HISTORICAL 

BIBLIOGRAPHY No. 8 

WilitaQ 

Classics. 

bY 

Dr. Robert H. Berth 

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College 

Fort Leavehworth, Kansas 66027-6900 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 

Berlin, Robert H. (Robert Harry), 1946- 

Military classics. 

(Historical bibliography; no. 8) 

1. Military art and science-Bibliography. 

2. Military history- Bibliography. 3. War in 

literature - BibIiography. I. Title. II. Series. 

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Preface ................................ v 

GeneralStudies ........................... 1 

Ancient History ........................... 10 

War in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ......... 13 

The Era of Frederick II and Napoleon ............. 16 

Clausewitz .............................. 20 

U.S. Civil War ............................ 21 

The British Empire ......................... 24 

World War I ............................. 27 

J. F. C. Fuller and B. H. Liddell Hart .............. 32 

World War II ............................ 34 

KoreanWar ............................ .42 

ModernWarfare .......................... 44 

Vietnam ............................... 46 

Falkland Islands War ........................ 50 

Arab-Israeli Wars .......................... 52 

TheNuclear Age .......................... 54 

The Moral Effect of Combat ................... 55 

Russian and Soviet Military History ............... 57 
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East Asian Military History . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . 61 

SeaPower . *. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . , . 64 

AirPower .* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *67 

ThePress ..* . . . . . . I . . . ..“.............. 70 
The military classics seminar, a Combat Studies Institute 

history electives course at the U.S. Army Command and 

General Staff College, studies the evolution of the art of war 

from ancient times to the present. Course readings include 

selections from Xenophon, Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Ardant du 

Picq, Fuller, Liddell Hart, and World War II general officer 

biographies. As a historian and teacher of this seminar, I 

have often been asked by students what they should read to 

continue their study of military classic literature and to further explore the history of war and the military profession. I 

have prepared this bibliography in answer to this need. 

Many of the books listed in this work are military classics, that is, books of recognized value that set a standard of 

historical or literary excellence. Others evaluate or expand on 

the military classics. Focused mainly on the history of land 

warfare, this bibliography begins with a general section. The 

books listed cover more than one chronological period or topical area, or are broad surveys of military history, or concentrate on a unique subject. 

The next sections are arranged chronologically beginning 

with Ancient History and concluding with The Nuclear Age. 

Covered here are significant historical eras, rnilitary writers, 

and conflicts. The Modern Warfare section encompasses lowintensity conflict. The remaining sections in the bibliography 

are topical and include The Moral Effect of Combat (men in 

battle), Russian and Soviet Military History, East Asian 

Military History, Sea Power, Air Power, and The Press. 

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The novels cited in this work provide an approach to the 

human elements of war, are often enjoyable to read, and are 

thought provoking, Though this bibliography is extensive, 

some notable baoks have been excluded because I favor 

others covering the same topics. Also I have tried to limit the 

number of entries under topics such as the Civil War and 

World War II where hundreds of books are available. 

Exploiting my personal knowledge of the literature, I 

have selected works for their readability and accuracy, while 

providing annotations for the reader as a guide to each book’s 

scope and content. All of these books are available in 

libraries, and many are in paperback form, 

The books listed in this bibliography should be read for 

professional development, historical perspective, information, 

and pleasure. They offer officers and students of military history an opportunity to understand better the nature of war. 

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Alger, John I. The Quest for Victory: The History of the 

Principles of War, Contributions in Military History. 

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. 

This unique volume is a history of the principles of war 

from Jomini to the present. Alger, a U.S. Army officer, 

provides a useful source for students of modern military 

thought. 

Bidwell, Shelford, and Dominick Graham. Fire-Power: 

British Army Weapons and Theories of War, 1904-1945. 

Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1982, 

A brilliant study of artillery and British Army organization and doctrine, Bidwell and Graham’s clearly written and 

carefully researched account has earned high praise from 

scholars and soldiers. 

Blumenson, Martin, and James L. Stokesbury. Masters of the 

Art of Command. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1975. 

With emphasis on twentieth-century warfare, this work’s 

excellent biographical chapters show how commanders at different levels functioned. 

Carver, Michael, Sir, ed. The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century. Bostom Little, 

Brown, 1976. 

Carver’s collection of forty-three essays on leading 

military land, sea, and air force commanders of World Wars I 

and II is an excellent source of capsule biographies. 

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Especially inspiring is Dan Davin’s essay on Lieutenant 

General Lord Bernard Freyberg of New Zealand. 

Delbrtick, Hans. History of the Art of War Within the 

Framework of Political History. Translated from the 

German by Walter J. Renfroe Jr. 4 ~01s. Westport, CT: 

Greenwood Press, 1975-85. 

In these four volumes, Hans Delbriick (1848-1929), a 

writer, military historian, and professor of history at Berlin 

University, discusses the art of war from ancient history to the 

age of Napoleon. One eminent historian has said that 

Delbriick’s &Story of the Art of War is a “monument to German scholarship” for applying a new scientific method to the 

military records of the past. This modem English translation 

makes Delbriick’s work available for the serious student of 

military history and thought. 

English, John A. On Infantry. New York: Praeger, 1984. 

The author, a Canadian Army officer, presents an outstanding synthesis of twentieth-century ideas and writings on 

the role of infantry in war. He focuses on the fundamentals 

of infantry operations, training, weapons, and tactics. Those interested in the characteristics of successful infantry should 

read this informative book. 

Fuller, J. F. C. A Military History of the Western World. 

3 ~01s. Jersey City, NJ: Da Capo Press, 1987, ~1954-56. 

The author, who was a British major general, military 

theorist, and historian, provides a narrative and analysis of 

warfare from earliest times to the end of World War II. A 

useful and quite readable reference, the volumes have been 

reissued in paperback. 
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Gcirlitz, Walter, History of the German General Staff, 1657- 

1945. Translated by Brian Battershaw. Westport, CT: 

Greenwood Press, 1975, ~1953. 

Gtirlitz’ study is a thorough history of the German 

General Staff from its origins in the 1600s to the end of 

World War 11. 

Hackett, John Winthrop, Sir. The Profession of Arms. New 

York: Macmillan, 1983. 

General Hackett, a distinguished British soldier and 

scholar, eloquently explains the evolution of the military 

profession from ancient times to the present in this work, 

which was originally presented in 1962 as the Lees-Knowles 

lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge. His text is important 

for officers and has been reprinted from the Officers’ Call 

series by the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH 

Pub 70-18). 

Hastings, Max, ed. The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes. 

New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. 

Hastings’ collection of 384 military anecdotes covers the 

span of history from ancient times to the Falkland Islands 

War of 1982. The editor, a former paratrooper, military historian, and experienced British war correspondent, collected 

tales that reflect the soldier’s experience and emphasize the 

reality of war - men% efforts to kill each other, The material, 

some of which is humorous, can be incorporated into military 

history courses. 

Heller, Charles E., and William A. Stofft, camps. America’s 

First Battles, 1776-1965. Lawrence: University Press of 

Kansas, 1986. 

Historians and military officers contributed ten battle 

studies to this work: Long Island (1776) Queenston (1812), 

Rio Grande (1846), First Bull Run (l&61), San Juan (18982, 
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Cantigny (1918), Buna (19421, Kasserine (1943), Task Farce 

Smith (1950), and Ia Drang (1965). Wle each study varies 

in readability, this is an excellent collection of American 

operational military histories. As Professclr John Shy indicates in the summary chapter, these studies address recurring 

questions about first battles. 

Howard, Michael Eliat. The Causes of Wars and Other 

Essays. 2d ed. enlarged. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. 

This collection of articles by Britain’s foremost military 

historian covers a wide range of subjects. Two articles are 

classics: “The Forgotten Dimensions of Strategy,” which offers a framework for an analysis of strategy based on a study 

of the development of strategic doctrine and warfare over the 

past 200 years, and “The Use and Abuse of Military History,” 

which explains how professional officers and academics 

should study military history. Also of interest are the 

biographical sketches of Liddell Hart and Montgomery. 

The Franeo-Prussian War: The German Invasion of 

Prance, 1870-1871. New York: Metheun, 1981, ~1961. 

Michael Howard, a distinguished British soldier and 

eminent military historian, provides a scholarly study of the 

Francs-Prussian War, 1870-71. 

Huston, James A. The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775- 

1953. Army Historical Series. Washington, DC: Office 

of the Chief of Military History, United States Army, 

1966. 

