User:Nick-D/Library

This is a listing of some of the books I own which may be of use to other editors. Please contact me if you would like me to provide a reference.

Ancient history

Cowan, Ross (2007). Roman Battle Tactics 109 BC – AD 313. Elite. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781846031847.
Goldsworthy, Adrian (2000). Roman Warfare. London: Phoenix. ISBN 9780753822586.
Goldsworthy, Adrian (2003). The Complete Roman Army. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500051240.
Kagan, Donald (2003). The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 BC. London: Harper Perennial. ISBN 0007115067.
Mackay, Christopher S. (2004). Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521711464. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
Mattingly, David (2006). An Imperial Possession. Britain in the Roman Empire. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140148220.

Australian military history

Attwood, Bain and Foster, S.G., ed. (2003). Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience. Canberra: National Museum of Australia. ISBN 1876944110.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
Coates, John (2006). An Atlas of Australia's Wars (Second ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195559142.
Coulthard-Clark, Chris (1996). Soldiers in Politics. The impact of the military on Australian political life and institutions. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1864481854.
Clark, Chris (2008). Operation Pelican. The Royal Australian Air Force in the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. Canberra: Air Power Development Centre. ISBN 9781920800253.
Coulthard-Clark, Chris (2001). The Encyclopedia of Australia's Battles. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Davison, Graeme (2001). The Oxford Companion to Australian History (Revised ed.). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019551503X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Australian Department of Defence (1987). The Defence of Australia 1987. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 064405655X.
Dennis, Peter (2008). The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (Second ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand. ISBN 9780195517842. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Dibb, Paul (1986). Review of Australia's Defence Capabilities. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0644049235. (commonly known as the Dibb Report)
Eather, Steve (1995). Flying Squadrons of the Australian Defence Force. Canberra: Aerospace Publications. ISBN 1875671153.
Edwards, Peter (1992). Crises and Commitments : The Politics and Diplomacy of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts, 1948–1965. The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975. Sydney: Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial. ISBN 1863731849. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Frame, Tom (2004). No Pleasure Cruise. The Story of the Royal Australian Navy. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1741142334.
Gillett, Ross (1988). Australian & New Zealand Warships Since 1946. Sydney: Child & Associates. ISBN 0867772190.
Grey, Jeffrey (2001). The Australian Army. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195541146.
Grey, Jeffrey (2008). A Military History of Australia (Third ed.). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521697910.
Horner, David (1992). The Gulf commitment : The Australian Defence Force's First War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0522845118.
Horner, David (2001). Making the Australian Defence Force. The Australian Centenary History of Defence Volume IV. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195541170.
Horner, David (2009). In Action with the SAS. Thomas, Neil (Revised and updated ed.). Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781741755527.
Horner, David (2011). Australia and the New World Order : From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: 1988-1991. The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521765879.
Johnston, Mark (2011). Whispering Death: Australian Airmen in the Pacific War. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781741759013.
Londey, Peter (2004). Other People's Wars. A History of Australian Peacekeeping. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1865086517.
McPhedran, Ian (2005). The Amazing SAS. The Inside Story of Australia's Special Forces. HarperCollins Publishers. Sydney. (an awful book, but the best source of information on the SASR's recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq)
Palazzo, Albert (2001). The Australian Army. A History of its Organisation 1901—2001. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195515072.
Reynolds, Henry (1995). The Other Side of the Frontier. Aboriginal resistance to the European invasion of Australia. Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia. ISBN 0140130403.
Stanley, Peter (2008). A Stout Pair of Boots. A Guide to Exploring Australia's Battlefields. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781741756654.
Stephens, Alan (2006) [2001]. The Royal Australian Air Force: A History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195555414.
Stevens, David, ed. (2006). The Royal Australian Navy. A History (Paperback ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195555424.
Nash, Greg and Stevens, David (2006) Australia's Navy in the Gulf. From Countenance to Catalyst, 1941-2006. Topmill, Sydney.

British military history

Carver, Michael (1999). Britain's Army in the 20th Century. London: Pan Books in association with the Imperial War Museum. ISBN 0330372009.
Hennessy, Peter (2010). The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945–2010. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0141044699.
Heyman, Charles (2005). The British Army Guide. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 1844152804.
Thompson, Julian (2000). The Royal Marines. From Sea Soldiers to a Special Force. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330377027.

