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