The history of logistics is dull reading, and this boak is na 

exception. However, tactical operations depend on efficient 

logistics, and Hustan provides a comprehensive history of 

U.S. Army logistics from the American Revolution through 

the Korean War. 
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Keegan, John. The Face af Battle. New York: Viking Press, 

1976. 

What is a battle like? The author of this ingenious book, 

a farmer Sandhurst instructor, seeks to answer this question 

for himself and for soldiers who have not been in combat. He 

succeeds by analyzing three battles: Agincaurt (1415), Waterloo (l&15), and the Samrne (1916). Already a classic, this 

book has been required reading for field grade officers at the 

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. 

-’ The Mask of Command. New York: Viking, 1987. 

This famous British military writer’s latest book analyzes 

Alexander the Great, Wellington, Grant, and Hitler as 

military commanders and leaders. Keegan examines these 

leaders’ differing. command styles and evaluates the imperatives of leadership necessary for successful command prior to 

the nuclear age. 

Kreidberg, Marvin A., and Mertan G. Henry. History of 

Military M&ilization in the United States Army, 177% 

1945. DA Pam 20-212. Washington, DC: Department 

of the Army, 1955. 

‘The most comprehensive study of American mobilization, this volume is a detailed administrative history. While 

difficult to read, it is a rich source of information an a vital 

topic. 

McElwee, William. The Art of War: Waterloo to Mans. 

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974. 

McElwee’s study of the development of the art of warfare from the Crimean War in 1855 to World War I emphasizes how technology changed warfare. 
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MacGregor, Morris J. Integration of the Armed Forces, 194Q1965. Defense Studies Series. Washington, DC: Center 

of Military History, United States Army, 1981. 

This book describes the fall of the legal, administrative, 

and social barriers to the black American’s full participation 

in the military service of the United States. Beginning with 

World War II and concluding with the civil rights movement 

of the 196Os, this thorough study covers all armed services. 

Millett, Allan R. Semper Fidelis: The History of the United 

States Marine Corps. New York: Free Press/Macmilla& 1980. 

Millett, a distinguished military histarian and Marine 

Reserve colonel, presents an accurate, scholarly, critical, and 

complete history of the Marine Carps. 

Millett, Allan Reed, and Peter Maslawski. For the Common 

Defense: A Military History of the United States of 

America. New York: Free Press, 1984. 

By far the best survey of American military history? this 

work covers the calanial era to the present. The selected bibliographies at the end of each chapter are helpful in providing 

a comprehensive survey of the literature. 

Millis, Walter. Arms and Men: A Study of American Military 

History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 

1984, ~1956. 

Although dated, this recently reprinted survey of 

American military history remains worth reading bath for factual information and far the author’s assessment of the 

relationship between civilian and military leaders. 

Mantrass, Lynn. War Through the Ages. New York: 

Harper, 1960. 
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This is a lengthy, but easily read, encyclopedic survey of 

military history from the era of ancient Greece through the 

Korean War. 

Paret, Peter, ed. Makers of Modem Strategy: From 

Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. 

Paret’s compilation, written by expert historians, contains 

twenty-eight essays on strategic thought from the Renaissance 

to the present. These essays confirm that understanding war 

in history provides perspective for understanding current 

military thought. This valuable book carries on, but does not 

completely replace, the Edward Mead Earle edition originally 

published in 1943. 

Preston, Richard Arthur, and Sydney F. Wise. Men in Arms: 

A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships With 

Western Society. 4th ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 

and Winston, 1979. 

This is an excellent survey of warfare and its relationship 

to society from ancient times to the present. 

Ropp, Theodore. War in the Modem World. Rev. ed. New 

York: Macmillan, 1985, c1962. 

Ropp’s’stndy of warfare since 1415 is dated but still valuable. Qftentimes, the footnotes are more interesting than the 

text. 

Stallworthy, Jon, ed. The Oxford Book of War Poetry. New 

York: Oxford University Press, 1984. 

This marvelous collection of 259 poems arranged 

chronologically by conflict begins with poems from the Bible 

and concludes with a poem offering a dark prophecy of 

nuclear disaster. In between are poems by John Donne, Walt 

Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon, Allen 
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Ginsberg, and James Fenton-writers and soldiers who offer 

different and differing perspectives on war. 

Strachan, Hew. Eurqean Armies and the Conduct af War. 

Winchester, m Allen & Unwin, 1983. 

Well written, clearly organized, and carefully researched, 

this first-rate survey of European military history from 17063 to 

the present eovers both military operations and military 

thought. 

Swinton, Ernest Dunlop, Sir. The Defence of Duffer’s Drift. 

Garden City Bark, NY: Avery Publishing Group, 1986. 

Major General Swinton, a noted English soldier and 

author, wrote this marvelous tactical primer as a captain 

shortly after he served in the Boer War. In six dreams, .Swinton offers various tactical sohttions to Lieutenant Backright 

Forethought, who is defending an imaginary piece of ground 

during the Boer War. Originally published in hzfantry Joumat 

(now Army) in April 1905 and now available as a reprint from 

the Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and 

General Staff College, this book is great for junior officers to 

read and discuss. 

Vagts, Alfred. A History of Militarism: Civilian and 

Military. Rev. ed. New York: Free Press, 1959. 

Vagt’s thesis is that democratic, umnilitaristic societies 

are better at waging war than autocratic, militaristic ones, and 

he affirms this by analyzing the history of militarism from 

feudal times to 1945. Although dated (the first edition appeared in 1937), this work is significant in the historiography 

of Americans writing military history. 

Van CreveEd, Martin. Command in War. Cambridge, MA: 

Harvard University Press, 1985. 
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Beginning with an assessment of the “Stone Age” of command and concluding with the helicopter and the computer, 

Van Creveld investigates the historical evolution of command, 

control, and communications. He also evaluates how command worked in major battles and argues that armies which allowed their subordinate commanders considerable latitude 

were most successful. 

Weigley, Russell Frank. History of the United States Army. 

Enlarged ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 

1984, cl967. 

This comprehensive history of the U.S. Army from 

colonial times to the present focuses on institutional history 

and the historic tension between professional and citizen armies. The author sees the dual American military traditions 

as a special strength in our democracy. Although very informative, this book is dull reading. 

The American Way of War: A History of United States -* 

Military Strategy and Policy. New York: Macmillan, 

1973; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. 

In this history of U.S. military strategy from 1775 to the 

196Os, Weigley offers considerable information and analysis. 

His chapters on World War II particularly show how historical 

precedent influenced U.S. stratea, and he sees the strategic 

traditions of A. T. Mahan and U. S. Grant as significant in 

America’s conduct of World War II. 

Wright, Quincy. A Study of War. 2d ed. Chicago, IL: 

University of Chicago Press, 1983. 

This systematic, scholarly study of war began as a comprehensive program at the University of Chicago in 1926, and 

the results were first published in 1942. The study is a pioneering contribution to war studies and peace research in the 

United States. In assembling information on armaments, the 
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balance of power, technology, law, social organization, and attitudes about mikitary conflict, Wright conveys his belief that 

war must be studied systematically to be understood. 

Adcock, Frank Ezra, Sir. The Greek and Macedonian Art of 

War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974, 

cl957. 

This highly readable short book provides a wealth of 

knowledge on ancient warfare. 

Anderson, John Kinloch. Military Theory and Practice in the 

Age of Xenophon. Berkeley and Las Angeles: University 

of California Press, 1970. 

This volume analyzes the functioning of Greek armies of 

the fourth century BC. and assesses Xenophon as a pioneer 

military theorist. Anderson examines all the characteristics of 

ancient Greek warfare during Xenophons time. Also included are excellent photographs of vases that show Greek 

soldiers as they appeared during this period. 

Caesar, Julius. The Civil War: Together With the 

Alexandrian War, the African Wary and the Spanish 

War by Other Hands. Translated with an introduction 

by Jane F. Gardner. New York: Penguin Books, ~1967. 

Both propaganda and a soldier’s tale, licle Civil ?J%r 

describes Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, entrance into 

Rome, installation of Cleopatra on the throne of Egypt, and 

final battles in Spain in 45 B.C. This work (together with 

three accounts that were most likely written by Caesar’s 

lieutenants) covers the period of Caesar? final struggle for 
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power and provides considerable tactical detail about his 

maneuvers. 

The Conquest of Gaul. Translated by S. A. Handford. New York: Penguin Books, 1982, c1951. 

