This page brings together free online books, topic searches, audiobooks, and Open Access resources related to military history, warfare, strategy, campaigns, armies, naval and air power, military biography, and the history of conflict. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
Sections below Topics provide links to related audiobooks and modern Open Access books. See those sections for more information.
Topics: Military History PDF Books Online
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to military history or the history of warfare. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
Books about Military History
- Aerial Warfare
- Air Defense
- Air Force
- Aircraft
- Amphibious
- Anti-Aircraft
- Anti-Tank
- Armor
- Arms Control
- Artillery
- Aviation
- Battlefield
- Battles
- Biological
- Bombing
- Budgets
- Casualties
- Cavalry
- Chemical
- Civil Defense
- Combat
- Combat Readiness
- Combined Arms
- Command and Control
- Commanders
- Construction
- Costs
- Counterinsurgency
- Culture
- Defense
- Deployment
- Deterrence
- Doctrine
- Engineering
- Explosives
- Facilities
- Foreign Military Sales
- Fortifications
- Guerilla
- Gunnery
- Helicopter
- Industries
- Infantry
- Insurgency
- Leadership
- Logistics
- Machine Gun
- Maneuvers
- Marines
- Military Art and Science
- Military Campaigns
- Military Doctrine
- Military Intelligence
- Military Operations
- Military Personnel
- Military Publications
- Military Strategy
- Militia
- Mine
- Missiles
- Mobilization
- National Security
- Naval Operations
- Navy
- Nuclear Weapons
- Organizations
- Periodicals
- Personal Narratives
- Planning
- Procurement
- Propaganda
- Psychological
- Reconnaissance
- Recruiting
- Resource Management
- Rifle
- Soldiers
- Special Forces
- Strategy
- Suicide Bomber
- Tactical
- Tank
- Terrorist
- Training
- Treaties
- Unconventional Warfare
- USSR
- War Crimes
- Warfare
- Weapon Systems
- Weapons
Books about War
- Military history 17th century
- Military history 18th century
- Military history 19th century
- Military history 20th century
- Military history 21st century
- Military History Ancient
- Military history Modern
- Naval art and science History
- Naval History
- Persian Gulf War
- United States Civil War 1861-1865 Campaigns History
Audio Books: Listen to Military History Books
These audiobook links lead to public domain recordings from LibriVox at Internet Archive. The books recorded by Librivox volunteers were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include works on all major American wars, and combat and war in general.
All Librivox audiobooks are free and can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
Open Access Military History Books PDF Download
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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