Ike Skelton's Military History reading list (nonfiction)
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,582 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
by:
Hampton Sides
4.25 avg rating — 38,778 ratings 6. 
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
by:
Harold G. Moore
4.34 avg rating — 32,454 ratings 
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.29 avg rating — 22,176 ratings 9. 
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,333 ratings
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
by:
John Keegan
4.13 avg rating — 8,521 ratings 
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
by:
Doug Stanton
4.33 avg rating — 23,190 ratings 15. 
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
by:
Fred Anderson
4.19 avg rating — 4,234 ratings 16. 
Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
by:
Evan S. Connell
4.13 avg rating — 3,203 ratings 
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Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
by:
Richard B. Frank
4.34 avg rating — 1,211 ratings 
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.36 avg rating — 15,511 ratings 
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
by:
Founding Fathers
4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings 
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,194 ratings
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It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf 4.10 avg rating — 3,442 ratings
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Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
by:
John Keegan
3.66 avg rating — 1,819 ratings 
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Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
by:
William Slim
4.39 avg rating — 1,046 ratings 34. 
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by:
John G. Neihardt
4.12 avg rating — 18,419 ratings 35. 
The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy 3.99 avg rating — 762 ratings
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
by:
Thucydides
3.94 avg rating — 39,936 ratings 37. 
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
by:
G.J. Meyer
4.37 avg rating — 8,755 ratings 39. 
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour 4.35 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah 4.28 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
by:
Bob Drury
4.43 avg rating — 4,530 ratings 43. 
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Hannibal; the struggle for power in the Mediterranean
by:
Gavin de Beer
3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings 47. 
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
3.72 avg rating — 1,084 ratings 49. 
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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare from Trafalgar to Midway
by:
John Keegan
4.09 avg rating — 1,026 ratings 60. 
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Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861–1865 (Guerilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865) 3.77 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo 3.66 avg rating — 930 ratings
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford 3.79 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
by:
Andrei Cherny
4.29 avg rating — 1,645 ratings 68. 
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
by:
Michael Norman
4.20 avg rating — 3,190 ratings 
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Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II
by:
John Prados
4.23 avg rating — 83 ratings 72. 
Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her 4.15 avg rating — 256 ratings
74. 
The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-08
by:
Bob Woodward
3.74 avg rating — 1,879 ratings 75. 
OUT of CAPTIVITY: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
by:
Marc Gonsalves
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,531 ratings 75. 
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
by:
David Kilcullen
4.06 avg rating — 2,289 ratings 77. 
The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession 4.27 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe 3.90 avg rating — 446 ratings
78. 
The Straw Giant: Triumph and Failure, America's Armed Forces
by:
Arthur T. Hadley
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 78. 
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
by:
Cokie Roberts
3.83 avg rating — 2,417 ratings 
89. 
With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain
by:
Michael Korda
4.13 avg rating — 1,944 ratings 90. 
The Chosen Few: One US Army Company's Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan
by:
Gregg Zoroya
4.45 avg rating — 848 ratings 91. 
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
by:
Bill Sloan
4.32 avg rating — 765 ratings 