Caesar’s narrative an the Gallic War, the only account actually written by a great general of antiquity about his own 

campaigns, provides information on Britain and its early inhabitants and also records Caesar’s successful campaigns in 

Britain and Eurape between 58 and 50 B.C. Partly written as 

personal propaganda, this work has much to say about Roman 

military history. 

Engels, Donald W. Alexander the Great and the Logistics of 

the Macedonian Army. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. 

Engels presents an ingenious systematic study of logistics 

in the ancient world and brilliantly assesses how Alexander 

combined strategic and logistic objectives. 

Ferrill, Arther. The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military 

Explanation. New York: Thames and Hu.dson, 1986, 

In examining the military reasons for the fall of the 

Roman Empire, Professor Ferrill shows that generals and 

their armies were an essential component in the decline and 

fall. 

The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to -* 

AJexander the Great. New Yark: Thames and Hudson, 

1985. 

Ferrill believes that the developments that led to the tactically integrated army of Alexander the Great laid the foundation of modern warfare to the time of Napolean. In this 

work, Ferrill evaluates land and naval warfare in prehistoric 

times, the Copper-Bronze Age in the Near East, the Iron Age 
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in Assyria and Persia, and classical Greek warfare. Good 

maps, clear illustrations, and simple prose make this a valuable guide to ancient warfare. 

Fuller, J. F. C. The Generalship of Alexander the Great. 

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981, ~1960. 

In this analysis of the military abilities and actions of 

Alexander the Great, Fuller assesses Alexander’s career as a 

statesman and soldier, and examines his great battles, sieges, 

and small wars in considerable detail. Fuller believes that, 

while Alexander was’ one of the most audacious generals in 

history, “the risks he accepted were seldom left to chance; 

they were carefully weighed and calculated probabilities,” 

L&y. The War With Hannibal: Books XXX-XXX of the History of Rome From Its Foundation. Translated by 

Aubrey De Selincourt. New York: Penguin Books, 1965. 

Livy (59 B.C.-17 A-D.) vividly describes the Second 

Punic War (218-202 B.C.) between Rome and Carthage, and 

examines the Carthaginians’ early success, the famous Battle 

of Cannae, and Rome’s victory over Hannibal at Zama. Reading this book offers a classical perspective on timely military 

questions. 

Luttwak, Edward N. The Grand Strategy of the Roman 

Empire: From the First Century AD. ta the Third. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. 

Luttwak, an expert on current strategy and a leading 

defense reformer and critic, explores Roman strategy, tactics, 

and military organization in this well-written work. It has 

been required reading in the U.S. Army Command and 

General Staff College’s School of Advanced Military Studies. 

Thucydides. The Pelopcmnesian War. Rev. ed. Translated by 

ex Warner. New York: Penguin Books, 1954. 
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Thucydides, the best Greek historian of the classical 

period, analyzes the wars between Athens and Sparta. The 

work has appeared in numerous editions. This classic is especially prized for showing the relationship between war and 

society, assessing war aims, and exploring the human factor in 

war. 

Xenophon. The March Up Country A Modern Translation 

of the Auabasis, Translated by W. H. Rouse. Ann Arbor: 

University of Michigan Press, 1958. 

If the modern soldier looks to ancient history for 

knowledge and perspective, Xenophon (431-345 B.C.) is an 

admirable guide. His immortal story of the march of the Ten 

Thousand from Babylon through the mountains of Armenia to 

the Black Sea discloses much about ancient warfare and the 

timeless nature of military operations and leadership. 

Beeler, John. Warfare in Feudal Europe, 730-1200. Ithaca, 

NY: Cornell University Press, c1971. 

In this book, Professor Reeler shows how feudal troops 

were used in war and also discusses such subjects as the bases 

on which feudal service was exacted, the mustering and composition of armies and their subsequent operations in the 

field, and the quality and qualifications of their commanders. 

This is a vital book for understanding feudalism and its connection to medieval warfare. 
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Contamine, Philippe. War in the Middle Ages. New York: 

B. Blackwell, 1984. 

The author provides an outstanding survey of warfare 

from the barbarian attacks on the Roman Empire in the fifth 

century to the formation of permanent armies at the end of 

the fifteenth century. ,Contamine attacks the false perception 

that medieval warfare was a futile, unintelligent, bashing 

among knights. This is the best single vohune on the subject. 

Hibbert, Christopher. Agineourt. 2d ed. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1986. 

On 14 October 1415, in this great battle of the Middle 

Ages, the British Army defeated a much stronger French 

force. In this book, Hibbert provides a readable analysis of 

this battle and an explanation of medievaI warfare. 

Holhster, C. Warren. A.nglo-Saxon Military lnstituticms on 

the Eve of the Norman Conquest. Oxford, England: 

Clarendon Press, 1962. 

This scholarly institutional history of the organization of 

the late-Saxon military establishment concentrates on manpower, who served and why. Also included in this work is an 

excellent chapter on Anglo-Saxon tactics and strategy. Professor Hollister’s volume is essential for understanding the 

military history of England during the Middle Ages. 

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Portable Machiavelli. Edited by 

Peter Bonadella and Mark Muss. New York: Penguin 

Books, 1979. 

This collection of Machiavelli’s writings includes 7k 

Prince and selections from The Art af W’kS Machiavelli (1469- 

1527) realized the importance of military strength and 

beheved in a connection between a militia and a republican 

form of government. A brief, clearly written introduction to 
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this volume gives a historical overview of Machiavelli’s life 

and times. 

Oman, Charles William Chadwick, Sir. The Art of War in the 

Middie Ages, A.D. 378-1515. Revised and edited by 

John H. Beeler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 

1953. 

Originally published in 1885, this short, readable book 

gives an account of the military aspects of medieval society. 

While some of Oman’s analyses are na longer valid due to 

Cantamine’s book, there is still much of interest here. Especially well done are CIman”s descriptions of Swiss arms, organization, tactics, and strategy from 1315 to 1515. 

Snail, R. C. Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193. Cambridge 

Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 196’7. 

In this well-written analysis of the military achievements 

of the Crusaders, Smail shows how the European feudal 

society of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was organized 

for war. Especially interesting are the pictures of the 

Crusader castles that are still in use for mihtary purposes. 

Any soldier concerned about warfare in the Middle East will 

find this book useful. 

Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. A Distant Mirror: The 

Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Knopf, 1978. 

In this fascinating and well-written work, Tuehman explores life in the Middle Ages in Western Europe. She gives 

vivid portraits of knights and feudal wariare. 
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Barker, Thomas Mack. The Military Intellectual and BattEe: 

Raimondo Manteeuecoli and the Thirty Years’ War. 

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975. 

Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-80), lieutenant general 

and field marshal of the army of the Austrian Hapsburgs, was 

a master of maneuver warfare, an able military administrator, 

and an author of a classic study of warfare. According to an 

eminent scholar of seventeenth-century military thought, 

Montecuceoli was the first modern theorist to attempt a comprehensive analysis of war in all of its aspects. A translation 

of Montecuccoli’s military treatise, Coazcem&~ Bat& -which 

describes combat in the second decade of the Thirty Years’ 

War -is the central feature of Professor Barker’s book. Xn 

addition, Barker provides an introduction to Montecuccoli’s 

life and military career and a chapter that sets his four great 

engagements in historical perspective. 

chandler, David G., camp. Napoleon’s Marshals. New 

York: Macmillan, 1987. 

This collection of twenty-six essays by Napoleonic 

scholars offers the reader both biography and military history. 

While the essays vary in quality, they provide considerable information on the personalities mvolved in Napoleonic warfare. 

The Art of War in the Age of Marlboraugh. New 

York: Hippocrene Books, 1976. 

This detailed yet readable account of the military organization, training methods, and tactical concepts of late 
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seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century European armies 

examines how the regimental officer and soldier fought and 

maneuvered, whether in the line of battle or in siege trenches. 

Chandler also evaluates equipment, doctrine, and training and 

emphasizes cavalry, infantry, artillery, and engineering 

developments. This book is essential for understanding the armies that made possible the achievements of Marlborough, 

Prince Eugene, and Marshal Saxe between 1688 and 1748. 

The Campaigns of Napoleon: The Mind and Methad sf 

kistccy’s Greatest Soldier. New York: Macmillan, 1966. 

The reader should not be intimidated by the thickness of 

this volume. Officers agree this book is eminently readable 

with clear and accurate descriptions of Napoleon’s system of 

war and his battles. Especially fascinating are the explanations of Napoleonic weapons, tactics, and operations. 