General military history

Chambers, John Whiteclay II (editor) (1999). The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195071980. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
Ellis, John (2004). Cavalry. The History of Mounted Warfare. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 1844150968.
Keegan, John (1976). The Face of Battle. New York: Penguin.
Keegan, John (1994). A History of Warfare. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0394588010.
Sheehan, Michael (1986). The Economist Pocket Guide to Defence. London: Basil Blackwell and The Economist. ISBN 063114725X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Thompson, Julian (1991). The Lifeblood of War. Logistics in Armed Conflict. London: Brassy's. ISBN 0080409776.

Historiography

Carr, E.H. (2008). What is History? (Second ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141037738.
Evans, Richard J. (2000). In Defence of History (Revised ed.). London: Granta Publications. ISBN 1862073953.
Evans, Richard J. (2002). Telling Lies About Hitler. The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial. London: Verso. ISBN 1859844170.
Harris, Robert (1986). Selling Hitler. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 009979151X.
Howard, Michael (1983). Clausewitz. Past Masters. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192876074.
Keegan, John (1995). The Battle for History. Re-fighting World War II. London: Pimlico. ISBN 0712673601.
Reynolds, David (2004). In Command of History. Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War. London: Penguin.
Smelser, Ronald (2008). The Myth of the Eastern Front. The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521712316. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Intelligence

Bamford, James (2002). Body of Secrets. How America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ Eavesdop on the World. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 0099427745.
Budiansky, Stephen (2000). Battle of Wits. The complete story of codebreaking in World War II. London: Penguin. ISBN 0140281053.
Hodges, Andrew (1983). Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence. London: Burnett Books. ISBN 0045100608
Keegan, John. Intelligence in War. Knowledge of the Enemy from Napolean to Al-Qaeda. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0091802296.
Weiner, Tim (2007). Legacy of Ashes. The History of the CIA. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9781846140648.

Japan

Delgado, James (2010). Kamikaze: History's Greatest Naval Disaster. London: Vintage. ISBN 9780099532583.
Drea, Edward J. (2009). Japan's Imperial Army. Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. Modern War Studies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700616633.
Peattie, Mark R. (2001). Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Air Power, 1909-1941. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781591146643.
Turnbull, Stephen (1996). The Samurai: A Military History. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library. ISBN 1873410387.
Turnbull, Stephen (2008). Samurai Armies. Battle Orders 36. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781846033513.
Turnbull, Stephen (2009). Strongholds of the Samurai: Japanese Castles 250-1877. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781846034138.

New Zealand

Belich, James (1998). The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict. Auckland: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140275045.
Kinight, Ian (2009). Maori Fortifications. Fortress 81. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781846033704.

18th and 19th century military history

Duffy, Christopher (1981). Russia's Military Way to the West. Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700-1800. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0710007973.
Duffy, Christopher (2006). Fire and Stone. The Science of Fortress Warfare 1660-1860 (Castle Books ed.). Edison: Castle Books. ISBN 9780785821090.
Howard, Michael (2001). The Franco-Prussian War (Second ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 0415266718.

Napoleonic era

Chandler, David (1999). Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. Ware: Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1840222034.
Duffy, Christopher (1999). Austerlitz 1805. London: Cassel & Co. ISBN 0304352799.
Duffy, Christopher (1999). Borodino and the War of 1812. London: Cassel & Co. ISBN 0304352780.
Esdaile, Charles (2007). Napoleon's Wars. An International History 1803–1815. London: Penguin.
Lieven, Dominic (2009). Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141009353.
Zamoyski, Adam (2004). 1812. Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow. London: HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 0007184891.

