Service Reading Programs

Books I have read, sorted by location they may be found in the library, title, and author

  • on [Army] [Marine Corps] [Navy] or [Air Force] lists
  • much of my reading was inspired by the Project Warrior Reading Guide, the Air Force's mid-1980s attempt to make professional reading a lifelong habit
  • much of it was inspired just by a desire to learn more about what I was doing by looking back at what others had done, to see if I could learn from their examples
    • one of my German colleagues in Europe in the mid-1980s suggested that we could learn more about ourselves by studying what our adversaries had done, an insight that led me to read more deeply about other experiences
  • but most of my reading was inspired by my father who, while not necessarily a big reader himself, was a man of deep insight and a long memory
  1. D210 K46 1989 Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Kennedy, Paul
  2. D25 .K43 1989 Face of Battle Keegan, John [ Army] [ Marine Corps]
  3. D25 .L45 1967 Strategy Liddell Hart, Basil
  4. D361 .H75 Studies in War and Peace Howard, Michael
  5. D431 .H68 1991 Lessons of History Howard, Michael
  6. D521 .M24 1995 1915, The Death of Innocence MacDonald, Lyn
  7. D521 .M33 1987 1914 MacDonald, Lyn
  8. D522.42 .C7813 War Books: A Study in Historical Criticism Cru, Jean Norton
  9. D523 .E37 1989 Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age Ecksteins, Modris
  10. D530 .J65 1983 War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front Jones, Nigel H.
  11. D530 .M34 1993 Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine Mackin, Elton E.
  12. D530 .O84 1997 Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I O'Shea, Stephen
  13. D530 .P38 1989 Defeat of Imperial Germany Paschall, Rod
  14. D530 .T8 Guns of August Tuchman, Barbara [Marine Corps]
  15. D530.B26 1975 Swordbearers Barnett, Corelli
  16. D542.M7 H65 1995 Riding the Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited Holmes, Richard
  17. D545.S7 D85 2006 Through German eyes : the British and the Somme 1916 Duffy, Christopher
  18. D545.S7 M25 1983 Somme MacDonald, Lyn
  19. D545.V3 H6 Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916 Horne, Alistair
  20. D548 .W3 Dare Call It Treason Watt, Richard M.
  21. D568.3 .M59 1956a Gallipoli Morehead, Alan
  22. D570 .C6 1998 War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I Coffman, Edward [Army]
  23. D570 .F37 1999 Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918 Farwell, Byron
  24. D570.1 .K43 2004 Over Here: The First World War and American Society Kennedy, David M.
  25. D575 .F37 1986 Great War in Africa Farwell, Byron
  26. D576.G3 M45 Battle for the Bundu; the First World War in East Africa Miller, Charles
  27. D639.M56 H36 2006 Unknown soldiers : the story of the missing of the First World War Hanson, Neil
  28. D640 .B581713 Memoirs of War, 1914-15 Bloch, Marc
  29. D640 .J693 1975 In Stahlgewittern Jünger, Ernst
  30. D640 .V434 1987 Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917 Vaughan, Edward Campion
  31. D743 .P3 War As I Knew It Patton, George
  32. D755.7 .G55 1995 Day the War Ended: May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Gilbert, Martin
  33. D756 .A52 1997 Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 Ambrose, Stephen E.
  34. D756.3 .F87 2003 Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northeastern Europe, 1944-1945 Fussell, Paul
  35. D756.5.H8 M3 2003 Battle of the Huertgen Forest MacDonald, Charles
  36. D756.5.N6 D47 1983 Decision in Normandy D'Este, Carlo
  37. D756.5.N6 F52 2004 German Army at D-Day: Fighting the Invasion Isby, David C.
  38. D756.5.N6 K43 1994 Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris Keegan, John
  39. D756.5.S4 C87 1984 Follow Me and Die: The Destruction of an American Division in World War II Currey, Cecil
  40. D757 .B27 1991 Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich Bartov, Omer
  41. D757 .L5 1979a German Generals Talk Liddell Hart, Basil
  42. D757 .M372 1956 Panzer Battles, 1939-1945; A Study of the Employment of Armour in the Second World War Mellenthin, F. W. von
