The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
10 best books like The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Sarah Chayes): Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods, Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II, Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Chickamauga and Chattanooga: The Battles That Doomed the Confederacy, Fighting Power: German And Us Army Performance, 1939-1945, German Battle Tactics on the Russian Front, 1941-1945, The Roots Of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt And German Military Reform, Warfighting (Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1)
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
One of the two best standalone books that I’ve ever read; this is truly historical fiction at its finest.
Lancelot by Giles Kristian was an amazing standalone and now, I’ve found Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. I’m starting to feel that historical fiction is the right genre to visit...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0871568772 |
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural...
Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods
| Author | H. John Poole |
| ISBN | 0963869574 |
This book is still required reading at Forts Benning and Leavenworth (and some Marine commands), because it fully details the Islamists' yet-to-be-defeated 4GW method. That method is best countered by "light" infantry tactics, but America has had only "line" infantry since 1943. Its modern sequel...
| Author | Stephen G. Fritz |
| ISBN | 0813109434 |
Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers....I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries,...
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
| Author | Thomas Barfield |
| ISBN | 0691145687 |
Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups...
Chickamauga and Chattanooga: The Battles That Doomed the Confederacy
| Author | John Hugh Bowers |
| ISBN | 0380725096 |
In the Autumn of 1863, a pair of remarkable military engagements took place on opposite sides of the Georgia-Tennessee border -- two battles marked by ferocity, genius, courage, astonishing ineptitude, and outrageous fortune that changed the course of the War Between the States.
John Bowers,...
Fighting Power: German And Us Army Performance, 1939-1945
| Author | Martin van Creveld |
| ISBN | 0313233330 |
Working by numbers vs working by character. That would be the short version of this book on the difference between the US Army in WWII vs the German Army.
This was the first book on military history that I read in which not a shot is fired! In this book you'll find no description of battles, operations...
German Battle Tactics on the Russian Front, 1941-1945
| Author | Steven H. Newton |
| ISBN | 0887405827 |
The amazing tenacity and cohesion of the German Army in Russia from 1941-1945, fighting against overwhelming odds but refusing to disintegrate, has fascinated readers for decades. But most of the available sources concentrate on the maneuvers of armies and panzer corps, leaving the divisions,...
The Roots Of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt And German Military Reform
| Author | James S. Corum |
| ISBN | 0700606289 |
Following Germany's defeat in World War I, the Germans signed the Versailles Treaty, superficially agreeing to limit their war powers. The Allies envisioned the future German army as a lightly armed border guard and international security force. The Germans had other plans.
As early as...
Warfighting (Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1)
| Author | U.S. Marine Corps |
| ISBN | 1557423091 |
Very simply, this publication describes the philosophy which distinguishes the U.S. Marine Corps. The thoughts contained here are not merely guidance for action in combat but a way of thinking. This publication provides the authoritative basis for how we fight and how we prepare to fight. This book...
Into the Crucible: Making Marines for the 21st Century
| Author | James Woulfe |
| ISBN | 0891417079 |
I really enjoyed this book, and it was a quick read (finished in about a day and a half). It has an excellent account of what the Crucible is really like, complete with descriptions of the hardships Marine Corps recruits must endure before claiming the title of Marine. Throughout these passages, Woulfe...
Decision in the Ukraine: German Panzer Operations on the Eastern Front, Summer 1943
This book had an enormous amount of information for the Reader. It must have been very Time consuming collecting it. The problem is that it could have been organized better. His focus was mainly on three or four key German Divisions and largely ignored the Rest. The Battle of Kursk was the decision that...
Chickamauga: A Battlefield Guide
| Author | Steven E. Woodworth |
| ISBN | 0803298021 |
The hard-fought and dramatic battles of Chickamauga (September 19–20, 1863) and Chattanooga (November 23–25, 1863) changed the course of the Civil War. These battles sounded the death knell of the Confederacy and put Ulysses S. Grant on the road to final victory. For the first time in one convenient...
Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945
| Author | Charles W. Sydnor Jr. |
| ISBN | 0691008531 |
This is the eighth Princeton Paperback printing and includes a new preface and postscript.
The reason this book is so unusual and compelling is because its subject occupied so central a place in the most extraordinary and destructive phenomenon ever to threaten the structure of civilization...
East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950
| Author | Roy Edgar Appleman |
| ISBN | 0890964653 |
In November, 1950, with the highly successful Inchon Landing behind him, Gen. Douglas MacArthur planned the last major offensive of what was to be a brief "conflict": the drive that would push the North Koreans across the Yalu River into Manchuria. In northern Korea, US forces assembled at Chosin Reservoir...
| Author | David M. Glantz |
| ISBN | 0700609784 |
Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses-including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties-within the first ten days of fighting. Going...
Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Jonathan M. House |
| ISBN | 0700610987 |
For centuries, the world has witnessed the development and use of increasingly complex and powerful military systems and technologies. In the process, the "art of war" has truly become the art of combined arms warfare, in which infantry, artillery, air support, intelligence, and other key elements...
| Author | John W. Hackett |
| ISBN | 0025471201 |
This is an odd but delightful book. General Hackett was an officer of some talents; commander of one of the paratrooper brigades at Arnhem and later NATO commander of the British Army of the Rhine, and these are his thoughts on military virtues and leadership in the guise of a history. As a history book,...