World War I to 1939

Adam-Smith, Patsy (1978). The Anzacs. Melbourne: Penguin. ISBN 0734304617.
Bennett, Geoffrey (2001). Naval Battles of the First World War (Classic Penguin ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0141390875.
Bruce, Anthony (2002). The Last Crusade. The Palestine Campaign in the First World War. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719565057.
Carlyon, Les (2006). The Great War. Sydney: Picador. ISBN 9781405037990.
Clayton, Anthony (2003). Paths of Glory. The French Army 1914–1918. Cassell. ISBN 0304366528.
Cottrell, Peter (2006). The Anglo-Irish War. The Troubles of 1913–1922. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1846030234.
Davies, Norman (1972). White Eagle Red Star. The Soviet Polish War 1919-1920 and 'the miracle on the Vistula'. London: Pimlico. ISBN 0712606947.
Prior, Robin (2003). Passchendaele: The Untold Story. Melbourne: Scribe. ISBN 0908011911. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Prior, Robin (2005). The Somme. Sydney: UNSW Press. ISBN 0868408441. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Gudmundsson, Bruce (2005). The British Expeditionary Force 1914–1915. Battle Orders. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841769029.
Horne, Alistair (1993). The Price of Glory. Verdun 1916. London: Penguin. ISBN 0140170413.
Keegan, John (1998). The First World War. London: Pimlico. ISBN 0712666451.
Mawdsley, Evan (2008). The Russian Civil War. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 978-1843410416.
Molkentin, Michael (2010). Fire in the Sky. The Australian Flying Corps in the First World War. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781742370729.
Moorehead, Alan (1956). Gallipoli. London: Aurum Press. ISBN 9781845132392.
Pope, Stephen (1995). The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0333689097. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Stanley, Peter (2010). Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force. Sydney: Pier 9. ISBN 9781741964806.
Stone, Norman (1998). The Eastern Front 1914-1917. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140267259.
Strachan, Hew (2001). The First World War. Volume I: To Arms. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199261911.
Strachan, Hew (2003). The First World War. London: Pocket Books. ISBN 074323961X.
Terraine, John (1978). To Win a War. 1918, The Year of Victory. London: Papermac. ISBN 0333416864.
Tuchman, Barbara (1962). August 1914. London: Papermac. ISBN 0333305167.

World War II

General histories

Dear, I.C.B and Foot, M.R.D. (editors) (2005). The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192806703. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Chamberlain, Peter (2000). British and American Tanks of World War Two (Second ed.). New York: Casel & Co. ISBN 0304355291. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) (also includes Australian, Canadian, South African and New Zealand AFVs)
Horner, David (1982). High Command. Australia and Allied strategy 1939-1945. Sydney: Allen & Unwin with the assistance of the Australian War Memorial. ISBN 0868610763.
Johnston, Mark (1996). At the Front Line. Experiences of Australian Soldiers in World War II. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521560373.
Kershaw, Ian (2007). Fateful Choices. Decisions that Changed the World 1940–41. London: Penguin.
McKernan, Michael (1983). All In! Australia During the Second World War. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson Australia. ISBN 0170059464.
McKernan, Michael (2006). The Strength of a Nation. Six years of Australians fighting for the nation and defending the homeland during WWII. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781741147148.
O'Hara, Vincent P., Dickson, W. David and Worth, Richard, ed. (2010). On Seas Contested : The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1591146469.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
Overy, Richard (1995). Why the Allies Won. Norton. ISBN 039331619X.
Overy, Richard (1999). The Road to War (Revised and updated ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 014028530X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Weinberg, Gerhard L. (2005). A World at Arms. A Global History of World War II (Second ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521853168.
Worth, Richard (2001). Fleets of World War II. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306811162.

Official histories

Most volumes of official history of Australia in World War II (Australia in the War of 1939–1945), though this is now available online
Long, Gavin (1973). The Six Years War. A Concise History of Australia in the 1939–1945 War. Canberra: The Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Printing Service. ISBN 0642993750. (one volume summary of the Australian official history, not available online)
Howard, Michael (1990). Strategic Deception in the Second World War. British Intelligence in the Second World War. New York: Norton. ISBN 0393312933.
Complete set of the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, including the Supplement and General Index.
The complete European and Mediterranean Theatre of Operations series of the United States Army in World War II (on CD-ROM)
Volume 3 of the official history of the Royal Navy in World War II, The war at sea, 1939-1945

