General Military Books in Order
109
Books
1950
First Book
2021
Latest Book
72
Years
Below you'll find the complete list of General Military books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
1
Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple (By: Stuart Smith)
Buy on Amazon1950
2
The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944 (By: Mark Rogerson,Ken Small)
Buy on Amazon1988
3
Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage (By: Rick Jolly)
Buy on Amazon1989
4
Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship (By: Angus Konstam)
Buy on Amazon2003
5
Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan (By: Martin Pegler)
Buy on Amazon2004
6
Rome at War
Buy on Amazon2005
7
Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean)
Buy on Amazon2006
8
Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited (By: Andrew Wiest)
Buy on Amazon2006
9
FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II (By: Gordon L. Rottman)
Buy on Amazon2007
10
An Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918 (By: Stephen Bull)
Buy on Amazon2008
11
Warship 2008 (By: John Jordan)
Buy on Amazon2008
12
Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II (By: Terry Crowdy)
Buy on Amazon2008
13
Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World (By: Brian Lavery)
Buy on Amazon2009
14
The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 (By: Blair Worden)
Buy on Amazon2009
15
No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II (General Mi (By: Kenneth K. Koskodan)
Buy on Amazon2009
16
Battleground Prussia (By: Prit Buttar)
Buy on Amazon2010
17
The Spitfire Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 (By: Martin Robson)
Buy on Amazon2011
18
Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare (By: Clive Cussler,James P. Delgado)
Buy on Amazon2011
19
Warship 2011 (By: John Jordan)
Buy on Amazon2011
20
Quick Training for War (By: Robert Baden-Powell,Martin Robson)
Buy on Amazon2011
21
Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance (By: Michael; Green Gladys Green)
Buy on Amazon2012
22
The Para Fitness Guide (By: Sam McGrath)
Buy on Amazon2012
23
The Rice Paddy Navy:U.S. Sailors Undercover in China (By: Linda Kush)
Buy on Amazon2012
24
The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 (By: Christopher Westhorp)
Buy on Amazon2012
25
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq (By: Lou DiMarco)
Buy on Amazon2012
26
America's Elite: U.S. Special Forces From The American Revolution To The Present Day (By: Chris McNab)
Buy on Amazon2014
27
American Tanks & AFVs of World War II (By: Michael Green)
Buy on Amazon2014
28
Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne (By: Ian Senior)
Buy on Amazon2014
29
No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden (By: Ian Gardner)
Buy on Amazon2014
30
The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945 (By: Christopher Westhorp)
Buy on Amazon2014
31
Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam (By: Eric Poole)
Buy on Amazon2015
32
Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 (By: Prit Buttar)
Buy on Amazon2015
33
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume I: 1939–42 (By: ThomasAnderson)
Buy on Amazon2015
34
Finland at War: the Winter War 1939-40 (By: Vesa Nenye)
Buy on Amazon2015
35
American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion (By: Victor Failmezger)
Buy on Amazon2015
36
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 (By: Chris Birks,Vesa Nenye,Peter Munter,Toni Wirtanen)
Buy on Amazon2016
37
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution (By: Peter McPhee)
Buy on Amazon2016
38
Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass (By: Trevor Absolon)
Buy on Amazon2016
39
Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries (By: Jeremy Black)
Buy on Amazon2016
40
We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 (By: Robert Forczyk)
Buy on Amazon2016
41
Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 (By: Dennis E. Showalter)
Buy on Amazon2016
42
With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon (By: Gene Fax)
Buy on Amazon2017
43
Loco Spotter’s Guide (By: Stuart Black)
Buy on Amazon2017
44
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II (By: Gavin Mortimer)
Buy on Amazon2017
45
Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin (By: Mungo Melvin)
Buy on Amazon2017
46
Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II (By: Michael G. Walling)
Buy on Amazon2017
47
Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants (By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear)
Buy on Amazon2017
48
Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 (By: Jim Laurier,Robert Forsyth)
Buy on Amazon2017
49
Shot Down and in the Drink: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Saved from the Sea in WWII (By: Graham Pitchfork)
Buy on Amazon2017
50
The Splintered Empires (By: Prit Buttar)
Buy on Amazon2017
51
Panther (By: ThomasAnderson)
Buy on Amazon2017
52
The Second World Wars (By: Victor Davis Hanson)
Buy on Amazon2017
53
Concorde Pocket Manual (By: Richard Johnstone-Bryden)
Buy on Amazon2017
54
Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
Buy on Amazon2017
55
Case Red: The Collapse of France (By: Robert Forczyk)
Buy on Amazon2017
56
Legion versus Phalanx (By: Myke Cole)
Buy on Amazon2018
57
The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All Marks in Service 1941–1945 (By: Martin Robson)
Buy on Amazon2018
58
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II (By: Jeffrey R. Cox)
Buy on Amazon2018
59
Cutty Sark Pocket Manual (By: Arron Hewett,Louise MacFarlane)
