{"id":6062,"count":45,"description":"A number of experts offer their favourite books on military history and war, including <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/military-history-hew-strachan\/\">Hew Strachan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/michael-howard-on-war\/\">Michael Howard.<\/a> Jeremy Black focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/jeremy-black-on-the-history-of-war\/\">the contribution made by China, the Ottomans and other Asian nations to military history and strategy<\/a>. Antulio Echevarria of the US Army War College chooses his favourite books on military strategy.\r\n\r\nTurning to particular wars, Andrew Exum chooses his <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/understanding-the-war-in-afghanistan-andrew-exum\/\">best books on understanding the war in Afghanistan<\/a>, and Julia Lovell looks at China and <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/opium-war-julia-lovell\/\">the Opium Wars in the 19th century<\/a>. Jonathan Boff chooses the <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/world-war-i-jonathan-boff\/\">best books on World War I<\/a> and Antony Beevor his on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history\/modern-history\/world-war-2\/\">World War II<\/a>. Simon Ball focuses exclusively on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/el-alamein-simon-ball\/\">the battle of El Alamein<\/a>. Former SAS soldier Peter Winner chooses the <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/the-sas-pete-winner\/\">best books on the special forces unit of the British army, the SAS (Special Air Service)<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOn themes related to military history, Joseph Corn chooses his best books on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/joseph-corn-on-aviation-history\/\">Aviation history<\/a>. Peter Paret discusses the cultural context of war with his <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/peter-paret-on-war-and-intellect\/\">best books on war and intellect<\/a> and Chris Walsh chooses his best books on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/chris-walsh-cowardice\/\">cowardice<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history-books\/military-history\/","name":"Military History","slug":"military-history","taxonomy":"category","parent":83,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/83"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=6062"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=6062"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}