Start with high-confidence military lives books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Lily's Promise
Lily Ebert, Dov Forman
Napoleon
Andrew Roberts
Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie
House to House
Sgt. David Bellavia, John Bruning
Sharp End
James R. Davis
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The Colored Cadet at West Point
Henry Ossian Flipper, Quintard Taylor
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt: the Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt IV