European war

Both volumes of Clay Blair's Hitler's U-Boat War
Ball, Simon (2009). The Bitter Sea: The Brutal World War II Fight for the Mediterranean. London: HarperPress. ISBN 9780007203055.
Cobb, Matthew (2009). The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781847391568.
Davies, Norman (2006). Europe at War 1939–1945. No Simple Victory. London: Pan Books. ISBN 9780330352123.
Duffy, Christopher (1993). Red Storm on the Reich. The Soviet March on Germany, 1945. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306805057.
Glantz, David M. (1995). When Titans Clashed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700608990. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Glantz, David M. (1999). The Battle of Kursk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700613358. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Glantz, David M. (2002). The Battle for Leningrad 1941-1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700612084.
Glantz, David M. (2003). Before Stalingrad. Barbarossa - Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0752426923.
Glantz, David M. (2005). Colossus Reborn. The Red Army at War, 1941-1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700613536.
Hastings, Max (1979). Bomber Command. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330392042.
Hastings, Max (1981). Das Reich. Resistance and the march of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France, June 1944. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330269666.
Hastings, Max (1984). Overlord. D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330286919.
Hastings, Max (2004). Armageddon. The Battle for Germany 1944–45. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330490621.
Hyland, Gary (1998). Last Talons of the Eagle: Secret Nazi Technology Which Could Have Changed the Course of World War II. London: Headline. ISBN 074725964X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) - I'm not sure how reliable this is, but it seems OK
Kershaw, Robert J. (2004). 'It Never Snows in September'. The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944 (Paperback ed.). Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0711030626.
Lunde, Henrik O. (2010). Finland's War of Choice : The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in WWII. Havertown, Pa.: Casemate. ISBN 978-1935149484.
Merridale, Catherine (2005). Ivan's War. The Red Army 1939–1946. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571218083.
Moreman, Tim (2006). British Commandos 1940 – 1946. Battle Orders. Dr Duncan Anderson (consultant editor). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 184176986X.
Murray, Williamson (2003). Strategy for Defeat. The Luftwaffe 1933–1945. Royston: Eagle Editions. ISBN 186160615X.
Nelson, Hank (2002). Chased by the Sun. Courageous Australians in Bomber Command in World War II. Sydney: ABC Books. ISBN 0733310702.
Salisbury, Harrison E. The 900 Days. The Siege of Leningrad. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330392824.
Smith, Colin (2010). England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940 — 1942. London: Phoenix. ISBN 9780753827055.
Ungváry, Krisztián (2005). Battle for Budapest. One Hundred Days in World War II. Ladislaus Löb (translator). London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1850436673.
Wilmot, Chester (1952). The Struggle for Europe. London: The Reprint Society.
Woodman, Richard (2005). The Real Cruel Sea. The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719565995.

Pacific War

Bergerud, Eric (1997). Touched with Fire. The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140246967.
Blair, Clay (2001). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1557502179.
Brune, Peter (2003). A Bastard of a Place. The Australians in Papua. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1741140110.
Cooper, Anthony (2011). Darwin Spitfires : The Real Battle for Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 9781742232270.
Charlton, Peter (1983). The Unnecessary War. Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45. South Melbourne: Macmillan. ISBN 0333356284.
Coates, John (1999). Bravery Above Blunder. The Australian 9th Division at Finchhafen, Sattelberg, and Sio. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195508378.
Collie, Craig (2009). The Path of Infinite Sorrow. The Japanese on the Kokoda Track. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781741758399. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Dawes, Gavan (1994). Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific. Melbourne: Scribe Publications. ISBN 1920769129.
Dower, John (1986). War Without Mercy : Race and Power in the Pacific War. London: Faber. ISBN 0571146058.
Drea, Edward J. (1992). MacArthur's Ultra: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945. Modern War Studies. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. ISBN 07000605762. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
Frank, Richard B. (1990). Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-58875-4.
Frank, Richard B. (1999). Downfall. The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 01410.01461. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
Hoyt, Edwin P. (1987). Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 0099635003.
Kirby, S. Woodburn (1971). Singapore. The Chain of Disaster. New York: Macmillan.
Lockwood, Douglas (1992). Australia's Pearl Harbour. Darwin 1942 (Revised ed.). Melbourne: Penguin. ISBN 0140168206.
Parshall, Jonathan (2005). Shattered Sword. The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Washington D.C.: Potomac Books. ISBN 9781574889246. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Polmar, Norman (2004). The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. ISBN 1574888595.
Powell, Alan (1988). The Shadow's Edge. Australia's Northern War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0522843719.
Rottman, Gordon (2004). US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1941-43. Battle Orders. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 184176518X.
Rottman, Gordon (2004). US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1943-44. Battle Orders. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841766518.
Rottman, Gordon (2005). Japanese Paratroop Forces of World War II. Elite. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841769037. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Rottman, Gordon (2005). Japanese Army in World War II. Conquest of the Pacific and New Guinea 1941-42. Battle Orders. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841767891.
Rottman, Gordon (2005). Japanese Army in World War II. The South Pacific and New Guinea 1942-43. Battle Orders. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841768707.
Rottman, Gordon (2005). US Special Warfare Units in the Pacific Theatre 1941–45. Battle Orders. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841767077.
Rottman, Gordon (2007). US Airborne Units in the Pacific Theater 1942–45. Battle Orders. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 9787846031281. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
Rottman, Gordon (2009). World War II US Cavalry Units. Pacific Theater. Oxford: Ospery Publishing. ISBN 9781846034510.
Spector, Ronald H. (1984). Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 0304359793.
Stanley, Peter (1997). Tarakan. An Australian Tragedy. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1864482788.
Stanley, Peter (2008). Invading Australia. Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942. Melbourne: Penguin Group (Australia). ISBN 9780670029259.
Tillman, Barrett (2010). Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan 1942–1945. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781416584407.
Zaloga, Steven J (2010). Defense of Japan 1945. Fortress. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1846036873.

