Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Internet Archive books

The Internet Archive features the full text of a very large number of books on military history topics. These works are either out of copyright (in which case downloadable versions in PDF and other formats are often available) or can be borrowed for short period through the Open Library (free account registration required). The site's search functionality is somewhat limited though.

To help address the difficulties of finding resources in the Internet Library, this is a user-generated list of works members of the project have located and found to be useful. By its nature, the list will always be incomplete.

General and national histories

Histories of warfare

• Holmes, Richard, ed. (2001). The Oxford Companion to Military History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860696-6.
• Keegan, John (1976). The Face of Battle. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-30432-8.
• Keegan, John (1993). A History of Warfare. New York City: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-73082-6.

National military histories

Australia

• Clark, Chris (2010). The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles (Third ed.). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74237-335-5.
• Grey, Jeffrey (1999). A Military History of Australia (Rev. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64483-6.

United States

• Symonds, Craig L. (1995). The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-797-X.

Army equipment and units

Armies and army units

General

• Keegan, John (1979). World Armies. New York City: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-87196-407-6.

New Zealand

• Stack, Wayne (2011). The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I. Oxford, UK: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84908-539-7.

South Africa

• Pitta, Robert; Fannell, Jeff (1993). South African Special Forces. London: Osprey. ISBN 1855322951.

United States

• Clay, Steven E. (2011). US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 (PDF). Vol. 1 The Arms: Major Commands and Infantry Organizations. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-98419-014-0. LCCN 2010022326. OCLC 637712205. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
• Clay, Steven E. (2011). US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 (PDF). Vol. 2 The Arms: Cavalry, Field Artillery, and Coast Artillery, 1919–41. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-98419-014-0. LCCN 2010022326. OCLC 637712205. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
• Clay, Steven E. (2011). US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 (PDF). Vol. 3 The Services: Air Service, Engineers, and Special Troops 1919-41. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-98419-014-0. LCCN 2010022326. OCLC 637712205. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
• Clay, Steven E. (2011). US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 (PDF). Vol. 1 The Services: Quartermaster, Medical, Military Police, Signal Corps, Chemical Warfare, and Miscellaneous Organizations 1919-41. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-98419-014-0. LCCN 2010022326. OCLC 637712205. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
• Stanton, Shelby L. (1984). Order of Battle, U.S. Army, World War II. Novato, California: Presidio. ISBN 0-89141-195-X.
• * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War (PDF). Vol. 3, Part 2 Zone of the Interior: Territorial Departments, Tactical Divisions Organized in 1918, Posts, Camps and Stations (Reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Center of Military History. 1988 [1949]. Retrieved November 1, 2015.

Battles, exercises, and conflicts

World War II (1939–1945)

General histories of World War II

Global histories

• Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. New York City: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-02374-0.
• The Cambridge History of the Second World War
  • Ferris, John; Mawdsley, Evan, eds. (2015). The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume I. Fighting the War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03892-9.
  • Bosworth, Richard J.B.; Maiolo, Joseph A., eds. (2015). The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume II. Politics and Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03407-5.
  • Geyer, Michael; Tooze, Adam, eds. (2015). The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume III. Total War: Economy, Society and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03995-7.
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War II (3rd revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
• Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1994). A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44317-2.

World War II in Europe and the Mediterranean

General histories

• Zabecki, David T., ed. (1999). World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. New York City: Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-7029-1.

Eastern Front

• Glantz, David M. (2009). To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1630-5.
• Glantz, David M. (2015). When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Revised and expanded ed.). Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2120-0.
• Militargeschichtlich.es Forschungsamt, ed. (2000). Germany and the Second World War. Volume IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822886-4.

Strategic bombing of Germany

• Bishop, Patrick (2007). Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940-1945. London: HarperPress. ISBN 978-0-00-718986-1.
• Ehlers, Robert (2009). Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2144-6.
• Hansen, Randall (2009). Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945. New York: New American Library. ISBN 9780451227591.
• Hastings, Max (1999). Bomber Command. London: Pan. ISBN 0-330-39204-2.
• Keeney, L. Douglas (2012). The Pointblank Directive: Three Generals and the Untold Story of the Daring Plan that Saved D-Day. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84908-933-3.
• Middlebrook, Martin (1981). The Battle of Hamburg: Allied Bomber Forces Against a German city in 1943. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0684167271.
• Overy, R. J. (1997). Bomber Command, 1939-1945. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0004720148.
• Overy, Richard (2015). The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe, 1940-1945. New York City: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-312624-9.