  43. D757 M3213 1982 Lost Victories Manstein, Erich von
  44. D757.1 .F75 1995 Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II Fritz, Stephen G.
  45. D757.2 .L83 1994 Last Year of the German Army, May 1944-May 1945 Lucas, James Sidney
  46. D757.9.S35 B46 1980 Fall of Fortresses: A Personal Account of the Most Daring, and Deadly, American Air Battles of World War II Bendiner, Elmer
  47. D757.H546 1989 Hitler's Generals Barnett, Corelli
  48. D759 .C45 1991 Churchill's Generals Keegan, John
  49. D761 .B562 1968 Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 Bloch, Marc
  50. D761 .H6 1969 To Lose a Battle: France, 1940 Horne, Alistair
  51. D762.A4 W55 1986 Operation Northwind: The Unknown Battle of the Bulge Whiting, Charles
  52. D763.I82 C264 1984 Monte Cassino Hapgood, David & Richardson, David
  53. D763.I82A554 1991 Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome D'Este, Carlo
  54. D763.N4 R9 Bridge Too Far Ryan, Cornelius
  55. D763.S5 D47 1988b Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, July-August 1943 D'Este, Carlo
  56. D764 .S234513 Forgotten Soldier Sajer, Guy
  57. D766.82 .R57 1953 Rommel Papers Liddell Hart, Basil
  58. D766.99.T8 B5 Kasserine Pass Blumenson, Martin
  59. D767 .M18 Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Manchester, William [Navy]
  60. D767 .S69 1985 Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan Spector, Ronald [Navy]
  61. D767.2 .T58 Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 Toland, John
  62. D767.9.D69 1986 War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War Dower, John
  63. D767.92 .W6 Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision Wohlstetter, Roberta
  64. D769 .M34 1999 GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945 Mansoor, Peter R.
  65. D769 .P47 1991 There's A War To Be Won Perret, Geoffrey
  66. D769.2 .L56 1997 World Within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II Linderman, Gerald F.
  67. D769.31 333rd .L45 1985 Men of Company K: The Autobiography of a World War II Rifle Company Leinbaugh, Harold P. & Campbell, John D.
  68. D769.85.D6 B75 1988 Washington Goes to War Brinkley, David
  69. D769.87.A4 G4 Thousand Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians Garfield, Brian
  70. D787 .B413 1968 Luftwaffe War Diaries Bekker, Cajus
  71. D787 .M84 1983 Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945 Murray, Williamson
  72. D788 .S32 2000 Flight to Arras Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
  73. D793 .K647 1992 Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 Knappe, Siegfried Brusaw, Ted
  74. D793 .L83 1989 Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck Luck, Hans von
  75. D802.F8 M34 2000 Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France May, Ernest F.
  76. D810 P7 U365 1989 Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War Fussell, Paul
  77. D810.C88 M375 1999 Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 Marks, Leo
  78. D810.C88 W56 1974 Ultra Secret Winterbotham, F.W.
  79. D811 .B5694 2002 Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman's War in Europe Blunt, Roscoe
  80. D811 .M2 Company Commander MacDonald, Charles B. [Army]
  81. D811 .S41413 1989 Neither Fear nor Hope: The Wartime Career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, Defender of Cassino Senger, Fridolin von
