9 best-selling military history books like The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies

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The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War

By: Huw J. Davies

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were…

If you liked the military history plot in The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James

2. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

By: Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseb… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"He was who he was; it was how he thought about himself. He was the man with the secret that nobody could ever get to. You guys look at me and you see nothing- this is how he thought; you see a small …"

-Bill James, The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

3. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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5. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

By: Naomi Novik

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride migh… read more

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"I am sure I could not have liked any French captain half so much as you"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on."

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation."

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

6. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

By: Peter H. Wilson

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history

7. The Truth (Discworld, #25)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with… read more

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8. Goshawk Squadron

By: Derek Robinson

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

World War One aviators were more than just soldiers they were the knights of the sky, and the press… read more

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9. Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England

By: Thomas Penn

4.00

Format: None pages,

It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and count… read more

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10. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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13. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

3.95

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay

15. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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16. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

By: David McCullough

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James  Holland

19. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

By: James Holland

4.47

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew       Green

20. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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22. The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior

By: Michael Jones

4.07

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

As a child he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of sixteen, he helped defeat the French a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin

23. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By: Jeremy D. Popkin

4.21

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber by John Boessenecker

24. Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber

By: John Boessenecker

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker separates fact from… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age by Robert L.  Stone

25. Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age

By: Robert L. Stone

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Righ… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Brothers York

By: Thomas Penn

4.24

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, an… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Battle of the Beams

By: Tom Whipple

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thril… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War

By: Huw J. Davies

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Cover of The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley

29. The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II

By: Evan Mawdsley

4.24

Format: 557 pages, Hardcover

Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had co… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of Convoys: The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America by R.J.B. Knight

30. Convoys: The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America

By: R.J.B. Knight

3.53

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution by Geoffrey Plank

31. Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution

By: Geoffrey Plank

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples liv… read more

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27 Best history books like The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies

Transform Your Habits

Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

4.23

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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius , None

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

4.15

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

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Katja Hoyer

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