United States. Army book series in reading order

by Ace Atkins

by Debby Giusti

Stephen E. Ambrose

36 books• 4 series

Stephen Edward Ambrose, January 10, 1936 to October 13, 2002, was an American historian whose books concentrate on the Second World War, the American West, and the presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Ambrose taught history from 1960 to 1995, joined the University of New Orleans in 1971 and became Boyd Professor of History there in 1989. Ambrose founded the Eisenhower Center at that university and was a co-founder of the National D-Day Museum, since renamed the National World War II Museum. The catalogue holds 36 books from Halleck (1962) to This Vast Land (2003), with Nixon and Eisenhower recorded as multi-volume series.

Ace Atkins

38 books• 6 series

Ace Atkins, born June 28, 1970, is an American novelist and journalist whose fiction is set in the southern United States. Crossroad Blues (1998) and Leavin' Trunk Blues (2000) are early titles, followed by Dark End of the Street (2002), Dirty South (2004) and White Shadow (2006). The Ranger (2011) is also listed, and Kudzu (2025) is the latest book. Atkins writes the Quinn Colson, Nick Travers and Jason Colson series, and Spenser appears among the characters on the author page. Mississippi, the United States Army, private investigators and murder investigation feature in the subject tags.

Military history and men's adventure fiction fill Charles W. Sasser's catalogue of 47 books, published between 1984 and 2017. World War II, the Vietnam War, terrorism and the careers of military officers supply most of the subject matter, in titles such as One Shot - One Kill (1990) and Smoke Jumpers (1996). Sasser's fiction series are Detachment Delta, Six and OSS Commando. The list opens with No Gentle Streets (1984) and ends with Crushing the Collective (2017).

John C. McManus writes military history. Recorded subjects centre on the United States Army and the Second World War, taking in military campaigns, Normandy, military life and the history of the American armed forces. Sixteen books span 1998 to 2023, from The Deadly Brotherhood (1998) to To the End of the Earth (2023). The books are long, at a median of 464 pages across the 13 measured. Titles include The Americans at D-Day (2004), Alamo in the Ardennes (2007), Grunts (2010) and September Hope (2012).

Myke Cole

15 books• 5 series

Fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction make up the output of Myke Cole, an American author. The debut novel, Shadow Ops: Control Point, received the 2013 Compton Crook Award. Cole has also worked in television, appearing on the CBS reality show Hunted and the Discovery Channel series Contact. Listed series include Shadow Ops: Reawakening Trilogy and Sacred Throne. Fortress Frontier (2013), Gemini Cell (2015), The Armored Saint (2018), The Killing Light (2019) and Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights In England (2024) appear in the catalogue.

Lucian King Truscott IV is an American writer and journalist, born on April 11, 1947, and formerly a staff writer for The Village Voice. Truscott has written military-themed novels, and Dress Gray (1978) became a television film of the same name in 1986. The catalogue lists 11 books from Brat: A Memoir (1975) to Itty Bitty Baby (2003), including Army Blue, Heart of War and Full Dress Gray. Subjects include the United States Military Academy, the U.S. Army and the character Ry Slaight.

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

Jodie Bailey writes Christian romantic suspense, and the subject tags include the United States Army, soldiers, officers and drug trafficking. The catalogue lists 33 books from Freefall (2012) to Dangerous Mountain Search (2026). Crossfire (2014), Smokescreen (2015), Breach of Trust (2016) and Dead Run (2017) fall in between. Trinity Investigative Team and Dellinger Racing are the named Bailey series, and Jodie Bailey continues to publish.

Mark Bowden

22 books• 2 series

Mark Bowden is an American journalist who writes book-length narrative nonfiction. A former national correspondent and long-time contributor to The Atlantic, Bowden is best known for Black Hawk Down (1999), on the 1993 US military raid in Mogadishu, which was filmed and won two Academy Awards. Killing Pablo (2001) tracks the hunt for Pablo Escobar, and Guests of the Ayatollah (2006) and Hue 1968 follow. 22 titles are catalogued from Doctor Dealer (1987) to Life Sentence (2023).

Charles Whiting (18 December 1926 to 24 July 2007) was a British writer and military historian credited with some 350 fiction and non-fiction books. Besides the Whiting name, the pseudonyms used include Duncan Harding, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler, Klaus Konrad, K.N. Kostov and Duncan Stirling. Subjects include the Second World War, the Battle of the Ardennes, military campaigns, biography and the secret service. The catalogue holds 152 books under the Whiting name, starting with The Frat Wagon (1954), and includes Decision at St. Vith, Patton, Bradley and Skorzeny. Series include T-Force, Assault Troop, Stuka Squadron, Special Boat Squadron and Spymaster.

Debby Giusti writes inspirational romance and suspense. Recorded subjects across the 29 catalogued books include Christian romance, the Amish, crime, murder, investigation, officers and medical research personnel. The run opens in 2007 with Countdown to Death, Nowhere To Hide and Scared to Death, and ends with Amish Blast Investigation (2023). Giusti's series are Military Investigators, Amish Protectors and Magnolia Medical, and all 29 titles are credited to Giusti alone.

Michael Z. Williamson

24 books• 4 series

Michael Z. Williamson, born in 1967, writes military science fiction and military fiction. The libertarian-themed Freehold series, published by Baen Books, is Williamson's best-known work: eight Freehold novels appeared between 2004 and 2016, followed by the anthologies Forged in Blood (2017) and Freehold: Resistance (2019), which gather short stories set in that universe by Williamson and by other writers, among them Larry Correia, Tony Daniel, Tom Kratman and Brad R. Torgersen. The catalogue holds 24 books dated 2003 to 2021, opening with Freehold (2003), with space warfare, refugees, snipers and terrorism among the recorded subjects.

Stephen Harding writes military and naval history, with the Second World War among the subjects. The 11 catalogued books span 1982 to 2026, beginning with Gray Ghost: The R.M.S. Queen Mary at War (1982). Other titles cover the B-32 bomber, U.S. Army aircraft and U.S. Army watercraft, and include The Last Battle (2013) and Last to Die (2015). G.I. G-Men (2026) is the newest title.