Great Books
Here is a list of great books dealing with military history, as well as links to the professional reading lists of the various branches of the Armed Forces. If you have suggestions for the list, please email me.
Don’t Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 by Donald Hickey
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
The Colonial Wars, 1689-1763 by Howard Peckham
Pontiac and the Indian Uprising by Howard Peckham
The Crucible of War by Fred Anderson
The First Way of War by John Grenier
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young by LTG Harold Moore (USA-Ret.) and Joseph Galloway
Steal My Soldier’s Hearts by Col. David Hackworth
American Empire by Andrew Bacevich
American Military History (2 vol.) Edited by Maurice Matloff
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Story by Carlos D’Este
Nothing but Victory by Steven Woodworth
On Killing by David Grossman
Anything by James McPherson
Patriots by Christian Appy
A Viet Cong Memoir by Truong Nhu Tang
From Enemy to Friend by Bui Tin
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
The Fifty-year War by Norman Friedman
Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer
One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
Memoirs of service personnel
Reading lists
U.S. Army Chief of Staff’s Rading List
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff’s Reading List
Air Force Chief of Staff reading list
U.S. Navy Professional Reading Program
U.S. Marine Corps Professional Reading Program
Ike Skelton’s National Security Book List
Military Classics bibliography from Dr. Robert H. Berlin of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
BOOKS FOR THE MILITARY PROFESSIONAL (reading list from the Combined Arms Research Library)
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