re: Looking for a good, historical war book.

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but interested in what good ones you all have found.

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Pure non-fiction, Blackhawk Down (Bowden) is difficult to beat. Stanley Karnow's Vietnam is almost the definitive single volume on that conflict and is outstanding. Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August (August 1914, the first month of The Great War) is very, very good.


For historical fiction that is brilliantly told and relatively meticulous in accuracy:

Killer Angels - Michael Shaara (Gettysburg)
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressfield (Thermopylae)
The Ten Thousand - Michael Curtis Ford (The Anabasis)