Duffy, Christopher. The Army of Maria Theresa: The Armed 

Forces of Imperial Austria, 1740-1780. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1977. 

Austria was Frederick II’s opponent, and this volume 

describes all significant aspects of the Austrian armed forces 

from 1740 to 1780, The author believes that the Theresian 

army foreshadowed some important developments of 

Napoleonic warfare in its use of light infantry and the employment of artillery. 

-. The Military Life of Frederick the Great. New York: 

Atheneum, 1986. 

In this readable, scholarly assessment of Frederick’s 

military achievements, Duffy clearly describes Frederick’s 

strategic and tactical concepts. The book contains good maps 

and excellent battle analyses of Frederick’s campaigns. 
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Firth, Charles Harding, Sir. Cromwel19s Army: A History af 

the English Soldier During the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth, and the Protectorate. New York: Earnes and 

Noble, 1962. 

This accurate and scholarly volume explains how an efficient army evolved out of chaos during the English Civil War 

of 1642-60. Firth examines the creation of Cromwell’s longservice professional, or New Model, army and all of its features, including infantry, cavalry, artillery, sieges, pay, logistics, 

discipline, and the relation of religion and politics to 

seventeenth-century English military history. 

Frederick II, King of Prussia. Frederick the Great on the Art 

of War. Edited and translated by Jay Luvaas. New York: 

Free Press, 1966. 

Dr. Luvaas’ edition provides a thorough and complete account of Frederick’s generalship and military thought. 

Griffith, Paddy, ed. Wellington - Commander: The Iron 

Duke’s Generalship. Strettington, Chichester, Sussex, 

England: Anthony Bird Publications in Association With 

the Wellington Museum, 1985; Winchester, MA: Faber 

and Faber, 1986. 

Napoleon’s great opponent was the Duke of Wellington, 

who fought the French on the Peninsula and at the Battle of 

Waterloo. This illustrated book about Wellington’s generalship contains brief essays by leading British military historians 

and is an excellent introduction to the work of the Wellin.gton 

scholar Michael Glover. The three parts of this book caver 

Wellington and strategy, Wellington and Waterloo, and Wellington and tactics. 
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Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoph van. The Adventurous Simplieissimus: Being the Description of the Life 

of a Vagabond Named Melchior SternfePs van 

Frxehshaim. Translated by A. T. S. Goodrick. Lincoln: 

University of Nebraska Press, ~1962. 

This volume offers a graphic view of seventeenth-century 

campaign life as seen by the cannon fodder. For a complete 

picture of warfare in the seventeenth century, this book 

should be read in conjunction with Montecuccoli’s Corzcemi-kg 

Battle (m Barker’s l%e Military Intelleetiual a& Battle), which 

gives a good introduction to the problems and techniques of 

warfare during this period. 

Rothenberg, Gunther Erich. The Art of Warfare in the Age 

of Napoleon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 

1978. 

A concise, accurate, and readable overview of 

Napoleonic warfare, Rothenberg’s work is an excellent supplement to David Chandler’s The Campaigns af Napoleon. 

Saxe, Maurice, Comte de. Reveries, or Memoirs Upon the 

Art of War. . . . 1757. Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971. 

Maurice, Comte de Saxe (1696-1750), a victorious 

French field marshal, wrote some rules and reflections on the 

art of warfare as practiced during the first half of the 

eighteenth century. Straightforward and precise, his discussions of all aspects of soldiering are of historical interest and 

are valuable for their perspective on timeless military 

problems. 
Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Edited and translated by 

Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Indexed paperback edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984, 

~1976. 

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is generally viewed as 

the greatest writer on the art of war, and this masterpiece, although unfinished at the time of his death, is the most systematic study of war. Nuclear strategist Bernard Brodie said 

of Clausewitz’ study, “‘His is not simply the greatest, but the 

only great book about war.” Reading and understanding 

Clausewitz is not easy, but it can be rewarding and relevant. 

This is the only translation worth reading, and the index in the 

paperback edition is useful. 

Howard, Michael Eliot. Uausewitz. New York: Oxford 

University Press, 1983. 

In this brief and brilliant work, which is both a biography 

and a guide to Clausewitz’ thoughts’ and influence, Howard 

reminds us that, above all, Clausewitz was a professional soldier writing for his colleagues and not for a professor teaching 

at a university. 

Paret, Peter. Clausewitz and the 

Princeton University Press, 1985. 

Paret, a noted military historian 

comprehensive, and definitive study 

theories. 

State. Princeton, NJ: 

has written a complex, 

of Clausewitz and his 
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Beringer, Richard E., et al. Why the South Lost the Civif 

War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. 

This study offers serious students an interpretation of 

why the South lost the Civil War. The authors, all history 

professors, believe the Confederacy succumbed to internal 

rather than external causes. 

Gatton, Ehce. A Stillness at Appcrmattox. New York: 

Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster, I!?TQ, c1953. 

Written with vigor, clarity, and warmth, Catton’s work 

describes the last year of the Civil War, including the Batt 

of the Wilderness and the siege of Petersburg. This is the 

third volume in the author% trilogy about the war. It is 

preceded by Mr. Lin~~lrt~ Arty and Glory Road. Catton’s 

Civil War volumes are simply magnificent. 

-- The Coming Fury (vol. 1’~ Terrible Stifi Sword (vol, 

a), and Never Call Retreat (vvol. 3). Cerjtennial History of 

the Civil War series. New York: Doubleday, 1961-65, 

Catton was America’s lea ing Civil War writer, and all of 

his books are worth reading. These volumes provide an exciting account of the Civil War from the Union perspective. 

Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study 

in Command. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984, 

cl%%. 

For those seeking a thorough examination of the Battle 

of Gettysburg, this book provides a comprehensive battle 
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analysis and evaluates command during the entire campaign 

leading to the battle. 

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War, a Narrative. 3 ~01s. New 

York Random House, 1958-74. 

A Mississippian, novelist, World War II field artillery captain, and master narrator of men and battles, Shelby Foote 

captures the flavor of the times and examines the war as a 

whole, including all the major campaigns. While the three 

volumes contain nearly 3,000 pages of text, they are 

beautifully written and easily read. 

Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in 

Command. 3 ~01s. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1942- 

44; New York: Scribner, 1986. 

Once very popular with U.S. military officers, this 

readable narrative is a composite biography of Confederate 

generals and a masterful study of command and war. 

Freeman takes great care to preserve some Confederate 

legends, 

Fuller, J. F. C. Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and 

Generalship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 

1982, c1933. 

Major General Fuller examines the influence of personality on generalship. He broke with the then-conventional 

view that Grant was a butcher and Lee one of the world% 

greatest generals. 

Hattaway, Herman, and Archer Jones. How the North Won: 

A Military History of the Civil War. Urbana: University 

of Illinois Press, 1983. 

Emphasizing strategy and logistics, these two history 

professors have produced a thorough, comprehensive analysis 

of the Civil War from the viewpoint of the high-level com- 
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manders on both sides. Also included is an excellent appendix 

on how to study military operations. 

Henderson, George Francis Robert. Stonewall Jackson and 

the American Civil War. Abridged by E. B. Long. 

Gloucester, MAz Peter Smith, 1968, c1962. 

Written in 1898 by a famous British officer and military 

historian this book is the classic analysis of the great Confederate general and was required reading for generations of 

British officers. 

Luvaas, Jay, and Harold W. Nelson, The U.S. Army War 

College Guide to the Battle of Antietam: The Maryland 

Campaigm in 1862, Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, 

1987. 

The authors, who teach at the U.S. Army War College, 

provide a valuable tool for conducting a staff ride of Antietam, covering the Battles of South Mountain, Crampton’s 

Gap, Harpers Ferry, and Antietam. If you have the opportunity to conduct your own staff ride at this well-preserved battlefield located near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Washington, 

DC., you should first read Landscape Tamed Red by Stephen 

Sears, then examine the Center of Military History pamphlet, 

Rze StaJsr Iiide (CMH Pub 70-21) by Dr. William Glenn 

Robertson of the Combat Studies Institute, and finally, go to 

the field with this guide. Luvaas and Nelson have also written 

a similar guide to Gettysburg. 

McPherson, James. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and 

Reconstruction. New Yak Knopf, 1982. 

