History of the Peloponnesian War
431 BC★ 8.2
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Battle Cry of Freedom
1988★ 7.9
The Histories
440 BC★ 7.5
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
1885★ 7.3
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1922★ 7.2
The Gallic War
50 BC★ 7.1
The Persian Expedition (Anabasis)
370 BC★ 7.0
A History of the Crusades
1951★ 6.9
The Face of Battle
1976★ 6.9
With the Old Breed
1981★ 6.8
The Sleepwalkers
2012★ 6.7
A Stillness at Appomattox
1953★ 6.5
The Thirty Years War
1938★ 6.4
The Guns of August
1962★ 6.4
The Great Game
1990★ 6.4
Goodbye, Darkness
1980★ 6.3
Dispatches
1977★ 6.0
The Conquest of the Incas
1970★ 5.9
History of the Conquest of Mexico
1843★ 5.8
The Armada
1959★ 5.8
A Bright Shining Lie
1988★ 5.7
Lawrence in Arabia
2013★ 5.7
This Republic of Suffering
2008★ 5.3