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) |
Jacqui Murray is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education. Currently, she’s working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