McPherson, in the best one-volume survey of the war, examines political, military, social, and economic aspects of the 

Civil War. 
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Sears, Stephen W. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle OPAJItietam. New Haven, Cl? Ticknor and Fields, 198’3; New 

York: Warner Books, 1985. 

En this recent, splendid battle analysis, S’ears provides 

gripping reading about a battlefield you will want to visit. 

Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels. New York: McKay, 

1974; New York: Ballantine Books, 1980. 

This historical novel of the Battle of Gettysburg is accurate, easy to read, and a much-discussed book at the U.S. 

Army Command and General Staff College (and for reasons 

other than it being required reading). Featured in this 

memorable war novel are Confederate General James 

Longstreet and the hero of Little Round TQ~, Joshua 

Lawrence Chamberlain. 

Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals. New York: 

Random House, 1967, ~1952. 

Williams, one of America’s greatest professors of history, 

presents the controversial thesis that President Lincoln was an 

outstanding commander in chief whose strategic vision 

brought victory to the Union. The author also shows how 

Lincoln developed a modern command system for the United 

States, Students admire this book for its keen analysis and 

bright narrative. 

Barnett, Correlli. Britain and Her Army., 1509-1974): A 

Military, Political, and Social Survey. New York: William Morrow, 1970, 
25 

Beginning with the reign of King Henry VIII, Barnett’s 

work explores the history of the British Army as an institution 

and fighting force. The volume also examines the influence 

of war on modern British history as well as specific topics 

such as recruitment, logistics, the regimental system, equipment, and the social background of officers and men. 

Farwell, Byron. Mr. Kipling’s Army: All the Queen’s Men. 

New York: W. W. Norton, 1987, ~1980. 

Farwell provides an amusing look at professional officers 

and other ranks in the British Army as it was in the days of 

Queen Victoria and Edward VII. Focusing on military life, 

Farwell’s work describes the regimental system, the relationship between officers and men, and the activities of and attitudes held by both on- and off-duty military men. Filled 

with charming personal anecdotes, this volume captures the 

idiosyncrasies of Britain’s pre-World War I army. 

Queen Victoria’s Little Wars. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985, cl973. 

The conquests of British imperialism produced a series 

of “small wars” in remote places during the nineteenth century. From India to Africa, from China to the Crimea, the 

British Army and the army of the Honorable East India Company built and maintained the British Empire, and their exploits from 1837 to 1900 are ably described here. 

Fraser, George M. Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 

1839-1942. New York: New American Library, 1984, 

c1969. 

Flashman, Fraser’s fictitious creation, is a Britis’h officer 

who loves adventure, beautiful women, strong drink, and 

avoiding personal harm. Indeed, he is a well-decorated 

coward! With considerable historical accuracy, Fraser 

describes Flashman’s service in the imperial wars of the 
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nineteenth century, in the U.S. Civil War, in the Indian 

mutiny, with Custer at Little Big Horn, and in other likely and 

unlikely battles. Other entertaining novels in this series indude E&X& for Freedom, F+lmhmm and the Re&Em, Royal 

Fksh$ Flashman ai the Charge, and Flashman. and the Dragon. 

Hibbert, Christopher. The Great Mutiny: India, 1857. New 

York: Penguin Books, 1980, ~1978. 

In this excellent narrative history of the Indian uprising 

of 1857, the author examines the causes and results of the 

mutiny and provides lively descriptions of key events and personalities. 

Morris, Donald R. The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and 

Fall of the Zulu Nation. New York: Simon and 

Schuster, 1986, ~1965. 

Morris describes the Zulu nation from its rise, with the 

combining of the native clans led by Shaka, to its fall under 

the guns of the British Army by 1878. The Zulus produced a 

formidable military force, and this excellent account studies 

all aspects of the Zulus and the defeat they inflicted on the 

British at fsandhlwana. Brilliantly done is Morris’ explanation 

of British heroism at Rorke’s Drift, where defenders received 

the most Victoria Crosses ever awarded for a single engagement. 

Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War. New York: Random 

House, 1979. 

In this well-written narrative, which covers the Boer War 

between the Boers of South Africa and the British from 1899 

to 1902, Pakenham discusses the causes of the war, the 

blunders of the British generals, and the political and military 

results. 
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Barnett, Gorrelli. The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in 

the First World War. Bloomington: Indiana University 

Press, 1975, ~1963. 

In his highly readable and perceptive study of the 

younger von Moltke, Admiral Jellieoe, General Petain, and 

General Ludendorff, Barnett takes the reader inside the 

decision-making cycles of the World War I commanders. 

Blunden, Edmund. Undertones of War. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, cl965 

A classic chronicle of World War I trench life by a 

British infantry lieutenant who became a famous poet and 

author, this is the best personal memoir of World War I- a 

masterpiece. 

Coffman, Edward M. The War to End AI1 Wars: The 

American Military Experience in WorId 

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, ~1968. 

In this excellent text and reference, Professor Coffman, a 

distinguished military historian, provides a thorough evaluation of all aspects of U.S. military participation in World 

war I. 

e General. Annapolis, MD: Nautical 

ing Go., 2987, ~1936. 

a literary master 

orld War I g~ne~alsbip~ this novel 
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FusseIl, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New 

York: Oxford University Press, 1975. 

FusselE’s study of the history and literature of World 

War I shows how the modern form of literary understanding 

originated in World War I. This is a book to read and 

reread -a great achievement! 

Home, Al&air. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916. New 

York: Penguin, 1962. 

This moving study explains Verdun where 700,000 men 

fell in a ten-month battle. 

Junger, Ernst. Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German 

Storm-Troop Offker on the Western Front. Translated 

by Basil Creighton. New York: Howard Fertig, 1975, 

~1929. 

In this gripping book, Junger, a German infantry 

lieutenant in World War 1, describes the experience of combat and provides interesting vignettes on life at the front, the 

heat of battle, and small-unit leadership. 

Lawrence, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. New 

York: Penguin Books, 1976, ~1935. 

A unique account of the revolt in Arabia against the 

Turks during World War I by its most famous participant, 

Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), this book reminds 

one that maneuver warfare in the desert was far different 

from the stagnant trench warfare on the Western Front. 

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry. The Real War, 1914-1918. 

Boston: Little, Brown, 1964, ~1930. 

Liddell Hart, the great military writer and veteran of the 

trenches, wrote this comprehensive study of World War I, 

which many still consider the classic one-volume history of the 
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war* The book discusses the origins of the war, the opposing 

forces, and war plans, and covers chronologically all major 

campaigns in all theaters of the war. 

MacDonald, Lyn. Somme. London: Michael Joseph, 1983. 

A look at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 as seen 

by British soldiers and officers, this somewhat disjointed, but 

still informative, book is critical-and deservedly so -of the 

British commander Si.r Douglas Haig. 

Middlebrook, Martin. The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 

1916. New York: Norton, 1972. 

On 1 July 1916, the British Army suffered over 57,000 

casualties, making it the most terrible day in its history. In this 

classic account, the author tells what happened and why by 

using ten soldiers who fought on the Sonnne as representatives of the British Army. 

Miller, Steven E., ed. Military Strategy and the Brigins of 

the First WorId War: Au International Security Reader. 

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. 

First published in I~temeztional See&y, this collection af 

six scholarly articles evaluates the offensive doctrines of the 

major European armies in 1914. In the most important article written for officers today, the distinguished British 

military historian Michael Howard describes what European 

armies believed about the nature of warfare prior to WorId 

War I, 

Moorehead, Alan. GallipoIi. New York: Ballantine Books, 

1982, ~1956. 

In a powerful study of the sea-land effort in 1915 to 

defeat Turkey in World War I, Moorehead examines all 

aspects of the campaign. This book should be required reading for ah commanders. 
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Remarque, Erich Maria. AH Quiet on the Western Front. 

New York: Fawcett, 1987, ~1929. 

Considered to be the classic novel of World War I, this 

book has been read by millions of people. Remarque records 

the experiences of young German soldiers confronting the horrors of war. 

Rommel, Erwin. Attacks. Rev. ed. Vienna, VA: Athena 

Press, 1979. 

Originally published as Infantry Attach, Field Marshal 

Rommel’s work about World War I was of extreme interest to 

officers of other armies. General George S. Patton, for one, 

read and admired this book. 

Sassoon, Siegfried Lorraine. Memoirs of an Infantry Offker. 

Winchester, NA: Faber and Faber, 1965, ~1930. 

