History Songs form A to Z

Here is a list of songs about history and historical events!

Numbers

• “100 Days for France” – HistoryMusicNerd (Napoleon and the return from Elba).
• “1589” – Powerwolf (Werewolf trial of Peter Stump).
• “1741” – Alestorm (Battle of Cartagena de Indias 1741).
• “1916” – Sabaton (World War I and the Battle of the Somme).
• “82nd All the Way” – Sabaton (Service of the 82nd US Infantry Division in World War I).
• “40:1” – Sabaton (Defense of Poland in the Battle of Wizna).

A

• “A Ghost in the Trenches” – Sabaton (Francis Pegahmagabow, Canadian sniper in World War I).
• “Aces High” – Iron Maiden (Battle of Britain in World War II).
• “Aces in Exile” – Sabaton (Foreign pilots in World War II, especially in the Battle of Britain).
• “Alexander the Great” – Iron Maiden (Life and conquests of Alexander the Great).
• “At Austerlitz” – HistoryMusicNerd (Napoleonic Battle of Austerlitz).
• “Attero Dominatus” – Sabaton (Battle of Berlin in World War II).

B

• “Back in Control” – Sabaton (British recapture of the Falkland Islands).
• “Bismarck” – Sabaton (The battleship Bismarck in World War II).
• “Blood of Bannockburn” – Sabaton (Battle of Bannockburn and Scotland’s independence).

C

• “Carolus Rex” – Sabaton (Swedish King Charles XII and the Swedish Empire).
• “Christ and Combat” – Powerwolf (The Crusades).
• “Christmas Truce” – Sabaton (The Christmas truce during World War I).
• “Cliffs of Gallipoli” – Sabaton (Gallipoli campaign in World War I).
• “Coat of Arms” – Sabaton (Greek resistance against Italy in World War II).
• “Colors Blue White Red” – HistoryMusicNerd (French Revolution 1789).
• “Coup of 18th Brumaire” – HistoryMusicNerd (Napoleon’s coup d'état).

D

• “Days of April 45” – HistoryMusicNerd (Battle of Vienna 1945).
• “Deadly Retreat” – HistoryMusicNerd (Napoleon’s retreat from Russia).
• “Defence of Moscow” – Sabaton (Battle of Moscow in World War II).
• “Devil Dogs” – Sabaton (US Marines in the Battle of Belleau Wood, World War I).
• “Dreadnought” – Sabaton (Rise of Dreadnought battleships in the 20th century).

E

• “Echoes of Paris” – HistoryMusicNerd (Revolution of 1848 in Vienna).

F

• “Father” – Sabaton (Invention of chemical weapons by Fritz Haber).
• “Fields of Verdun” – Sabaton (Battle of Verdun in World War I).
• “For 3rd Corps” – HistoryMusicNerd (Battle of Jena and Auerstedt).
• “Free Toulon” – HistoryMusicNerd (Siege of Toulon 1793).

G

• “Ghost Division” – Sabaton (Blitzkrieg and 7th Panzer Division in World War II).
• “Great War” – Sabaton (General themes about World War I).

H

• “Hellfighters” – Sabaton (369th Infantry Regiment, African-American unit in World War I).
• “Hill 3234” – Sabaton (Battle at Hill 3234 in the Soviet-Afghan War).

I

• “Inmate 4859” – Sabaton (Witold Pilecki, Polish resistance fighter in Auschwitz).
• “Into the Fire” – Sabaton (Vietnam War and the use of napalm).
• “Invaders” – Iron Maiden (Viking invasion of England).

L

• “Lady of the Dark” – Sabaton (Milunka Savić, Serbian female soldier in World War I).

M

• “Missile Crisis” – HistoryMusicNerd (Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962).
  

