| The battle for the Falklands M Hastings, S Jenkins Pan Macmillan, 2012 | 720 | 2012 |
| The Korean War M Hastings Pan Macmillan, 2000 | 553 | 2000 |
| Overlord: D-day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 M Hastings Pan Macmillan, 1999 | 384 | 1999 |
| Bomber command M Hastings Pan Macmillan, 1999 | 350 | 1999 |
| The ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: a historical contextualization, 1850–1990 O Salemink University of Hawaii Press, 2003 | 304 | 2003 |
| Armageddon: the battle for Germany 1944-45 M Hastings Pan Macmillan, 2012 | 266 | 2012 |
| Colonial subjects: essays on the practical history of anthropology P Pels, O Salemink University of Michigan Press, 2000 | 241 | 2000 |
| Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War M Hastings Vintage, 2013 | 205 | 2013 |
| Retribution M Hastings Vintage, 2008 | 150 | 2008 |
| Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice P Pels, O Salemink Taylor & Francis Group 8 (1-4), 1-34, 1994 | 144 | 1994 |
| Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 M Hastings Vintage, 2011 | 138 | 2011 |
| All Hell let loose M Hastings, S Cameron AudioGO, 2012 | 134 | 2012 |
| Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940-45 M Hastings HarperCollins UK, 2010 | 124 | 2010 |
| Translating, interpreting and practicing civil society in Vietnam O Salemink Development brokers and translators: The ethnography of aid and agencies, 101-26, 2006 | 102 | 2006 |
| Vietnam: An epic tragedy, 1945-1975 M Hastings Harper, 2018 | 97 | 2018 |
| The secret war: spies, codes and guerrillas 1939-45 M Hastings William Collins, 2015 | 92 | 2015 |
| Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 (Pan Military Classics) M Hastings Pan Macmillan, 2009 | 87 | 2009 |
| A world of insecurity TH Eriksen, E Bal, O Salemink Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security 25 (6), 55-78, 2010 | 85 | 2010 |
| Nemesis: The Battle for Japan M Hastings, P Stanley London: Harper Perennial, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| Mois and Maquis O Salemink The invention and appropriation of Vietnam's Montagnards from Sabatier to …, 1991 | 75 | 1991 |