Buy on Amazon2018
60
The British Home Guard Pocketbook (By: A.F.U. Green)
Buy on Amazon2018
61
Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern (By: Liesl Bradner,PhilStern)
Buy on Amazon2018
62
Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
Buy on Amazon2018
63
HMS Belfast Pocket Manual (By: John Blake)
Buy on Amazon2018
64
The German Soldier's Pocket Manual: 1914–18 (By: Stephen Bull)
Buy on Amazon2018
65
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage (By: Martin Robson)
Buy on Amazon2018
66
Valley Of The Shadow: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu (By: Kevin M. Boylan,Luc Olivier)
Buy on Amazon2018
67
Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On (By: Leigh Neville)
Buy on Amazon2018
68
Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence (By: Jeremy Black,National Archives)
Buy on Amazon2018
69
The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939–45 (By: Christian Jennings)
Buy on Amazon2018
70
Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans (By: Andrew Wiest)
Buy on Amazon2018
71
Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq (By: Nicholas Moore,Mir Bahmanyar)
Buy on Amazon2018
72
Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear,Andrey Aksenov)
Buy on Amazon2018
73
Hitler's Death (By: Luke Daly-Groves)
Buy on Amazon2019
74
The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present (By: Chris McNab,Mark Galeotti)
Buy on Amazon2019
75
The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers (By: Angus Konstam)
Buy on Amazon2019
76
How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide (By: National Archives)
Buy on Amazon2019
77
An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian Missions, 1943–45 (By: Gianluca Barneschi)
Buy on Amazon2019
78
War Bows: Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi (By: Mike Loades)
Buy on Amazon2019
79
Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS (By: Alastair MacKenzie)
Buy on Amazon2019
80
Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions (By: ThomasAnderson)
Buy on Amazon2019
81
Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
Buy on Amazon2019
82
World War II Battle by Battle (By: Nikolai Bogdanovic)
Buy on Amazon2019
83
Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands (By: Rick Jolly)
Buy on Amazon2019
84
Warship 2019 (By: John Jordan)
Buy on Amazon2019
85
Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet (By: Innes McCartney)
Buy on Amazon2019
86
Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway (By: David Rigby)
Buy on Amazon2019
87
German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat (By: Aaron Stephan Hamilton)
Buy on Amazon2019
88
Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear,Andrey Aksenov)
Buy on Amazon2019
89
The Hurricane Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1939–45 (By: Martin Robson)
Buy on Amazon2019
90
On a Knife's Edge (By: Prit Buttar)
Buy on Amazon2019
91
Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 (By: Robert Forczyk)
Buy on Amazon2019
92
Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II (By: Ian Gardner)
Buy on Amazon2019
93
The Persian War: In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices (By: William Shepherd)
Buy on Amazon2019
94
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 (By: Jeffrey R. Cox)
Buy on Amazon2020
95
Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents from the Time (By: National Archives)
Buy on Amazon2020
96
Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness (By: Sam McGrath)
Buy on Amazon2020
97
Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II (By: Chris McNab)
Buy on Amazon2020
98
The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy (By: Richard Endsor)
Buy on Amazon2020
99
Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18 (By: Rob Johnson)
Buy on Amazon2020
100
The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 (By: Anthony Tucker-Jones)
Buy on Amazon2020
101
Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44 (By: Victor Failmezger)
Buy on Amazon2020
102
I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway (By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
Buy on Amazon2020
103
The Reckoning (By: Prit Buttar)
Buy on Amazon2020
104
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge (By: Angus Konstam)
Buy on Amazon2020
105
Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14 (By: Ben Barry)
Buy on Amazon2020
106
The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader? (By: Kieran Whitworth)
Buy on Amazon2021
107
Warship 2021 (By: John Jordan)
Buy on Amazon2021
108
Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank (By: Stephen Sewell,James Kinnear,Andrey Aksenov)
Buy on Amazon2021
109
Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield (By: Innes McCartney)
Buy on Amazon2021
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the General Military series is publication order: 1. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple (By: Stuart Smith) (1950), 2. The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944 (By: Mark Rogerson,Ken Small) (1988), 3. Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage (By: Rick Jolly) (1989), 4. Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship (By: Angus Konstam) (2003), 5. Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan (By: Martin Pegler) (2004), and 104 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The General Military series by Adrian Goldsworthy contains 109 books. The series began in 1950 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
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