War & Military Conflict
Individual topics classified under "War & Military Conflict", ranked by how many awards the books carrying each one have won combined. Open a topic to see its most-awarded books.
- 1
World War II
48 books
25
wins
328
score
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb · Richard Rhodes3 wins · 36 score
- Stalingrad · Antony Beevor2 wins · 20 score
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 · David M. Kennedy1 win · 15 score
- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 · Saul Friedländer1 win · 13 score
- "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II · Studs Terkel1 win · 12 score
- 2
American Revolution
47 books
23
wins
377
score
- Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution · Amanda Vaill1 win · 20 score
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution · Bernard Bailyn2 wins · 20 score
- Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World · Maya Jasanoff1 win · 19 score
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson · Joseph J. Ellis1 win · 16 score
- Washington's Crossing · David Hackett Fischer1 win · 16 score
- 3
American Civil War
28 books
18
wins
266
score
- A Stillness at Appomattox · Bruce Catton2 wins · 24 score
- Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery · Leon F. Litwack2 wins · 24 score
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War · Drew Gilpin Faust1 win · 23 score
- Grant: A Biography · William S. McFeely1 win · 20 score
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era · James M. McPherson1 win · 16 score
- 4
Vietnam War
27 books
9
wins
194
score
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam · Neil Sheehan2 wins · 36 score
- Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam · Frances FitzGerald2 wins · 24 score
- An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us · James P. Carroll1 win · 12 score
- Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. · Lewis B. Puller1 win · 12 score
- They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 · David Maraniss1 win · 12 score
- 5
World War I
21 books
8
wins
136
score
- My Experiences in the World War · John J. Pershing1 win · 12 score
- The Generation of 1914 · Robert Wohl1 win · 12 score
- The Great War and Modern Memory · Paul Fussell1 win · 12 score
- The Guns of August · Barbara W. Tuchman1 win · 12 score
- A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War · Tim Grady1 win · 11 score
- 6
Russian Revolution
9 books
7
wins
84
score
- Russia Leaves the War · George F. Kennan3 wins · 32 score
- A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution · Orlando Figes2 wins · 16 score
- The Life of Lenin · Louis Fischer1 win · 12 score
- Young Stalin · Simon Sebag Montefiore1 win · 8 score
- Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 · Stephen Kotkin0 wins · 7 score
- 7
Atomic bomb development
7 books
6
wins
88
score
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb · Richard Rhodes3 wins · 36 score
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer · Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin2 wins · 24 score
- Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman · James Gleick0 wins · 11 score
- Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima · Diana Preston1 win · 8 score
- A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies · Martin J. Sherwin0 wins · 4 score
- 8
Iraq War
11 books
5
wins
89
score
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone · Rajiv Chandrasekaran1 win · 19 score
- Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War · Evan Wright2 wins · 13 score
- The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq · Steve Coll0 wins · 13 score
- Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War · Anthony Shadid1 win · 12 score
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq · Thomas E. Ricks0 wins · 7 score
- 9
World War II diplomacy
4 books
5
wins
56
score
- Roosevelt and Hopkins · Robert E. Sherwood2 wins · 20 score
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 · Robert Dallek1 win · 16 score
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference · Herbert Feis1 win · 12 score
- The Undeclared War · William L. Langer, S. Everett Gleason1 win · 8 score
- 10
Civil War
6 books
3
wins
54
score
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America · Garry Wills1 win · 20 score
- The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War · Robert Manson Myers1 win · 12 score
- The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties · Mark E. Neely, Jr.1 win · 12 score
- Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson · S. C. Gwynne0 wins · 4 score
- Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South · Elizabeth R. Varon0 wins · 3 score
- 11
Military leadership
7 books
3
wins
50
score
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 · Rick Atkinson1 win · 12 score
- My Experiences in the World War · John J. Pershing1 win · 12 score
- Alexander the Great · Robin Lane Fox1 win · 8 score
