Men at war: the best war stories of all time

War is part of the intercourse of the human race. The invasion of Britain / Julius Caesar

The battle of Hastings / Charles Oman

The French crusade, 1249-1250 A. D. / Jean de Joinville

The battle of Arsouf / Charles Oman

The death of Montezuma / William Hickling Prescott

Who called you here? / Eric Jens Petersen

The invaders / Richard Hillary

The massacre at Matanzas Inlet / Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior. The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane

The blocking of Zeebrugge / Sir Archibald Hurd

Horatus at the bridge / Livy

Shiloh, bloody Shiloh! / Lloyd Lewis

How David slew Goliath / The Bible

The fight on the hilltop / Ernest Hemingway

The last battle of King Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory

At all costs / Richard Aldington

The pass of Thermopylae / Charlotte Yonge

The sword of the Lord and of Gideon / Colonel Theodore Roosevelt

Deguelo / Marquis James

War is the province of physical exertion and suffering. Torture / T. E. Lawrence

Tsushmia / Frank Thiess

The parisian / Alden Brooks

The march to the sea / Xenophon

Vale of tears / Laurence Stallings

The odyssey of three slavs / Alden Brooks

War is the province of uncertainty. Gold from Crete / C. S. Forester

Harper's Ferry / Leonard Ehrlich

Custer / Frederic F. Van de Water

An egg for the major / C. S. Forester

The Merrimac and the monitor / Mary Johnston

Manila Bay / Admiral George Dewey

Tank fighting in Libya / Alan Moorehead

Blowing up a train / T. E. Lawrence

War is the province of chance. Lisette at Eylau / General Marbot

The stolen railroad train / Marquis James

Turn about / William Faulkner

The trojan horse / Virgil

Air battle / Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

The people's war / Count Leo Tolstoy

The wrong road / Marquis James

The corvette claymore / Victor Hugo

Miracle at Dunkirk / Arthur D. Divine

War is the province of friction. Gallipoli / Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller

The stars in their courses / Colonel John W. Thamason, Jr.

Waterloo / Victor Hugo

The retreat from Caporetto / Ernest Hemingway

The battle of Cannae / Livy

The victory of the Americans at Saratoga / Sir Edward S. Creasy

The lost battalion / Thomas M. Johnson and Fletcher Pratt

War demands resolution, firmness, and staunchness. Bagration's rearguard action / Count Leo Tolstoy

After the final victory / Agnes Smedley

Her privates we / Private 19022

Borodin / Count Leo Tolstoy

Trafalgar / Robert Southey

The battle of Atlanta / Lloyd Lewis

The cavalry charge at Omdurman / Winston Churchill

The sun of Austerlitz / General Marbot

Oriskany: 1777 / Walter D. Edmonds

The marines at Soissons / Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.

The battle of Ypres / Frank Richards

War is fought by human beings. An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce

Joshua's conquest of Jericho / The Bible

The taking of Lungtungpen / Rudyard Kipling

Ball-of-fat / Guy de Maupassant

Hands across the sea / Alexander Woollcott

I bombed the barges / The captain of Blenheim Bomber

The Italian debacle at Guadalajara / F. G. Tinker, Jr.

Buchmendel / Stefan Zweig

I take Vladivostok / Frazier Hunt

Up periscope! / An officer of H. M. Submarine Sturgeon

Father Duffy / Alexander Woolcott

The war years / James Hilton

Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker

The chauffeurs of Madrid / Ernest Hemingway

A man's bound to fight / Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.

Squadron scramble! / Byron Kennerly

A name and a flag / Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.

A personal view of Waterloo / Stendhal

Falling through space / Richard Hillary

Pearl Harbor / Blake Clark

Three men on a raft / Harold F. Dixon

Midway / Walter B. Clausen.