What to Read After The Face of Battle
Readers who loved The Face of Battle by John Keegan keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Face of Battle 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 Face of Battle
The Washing of the Spears
Supplying War
American Way of War
A History of Warfare
The battle for the Falklands
First Day on the Somme
The mask of command
The First World War
Defeat into Victory
The Sling and the Stone
Dereliction of Duty
The Second World War
Six Armies in Normandy
The Guns of August
The Day of Battle
An Army at Dawn
Longest Day
Eagle against the sun
The campaigns of Napoleon
In Flanders fields
Battle
Armageddon
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Black Hawk, Down