Essential Histories Reading Order

by Adrian Goldsworthy

24 books

Reading Order

1

The Hundred Years’ War: 1337–1453(By: Anne Curry)

1992

2

The French Revolutionary Wars(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

2001

3

The Korean War: 1950–53(By: Carter Malkasian)

2001

4

The Vietnam War 1956–1975(By: Andrew Wiest)

2002

5

War in Japan 1467–1615(By: Stephen Turnbull)

2002

6

Caesar's Civil War

2002

7

The Franco-Prussian War: 1870–71(By: Stephen Badsey)

2003

8

The Ottoman Empire 1326–1699(By: Stephen Turnbull)

2003

9

The Collapse of Yugoslavia: 1991–99(By: Alastair Finlan)

2004

10

The Russian Civil War 1918–22(By: David Bullock)

2008

11

The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750(By: David Nicolle)

2009

12

The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969–2007(By: Aaron Edwards)

2011

13

The Jacobite Rebellion: 1745–46(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

2011

14

The Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

2012

15

The Second War of Italian Unification 1859–61(By: Frederick C. Schneid)

2012

16

The Rise of Imperial Rome AD 14–193(By: Duncan B. Campbell)

2013

17

The Wars of Spanish American Independence 1809–29(By: John Fletcher)

2013

18

The War of the Roses: 1455-1485(By: Michael Hicks)

2014

19

Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009(By: Mark Galeotti)

2014

20

Russia's Five-Day War(By: Mark Galeotti)

2023

21

The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453(By: Anne Curry)

2023

22

The American Revolution: 1774–83(By: Daniel Marston)

2023

23

Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009(By: Mark Galeotti)

2024

24

The Soviet–Afghan War: 1979–89(By: Gregory Fremont-Barnes)

2024

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