The American War of Independence

• Faces of the Revolution: Personalities and Themes…, by Bernard Bailyn
• Everyday Things in American Life, 1776-1876; by William Chauncy Langdon
• Colonial America: a very short introduction, by Alan Taylor
• The American Revolution: a very short introduction, by Robert J. Allison
• As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of 18th Century Americans, by Stephanie Grauman Wolf
• Home Life in Colonial Days, by Alice Morse Earle
• Loyalists in the American Revolution, by Claude Halstead Van Tyne
• The American Revolution: A History, by Gordon S. Wood
• A Peculiar Service, by Corey Ford
• Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring, by Alexander Rose
• Rebels and Redcoats, by George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin
• A Cultural History of the American Revolution, by Kenneth Silverman
• The Long Island Sound: A History of Its People, Places, and Environment, by Marilyn Weigold
• The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America, by Joy Day Buel & Richard Buel
• Weathering the Storm: Women of the American Revolution, by Elizabeth Evans
• Liberty’s Daughters, by Mary Beth Norton

The Napoleonic Wars

• The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction, by Mike Rapport
• Russia Against Napoleon, by Dominic Lieven
• The War of Two Emperors, by Curtis Cate
• The War of Wars, by Robert Harvey
• Napoleon’s Wars, by Charles Esdaile
• The First Total War, by David A. Bell

World War I

• The First World War, by John Keegan
• The First World War: A Complete History, by Martin Gilbert

Post-war

• The Mitford Girls, by Mary S. Lovell
• The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley

World War II

• 1939: The Last Season, by Anne de Courcy
• Society's Queen, by Anne de Courcy
• Life in a Cold Climate, by Laura Thompson
• The Second World War, by John Keegan
• The Second World War: A Complete History, by Martin Gilbert
• Debs at War 1939-1945: How Wartime Changed Their Lives, by Anne de Courcy
• Wartime Britain 1939-1945, by Juliet Gardiner
• Voices from the Home Front, by Felicity Goodall
• Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front, by Susan Briggs
• World War II: a very short introduction, by Gerhard L. Weinberg

Post-war

• The Years of Grace: A Book for Girls, edited by Noel Streatfeild
• Austerity Britain, 1945-51, by David Kynaston
• Family Britain, 1951-1957, by David Kynaston
• The Best of Times: Growing Up in Britain in the 1950s, by Alison Pressley
• Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s, by Stephanie Spencer
• Twentieth-Century Britain: a very short introduction, by Kenneth O. Morgan