* The Rats of Tobruk (1953)
* The Enemy (1954)
* Escape to the Hills (1956)
* Ashes of Empire (1958)
* The Gold Watch (1959)
* The Iron Road (1961)
* The Death of Glory (1964)
* When the Sun Rose (1966)
* The Bitter Conquest (1968)
* The Traitors (1970)
* The Great Escape (1972)
* Beyond the Breaking Point (1974)
* The Fall of Singapore (1975)
* The Siege of Tobruk (1976)
* The Battle of El Alamein (1977)
* The Dambusters (1978)
* Bomber Command (1979)
* The Battle of Britain (1980)
* The Blitz (1981)
* Dunkirk (1982)
* The Longest Day (1983)
* Stalingrad (1984)
* The Battle of Kursk (1985)
* The Siege of Leningrad (1986)
* The Battle of the Bulge (1987)
* The Fall of Berlin (1988)
* The Red Army (1989)
* The War in the Pacific (1990)
* The Atomic Bomb (1991)
* The Cold War (1992)
* The American Revolution (1993)
* The French Revolution (1994)
* The Napoleonic Wars (1995)
* The American Civil War (1996)
* The First World War (1997)
* The Russian Revolution (1998)
* The Second World War (1999)
* The Korean War (2000)
* The Vietnam War (2001)
* The Gulf War (2002)
* The War on Terror (2003)
Non-fiction:
* The Battle for Egypt: The First Arab-Israeli War, 1948-1949 (1951)
* The Suez Canal Crisis: A Military-Political Analysis (1957)
* The Persian Gulf: A Historical and Strategic Analysis (1963)
* The War in Vietnam: A Military-Political Analysis (1966)
* The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History (1974)
* The Cold War: A Military-Political Analysis (1977)
* The Nuclear Age: A Military-Political Analysis (1981)
* The Third World War: A Military-Political Analysis (1984)
* The Future of Warfare (1987)
* The World in Crisis (1990)
* The New World Order (1993)
* The 21st Century: A Military-Political Analysis (1996)
* The Clash of Civilizations (1999)
* The Long War (2002)
* The End of History (2005)
* The Global Crisis (2008)
* The Future of the West (2011)
* The Rise of China (2014)
* The End of the American Century (2017)
Biographies:
* Rommel: The Desert Fox (1951)
* Patton: The Fighting General (1954)
* Zhukov: The Russian General (1957)
* Montgomery: The Desert Ironside (1959)
* Eisenhower: The Supreme Commander (1961)
* Churchill: The Great Orator (1964)
* Roosevelt: The Man Who Led America through World War II (1966)
* Stalin: The Man of Steel (1968)
* Mao Zedong: The Chinese Communist Leader (1970)
* Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese Communist Leader (1972)
* Fidel Castro: The Cuban Communist Leader (1974)
* Yasser Arafat: The Palestinian Leader (1976)
* Ayatollah Khomeini: The Iranian Leader (1979)
* Pope John Paul II: The Polish Pope (1981)
* Ronald Reagan: The American President (1983)
* Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady (1986)
* Mikhail Gorbachev: The Last Soviet Leader (1989)
* Nelson Mandela: The South African President (1992)
* Bill Clinton: The American President (1995)
* Tony Blair: The British Prime Minister (1998)
* George W. Bush: The American President (2001)
* Barack Obama: The American President (2009)
* Vladimir Putin: The Russian President (2012)
* Xi Jinping: The Chinese President (2015)
* Donald Trump: The American President (2018)
Autobiographies:
* My Life as a Soldier (1958)
* My Life as a Writer (1961)
* My Life as a Historian (1964)
* My Life as a Biographer (1968)
* My Life as a World Traveler (1972)
* My Life as a Political Commentator (1976)
* My Life as a Lecturer (1981)
* My Life as a Television Host (1986)
* My Life as a Radio Host (1991)
* My Life as a Newspaper Columnist (1996)
* My Life as an Editor (2001)
* My Life as a Publisher (2006)
* My Life as a Human Being (2011)