Books about war? Any period.

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>>8589280
Glorious

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>>8589313
Hannibal is amazingly portrayed in this

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>>8589314
And my favorite, reading the whole thing is necessary. Sieges and cavalry charges and glory and the inevitable frailness of man and especially women

Brannigan's Big Book About War

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>>8589315
A classic touching upon Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

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>>8589317
Another great book on the psychology of soldiers at war. Also if you really want to go down the rabbit hole:

Chairman of the Chief of Staff's reading list:
http://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Publications/CJCSReadingList2012.pdf

Recommended by War College:
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/library/bibs/cslist.pdf

Good books on the american revolution?

>>8589280
Iliad and Aeneid.

>>8589314
>"The cloud which used to rest on the mountain tops has come down at last in a storm of rain."

IMO your specific mention of Hannibal in that text validates your other recommendations. Will give them a shot. Have you read the whole trilogy by Farrell? Stumbled on it a few months back but haven't committed to reading yet.

On the Natural History of Destruction by WG Sebald

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it's great

For whom the bell tolls

Peloponessian War by Thucydides