July 26, 2011
USMC: The Summer Reading List
Thanks to D.W. Taylor for sharing this list…
Private, Private First Class, Lance Corporal
Forester | Rifleman Dodd |
Heinlein | Starship Troopers |
Hubbard | A Message to Garcia |
Miller | The Bridge at Dong-Ha |
Simmons | U.S. Marines: 1775-1975 |
Various | U.S. Constitution |
Webb | Fields of Five |
Corporal, Sergeant
Barber | The War of the Running Dogs: The Malayan Emergency, 1948-1962 |
Campbell | The Old Man’s Trail |
Card | Ender’s Game |
Chapin | Uncommon Men: Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps |
Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
Davis | Marine: The Life of Lt Gen & USMC (Ret) Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller |
Hammel | Fire in the Streets: The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968 |
Leckie | The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West |
Marshall | Soldier’s Load and the Mobility of a Nation |
McCormick | The Right Kind of War |
Schell | Battle Leadership |
Swinton | The Defense of Duffer’s Drift |
Thomason | Fix Bayonets! |
Uris | Battle Cry |
West | The Village |
Staff Sergeant, Warrant Officer, Chief Warrant Officer 2, Warrant Officer 3, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant
Amrose | Band of Brothers: E Co. 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest |
Ambrose | Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 |
Asprey | War in the Shadows: The Guerilla in History |
Collins | Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders |
English & Gudmundsson | On Infantry |
Fuller | Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship |
Giap | How We Won the War |
Hagan | American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy, 1877-1889 |
Holmes | Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle |
Hynes | Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator |
Keegan | The Face of Battle |
Laquer & Alexander | Terrorism Reader |
Liddell Hart | Strategy |
Lind | Maneuver Warfare Handbook |
Manning | The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre |
Moore & Galloway | We Were Soldiers Once and Young: La Drang, The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam |
Moskin | The U.S. Marine Corps Story |
Moskos | The Military: More Than Just a Job |
Nolan | Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ |
Nye | Challenge of Command: A Reading for Military Excellence |
Rommel | Attacks |
Ross | Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor |
Sajer | The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic World War II Autobiography |
Scales | Firepower in Limited War |
Shaara | The Killer Angels |
Sherrod | Tarawa: The Story of a Battle |
Sulzberg | The Fall of Eagles |
Sun Tzu | Art of War |
Various | U.S. Constitution |
Willock | Unaccustomed to Fear: A Biography of the Late General Roy S. Gieger |
Gunnery Sergeant, First Seargeant, Master Sergeant, Chief Warrant Officer 4, Captain
Ardant Du Picq | Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battles |
Chaliand | Guerrilla Strategies: A Historical Anthology from the Long March to Afghanistan |
Doughty | The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 |
Fall | Street Without Joy |
Hackett | Profession of Arms |
Hastings | Battle for the Falklands |
Heinl | Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign |
Higgenbotham | The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice |
Hoffman | Once a Legend:”Red Mike” Edson of the Marine Raiders |
Hooker | Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology |
Horne | The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 |
Infantry School (U.S.) | Infantry in Battle |
Isley & Crowl | The U.S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory, and its Practice in the Pacific |
Keegan | The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare |
Krulak | First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps |
Lupfer | The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War |
MacArthur | Reminiscences |
McDonald | Company Commander |
Mao Tse-Tung | Mao Tse-Tung on Guerilla Warfare |
McDonough | Defense of Hill 781 |
McPherson | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
Mellenthin | Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Decond World War |
Meyer | Company Command: The Bottom Line |
Millett & Maslowski | For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America |
Moorehead | Galipoli |
Moran | The Anatomy of Courage |
Myrer | One an Eagle |
Navmc 2890 | Small Wars Manual |
Newman | Follow Me: Human Element in Leadership |
O’Ballance | No Victor, No Vanquished: Yom Kippur War |
Peppers | History of U.S. Military Logistics, 1935-1985 |
Puller | Fortunate Son |
Sears | Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam |
Sledge | With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa |
Smith | Douglas Southall Freeman on Leadership |
Summers | On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War |
Turley | The Easter Offensive, Vietnam, 1972 |
Van Creveld | Airpower and Maneuver Warfare |
Major, Chief Warrent Officer 5
Baynes | Morale: A Study of Men and Courage |
Catton | Grant Takes Command |
Clausewitz | On War |
D’este | Patton: A Genius for War |
Fall | Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu |
Fehrenbach | This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness |
Frank | Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account |
Fraser | Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel |
Griffith | Forward into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to Vietnam |
Guevara | Che Guevara on Guerilla Warfare |
Hammel | Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War |
Higginbotham | George Washington and the American Military Tradition |
Lejeune | Reminiscences of a Marine |
Mersky | U.S. Marine Corps Aviation |
Paret | Makers of Modern Steategy: From Maciavelli to the Nuclear Age |
Prange | At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor |
Robertson | Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory |
Schwarzkopf | It Doesn’t Take a Hero |
Sherrod | History of Marine Corps Aviation in WW2 |
Shy | A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence |
Slim | Defeat into Victory |
Spector | Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan |
Van Crevald | Command in war |
Van Crevald | Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton |
Master Gunnery Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Lieutenent Colonel
Baer | One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990 |
Bennett | Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign, 1944-45 |
Buell | The Quiet warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance |
Gordon & Trainor | The General’s War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf |
James | The Year of MacArthur |
Keiser | The U.S. Marine Corps and Defense Unification, 1944-47: The Politics of Survival |
Kohn | Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802 |
Krepinevich | The Army and Vietnam |
Long | Personal Memoirs of Ulusses S. Grant |
Millett | In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps |
Murray | The Making of Strategy |
Newman | Follow Me II: More on the Human Element in Leadership |
Pagonis | Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War |
Travers | How the War Was Won |
Vaux | Take That Hill: Royal Marines in the Falklands War |
White | The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805 |
Woodward | 100 Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander |
COLONEL
Ambrose | The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Brennan | Foundations of Moral Obligation: The Stockdale Course |
Chandler | The Campaigns of Napoleon |
Cohen | Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War |
Cray | General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman |
Doughty | Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939 |
Eccles | Logistics in the National Defense |
Flicke | War Secrets in the Ether: The use of Signals Intelligence by the German Military in WW2 |
Forester | The General |
Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
Horne | A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 |
Horne | To Lose a Battle:, France 1940 |
Kennedy | The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery |
Millett & Murray | Military Innovation in the Interwar Period |
Murray | Luftwaffe |
O’Neill | A Democracy at war: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in WW2 |
Palmer | The 25-Year War: America’s Military Role in Vietnam |
Potter | Nimitz |
Ridgeway | Korean War |
Ryan | A Bridge to Far |
Shulimson | The Marine Corps Search for a Mission, 1880-1898 |
Simpkin | Race to the Swift: Thoughts on Twenty First Century Warfare |
Smythe | Pershing, General of the Armies |
Thucydides | The Peloponnesian War |
Travers | The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918 |
Van Tien Dung | Our Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South Vietnam |
Vandergrift | Once a Marine: The Memoirs of General A.A. Vandergrift, USMC |
Weigley | Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-45 |
Generals
Bartlett | Lejeune: A Marine’s Life, 1867-1942 |
Fuller | Generalship, Its Diseases and Their Cure: A Study of the Personal Factor in Command |
Halberstam | The Best and the Brightest |
Kagan | On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace |
Kennedy | Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 |
Kissinger | Diplomacy |
MacDonald | Giap: The Victor in Vietnam |
McNamara | In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam |
Moore | A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines |
Murray | Airwar in the Gulf |
Newman | What Are Generals Made of? |
Powell | My American Journey |
Royster | Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman |
Schmidt | Maverick Marine: General Smedley Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History |
Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Timberg | The Nightingale’s Song |
Twining | No Bended Knee |
All Marines – Military Affairs and National Security Issues
Greenwood & Neimeyer | America’s Cutting Edge: U.S. Marine Corps Roles and Missions (Roles and Missions) |
Smith | Angels from the Sea: Relief Operations in Bangladesh (Peace Operations) |
Drew | NATO: From Berin to Bosnia (Peace Operations) |
McKenzie | Peacekeeper (Peace Operations) |
Murray | 1995-1996 Brassey’s Mershon American Defense Annual (Revolutions in Military Affairs) |
Toffler & Toffler | War and Anti-War (Revolutions in Military Affairs) |
Scwartau | Information Warfare (Information Warfare) |
Campen | The First Information War (Information Warfare) |
Libicki | What Is Information Warfare? (Information Warfare) |
Van Ham | Managing Non-Proliferation Regimes in the 1990s (International Nuclear Proliferation) |
Reiner | Nuclear Non-Proliferation (International Nuclear Proliferation) |
Braestrup | Big Story (Military and the Media) |
Fialka | Hotel Warriors (Military and the Media) |
All Marines – Professional and Societal Issues
Covey | Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Professional Development) |
Smith | Taking Charge, Making the Right Choices (Professional Development) |
Walton | The Deming Management Method (Professional Development) |
Senge | The Fifth Discipline (Professional Development) |
Thomas | Beyond Race and Gender (Cultural Diversity) |
Buchen | Cultural Diversity Manual (Cultural Diversity) |
Hacker | Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Cultural Diversity) |
Bennett | Book of Virtues (Ethics) |
Carter | Integrity (Ethics) |
Various | Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (Women in the Military) |
Webb | Step Forward (Women in the Military) |
Yianilos | Woman Marine (Women in the Military) |
Elshtain | Women and War (Women in the Military) |
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