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Best Nonfiction War Books: The Ultimate List

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While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Nonfiction War books.

Contents
  1. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission (2002)
  2. What It Is Like To Go To War (2012)
  3. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII’s Most Decorated Platoon (2005)
  4. No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II (2018)
  5. A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (40th Anniversary Edition) (2017)
  6. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II (2008)
  7. The Cold War: A Global History with Documents (2nd Edition) (2010)
  8. 21 Months, 24 Days: A blue-collar kid’s journey to the Vietnam War and back (2015)
  9. Sog: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam (1998)
  10. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future (2019)
  11. Dead Center: A Marine Sniper’s Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War (1999)
  12. Major Problems in the History of World War II: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series) (2002)
  13. Strange but True Civil War Stories (1999)
  14. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (2019)

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission (2002)

Best Nonfiction War Books: The Ultimate ListOn January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation.
Author(s): Hampton Sides

What It Is Like To Go To War (2012)

Best Nonfiction War Books: The Ultimate ListOne of the most important and highly-praised books of 2011, Karl Marlantes’s What It Is Like to Go to War is set to become just as much of a classic as his epic novel Matterhorn.In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid look at the