📚 Military History

War written up: the after-battle survey and the argument about what it can ever honestly say.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject military history in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The River War	Winston S. Churchill	1899	126
	The art of war in the Middle Ages	Charles William Chadwick Oman	1885	37
	The fifteen decisive battles of the world	Creasy, Edward Shepherd Sir	1851	34
	The Decisive Wars of History	B. H. Liddell Hart	1929	29
	Le fil de l'épée	Charles de Gaulle	1932	29
	Public Policy Analysis	William N. Dunn	1981	21
	Overlord	Max Hastings	1984	20
	Enemy at the Gates	William Craig	1973	19
	Makers of modern strategy	Edward Mead Earle	1943	13
	Intelligence in War	John Keegan	2003	13
	Men in arms history of warfare and its interrelationships with Western society	Richard Arthur Preston	1956	12
	The battles that changed history	Fletcher Pratt	1956	12
	The causes of war	Geoffrey Blainey	1973	11
	The air war, 1939-1945	Richard Overy	1980	11
	Strategy	Lawrence Freedman	2013	10
	The conduct of war, 1789-1961	J. F. C. Fuller	1961	9
	The social history of the machine gun	John Ellis	1975	9
	War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning	Chris Hedges	2002	9
	Warfare in the classical world	John Gibson Warry	1980	8
	War in the modern world	Theodore Ropp	1959	7
	The colonial wars, 1689-1762	Howard Henry Peckham	1964	7
	The campaigns of Napoleon	David Chandler	1966	7
	The wars of America	Robert Leckie	1967	7
	The Samurai	Stephen Turnbull	1977	7
	The Franco-Prussian War	Geoffrey Wawro	2003	7
	Yoruba warfare in the nineteenth century	J. F. Ade Ajayi	1964	6
	The Greek Armies	Peter Connolly	1977	6
	Guerrillas	Jon Lee Anderson	1992	6
	What If...?	Robert Cowley	2000	6
	The Cold War	Robert Cowley	2005	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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