Cold War

Fiefer, Gregory (2010). The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 9780061143199.
Lynch, Michael (2010). The Chinese Civil War 1945–49. Essential Histories. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781841766713.

African colonial wars

Alao, Abiodun (2006). Mau-Mau Warrior. Warrior. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1846030242.
Hoffman, Bruce (1991). Lessons for Contemporary Counterinsurgencies. The Rhodesian Experiance. Santa Monica: RAND. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Moorcraft, Paul L (1982). Chimurenga! The War in Rhodesia 1965-1980. Marshalltown: Sygma/Collins. ISBN 0620062142. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) - seems reliable, but I'm a bit sceptical about a book published in South Africa in 1982 on this topic

French colonial wars

Horne, Alistair (1987). A Savage War of Peace. Algeria 1954-1962 (Revised ed.). London: Papermac. ISBN 0333413989.
Prados, John (2002). Operation Vulture. ibooks. ISBN 0743444906.
Windrow, Martin (2004). The Last Valley. Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. London: Cassell. ISBN 0304366927.

Korean War

Evans, Ben (2001). Out in the Cold: Australia's Involvement in the Korean War 1950-53 (Revised ed.). Canberrra: Department of Veteran's Affairs. ISBN 0624456658. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
Hastings, Max (1987). The Korean War. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0330392883.

Vietnam

Frost, Frank (1987). Australia's War in Vietnam. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0043550258.
Halberstam, David (1992). The Best and the Brightest (Twentieth aniversary ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 449908704. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
McNeil, Ian (2003). On the Offensive. The Australian Army in the Vietnam War 1967-1968. The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1863733043. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Palazzo, Albert (2006). Australian Military Operations in Vietnam. Canberra: Army History Unit. ISBN 1876439106.
Sexton, Michael (2002). War for the Asking. How Australia Invited Itself to Vietnam. Sydney: New Holland. ISBN 1864367601.
Stanton, Shelby L. (1985). The Rise and Fall of an American Army. U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973. Ballantine. ISBN 089141827X.
Stanton, Shelby L. (1985). Green Berets at War. U.S. Army Special Forces in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975. Ballantine. ISBN 0804118841.

Falklands War

Chant, Christopher (2001). Air War in the Falklands 1982. Combat Aircraft 28. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841762938.
Freedman, Lawrence (2007). The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. Volume II: War and Diplomacy (Updated ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415419116.
Hastings, Max (1983). The Battle for the Falklands. New York: Norton. ISBN 0393301982. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Thompson, Julian (2001). No Picnic (Revised ed.). London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 0304356476.

Recent military history

Halberstam, David (2001). War in a Time of Peace. Bush, Clinton and the Generals. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747559465.
Lowry, Robert (1996). The Armed Forces of Indonesia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1864481447.
Naylor, Sean (2005). Not a Good Day to Die. The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. New York: Berkley Caliber Books. ISBN 0425207870.
Scales, Robert H. (1993). Certain Victory: The US Army in the Gulf War. Washington D.C.: Office of the Chief of Staff United States Army.

Iraq war

Gordon, Michael (2006). COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 1843543524. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Holmes, Richard (2007). Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War. London: Harper Perennial. ISBN 9780007212859.
Holmes, Tony (2006). US Marine Corps and RAAF Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Osprey Combat Aircraft 56. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1841768472.
Packer, George (2006). The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571230431.
Ricks, Thomas E. (2006). Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. London: Penguin. ISBN 9870713999587. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid prefix (help)
Ricks, Thomas E. (2009). The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006-2008. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9781846141461.
Zucchino, David (2004). Thunder Run: Three Days in the Battle for Baghdad. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 184354282X.

War crimes and legal aspects of warfare

Bartov, Omer; et al., eds. (2002). Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century. New York: The New Press. ISBN 1565846540. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |editor= (help)
Browning, Christopher R. (1992). Ordinary Men. Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. London: Penguin.
Robertson, Geoffrey (2006). Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (Third ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141037288.

Useful websites

The following websites provide free full-text books and articles

Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Australian War Memorial official histories
Hyperwar - official histories and government documents from World War II
The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War
Land Warfare Studies Centre - The Australian Army's research institution
Seapower Centre - Australia - The Royal Australian Navy's research and history centre
US Army Center for Military History