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History : Military: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for military history.

Selected eBooks

On Wars
Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti
The Battle of Adwa : African Victory in the Age of Empire
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II
Violent Space: The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars
Brigadistes: Lives for Liberty
Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier
Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France
Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War
The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism
The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany
Architectures of survival: Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52
Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912
Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency
The People's Revolution of 1789

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History eBook Collections

 Additional collections of eBooks can be found on eBook Collections guide. The following collections have strong history content:

Finding Books Beyond the UW

If you can't find the books you need at the UW or through our Summit partner libraries (Summit material can be found in UW Libraries Search), use the following catalogs. Books not available at the UW can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. 

Browsing Military History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Books on various wars are scattered in the call numbers for various countries.  The call number sections for the world wars and major American wars are listed below.

D501-D680 World War I Suzzallo 4
D731-D838 World War II Suzzallo 4
E201-E298 American Revolution Suzzallo 3
E461-E665 Civil War Suzzallo 3
U1-U900 Military Science Allen S. 2
V1-V995 Naval Science Allen S. 2


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.