 | Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.29 Practically a blow-by-blow account.
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 | Medieval Warfare: England's Army in the Wars of the Middle Ages by Peter Reid
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $3.98 Shows how instrumental the long bow was during the
100 Years War. Covers all of the great battles.
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 | Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy Adkins
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.82 Lord Nelson's greatest battle. Also, the one where he was killed.
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 | The Headlong God of War:: A Tale of Ancient Greece and the Battle of Marathon by Jon Edward Martin
Buy used from: $22.30 Athenians defeat the Persians. Modern marathon gets its distance from messanger who ran 26 miles to tell of victory.
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 | The Battle: A New History of Waterloo by Alessandro Barbero
Buy new: $21.28 / Used from: $1.79 The role of the Prussians is examined in much more
detail than in most accounts.
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 | The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada by Neil Hanson
Buy new: $13.56 / Used from: $4.75 Nature conspires against the Spanish.
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 | Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United States Marines at War in the Pacific by Eric Hammel
Buy new: $29.20 / Used from: $6.94 Includes 500 evocative photos and 27 Medal of Honor citations given to marines and navy corpsmen.
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 | Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War) by Richard Tregaskis
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.86 Combined air, land, and sea assault changes the tide of the war.
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 | They Fought at Anzio by John S. D. Eisenhower
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $15.99 General Eisenhower's son uses many different sources, including Italian and German accounts and leans heavily on memoirs of an army nurse who was at Anzio.
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 | D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.47 Ambrose interviewed over 1,400 soldiers.
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 | The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: $20.08 / Used from: $5.82 19,000 British soldiers were killed on the first day before the battle deteriorated into a four-month long
stalmate.
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 | Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory (Phoenix Press) by Adrian Goldsworthy
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.84 Textbook battle plan still taught at West Point in the 19th century.
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 | The Conquest of Gaul (Penguin Classics) by Julius Caesar
Buy new: $8.80 / Used from: $2.48 They say Julius Caesar wasn't a great general, but the battle of Alesia says otherwise.
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 | Austerlitz 1805: The fate of empires (Campaign) by Ian Castle
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $2.74 Napoleon's greatest victory.
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 | Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England by Juliet Barker
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $3.00 English long bows too much for the French.
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 | Poitiers AD 732: Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (Campaign) by David Nicolle
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.94 Charlemagne's grandfather stops the Moors in their tracks.
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 | Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.79 Stalin's orders to fight to the last man actually work.
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 | Granicus 334BC: Alexander's First Persian Victory (Campaign) by Michael Thompson
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $9.19 Alexander's 5,000 cavalrymen, aided by archers and javelin men, defeat a superior force of 20,000 Persians.
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 | Thermopylae 480 BC: Last stand of the 300 (Campaign) by Nic Fields
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.15 300 Spartans give up their lives in a delaying action.
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 | Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution by Richard M. Ketchum
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $7.82 Washington and Lafayette corner the British as the French fleet arrives.
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 | Little Bighorn Remembered: The Untold Indian Story of Custer's Last Stand by Herman J. Viola
Buy used from: $4.40 A history of the battle from the Native American point of view. Viola cites scouts who fought with Custer and those warriors who fought alongside Crazy Horse.
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 | The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $3.50 Jackson beats the "bloody redcoats" after the treaty to end
the war was signed.
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 | The Empire Falls: Battle of Midway (Graphic History) by Steve White
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.03 The Japanese had superior planes and superior ships but the Americans won anyway. The tide of the war swings our way.
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 | Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot (History of War) by Howard R. Simpson
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $5.75 The fall of this French fort after a 57-day siege led to the end of French dominance in Indochina and opened the way for America's involvement.
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 | The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $7.94 MacArthur delivers master stroke at Inchon, then goads the Chinese ingo entering the war.
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 | 1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.14 The Battle of Hastings was the last time the British Isles were invaded. The end of the Viking era.
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