23 Best War History Books

"So beautifully written. But more importantly, for me, she was writing about battles and military stuff and things that you don’t imagine that sometimes a woman might be so adept at." - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Jocko Willink covered this book in "Jocko Podcast" Ep. 23

"To learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Served me well. [...] Advocates keeping one’s cool at all times." - Marc Benioff

"After meeting Mark Zuckerberg, [Evan Spiegel] immediately bought every [Snapchat] employee a copy of 'The Art Of War'." - Business Insider

"Another [book] I have to mention." - Dave Camarillo

Ryan Petersen mentioned this book on Twitter.

Jocko Willink covered this book in "Jocko Podcast" Ep. 10

"Read this book." - Paul Graham

"I didn’t understand the full impact of what these guys did at Okinawa fighting the Japanese. That had a big impact on me." - Howard Stern

"The definitive history of the Civil War. One of the greatest works of history I've ever read and arguably the best one volume history in existence." - Ta-Nehisi Coates

"Reading it in the midst of social and political chaos in America gave me profound hope that America at its best can overcome even its worst challenges." - Saagar Enjeti

"The reason you don't read [this book] in highschool is because [the author] made the critical mistake, from a literary standpoint, of feeling like he got something out of [World War I]." - Dan Carlin

"If you’re ever feeling sorry for yourself pick up [this book]." - Austen Allred

One of Peter Attia's answers to "is there a book that you’ve read more than once?"

"[The author's] heart-freezing account [...] of the rape and murder and humiliation that fell on Germans in the territory taken by the Soviet army in 1945." - Christopher Hitchens

Jocko Willink covered this book in "Jocko Podcast" Ep. 105