The best of military history
National Review Online has some of the top military historians pick their favorite books. Some are immediately recognizable, such as John Keegan's The Face of Battle which is also one of my favorites.
Here are a few of my own favorites.
On the Iraq war, I think Bing West's The Strongest Tribe is one of the best. Peter Mansoor's Baghdad at Sunrise is also very good. Both are far better than some of the other critical works about the war.
On Vietnam, Mark Moyar's Triumph Forsaken is outstanding. One of the best accounts of the air war in Vietnam is U.S. Grant Sharpe's Strategy for Defeat.
Archer Jones, The Art of War in the Western World, is a historical survey beginning in antiquity that traces the use of combined arms attacks through modern warfare. Jones looks at heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry and the strengths and weaknesses of each against the other. In doing so he explains why the winners won and why stalemates existed in the absence of all four.
Here are a few of my own favorites.
On the Iraq war, I think Bing West's The Strongest Tribe is one of the best. Peter Mansoor's Baghdad at Sunrise is also very good. Both are far better than some of the other critical works about the war.
On Vietnam, Mark Moyar's Triumph Forsaken is outstanding. One of the best accounts of the air war in Vietnam is U.S. Grant Sharpe's Strategy for Defeat.
Archer Jones, The Art of War in the Western World, is a historical survey beginning in antiquity that traces the use of combined arms attacks through modern warfare. Jones looks at heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry and the strengths and weaknesses of each against the other. In doing so he explains why the winners won and why stalemates existed in the absence of all four.
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