The 50 Best Military Books of 2024

Top 50 Free Military Books - April 2024

The Naval War of 1812 Theodore Roosevelt (1881)

The naval war of 1812, The history of the United States navy during the last war with Great Britain, to which is appended an accou...

Strike Force Anthony E. Carlson, Donald P. Wright & Michael Doidge (2013)

Kandahar.  2010.  Almost a decade after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Soldiers from the 2d Brigade, 101s...

Journey of an ANZAC Thomas Drane (2015)

Walk in the footsteps of an ANZAC. Sapper Thomas Edward Drane (Service No.56) was one of the first men to enlist at the beginning ...

Sea Warfare Rudyard Kipling (1936)

This 1916 publication combines both interests—with poems, lyrical essays, and factual reports.  Highlights include "...

My Life On The Plains George Custer (2017)

My Life on the Plains is an autobiographical first-hand account of the Indian Wars of 1867-1869, detailing the winter campaign of ...

Thunder Run Anthony Carlson, Donald P. Wright & Michael Doidge (2013)

Baghdad, 2003.  In the two weeks since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, U.S. Military forces had pushed 700 kilomete...

My Military Service John Tupper (2012)

This is a story about John Tupper and his journey before and after the Korean war. This book tells you all about his memories of t...

History of the World War Francis Andrew March (2006)

It is authentic narrative of the World's greatest war. Also it consists various remarkable accounts in history that occurred ...

Napoleon on the Web William Coy Caine (2020)

A bibliography with links to Napoleonic material on the Web. Covers websites, Facebook groups, WorldCat reading lists, and visual ...

Simple Sabotage Field Manual United States. Office of Strategic Services (2008)

Formed during World War II, the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was organized for special operations and intelli...

We Have Had Our Last Chance Gerald Flurry & Philadelphia Church of God (2012)

It has often been said that those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. In this concise, hard-hitting booklet ...

WWI Joshua Farrell (2012)

This book is about World War One, explaining everything from the major battles to the home front. It also explains propaganda and ...

Military Instructors Manual J. P. Cole & Oliver Schoonmaker (1917)

U.S. Army officers James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker provide the principles of general military instruction in this manual publ...

The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797 M. E. James (1923)

In 1797, during the War of the First Coalition, Britain suffered its last land incursion to date, when revolutionary France invade...

Auschwitz and the Death Camps Joshua Farrell (2013)

This book is all about Adolf HItler and his worst creation, Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a brutal hell hole for Jews, Communists, Homo...

The Great Illusion Norman Angell (1967)

This fourth revised and enlarged edition was published in New York and London in 1913. Author Normann Angell (1872-1967), the Engl...

Thirteen Chapters of American History Theodore Sutro (1927)

Thirteen Chapters of American History by Theodore Sutro. ”The Thirteen Paintings, to a history and description of which (and incid...

Vanguard of Valor Anthony E. Carlson, Michael J. Doidge, Scott J. Gaitley, Kevin M. Hymel, Matt M. Matthews, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Mountcastle, Ryan D. Wadle, John J. McGrath & Donald P. Wright (2013)

Vanguard of Valor: Enhanced Edition seamlessly combines eight compelling platoon level narratives with audio, video, simulations, ...

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District (1996)

That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam,...

World War II memoirs Phil Wheeler (2014)

More than 16 million Americans fought in World War 2; there were 290,000 casualties. The average length of service was 16 months. ...

World War 2 History Nerds (2020)

World War 2 began on September 1st, 1939, and from its very first fiery shots, it dictated the tempo of this new and modernized fo...

The Battle of the Bismarck Josh Turrell (2013)

Josh Turrell World War 2 Project all about the Battle of Bismarck. This is Josh's first iBook he has created and at the age o...

16 Cases of Mission Command Donald P. Wright, Ph. D. (2015)

The  16 Cases of Mission Command  eBook offers illustrations of military leaders using the principles of Mission...

Both Sides the Border George Alfred Henty (1901)

When Oswald Forster is taken into Henry Percy’s household as a squire, his efficiency and discretion as a message-bearer, as well ...

World War 2 Angie Mann, Lauren Benning & Jonathan Smith (2016)

Students in American and World History at Alliance High School learned about World War II.  To demonstrate their learning...

The Art of War Sun Tzu (2010)

An Apple Books Classic edition. It’s believed that Sun Tzu wrote this Chinese military primer during the 5th century BC-hundreds o...

The Art of War Henri Jomini (2010)

Antoine-Henri Jomini's The Art of War, which is the foundation of professional military education in the Western world."...

World War II Carl Martin & Laura Holland (2013)

Although World War II resulted in many casualties it was also a period of extraordinary scientific accomplishments on both sides: ...

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Alfred Thayer Mahan (1914)

This book examines the role of sea power in history influenced the rapid growth of international navies during the period before W...

Sound Military Decision Naval War College (U.S.) (2009)

"The Green Book" is one of the more famous and significant planning manuals issued by the Naval War College to prepare s...

Fifty Dead Men Walking Martin McGartland (2019)

For more than four years, Martin McGartland lived the astonishing double life of a secret agent. To the IRA, he was a trusted Inte...

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides (2018)

The classic account of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley.   An Athenian general...

World War 2 Japan Stephan Weaver (2017)

The story of Japanese involvement in WWII is one that includes a number of amazing events between 1939 and 1945. The Japanese went...

WANAT The Staff of the US Army Combat Studies Institute (2015)

In July 2008, hundreds of insurgents attacked a combined US and Afghan force at Wanat, a town deep in the mountains of northeaster...

Aviation in Peace and War Frederick Hugh Sykes (1954)

A look back at a moment calling the future of the aviation world in the future (our present).It traces the routes of our modern av...

The Naval History of the United States Willis John Abbot (1934)

The book is explicitly biased for the US Navy. The author also unfolds the glory of naval battle thus forming an inspiration and m...

Training for War Tom Kratman (2014)

An essay and manual on training for war by retired Army lieutenant colonel Tom Kratman, creator of the popular Carrera military sc...

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs (1962)

In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memori...

Four American Naval Heroes Mabel Beebe (2011)

The building and equipping of this first navy was largely intrusted to Ezek Hopkins, whom Congress had appointed Commander-in-Chie...

Hours of The Vietnam War Kelly Troyna (2013)

This is a compilation of historical fiction and true narratives from the Vietnam War era.

At the Point of the Bayonet George Alfred Henty (1901)

The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken is one of the most stirring pages of the camp...

The Naval History of the United States Willis John Abbot (1934)

EARLY EXPLOITS UPON THE WATER. — GALLOP'S BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS. — BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES. — MORGAN AND BLACKBEARD. —&#...

Cuban Missile Crisis Stephan Weaver (2017)

This book is about the Cuban missile crisis.  This book is a short description of this momentous event and the factors th...

I Am A Submariner Joe C Combs 2nd (2011)

This is a short memior of a submariner. What it means to be a submariner past, present, and future.Lightly covers boot camp, subma...

How the Allies Won World War II Austin P. Torney (2012)

Free. *** Eyes Only *** Mysterious going-on with the German atom bomb.

The River War Winston Churchill (1965)

It is a book concerning the experiences of the author as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War in Sudan. The book provide...

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Julian Stafford Corbett (1922)

This brilliant exposition established Corbett as a classical maritime strategist whose concepts of sea power are found in current ...

Elements of Military Art and Science Henry Wager Halleck (1845)

An interesting insight into the state of the American military profession in general and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in parti...

World War Scott Harder (2013)

This is a Book designed to be used as supplemental material in an Advanced Placement U.S. History Course.  This book is 4...

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