donald Keegan say in a lecture I saw on Youtube
Henry Brown
Give all formats
Jackson Fisher
Thank you!
Ethan Rivera
filetea DOT me/n3wZsVRDoYXQnO2rCNF5uaxNA
its my own conversion, sorry for any errors
Owen Turner
where do you buy books
Jayden Howard
Gotta love the Beev
Thomas Thomas
>hemmed and hawed on picking this up on abe for ~$50
>now can't find a decent copy for less than $90
fuck
Brody Wilson
>completely disregards the big picture
>he didn't spend years establishing a broad basis of historical knowledge from which he could comfortably zone in on any European nation or era
Jackson Cooper
>I want to know the big picture of a thing I should already know of as an educated adult
>no details please
>Where should I turn, wikipedia or this thousand page book?
ok
Michael Moore
It isnt even that, the book basically a love letter to Tilly, Gustavus Adolphus, and Wallenstein. I have no idea what this user is talking about.