16 Best War Books
Goal: Find the best War books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best war books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
16 Best War Books
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
The Art Of War
by Sun Tzu
Also recommended by:
Jocko Willink, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Marc Benioff, Evan Spiegel, Vlad Tenev, Dave Camarillo, Elon Musk, Lex Fridman, Ryan Petersen, Travis Kalanick, Fred Wilson, Patrick Bet-David
War And Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Christopher Hitchens, Larry King, Mark Manson, Ernest Hemingway, Nelson Mandela
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Also recommended by:
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz
Also recommended by:
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Also recommended by:
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Also recommended by:
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Novel
by Kurt Vonnegut
Also recommended by:
With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
by E. B. Sledge
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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant
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The Guns of August
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Also recommended by:
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
by Harold G. Moore
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1776
by David McCullough
The Forever War
by Dexter Filkins
Sources
- 1
The Best Books on War - Five Books Expert Recommendations
fivebooks.com
- 2
The 30 Best Books About War | HiConsumption
hiconsumption.com
- 3
The Top 10 War Books of All Time
historynet.com
- 4
9 awesome war novels everyone should read - We Are The Mighty
wearethemighty.com
- 5
The Best War Books of All Time, from the Revolutionary Era to Today
explorethearchive.com
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