  82. D811 .W55 1987 If You Survive Wilson, George [Army]
  83. D811.5 .O813 1994 Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont Osmont, Marie-Louise
  84. D811.5 .P88 1944a Brave Men Pyle, Ernie
  85. D811.5 .S5 1941 Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 Shirer, William
  86. DA566.9.C5 M26 1983 Last Lion: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 Manchester, William
  87. DA566.9.C5 M262 1988 Last Lion: Alone 1932-40 Manchester, William
  88. DC226.5 .W3513 1991 Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier Walter, Jakob
  89. DC293 .H6 1961 Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871 Howard, Michael
  90. DC311 .H68 Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-1871 Horne, Alistair
  91. DC335 .S47 Collapse of the Third Republic; An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 Shirer, William
  92. DC530 A77 1991 German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I Asprey, Robert B.
  93. DD103 .D86 1984 Genius for War: The German Army and General Staff , 1807-1945 Dupuy, T.N.
  94. DD247.J83 A3 1999 Formeln, Fahnen, Flakgeschütze: Eine Deutsche Jugend Zwischen Schule und Kriegsdienst (1934-1947) Juchter, Friedrich
  95. DD256.3 .S7213 1990 Die Verdammte Pflicht Stahlberg, Alexander
  96. DK265.7 .B28 1995 1920 Diary Babel, Isaak
  97. DS550 .F28 Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Fall Bernard
  98. DS550 .F3 1964a Street Without Joy Fall, Bernard
  99. DS557.A6 F53 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Fitzgerald, Frances
  100. DS558 .L6 1999 Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam Logevall, Fredrik
  101. DS558 .S47 1988 Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Sheehan, Neil
  102. DS558.8 .H48 Danang Diary Yarborough, Tom
  103. DS79.724.U6 F7324 1997 Into the Storm: A Study in Command Franks, Frederick & Clancy, Tom
  104. DS79.76 .R535 2006 Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq Ricks, Thomas E.
  105. DS918 .J36 1993 Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea, 1950-1953 James, D. Clayton
  106. DS919 .M26 1992 Taking of Hill 610: and other essays on friendship McCloskey, Robert
  107. DS920.2.U5 C73 2000 American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 Crane, Conrad
  108. DT28 .P34 1991 Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 Pakenham, Thomas
  109. DT295 .H64 Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 Horne, Alistair
  110. DT407.4 .B69 1999 Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War Bowden, Mark
  111. DT930 .P27 1979 Boer War Pakenham, Thomas
  112. E169.1 .H74 Anti-intellectualism in American Life Hofstadter, Richard
  113. E181 .A64 2005 The dominion of war : empire and liberty in North America, 1500-2000 Anderson, Fred & Cayton,  Andrew
  114. E181 .E57 1987 War on Film: Military History Education Video Tapes, Motion Pictures, and Related Audiovisual Aids Eiserman, Frederick A.
  115. E181 .P55 1989 Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam: The Story of America's Rise to Power Perret, Geoffrey
  116. E181 .W45 American Way of War Weigley, Russell F.
  117. E183.8.S65 B89 2001 By Any Means Necessary: American's Heroes Flying Secret Missions in a Hostile World Burrows, William E.
  118. E183.8.S65 G76 2000 Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain Grose, Peter
  119. E183.8.S65 H46 1986 Target is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It Hersch, Seymour
  120. E467.1.M2 S43 1988 George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon Sears, Stephen W.
  121. E468 .F7 Civil War, A Trilogy: Sumter to Perryville Foote, Shelby
  122. E468 .F7 Civil War, A Trilogy: Fredericksburg to Meridian Foote, Shelby
  123. E468 .F7 Civil War, A Trilogy: Red River to Appomattox Foote, Shelby
  124. E470 .L9 1988 Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance Luvaas, Jay
  125. E474.65 .S43 1983 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam Sears, Stephen W.
  126. E475.35 .F87 1992 Chancellorsville, 1863: The Souls of the Brave Furgurson, Ernest B.
  127. E476.93 .S65 Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg Sommers, Richard J.
  128. E545 .M38 1982 Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage McWhiney, Grady &  Jamieson, Perry D.
  129. E672 .A3 1999 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Grant, U.S. [Army]
  130. E725.3 .C6 Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War Cosmas, Graham
  131. E743 .N378 1986 Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers Neustadt, Richard & May, Ernest [Army] [Navy]
  132. E745.M3 M27 American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 Manchester, William
  133. E745.P3 D46 1995 Patton: A Genius for War D'Este, Carlo [Army]
  134. E83.866 .K553 Campaigning with Crook King, Charles
  135. E841 .A555 Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis Allison, Graham
  136. E841 .H25 Best and The Brightest Halberstam, David
  137. HC110.W4 P484 2002 Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich Phillips, Kevin
  138. HC285 .B395 1994 Imperial Germany, 1871-1914: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics Berghahn, Volker Rolf
