Lighting the Torch The Tunisian Campaign and Forging an Allied Way of War 1942-43
Sam Wallace
Published 2026
208 pages
The most popular war books of 2026
Books about war show what armed conflict does to those who live through it. Soldiers at the front, families at home, and the long shadow afterward are told in novels, memoirs and histories. This list shows the ones first published in 2026.
See also War fiction, Military science fiction, Military adventure, and War poetry
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D-Day Training Turned Deadly The Exercise Tiger Disaster
Nel Yomtov
Published 2026
32 pages
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here A Novel
Julian Zabalbeascoa
Published 2026
320 pages
Kokoda Track 1942–43 Japanese Defeat in Papua
Peter Williams
Published 2026
96 pages
Nuclear Weapons An International History
David Holloway
Published 2026
720 pages
Void Exile
Robbie MacNiven
Published 2026
384 pages
Enchanting the Fae Queen
Stephanie Burgis
Published 2026
304 pages
Honor
Susan McClelland, Nataliia Mariichyn
Published 2026
160 pages
Honor Flight
Jeff Gottesfeld
Published 2026
40 pages
Documents of the Holocaust
Lori R. Weintrob
Published 2026
280 pages
To War with the Gurkhas
Estate of Harry Birrell
Published 2026
384 pages
Backcountry Resistance South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence
Carl P. Borick
Published 2026
272 pages
The Replacement
Matt Brolly
Published 2026
299 pages
Seleucid Armies 312–63 BC
William Horsted
Published 2026
48 pages
Kadesh 1274 BC Egypt Attempts to Take Syria
Anthony Spalinger
Published 2026
96 pages
Armies of the Roman Civil Wars and Slave Revolts, 135 BC-AD 69 History, Organization, Weapons and Equipment
Gabriele Esposito
Published 2026
212 pages
A Long Violent History A Military Thriller Where Every Lie Leads to a Loaded Gun
Joel Austin
Published 2026
300 pages
The Impossible Factory The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine
Josh Dean
Published 2026
496 pages
Order
Mark Barber
Published 2026
325 pages
Other People's Houses A Novel
Lore Segal
Published 2026
328 pages
USS California (BB-44)
David Doyle
Published 2026
176 pages
The Red Arrows A Pilots' Perspective
Jarrod Cotter Cotter
Published 2026
248 pages
Moonlight Crusaders Special Duties Pilots Over Occupied Europe
Paul Smiddy
Published 2026
384 pages
Sitting Ducks The C-47 pilots and aircrew of World War II
Scott McGaugh
Published 2026
304 pages