📚 Soldiers

The rank-and-file record: letters, diaries and the literature of being carried, fed and ordered about.

Below are the 15 works carrying the subject soldiers 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
	Barrack-room ballads and other verses	Rudyard Kipling	1890	94
	Departmental ditties and other verses	Rudyard Kipling	1800	51
	Barrack-room ballads and Departmental ditties	Rudyard Kipling	1900	45
	Servitude et grandeur militaires	Alfred de Vigny	1800	41
	A Long Way Gone	Ishmael Beah	2007	29
	In Stahlgewittern	Ernst Jünger	1922	18
	Warriors	Max Hastings	2005	12
	To Hell and Back	Audie Murphy	1949	10
	Make Your Bed	William H. McRaven	2017	10
	Francis and Riversdale Grenfell	John Buchan	1920	7
	North Carolina Revolutionary Army accounts	Weynette Parks Haun	1987	2
	Pahlawan samudera, Kapten Samadikun	Burhanuddin Sanna	1976	1
	Unlikely beginnings	Aboobaker Osman Mitha	2003	1
	Şöhrat	Turkmenistan. Ministrler Kabineti. Baş arhiw müdirligi	2004	1
	India's Most Fearless 1	Shiv Aroor	2017	1

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

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