The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871

5 best books like The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 (Geoffrey Wawro): Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun, Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Author	Hampton Sides
ISBN	0385507771

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory

In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting...

The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas

Author	John Buchanan
ISBN	0471327166

A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the war.

"A tense, exciting historical account of a little known chapter of the Revolution, displaying...

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

Author	Christopher Clark
ISBN	0674023854

Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great...

Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

Author	John Prados
ISBN	0451238044

Acclaimed WWII historian and military intelligence expert John Prados offers a provocative reassessment of the Allies’ battle for the Solomon Islands—a turbulent, dramatic campaign that, he argues, was the true turning point of the Pacific conflict. 

Historians traditionally...

Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

Author	Günter K. Koschorrek
ISBN	0760321981

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes on whatever scraps of paper he could find and sewed the pages into the lining of his winter coat. Left with his mother on his rare trips home, this illicit...