- American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur · William Manchester0 wins · 8 score
- Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing · Frank Vandiver0 wins · 4 score
- 12
World War I aftermath
3 books
3
wins
35
score
- Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest · Wade Davis1 win · 12 score
- Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War · Margaret MacMillan1 win · 12 score
- The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 · Adam Tooze1 win · 11 score
- 13
Modern warfare
3 books
3
wins
25
score
- 14
Nuclear weapons
4 books
2
wins
44
score
- 15
Military strategy
5 books
2
wins
39
score
- Washington's Crossing · David Hackett Fischer1 win · 16 score
- The Guns of August · Barbara W. Tuchman1 win · 12 score
- Nuclear War: A Scenario · Annie Jacobsen0 wins · 4 score
- Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson · S. C. Gwynne0 wins · 4 score
- The First World War · John Keegan0 wins · 3 score
- 16
Military history
7 books
2
wins
37
score
- Napoleon: A Life · Andrew Roberts1 win · 10 score
- The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 · Julian T. Jackson1 win · 8 score
- The Civil War: A Narrative · Shelby Foote0 wins · 4 score
- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War · David Halberstam0 wins · 4 score
- The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966 · Robert Shaplen0 wins · 4 score
- 17
Women in war
4 books
2
wins
28
score
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II · Sonia Purnell1 win · 9 score
- Looking at Women, Looking at War · Victoria Amelina1 win · 8 score
- Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women · Christina Lamb0 wins · 7 score
- Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter · Clare Mulley0 wins · 4 score
- 18
World War II leadership
3 books
2
wins
28
score
- 19
Napoleonic Wars
4 books
2
wins
22
score
- Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807–1814 · Dominic Lieven1 win · 8 score
- Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson · Margarette Lincoln1 win · 8 score
- Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life · Alan Schom0 wins · 3 score
- The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It · David A. Bell0 wins · 3 score
- 20
Winston Churchill
4 books
2
wins
22
score
- In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War · David Reynolds1 win · 8 score
- Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 · Martin Gilbert1 win · 8 score
- Churchill: a Biography (about Winston Churchill) · Roy Jenkins0 wins · 4 score
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny · Andrew Roberts0 wins · 2 score
- 21
Ulysses S. Grant
3 books
1
win
32
score
- 22
World War II origins
3 books
1
win
26
score
- 23
English Civil War
5 books
1
win
23
score
- Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588–1688 · Clare Jackson1 win · 8 score
- Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War · John Stubbs0 wins · 4 score
- The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America · Kevin Phillips0 wins · 4 score
- The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England · Adrian Tinniswood0 wins · 4 score
- Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate · Paul Lay0 wins · 3 score
- 24
Spanish Civil War
4 books
1
win
21
score
- Federico García Lorca: A Life · Ian Gibson1 win · 8 score
- Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 · Adam Hochschild0 wins · 5 score
- Journey to the Frontier: Two roads to the Spanish Civil War · Peter Štanský and William Abrahams0 wins · 4 score
- The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain · Paul Preston0 wins · 4 score
- 25
War in Afghanistan
3 books
1
win
18
score
- 26
Civil War era
4 books
1
win
17
score
- Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery · Joseph P. Reidy1 win · 8 score
- Killers of the Dream · Lillian Smith0 wins · 4 score
- Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography · Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt0 wins · 3 score
- Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington · Ted Widmer0 wins · 2 score
- 27
War on terror
3 books
1
win
14
score
- 28
Russia-Ukraine war
3 books
1
win
13
score
- 29
Military life
3 books
1
win
9
score
- 30
Pacific War
3 books
0
wins
16
score
- 31
Korean War
3 books
0
wins
15
score
- 32
September 11 attacks
3 books
0
wins
12
score
- 33
Combat experience
3 books
0
wins
11
score
- 34
Military experience
3 books
0
wins
11
score
Recent Standout Topics (2020+)
- 1Women in war2 wins
- 2American Revolution1 win
- 3World War II1 win
- 4Russia-Ukraine war1 win
- 5American Civil War0 wins
Where This Data Comes From
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction2012–2026
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award1936–2026
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction1999–2026
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award2005–2026
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize1999–2026
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography1919–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2025