N

• “Night Witches” – Sabaton (Soviet female pilots in World War II).
• “No Bullets Fly” – Sabaton (Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown, an act of humanity in World War II).
• “No Holy Roman Empire” – HistoryMusicNerd (Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806).
• “Nuclear Attack” – Sabaton (Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

O

• “Operation Praying Mantis” – HistoryMusicNerd (US operation against Iran in 1988).
• “Our Solemn Hour” – Within Temptation (England in World War II, 1940).

P

• “Panzer Battalion” – Sabaton (Iraq War 2003).
• “Paschendale” – Iron Maiden (Battle of Passchendaele in World War I).
• “Poltava” – Sabaton (Great Northern War).
• “Primo Victoria” – Sabaton (D-Day, Normandy landing in World War II) - read more

R

• “Race to the Sea” – Sabaton (King Albert I of Belgium and the flooding strategy in World War I).
• “Resist and Bite” – Sabaton (Belgian resistance against the Wehrmacht in World War II).
• “Rise of Evil” – Sabaton (Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party).
• “Rorke’s Drift” – Sabaton (Defense of Rorke’s Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War).
• “Ruina Imperii” – Sabaton (Fall of the Swedish Empire).

S

• “Sarajevo” – Sabaton (Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the start of World War I).
• “Screaming Eagles” – Sabaton (Battle of Bastogne during the Ardennes Offensive in World War II).
• “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” – Sabaton (Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt).
• “Shiroyama” – Sabaton (Battle of Shiroyama and the end of the Samurai).
• “Soldier of 3 Armies” – Sabaton (Lauri Törni, soldier in three different armies).
• “Soldier of Heaven” – Sabaton (Fighters in the Alpine War during World War I).
• “St. Helena” – HistoryMusicNerd (Napoleon’s exile).
• “Stalingrad” – Sabaton (Battle of Stalingrad in World War II).
• “Steel Commanders” – Sabaton feat. Tina Guo (History of tanks and war machinery).
• “Stormtroopers” – Sabaton (German stormtroopers in World War I).
• “Suez Crisis” – HistoryMusicNerd (Suez Canal Crisis of 1956).

T

• “The Carolean’s Prayer” – Sabaton (Religious zeal of the Swedish Army).
• “The Clansman” – Iron Maiden (Scottish struggles for freedom, inspired by Braveheart).
• “The End of the War to End All Wars” – Sabaton (End of World War I).
• “The Final Solution” – Sabaton (Holocaust during World War II).
• “The Last Battle” – Sabaton (Battle of Castle Itter in World War II).
• “The Last Stand” – Sabaton (Swiss Guard and the Sack of Rome 1527).
• “The Lion From The North” – Sabaton (Gustav II Adolf of Sweden in the Thirty Years’ War).
• “The Longest Day” – Iron Maiden (D-Day, Normandy landing).
• “The Lost Battalion” – Sabaton (Lost Battalion in World War I).
• “The Price of a Mile” – Sabaton (World War I and the Battle of Passchendaele).
• “The Red Baron” – Sabaton (Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter ace in World War I).
• “The Royal Guard” – Sabaton (Swedish lifeguards and military history).
• “The Trooper” – Iron Maiden (Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War).
• “The Unkillable Soldier” – Sabaton (Adrian Carton de Wiart, British officer).
• “Trafalgar’s Tide” – HistoryMusicNerd (Battle of Trafalgar 1805).
• “To Hell and Back” – Sabaton (Story of US soldier Audie Murphy).
• “To Mantua” – HistoryMusicNerd (Napoleon’s Italian campaign).

U

• “Uprising” – Sabaton (Warsaw Uprising in World War II).

V

• “Versailles” – Sabaton (Treaty of Versailles after World War I).

W

• “Wolfpack” – Sabaton (Submarine warfare in World War II).
• “Wind of Change” – Scorpions (End of the Cold War).
• “Winged Hussars” – Sabaton (Winged Hussars and the Battle of Vienna).

Z

• “Zombie” – The Cranberries (Irish conflict and IRA).