Eloquent and witty, Sassoon’s great English memoirs of 

World War I combine fiction and his own experiences to 

produce a work of great literary merit that shows the contrasts 

and horrors of World War X. While Sassoon was in reserve 

during the Battle of Arras, he wrote about “listening to the 

noise (of Military History being manufactured regardless of 

expense) and waiting for the latest rumors.” This is the middle volume of a trilogy. 

Silkin, Jon. The Penguin Book of First Wwld War Poetry. 

2d ed. New York: Penguin, 1981. 

To better understand trench warfare, consider reading 

this fine collection of the best World War I poetry. 

Smythe, Donald. Pershing: General of the Armies. 

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 
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In Father Smythe”s scholarly account of Pershing’s aetivities in World War I, he provides much information about 

the American Expeditionary Forces. 

Stokesbury, James L. A Short History af Warld War 1. New 

York: William Morrow and Co., 1981. 

Stokesbury, in a lively and ironic writing style, offers the 

best brief account of the Great War. 

Stone, Norman. The Eastern Frcmt, 19144917. New York: 

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 19’75. 

Stone, a professor at Cambridge University, presents a 

thorough history of the lesser-known World War I eastern 

campaigns of Russia, Germany, and Austro-Hungary, and examines army organization, tactics, conscription, logistics, and 

strategy. For information on the Eastern Front in World 

War I, this is the book to consult. 

Travers, Timothy. The Killing Ground: The British Army, 

” the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918. Winchester, MA: Allen & Unwin, 1987. 

Travers’ first-rate new study of World War I analyzes the 

evolution of a style of warfare that resulted in massive losses. 

Using recently available personal. papers, the author brilliantly 

evaluates British command, with emphasis on Douglas Haig, 

and sees a connection between Haig’s command style and his 

staff college training. In this work, Travers specifically 

criticizes the British official history of the war. 

Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. The Garns of August. New 

York: Ballantine, 1985, ~1962. 

Excellent writing and splendid research combine in this 

great narrative of the causes and opening days of World 

War I, but Tuchman’s thesis is debatable. 
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Winter, Denis. Death’s Men: Soldiers of the Great War. 

New York: Penguin Books, 1985, ~1979. 

In this clearly written book, Winter, a British history 

teacher, describes life in the trenches and the horror of World 

War I combat. He also provides information on routine army 

Eife on the Western Front, including diet, health, and fatigue 

duty. 

Wynne, Graeme Cbamley. If Germany Attacks: The Battle 

in Depth in the West. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 

1976, ~1940. 

This book describes the evolution of German tactical 

doctrine on the Western Front from 1915 to 1917 and should 

be of interest to soldiers concerned about how war changes 

tactical doctrine, 

Bond, Brian. LiddeII Hart: A Study of His Military Thought. 

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 19’77. 

A careful analysis of ljddell Hart’s thought and writings 

by a friend and pupil, this work is not a biography. 

Fuller, J. F. C. Generalship-Its Diseases and Their Cure: A 

Study of the Personal Factor in Comman 

Reprint. Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command 

and General Staff College, 1987. 

3. F. C, Fuller (1878-1966) was one of Great Britain’s 

foremost military thinkers. He graduated from Sandhurst in 

1898 and went on to a military career marked by brilliant, unorthodox thought. Fuller was an early advocate of armored 
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warfare, and he retired as a major general. This short book, 

long a favorite with U.S. Army Command and General Staff 

College students, explains Fuller’s attributes for successful 

generalship and is highly critical of British generalship in 

World War I. 

Larson, Robert H. The British Army and the Theory of 

Armored Warfare, 1918-1940. Newark: University of 

Delaware Press, distributed by Associated University 

Presses, Cranbury, NJ, 1984. 

Professor Larson’s prize-winning book traces the development of the controversy surrounding armored warfare through 

the interwar years. Well written and thorough, his comprehensive study highlights the different ideas of Fuller and 

Liddell Hart and describes the British experiments with tanks 

in the 1930s. 

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir. Strategy. 2d rev. ed. New 

York: New American Library, 1974, ~1967, 

In this survey of world military history, Liddell Hart, the 

‘“Captain who taught Generals,” emphasizes his theory of the 

indirect approach. As Britain’s most famous military journalist, his theories and writings have influenced many armed 

forces. 

Luvaas, Jay, ed. The Education of an Army: British Military 

Thought, 1815-1940. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago 

Press, 1964. 

This collection of essays examines British leaders, 

strategists, and writers who influenced the growth and 

development of the British military from Napoleonic warfare 

to the beginning of World War II. The chapters on Fuller 

and Liddell Hart provide an excellent introduction to their 

life, thought, and significance. Professor Luvaas knew Liddell 

Hart and helped catalog his papers. 
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Macksey, Kenneth. The Tank Pioneers. New York: Jane’s, 

1981. 

Macksey provides an interesting evaluation of the 

development of armor during the interwar period. He 

focuses on personalities but also includes studies of doctrine 

and technology. 

Trythall, Anthony John. ‘Boney’ FulIer: Soldier, Strategist, 

and Writer, 18784966. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers 

University Press, 1977. 

This is a splendid biography of the life and work of a 

creative military thinker. 

Blumenson, Martin. The Patton Papers. 2 vols. Boston: 

Houghton Mifflin, 1972-74. 

These two volumes delve into Patton’s thoughts and actions and help the reader to understand him. Blumenson’s excellent notes place Patton’s words in perspective. 

Collins, Joseph Lawton. Lightning Joe: An Autobiography. 

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 

General Collins is considered one of the greatest U.S. 

Army division and corps commanders, of World War II. This 

autobiography ably describes his military career from West 

Point and his early Army service to his tenure as chief of staff 

during the Korean War. The chapters on World War II are 

particularly valuable for providing a commander’s perspective. 
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D’Este, Carla. Decision in Normandy. New York: E. P. Duttoa, 1983. 

The author, a retired lieutenant colonel, provides a carefully researched and detailed description of the World War II 

Normandy campaign. D’Este is critical of General 

Montgomery for not admitting that he changed his original 

phIl. 

Doughty, Robert Allan. The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939. Hamden, 

CT: Archon Books, 1985. 

This prize-winning study of French military doctrine by 

the chairman of the West Point History Department 

illustrates the difficulty of formulating an effective doctrine 

and the vital role doctrine plays in modern armies. Doughty 

shows that France was defeated in the early days of World 

War II more by its own historical experience, geography, and 

political and military institutions than by German military excellence, 

Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the 

Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. 

A study of race hate and the conduct of World War II in 

Asia, this imaginative book looks at the war through both 

Western and Japanese eyes.- Dower ac wledges that, in the 

course of the war in Asia, racism, dehumanization, technological change, and exterminationist policies became interlocked 

in unprecedented ways. 

Garfield, Brian Wynne. The Thousand-Mile War: World 

War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. 

The only campaign of World War II fou 

United States’ own North American soil took pla 

harsh climatic conditions of Alas a and the Aleutian Islands 

_--- .- _I_-- 
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chain in 1942-43. The battles for Dutch Harbor, Kiska, and 

Attu involved extensive joint operations. This highly readable 

history of the campaign describes both Japanese and 

American commanders and actions. 

Greenfield, Kent Roberts, ed. Command Decisions. 

Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, 

United States Army, 1960. 

Many of the authors of the “green books,“’ the U.S. 

Army’s official history of World War II, contributed to this 

study of twenty-one key military operational and strategic 

decisions of World War II. The essays cover all the vital 

military decisions, including the Germany-first strategy, Overlord versus the Mediterranean, the ninety-division gamble, the 

launching of Operation Market-Garden, and the use of the 

atomic bomb. 

Hamilton, Nigel. Monty: The Making of a General, 1887- 

1942. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. 

Master of the Battlefield: Monty’s War Years, 1942- 

1944. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. 

Non@ Final Years of the Field-Marshal, 1944-1976. 

New York: McGraw-Hill, ~1986. 

You do not have to admire Field Marshal Viscount 

Montgomery of El Alamein to appreciate this monumental 

work, which is the authorized biography of Britain’s most 

famous World War II general. Hamilton provides a wealth of 

information about Montgomery’s military career and personal 

life, in which Monty emerges as a master trainer of men, a 

great and controversial man, and an eccentric person. In assessing Montgomery’s planning and execution of Operations 

Anvil and Market-Garden, Hamilton is not objective, for he 

sees no failings by Montgomery! Still, these volumes are a 
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valuable source for understanding the British way of war in 

World War IX. 

Hastings, Max. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. 

