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I&L Reading List 2

Title ROMAN EMPIRE Author
Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon B.H. Liddell Hart
Romans and Barbarians Derek Williams
Title CRIMEAN WAR Author
The Sebastopol Sketches Tolstoy
Title AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Author
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant
The Passing of the Armies Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Title SPANISH AMERICAN WAR Author
The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt
Title WORLD WAR I Author
Towards the Flame Hervey Allen
Goodbye to All That Rober Graves
The Middle Parts of Fortune Frederic Manning
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Siegfried Sassoon
Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man Siegfried Sassoon
Allenby Wavell
Title SPANISH CIVIL WAR Author
Homage to Cataonia George Orwell
Title WORLD WAR II Author
Strange Defeat Mark Bloch
Flags of Our Fathers* James Brady
Ordinary Men John Bumgarner
Coral Comes High George P. Hunt
Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean
Goodbye Darkness William Manchester
American Caesar William Manchester
Lost Victories Field Marshall Manstein
In Many a Strife Allen R. Millett
Company Commander Charles B. McDonald
Forgotten Soldier* Guy Sajer
With the Old Breed* Eugene B. Sledge
Defeat into Victory* Field Marshall Slim
Hiroshima John Hersey
The Railway Man Eric Lomax
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Night Trilogy Elie Weisel
Title KOREA Author
This Kind of War* T. R. Fehrenbach
Victory at High Tide Robert Debs Heinl
One Bugle No Drums: The Marines at the Chosin Reservior William B. Hopkins
Enter the Dragon Russell Spur
Title VIETNAM Author
When Hell was in Session Jeremiah A. Denton Jr.
Street Without Joy Benard Fall
Hell in a Very Small Place: the Siege of Dien Bien Phu Benard Fall
The Best and Brightest David Halbertstam
The Cat from Hue John Laurence
In Retrospect Robert S. McNamara & Brian VanDeMark
The Living: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War Paul Hendrickson
We Were Soldiers Once and Young* Harold Moore & Joseph Galloway
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan
Title SOMALIA Author
Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden
Losing Mogadishu Jonathan Stevenson
Title BOSNIA Author
The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andric
Love Thy Neighbor Peter Maas
Blood and Vengeance Chuck Sudetic
Title 9/11 & GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR Author
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright
The Forever War Dexter Filkins
Title SURVIVAL Author
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing
Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal Savigny & Correard
In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Nat Philbrick
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America Cabeza De Vaca
Title MISCELLANEOUS Author
Endurance:Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology* Richard D. Hooker
The Ends of the Earth Robert D. Kaplan
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response Bernard Lewis
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin Richard Lourie
* CMC Reading List Selection

 

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