  139. HD9523.9.K7 M35 Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968 Manchester, William
  140. JC311 .P436 1993 Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism Pfaff, William
  141. JX1706 .A4 1974 Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy Halperin, Morton
  142. JX1953 .H68 1978 War and the Liberal Conscience Howard, Michael
  143. PG3488.O4 A83 August, 1914 Solzhenitsyn, Alexsandr
  144. PR478 E8 F8 Great War and Modern Memory Fussell, Paul
  145. PR6011.O56 G4 General Forester, C. S. [Marine Corps]
  146. PS3537.H913 Z52 20th Century Journey: A memoir of a life and the times: The start, 1904-1930 Shirer, William
  147. PS3541.R46 B3 Battle Cry Uris, Leon
  148. PT2635.E68 I63 1958 All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria
  149. QC16.H35 P69 1993 Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb Powers, Thomas
  150. U102 .C65 1976 On War Clausewitz, Carl von, with Paret, Peter [Army]
  151. U102 .M6732513 1993 Moltke on the Art of War Hughes, Daniel J. (ed.)
  152. U102 .R736 1987 Roots of Strategy, Book 3 Erfurth, Waldemar von & Freytag-Loringhoven, Hugo
  153. U155.G3 B83 1991 Moltke, Schlieffen, and Prussian War Planning Bucholz, Arden
  154. U162 .P66 1984 Sources of military doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the World Wars Posen, Barry R.
  155. U162 .S58 1984 Ideology of the offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 Posen, Barry R.
  156. U168 .V36 Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton Van Creveld, Martin [Army][Marine Corps]
  157. U19 .H75 Theory and Practice of War Howard, Michael
  158. U21.2 .K425 1985 Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle Keegan, John & Holmes, Richard
  159. U21.2 H625 1985 Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle Holmes, Richard
  160. U21.2 P32 1992 Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power Paret, Peter
  161. U21.5 .P36 Military and Politics in Modern Times: On Professionals, Praetorians, and Revolutionary Soldiers Perlmutter, Amos
  162. U21.5 .P63 Political Influence of the Military: A Comparative Reader Perlmutter, Amos & Bennett, Valerie Plave
  163. U22 .B38 1988 Morale: A Study of Men and Courage Baynes, John
  164. U22 .W36 1986 War, Morality, & the Military Profession Wakin, Malham (ed.)
  165. U22.3 .D59 On the Psychology of Military Incompetence Dixon, Norman
  166. U22.3 .G76 1995 On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Grossman, Dave [Marine Corps]
  167. U22.3 .M673 1987 Anatomy of Courage Moran, Lord [Marine Corps]
  168. U27 .B76 1973 From Crossbow to H-Bomb Brodie, Bernard & Brodie, Fawn
  169. U27 .J65 1987 Art of War in the Western World Jones, Archer
  170. U27 .V27 1991 Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present Van Creveld, Martin
  171. U27.O26 1989 Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression O'Connell, Robert
  172. U39 .E2 Makers of Modern Strategy Paret, Peter [Army]
  173. U39.A33 1984 Patterns of War since the 18th Century Addington, Larry H.
  174. U41 .M3 Art of War: Waterloo to Mons McElwee, William L.
  175. U42 .C56 1990 Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War Cohen, Eliot A. & Gooch, John
  176. U43.E95 H68 War in European History Howard, Michael [Army]
  177. U43.U4 B37 1994 Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 Bassford, Christopher
  178. U53.W617 A37 1986 Something About A Soldier Willeford, Charles Ray
  179. U738 Battle Leadership von Schell, Adolf [Marine Corps]
  180. U738 .R6513 Attacks Rommel, Erwin [Marine Corps]
  181. U750 .H3 1974 Profession of Arms Hackett, John
  182. UA23 .H95 Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relation Huntington, Samuel P.
  183. UA25 .W35 History of the United States Army Weigley, Russell
  184. UA30 .T78 1989 Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry: Life in the Old Army, 1917-1942 Truscott, Lucian
  185. UA712 .C66 1978 German Army, 1933-1945: Its Political and Military Failure Cooper, Matthew
  186. UA714 .R5 1986 Die Feldgrauen Reiter: Die berittenen und bespannten Truppen in Reichswehr und Wehrmacht Richter, Klaus Christian
  187. UB147 .J3 Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait Janowitz, Morris
  188. UB210 .M26 1947 Men against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War Marshall, S.L.A.
  189. UB210 .N48 Follow Me: The Human Element in Leadership Newman, Aubrey S.
  190. UB212 .V36 1985 Command in War Van Creveld, Martin
  191. UB256.U6 B36 2002 Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency Bamford, James
  192. UC463 .M3 1980 Soldiers Load and The Mobility of a Nation  Marshall, S.L.A. [Marine Corps]
  193. UD160 .J36 1994 Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899 Jamieson, Perry D.
  194. UG635.G3 C6823 1998 Luftwaffe's Way of War: German Air Force Doctrine, 1911-1945 Corum, James S. & Muller, Richard R.
  195. VB231.U54 S65 1998 Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage Sontag, Sherry