Germany

• Evans, Richard J. (2009). The Third Reich at War. New York: The Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-206-3.
• Hansen, Randall (2015). Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-28452-8.
• Kershaw, Ian (2011). The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-713-99716-3.
• Tooze, Adam (2007). The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03826-8.
• Stargardt, Nicholas (2015). The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945: Citizens and Soldiers. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01899-4.

Norway

• Claasen, Adam R. A. (2001). Hitler's Northern War: The Luftwaffe's Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940-1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1050-2.
• Haarr, Geirr H. (2009). The German Invasion of Norway: April 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-310-9.

World War II in Asia and the Pacific

General histories

• Pike, Francis (2015). Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4725-9670-3.

Bombing of Japan

• Chun, Clayton K. S. (2006). The Doolittle Raid 1942: America's First Strike at Japan. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-918-9.
• Dorr, Robert F. (2012). Mission to Tokyo: The American Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan. Minneapolis, MN: MBI Pub. Co. ISBN 9780760341223.
• Hoyt, Edwin P. (2000). Inferno: The Firebombing of Japan, March 9-August 15, 1945. Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books. ISBN 1-56833-149-5.
• Kerr, E. Bartlett (1991). Flames Over Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Force's Incendiary Campaign Against Japan, 1944-1945. New York City: Donald I. Fine. ISBN 1-55611-301-3.
• Wolk, Herman S. (2010). Cataclysm: General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-57441-281-9.

Cold War (1945–1991)

Falklands War

• Anderson, Duncan (2002). The Falklands War, 1982. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-422-1.
• Brown, David (1987). The Royal Navy and the Falklands War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-572-8.
• Freedman, Lawrence; Gamba-Stonehouse, Virginia (1990). Signals of War: The Falklands Conflict of 1982. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-14117-X.
• Freedman, Lawrence (2005). The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. Volume I: The Origins of the Falklands War. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-5206-7.
• Hastings, Max; Jenkins, Simon (1983). The Battle for the Falklands. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-30198-2.
• Johnson-Allen, John (2011). They Couldn't Have Done it Without Us: The Merchant Navy in the Falklands War. Woodbridge: Seafarer. ISBN 978-1-906266-23-3.
• Middlebrook, Martin (1985). Operation Corporate: The Falklands War, 1982. London: Viking. ISBN 0-670-80223-9.
• Middlebrook, Martin (1989). The Fight for the "Malvinas": The Argentine Forces in the Falklands War. London: Viking. ISBN 0-670-82106-3.
• Van der Bijl, Nick (2007). Victory in the Falklands. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-1-84415-494-4.
• White, Rowland (2007). Vulcan 607. London: Corgi. ISBN 9780552152297.

Rhodesian Bush War

• Caute, David (1983). Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-0658-2.
• Ellert, H. (1989). The Rhodesian Front War: Counter-insurgency and guerrilla war in Rhodesia, 1962-1980. Gweru, Zimbabwe: Mambo Press. ISBN 0-86922-436-0.
• Martin, David; Johnson, Phyllis (1981). The Struggle for Zimbabwe: The Chimurenga War. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-11066-5.

Vietnam War

• Anthony, Major Victor B. (1973). The Air Force in Southeast Asia: Tactics and Techniques of Night Operations 1961-1970 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 1-780396-57-0. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Berger, Carl, ed. (1977). 1961-1973: An Illustrated History (PDF). The United States in Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ASIN B00CU3ZSUW. ISBN 978-0912799162. LCCN 76608038. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Bowers, Ray L. (1999). Tactical Airlift (PDF). The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
• Buckingham, William A., Jr. (1982). Operation Ranch Hand: The Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia 1961-1971 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-0-87000-466-7. Retrieved December 17, 2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Stanton, Shelby L. (1986). Vietnam Order of Battle. New York: Galahad Books. ISBN 0-88365-709-0.
• Futrell, Robert F.; Blumenson, Martin (1980). The Advisory Years to 1965 (PDF). The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. LCCN 80-24547. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Nalty, Bernard C. (2000). Air War over Vietnam 1965-1975 (PDF). The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. LCCN 00-028867. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
• Nalty, Bernard C. (1986). Air Power and the Fight for Khe Sanh (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-1-41022-258-9. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Tilford, Earl H., Jr. (1992). Search and Rescue in Southeast Asia (PDF). USAF in Southeast Asia. Bolling AFB, DC: Center for Air Force History. ISBN 978-1782664284. LCCN 92-37232. Retrieved December 17, 2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• van Staaveren, Jacob (2002). Gradual Failure: The Air War Over North Vietnam 1965-1966 (PDF). The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. Retrieved September 1, 2019.

