>ITT: List the best Military Historians

Hans Delbrück

thucydides
herodotus
van creveld
keegan
kagan
creasy
thayer mahan

>>9571004
>B. H. Liddell Hart

Depends what you mean by best.
For me it's the pace of narrative.
For that
>Antony Beevor

Contractions and pretentious pseudo-intellectuals will disagree.

>>9571359
*contrarians
Autocorrect

>>9571359
You haven't any idea what went on at Stalingrad

>>9571030
Anything in particular you would recommend?

>>9571042
second this

>>9571031
Kagan definitely revolutionized military history

Herodotus is better than Thucydides unless you're a patrician. Goddamn I'm too much of a pleb but Herodotus is just so much more fun

If there's a particular war/army/nation you're interested in, I can probably give some recs. I have a fair amount of knowledge about Western military historiography

>>9572482
Would you recommend reading a more contemporary history alongside Herodotus?

my diary

>>9572524
just get an annotated herodotus you dip

>>9571004
I don't know if he's the best exactly, but my favorite is definitely Peter Englund. He's fantastic at combining the vastness and sterilty of the war with the tiny perspectives and the enormous suffering of the men and women on the front. The beauty and the sorrows is one of my favorite books and I've heard the translation is decent

Post some more source materials please i. e. Sun Tzu, Rommel or Clausewitz.

Victor Davis Hanson

>>9571004
Guderian

>>9572482
>If there's a particular war/army/nation you're interested in, I can probably give some recs. I have a fair amount of knowledge about Western military historiography

How about the American Revolutionary War? Just read a big biography of Washington and it piqued my interest quite a lot. Seemed like the Americans should have lost but a lot of things came together to let them win.

>>9572482
Best books on WWII?

>>9575059
mos def this guy