Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hundred Years’ War: 1337–1453 | 1992 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 2 | The French Revolutionary Wars | 2001 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 3 | The Korean War: 1950–53 | 2001 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 4 | The Vietnam War 1956–1975 | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 5 | War in Japan 1467–1615 | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 6 | The Seven Years’ War | 2001 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 7 | The Franco-Prussian War: 1870–71 | 2003 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 8 | The Korean War | 2001 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 9 | The Ottoman Empire 1326–1699 | 2003 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 10 | The Collapse of Yugoslavia: 1991–99 | 2004 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 11 | The Russian Civil War 1918–22 | 2008 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 12 | The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750 | 2009 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 13 | The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969–2007 | 2011 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 14 | The Jacobite Rebellion: 1745–46 | 2011 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 15 | The Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89 | 2012 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 16 | The Second War of Italian Unification 1859–61 | 2012 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 17 | Războaiele Punice. 264-146 î.Hr. | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 18 | The Rise of Imperial Rome AD 14–193 | 2013 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 19 | The Wars of Spanish American Independence 1809–29 | 2013 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 20 | The War of the Roses: 1455-1485 | 2014 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 21 | The hundred years war | 1992 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 22 | Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 | 2014 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 23 | The Iran–Iraq War 1980–1988 | 1989 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 24 | Russia’s Five-Day War | 2023 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 25 | The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453 | 2023 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 26 | The American Revolution: 1774–83 | 2023 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 27 | Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 | 2024 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 28 | The Soviet–Afghan War: 1979–89 | 2024 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 29 | Alexandru cel Mare. Campaniile din 336-323 î.Hr. | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 30 | Razboiul Peloponesiac 431–404 BC | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 31 | The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905 | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 32 | Razboaiele Medice. 499-386 i.Hr. | 2003 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 33 | The Vietnam War | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 34 | The Anglo-Afghan Wars 1839–1919 | 2009 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 35 | Caesar’s Civil War | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | Buy |
| 36 | Caesar’s Gallic Wars 58-50 BC | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 37 | The French-Indian War 1754-1760 | 2002 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 38 | The Boer War 1899–1902 | 2003 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 39 | The Gulf War 1991 | 2003 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 40 | Genghis Kahn & the Mongol Conquests 1190–1400 | 2003 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 41 | The Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991-1999 | 2004 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 42 | The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles of 1913–1922 | 2006 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 43 | The Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the shores of Tripoli: the rise of the US Navy and Marines | 2006 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 44 | The Jacobite Rebellion 1745–46 | 2011 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
| 45 | Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 | 2014 | Adrian Goldsworthy | N/A |
Essential Histories is a 45-book series of concise military histories published between the late 1980s and 2024. Each volume covers a single conflict in a compact, accessible format. The series ranges across centuries and continents, from the Hundred Years’ War and Caesar’s Civil War to the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Collapse of Yugoslavia.
Adrian Goldsworthy is the series editor. The books are written by different specialist historians, and the series includes some foreign-language editions alongside the English originals. Recent additions cover the American Revolution and Russia’s Five-Day War.