Military aircraft and air force units

Military aircraft

United States

• Knaack, Marcelle Size (1978). Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems (PDF). Vol. 1, Post-World War II Fighters 1945-1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-0-912799-19-3. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Knaack, Marcelle Size (1978). Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems (PDF). Vol. 2, Post-World War II Bombers 1945-1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-59-5. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Mindling, George; Bolton, Robert (2008). U.S. Air Force Tactical Missiles, 1949-1969: The Pioneers. Raleigh, NC: Lulu Press, Inc. ISBN 978-0-557-00029-6. LCCN 2008908364. (link to Google Books partial text)
• SAC Missile Chronology 1939-1988 (PDF). Offutt AFB, NE: Office of the Historian, Strategic Air Command. 1990. ISBN 978-1521159439. Retrieved January 29, 2018.

Air forces and air force units

General

• Higham, Robin; Harris, Stephen J., eds. (2006). Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2374-5.

United Kingdom

• Ashworth, Chris (1992). RAF Coastal Command: 1936–1969. Yeovil, United Kingdom: Patrick Stephens. ISBN 978-1-85260-345-8.

United States

• Anderson, Capt. Barry (1985). Army Air Forces Stations: A Guide to the Stations Where U.S. Army Air Forces Personnel Served in the United Kingdom During World War II (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
• Cantwell, Gerald T. (1997). Citizen Airmen: a History of the Air Force Reserve, 1946-1994 (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program. ISBN 0-16049-269-6. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Clark, Major Rita F.; Martin, CMS Herman F. (1988). Strategic Air Command: Unit Mission and History Summaries. Offutt AFB, NE: Office of the Historian Strategic Air Command. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
• Clay, Steven E. (2011). US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 (PDF). Vol. The Services: Air Service, Engineers, and Special Troops 1919-1941. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-98419-014-0. LCCN 2010022326. OCLC 637712205. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
• Cornett, Lloyd H; Johnson, Mildred W. (1980). A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946 - 1980 (PDF). Peterson AFB, CO: Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
• Deaile, Melvin G. (2007). The SAC Mentality: The Origins of Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command 1946-1962. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
• Endicott, Judy G. (1998). Active Air Force Wings as of 1 October 1995 and USAF Active Flying, Space, and Missile Squadrons as of 1 October 1995 (PDF). Air Force History and Museums Program. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ASIN B000113MB2. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
• Goss, William A. (1955). "The Organization and its Responsibilities, Chapter 2 The AAF". In Craven, Wesley F.; Cate, James L. (eds.). The Army Air Forces in World War II (PDF). Vol. VI, Men & Planes. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. LCCN 48003657. OCLC 704158. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Johnson, 1st Lt. David C. (1988). U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V-E Day (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center. Retrieved July 24, 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Markus, Rita M.; Halbersen, MSG Nicholas F.; Fuller, John F. (1987). Matthews, James K.; Gustin, Joylyn I. (eds.). Air Weather Service: Our Heritage 1937-1987 (PDF). Scott AFB, IL: Air Weather Service. OCLC 18406969. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Meilinger, Phillip S. (2012). Bomber: The Formation and Early Years of Strategic Air Command (PDF). Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press. ISBN 978-1-58566-219-7. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
• Miller, Linda G. (1990). A Salute to Air Force Communications Command, Leaders and Lineage (PDF). Scott AFB, IL: Office of AFCC History. OCLC 49946668.
• Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947-1977 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Ravenstein, Charles A. (1985). The Organization and Lineage of the United States Air Force (PDF). Project Warrior. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-0-91279917-9. LCCN 84027361. OCLC 11497940. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
• Anonymous (2021). A History of Air Education and Training Command "The First Command" 80 Years Strong 1942-2022 (PDF). Joint Base San Antonio–Randolph AFB, TX: Office of History and Research, Air Education and Training Command. Retrieved November 7, 2022.

Military people

Warships and naval units

Warships

• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M, eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905 (1st American ed.). New York City: Mayflower Books. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-1467.
• Garzke, William H.; Dulin, Robert O. (1985). Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-101-3.
• Gray, Randal, ed. (1983). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1947-1982. Part II: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Alligned Nations. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-919-7.

Navies and naval units

Germany

• Kemp, Paul (1999). U-boats Destroyed: German Submarine Losses in the World Wars. London: Arms & Armour. ISBN 1-85409-515-3.

Japan

• Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85059-295-X.

United Kingdom

• Kennedy, Paul M. (2006). The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-374-6.

United States

• Bonner, Kit (2001). Warship Boneyards. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7603-0870-5.

See also

• User:Schierbecker/sandbox - list of Jane's resources