What are the ten best non-fiction military books you have ever read?

[eubank]

Very difficult to just choose ten, but perhaps -

1. 1812 - Napoleon's fatal March on Moscow - Adam Zamoyski
2. Armageddon - Max Hastings
3. Moral Combat - Michael Burleigh
4. Alamein to Zem Zem - Keith Douglas
5. Quartered safe out here - George MacDonald Fraser
6. The most dangerous enemy - Stephen Bungay
7. Stalingrad - Beevor
8. It never snows in September - Kershaw
9. Finest Years - Churchill as Warlord - Hastings
10. The Last Valley - Martin Windrow

[Robert Shoaf]

A second 10:

1. "Old Soldiers Never Die" Richards

2. " Fifteen Rounds a Minute" Jeffreys

3. " The Washing of the Spears" Morris

4. " In Deadly Combat" Bierderman

5. " Strong Men Armed" Leckie

6. " The Rommel Papers" Liddell-Hart

7. " Napoleon's Cavalry and it's Leaders" Johnson

8. " My Logbook" Rall

9. " Arnhem 1944" Middlebrook

10. " Jagdgeschwader 300" Lorant & Goyat


Bob Shoaf

[Mil-Archive]

First 10

Tom Barry - 'Guerilla days in Ireland' (autographed copy is a treasured posession !)
Ernie O' Malley - 'On another mans wound'
The Squad: and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins - T Ryle Dwyer
Michael Collins - Tim Pat Coogan
Norman Finkelstein - The Holocaust Industry
Alan Clark - Barbarossa
Speer - Inside the Third Reich
'In Good Faith' (Vols I+II 4th SS Polizei Panzer Grenadier) - Husemann
Hitler's War - David Irving
Das Reich - (Hastings & Lucas one)