Hastings gives an accurate, readable, and current account 

of D day. 

Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 

c1961. 

No author better portrays the irony of war and the 

fnrstrations of military bureaucracy than Heller as he 

describes the antiheroics of members of the World War TI 

Army Air Forces. The title earned a place in the dictionary 

The anniversary of Catch 22’s first pubcommemorated tith a symposium at the 

U.S, Air Force Academy. 

Holmes, Wilfred Jay. Dapple-edged Secrets: U.S. Naval 

Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World 

War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 

Captain Holmes of the Combat Intelligence Unit gives 

an exciting and informative firsthand account of Ultra naval 

intelligence gathering in the Pacific during World War II. 

Home, Pllistair. To Lose a Battle: France 1940. New York: 

Penguin, 1979. 

This is a fascinatin analysis of the French 

beginning of World War II. 

James, Dorris Clayton The Years of MacArthur. 3 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970-85. 

Forget Wifliam Manchester’s popular account; this is firze 

biography of MacArthur. 
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Leinhaugh, Harold P., and John D. Campbell. The Men of 

Company K: The Autobiography af a World War II 

Rifle Company. New York: Morrow, 1985; New York: 

Bantam Books, 1987, 

In this easily read paperback, these two officers tell the 

story of the men and actions of Company K, which landed on 

Omaha Beach with the 84th Division OR 2 November 1944 

and fought to the Elbe. Written from today’s perspective, this 

book, which is essential reading for future combat leaders, 

shows the influence World War II had cm a few American soldiers and the realities of war. 

Lewin, Ronald. Ultra Goes to War: The Pirst Account of 

World War II’s Greatest Secret Eased on Offkial Documents. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. 

In this overview of Ultra, Lewin tells a fascinating story 

of the most secret World War II intelligence-gathering operation. 

MacDonald, Charles Brown. A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. New York: 

Morrow, 1984; New York: Bantam Books, 1985. 

This book provides a detailed account of the Battle of 

the Bulge, December 1944, written by a veteran of the battle 

and an excellent historian. MacDonald features small-unit actions as well as descriptions of events on the strategic level. 

The section on eliminating the bulge is not as complete as 

other portions of the book. 

Mellenthin, Friedrich Wilhelm van. Panzer Battles: A Study 

of the Employment of Armor in the Second World War. 

Edited by L. C. Turner. Norman: University of 

Oklahoma Press, 1982, ~1956. 

German Major General von Mellenthin, who commanded armored forces in Poland, France, the Balkans, North 
39 

Africa, Russia, and the Western Front, provides considerable 

tactical information in his postwar account of his actions in 

World War II. Keep in mind that this volume was compiled 

after the war and, in part, was designed to please Western admirers of the German General Staff. 

Myrer, Anton. Once an Eagle. New York: Berkley Books, 

1981, c1968. 

Here is one man’s saga and the story of an officer’s life in 

the US, Army from World War I, through World War II, and 

up to the Indochina conflict. This entertaining, well-written, 

lengthy novel is informative about the contradictions of 

officership in the interwar and World War II Army. 

Pitt, Barrie. The Crucible of War. 3 ~01s. London: Macmillan, 1986. 

Originally issued in 1980 in a hardbound two-volume set, 

this complete history of the desert war from 1939 to 1942 has 

been reissued in a three-volume paperbound version titled 

Newell 3 Command, Auchi&&s Commend, and ~~~~gu~~~ 

and Alamein. All major military operations, battles, and commanders are covered in depth. 

Pogue, Forrest CT. George C. Marshall. 4 ~01s. New York: 

Viking, 1963-87. 

Pogue knew and interviewed Marshall for this comprehensive, complete, and coherent biography of twentiethcentury America’s greatest soldier and patriot. 

Prange, Gordon William. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold 

Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. 

This long, but eminently readable, volume published 

after a lifetime of research by the author is the complete story 

of the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on 7 Decem- 
40 

ber 1941, Especially fascinating are descriptions of Japanese 

training, planning, and preparations for the raid. 

Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far. New York: Pocket 

Books, 1984, ~1974. 

This highly readable and gripping account of Operation 

Market-Garden, the greatest airborne operation in history, 

covers all levels of war. The book was the basis for the 

movie. Other books by Ryan are ljcte Lung& Day: Jim? 6, 

1944 (1959) and T&e Last Battle (1975). 

Sajer, Guy. The Forgotten Soldier. New York: Ballantine 

Books, 1967; London: Sphere Books, 1986. 

A soldier who served in the German Army on the 

Eastern Front provides a chilling description of warfare. 

Slim, William Slim, 1st Viscount. Defeat Into Victory. New 

York: Ma&Lay, 1961; London: Papermac, 1986. 

Of utmost value to officers and highly praised by U.S. 

Army Command and General Staff College students, this 

book is Field Marshal Slim’s personal account of the fight 

against Japan in Burma during World War 11. 

Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun: The American 

War With Japan. New York: Free Press, 1985. 

Spectar? work is an excellent, readable, well-researched 

account of the war in the Pacific. 

Stokesbury, James L. A Short History af World War II. New 

York: Morrow, 1980. 

This is the best and most readable one-volume account 

of the war, and it contains a good bibliography. 
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United States Army in World War II (series). Washington, 

DC: Historical Division/Office of the Chief of Military 

History, United States Army, 1947- . 

Known as the “green books” because of the color of their 

binding, this series of seventy-five volumes is the official history of the US. Army in World War II and was written by 

professional historians who employed high scholarly standards. The volumes are divided into twelve subseries: The 

War Department (8 vols.), Army Ground Forces (2 vols.), 

Army Service Forces (1 vol.), The Western Hemisphere (2 

vols.), The War in the Pacific (11 vols.), Mediterranean 

Theater of Operations (4 vols.), European Theater of Operations (9 vols.), The Middle East Theater (1 vol.), The ChinaBurma-India Theater (3 vols.), The Technical Services (22 

vols.), Special Studies (9 vols.), and Pictorial Record (3 ~01s.). 

Included in this series is a wealth of information about 

strategic, operational, tactical, and administrative aspects of 

the U.S. Army and World War II. 

Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Boston: Little, Brown, 

1979. 

Offkers and Gentlemen. Boston: Little, Brown, 

1979. 

The End of the Battle. Boston: Little, Brown, 

7979. 

These three humorous and symbolic novels by a famous 

British author depict military life during World War II as seen 

through the activities and thoughts of the hero, Guy Crouchback. He sees in war the hope of personal revitalization. If 

you like British fiction, you will want to read and reread these 

classic works. 
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Weigley, Russell Frank. Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945. Bloomington: 

Indiana University Press, 1981. 

Professor Weigley’s thesis in this book is that the U.S. 

Army fighting in Europe during World War II was an army of 

mobility not designed to generate the sustained combat power 

called for by its strategy. Weigley evaluates U.S. strategy, 

operations, and tactics from the Normandy invasion to the 

halt at the Elbe River. He concludes that the U.S. Army was 

victorious because it had enough material resources to exhaust the enemy without fighting either a decisive battle of aunihilation or exploiting its mobility to support an indirect approach. 

Appleman, Roy Edgar. East af Chosin: Entrapment and 

Breakout in Korea, 1950. College Station: Texas A&M 

University Press, 19&T. 

Appleman, a retired U.S. Army officer and expert on the 

Korean War, has written an excellent tactical and operational 

account about the 3,000 soldiers from the U.S. Army”s ‘7th Infantry Division who fought a Korean War battle on the eastern side of the Chosin Reservoir in subzero weather. 

Eehrenbach, T. R. This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness. New York: Macmillan, 1963. 

A popular history of the Korean War written from the 

perspective of the small gronnd unit, this book relates 

~~rnero~~ cornp~~~siz~ actions and provides an excellent 

view of the Karean War at th 

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tiox, Donald. The Korean War: Pusan to Ghosin, an Oral 

History. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. 

IJsing the words of American soldiers obtained by the 

author in oral interviews, this book describes the first six 

months of combat in Korea in 1950. 

Marshall, S. L. A. Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting 

Man, in Action -Korea, Spring, 1953. New York: Jove 

Publications, 1986, ~19%. 

S, L. A. Marshall, author, newspaper correspondent, and 

brigadier general, chronicles small-unit actions of the night 

war in Korea. His vivid tactical detail of ridgeline combat is a 

tribute to the American soldier of the Korean War. 

Michener, James A. The Bridges at Toko-Ri. New York: 

Random House, 1953. 

