Term for a book on military history or warfare

• An atlas is a book of maps.
• A dictionary is a book of words and their meanings
• A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary used in conjunction with a map or atlas
• A grimoire is a textbook of magic

In a similar way, is there a single word that describes a book whose principal subject is military? For my purposes, the book could treat military history, or weapons of warfare, or any aspect of martial actions.

I have heard of Jane's Fighting Ships as a reference book on warships of the world, but I have not heard of people referring to a military book as a "Jane."

My copy of Roget's Thesaurus mentions battledore, but while the name suggests the military it's the wrong type of term: a battledore is an obsolete term for a child's book to learn the alphabet.

Solution 1:

There is no term specific to this field. The term I have seen most commonly used is treatise. Manual is used as well, especially for more technical works. Both terms are commonly used in the context of period writings on Historical European Martial Arts. Treatise is the description used in Wikipedia's articles on Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince. By contrast, the Wikipedia articles for On War by Clausewitz, and Gunderian's Achtung Panzer refer to these works as books, and Musashi's Book of Five Rings is termed a text.