Military sociologists Woodward & Jenkings wrote a book about their research on 40 years of British military memoirs (1980-present), from a sociological perspective. I wrote this review both as a fellow military memoir researcher and as a soldier-author myself. "Bringing war to book" is a must-read introduction for every student and researcher who starts studying military memoirs or the military-industrial-media-entertainment network (MIME-NET), as it deals with all the main aspects of military books, from censorship to writing motives and from truth claims to covers. However, the informal writing style makes it a book that will also appeal to the layman (both readers and writers) interested in knowing more about (UK) military non-fiction.