In Fighting Words, Victor Davis Hanson lists “the definitive books on the battles of the 20th century”:
- The Price of Glory by Alistair Horne (St. Martin’s, 1963)
- With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge (Presidio, 1981)
- The Face of Battle by John Keegan (Viking, 1976)
- Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (Penguin, 1998)
- The Fall of Fortresses by Elmer Bendiner (Putnam, 1980)