What to Read After The Western Way of War
Readers who loved The Western Way of War by Victor Davis Hanson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Western Way of War 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 Western Way of War
A War Like No Other
The Peloponnesian War
Carnage and Culture
The Face of Battle
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
Lords of the sea
The Spartans
A History of Warfare
Soldiers and Ghosts
The ghosts of Cannae
The Punic wars
The mask of command
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
Warfare in the classical world
Persian Fire
Ghost on the throne
Wars of the Ancient Greeks
The Greco-Persian wars
Who killed Homer?
Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
The American Civil War
Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of ..
Tides of War
The march of folly