Start with high-confidence military & wars books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Air Raid--pearl Harbor!
Theodore Taylor
Guts & Glory: World War II
Ben Thompson
On the Horizon
Lois Lowry, Kenard Pak
What Was Pearl Harbor?
Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ
The War to End All Wars
Russell Freedman
What Was World War I?
Nico Medina, Who HQ
Eyewitness World War II
DK, D.K. Publishing
Under Siege!
Andrea Warren
Cold War Correspondent (nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11)
Nathan Hale
Remember D-day
Ronald J. Drez
War in Afghanistan
Matt Doeden, Blake Hoena
What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
Jess Brallier, Who HQ
Honor Flight: Celebrating America's Veterans
Jeff Gottesfeld, Matt Tavares
