Military Science History Books

Last updated: January 2, 2012

1. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Published: February 13, 2007 Score: 11.41
2. BAND OF BROTHERS : "E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest" by Stephen E. Ambrose Published: November 1, 1998 Score: 7.14
3. What It Is Like to Go to War (Library Edition) by Karl Marlantes and Bronson Pinchot Published: August 30, 2011 Score: 6.48
4. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman Published: June 22, 2009 Score: 6.46
5. Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Command Sergeant Major Eric L. Haney - USA (Ret.) and Robertson Dean Published: May 1, 2011 Score: 6.38
6. With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge Published: March 1, 1990 Score: 6.02
7. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden Published: February 10, 1999 Score: 5.86
8. Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Published: October 28, 2004 Score: 5.51
9. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi and Thomas Cleary Published: October 19, 2010 Score: 4.5
10. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll Published: March 17, 2008 Score: 2.82
11. Art of War by Sun Tzu and Joe Mantegna Published: July 8, 2004 Score: 2.8
12. On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman and Loren W. Christensen Published: October 1, 2008 Score: 2.74
13. The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Scott Brick and Shelly Frasier Published: September 17, 2004 Score: 2.42
14. The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Pete Blaber Published: December 2, 2008 Score: 2.09
15. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew and Tony Roberts Published: December 16, 1999 Score: 2.03
16. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel and Mark Boyett Published: October 20, 2009 Score: 1.96
17. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor Published: July 25, 2002 Score: 1.63
18. Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy Seal by Chuck Pfarrer Published: December 28, 2004 Score: 1.47
19. The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books) by Robert Greene Published: December 14, 2007 Score: 1.35
20. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer Published: June 1, 2002 Score: 1.14
21. The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 by Dick Couch Published: January 28, 2003 Score: 1.07
22. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen Published: April 15, 2011 Score: 1.05
23. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Score: 0.94
24. Anaconda: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor Published: September 1, 2005 Score: 0.87