Reading List
Reading List-Twentieth Century Warfare
General Warfare
-Arnold, James, R. Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
-Keegan John.-The Face of Battle
-----------------A History of Warfare
-Kindsvatter, Peter. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, & Vietnam
-Millet, Alan & Maslowski, Peter. For the Common Defense: A military history of the United States of America.
World War I-Unit IV
-Allen, Hervey. Toward the Flame: A War Diary.
-Boyd, Thomas. Through the Wheat: A Novel of World War I Marines
-Graves, Robert. Good-bye to all That.
-Ebbert, Jean and Hall, Marie-Beth. The First the Few the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I.
-Ferrell, Robert. America’s Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne 1918.
- Foglesong, David. America’s Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in Russian Civil War, 1917-1920.
Guiterrez, Edward A. Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience.
-Herwig, Holger. The Marne 1914: the opening of World War I. and the Battle thatChanged the World.
-Jan,owski, Paul. Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
-Lloyd, Nick. Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War I.
-Mackin, Elton. Suddenly We Didn’t Want to Die: Memoirs of A World War I Marine
-March, William. Company K.
-Neiberg, Michael S. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I.
--------- The Path of to War: How the First World War Created Modern America
-Persico, Joseph E. Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day918:World War I and its Violent Climax.
-Stone, Norman. The Eastern Front, 1914-1917.
-Remarque, Eric. All Quiet on the Western Front.
-Rhodes, Benjamin D. The Anglo-American Winter War with Russia, 1918-1919.
-Simmons, Edwin and Alexander, Joseph. Through the Wheat: The US Marines in World War I.
-Weintraub, Stanley. Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.
World War II-Unit VI.
-Ambrose, Hugh. The Pacific.
-Ambrose, Stephen. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest
-----------------------. D-Day. June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
-----------------------. Citizen Soldiers. The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches, to the Bulge, to the Surrender of Germany.
-Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.
-------------------. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944.
-------------------.The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-45.
-Bartsch, William H. Victory Fever on Guadalcanal: Japan’s First Land Defeat of WWII.
-Boyington, Gregory. Baa Baa Black Sheep.
-Bradley, James. Flags of Our Fathers.
-Brady, James. Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone.
-Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (Long)
-Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe 1944- 1945
-Early, Charity Adams. One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC
-Fraser, George. Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma.
-Frank, Richard. Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle.
-Hammel, Eric. Two Flags Over Iwo Jima: Solving the Mystery of the US Marine Corps Proudest Moment.
-Hersey, John. Into the Valley: A Skirmish of the Marines
-Latimer, Jon Alamein
-Leckie, Robert. A Helmet for my Pillow: From Paris Island to the Pacific
-Klein, Gerda All But My Life: A Memoir
-McManus, John C. The Americans at Normandy. The Summer of 1944-The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise.
-----------------------.Several other books about WWII that are interesting by same author
-Parker, Matthew. Monte Casino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of WWII.
-Sledge, Eugene B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.
----------------------. China Marine: An Infantry Man’s Life after World War II.
-Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers
-Sword, Keith. The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939-41. (Soviet)
-Tarrant, V.E. Stalingrad: Anatomy of an Agony.
-Thomas, Evan. Sea of Thunder
-Tuttle, Jr., William. “Daddy’s Gone to War” The Second World War in the Lives of America’s Children.
-Viscount, Slim and William. Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945.
-Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five.
-Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in WWII.
-Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941-1945.
-Wheelan, Joseph. Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal The World War II Battle that Turned the Tide of War.
-Wukovits, John. One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa.
Korea-Unit VII
-Batson, Denzil. We Called it War.
-Brady, James. The Coldest War
-Davis, Burke. Marine: The Life of Chesty Puller.
-Drury, Bob and Clavin, Tom. The Last Stand of Fox Company.
-Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter (long)
-Hammel, Eric. Chosin
-Marshall, SL. Pork Chop Hill
-Wolf, Tom. The Right Stuff.
Vietnam-Unit VIII
-Bowden, Mark. Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam.
-Capoto, Phillip. A Rumor of War.
-Clark, Johnny M. Guns Up!
-Corbett, John. West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sahn
-Culbertson, John. & Evans, Christopher Editor. 13-Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam.
-Hastings, Max. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975.
-Hardwick, William H. Down South: One Tour in Vietnam.
-Hemingway, Al. Our War was Different: Marine combined action platoons in Vietnam.
-Henderson, Charles. Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills.
------------------------. Marshaling the Faithful: the Marines First year in Vietnam.
-Leppelman, John. Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldiers 35 Months in Vietnam.
-Mason, Robert. Chickenhawk.
-Moore, Harold G. and Galloway, Joseph. We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.
-Murphy, Edward F. The Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sahn.
-Nolan, Keith William. Battle For Hue, Tet 1968.
----------------------------Operation Buffalo: USMC fight for the DMZ
-O’Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box me up and Ship me Home.
-----------------. The Things They Carried.
-Robbins, James S. This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive.
-Sasser, Charles W. The Walking Dead: A Marine’s Story of Vietnam.
-Van Devanter, Lynda. Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam.
-Van Zanten, William. Don’t Bunch Up: One Marine’s Story.
-Willbanks, James H. The Tet Offensive: a concise history