What to Read After The Mask of Command
Readers who loved The Mask of Command by John Keegan keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Mask of Command is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Mask of Command
Eagle Against the Sun
Transformation of War
The campaigns of Napoleon
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
The Face of Battle
A History of Warfare
The First World War
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
Defeat into Victory
Supreme Command
Makers of Modern Strategy
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
Masters of War
The Sling and the Stone
The Second World War
INTELLIGENCE IN WAR: KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENEMY FROM NAPOLEON TO AL-QAEDA
Six Armies in Normandy
Company Commander
The Western Way of War
Dreadnought
The Peloponnesian War
Patton
A stillness at Appomattox