Michener, the famous American novelist who served in 

the Navy in the South Pacific during World War II, provides 

an elegant, brief, and tightly written novel about naval 

aviators and their mission to destroy enemy bridges during the 

Korean War. 

Ridgway, Matthew B. The Korean War. New York: Da 

Capo Press, 1986, ~1967. 

General Matthew B. Ridgway, who was commander of 

the Eighth Army and later supreme commander of the United 

Nations force in Korea, explains how he rebuilt his army and 

led it to conduct successful operations. He offers a careful 

analysis of General MacArthur’s dismissal, which he felt was 

absolutely necessary, and concludes the book with a discussion of the lessons of the Korean War as applied to U.S. 

involvement in Vietnam. 
Blaufarb, Douglas S. The Counterinsurgency Era: U.S. 

Doctrine and Performance, 1950 to the Present. New 

York: Free Press, ~1977. 

The author was a CIA operative from 19.50 to 1970 and 

an analyst for the Rand Corporation. He uses his knowledge 

and extensive research to analyze whether the United States, 

with all its management skill and technology, can make a positive difference in countering an insurgency in a poorly 

governed nation. Concentrating on foreign policy doctrine 

and military strategy, this book uses case studies of the 1960s 

to understand U.S. actions in Vietnam. 

Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace: Mgeria, 1954-1962. 

New York: Viking, 1977. 

The best volume on the Algerian war of independence, 

this well-written work takes both sides into account and 

illustrates the doctrines of both insurgency and counterinsurWVKitson, Frank, Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgew, Peace Keeping. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole 

Books, 1971. 

Kitson, a British Army general who served in Kenya, 

Malaya, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland, understands 

insurgency and briefly explains the basic fundamentals for success in low-intensity operations consistent with British 

doctrine. While the book’s aim was to draw British soldiers’ 

attention to the subject, the author provides considerable in- 
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formation on civil-military relations, insurgent tactics, and 

peacekeeping operations. 

Langley, Lester D. The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934. 2d ed. Lexington: 

University Press of Ken&c@, 1985, cl.983. 

Langley’s lively study examines the U.S. occupations of 

Cuba, the Nicaraguan activities of 191%12, the seizure of 

Veracruz, the occupations of Haiti and the Dominican 

Republic, and the Sandino War of 1927-31. He argues that, 

during Caribbean interventions, U.S. military actions were as 

important in shaping events as civilian-made policies. This 

timely volume is important for gaining a historical perspective 

about U.S. military activities in Latin America. 

Larteguy, Jean. The Centurions. New York: Dutton, 1961. 

Larteguy’s class,ic novel about Indochina and the Algerian war-the first in his series of novels -should be required reading for officers and is fun to read besides. The 

book was made into the movie K&e Lost Common&. 

Trinquier, Roger. Modern Warfare: A French View of 

Counterinsurgency. New York: Praeger, 1944. 

In this work, Roger Trinquier, a French colonial 

infantryman from 1931 to 1961 with extensive service in 

Indochina and Algeria, explicitly states his concepts of the 

strategy and tactics of fighting an enemy in a revolutionary 

war. His controversial methods of warfare helped win the Battle of Algiers. This book has attained notoriety among students who study insurgency and counterinsurgency. 
Del Vecchio, John M. The 13th Valley. New York: Bantam 

Books, 1982, 

A fine novel on the Vietnam War, this book contains 

great characterizations and excellent descriptions of smallunit infantry operations, but it has too much philosophy. 

Dung, Van Tien. Our Great Spring Victory: An Account of 

the Liberation of South Vietnam. New York: Monthly 

Review Press, 1977. 

The commander of the 1975 North Vietnamese military 

campaign wrote a battle diary that was first published as a 

series of newspaper articles. This translation is an account of 

the North Vietnamese victory, with information on military 

strategy and the coordination between the leadership in 

Hanoi and generals in the field. 

Edelman, Bernard, ed. Dear America: Letters Home From 

Vietnam, New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1985. 

Edelman’s collection of 208 letters written by soldiers in 

Vietnam provides an intimate view of life and death in a combat zone. Readers are privileged to share the private 

thoughts of soldiers writing home and gain some unique insights about those caught up in the long, unpopular war. 

Fall, Bernard B. Hell in a Very Small Placer The Siege of 

Dien Bien Phu. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. 

Fall, who was killed in Vietnam, used his expertise, access to French files, and interviews of participants to produce 
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this detailed and engrossing account of the French defeat by 

the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu after a 56-day siege in 1954. 

His descriptions of air sorties, land defenses, airdrops, and 

French military planning are masterfully done. Fall has been 

criticized for his pro-French views. 

Street Without Joy. 4th ed. New York: Schocken 

---%ooks, 1972, ~1964. 

The author, who was a foremost authority on conflict and 

nationalism in Southeast Asia, vividly describes the French actions in Indochina and the growing U.S. involvement. His 

writings are helpful for those studying guerrilla tactics and 

operations. 

The Two Vietnams, a Political and Military Analysis. 

-?3oulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985, ~1963. 

This study describes Vietnam’s physical setting and traces 

the history of both North and South Vietnam. Though dated, 

this book is still a valuable guide to the problems of Vietnam 

prior to full-scale U,S. involvement. Also included are 

biographies of North Vietnamese leaders. 

Giap, Vo Nguyen. People’s War, People’s Army: The Viet 

Cong Insurrection Manual for Underdeveloped 

Countries. New York: Praeger, 1962. 

Vo Nguyen Giap, defense minister and commander of 

the North Vietnamese Army, presents the North Vietnamese 

way of war as a guide to “just wars of national liberation.” 

Even though this collection of material is propagandistic and 

disorganized, it still explains why and how the North Vietnamese conducted their insurgency. This is a classic description of modern warfare. 
Herrington, Stuart A. Silence Was a Weapon: The Vietnam 

War in the Villages. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982. 

This U.S. Army officer, who is still on active duty, 

provides an autstanding personal account of his attempt to 

gain popular support for the defense of a South Vietnamese 

village. 

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Viking 

Press, 1983. 

Karnow gives an accurate, balanced history of the Vietnam War. This volume is used as a text for the Vietnam 

elective course at the U.S, Amy Coma~ld and General Staff 

College. 

Krepinevkh, Andrew F. The Amy and Vietnam. Baltimore: 

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. 

The author, a U.S. Army officer with a doctorate in international relations, offers an incisive analysis of the development and failure of US. military policy in Vietnam from 1954 

to 1973. Krepinevieh makes it clear that conventional war 

doctrine accampanied by massive use of firepawer will not 

defeat an insurgency. Thi book is essential for any officer 

who wants to speak know1 geably about the Vietnam War. 

McDonough, James R. Platoon Leader. Novato, CA: 

Presidio Press, 1985; New York: Bantam, 1986. 

A U.S. Military Academy graduat elates his experiences as a platoon leader with the 173d rborne Brigade in 

f972--73. 

Mangold, Tom, and John Penycate. The Tunnels OF Cu Chi. 

New York: Random House, 1985. 

This exciting account of the underground tunnel war in 

Vietnam is readable, balanced, and accurate. The authors use 
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firsthand accounts from participants on all sides who fought 

over and used the tunnel networks of the Cu Chi district near 

Saigon. 

Mason, Robert. Chickenhawk. New York: Penguin, 1983. 

Mason, a warrant officer helicopter pilot, contributes a 

vivid and fascinating account of his tour in Vietnam in 196% 

66. 

Palmer, Bruce. The E-Year War: America’s Military Role 

in Vietnam, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 

1984. 

This work contains a U.S. Army general% personal 

perspective on the high-level aspects of the Vietnam War, 

Pike, Douglas Eugene. PAVN: People’s Army sf Vietnam. 

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1986. 

In this work, Douglas Pike, the American authority on 

the history of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and 

Vietnamese communism, discusses the history and heritage of 

the PAVN and its organization, administration, political 

leadership, and strategy. Pike explains how a small, underdeveloped, poverty-ridden country created the third largest 

military force in the world. Included in this volume are 

biographical summaries of PAVN leaders. 

Race, Jeffrey. War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary COUPfiiet in a Vietnamese Province. Berkeley: University of 

California Press, cl972 

This is an instructive study for understanding why the 

Communist-guided revolutionary social movement succeeded 

in a Vietnamese province and why the U.S.-South Vietnamese 

counterrevolutionary initiative consistently failed. Race uses 

firsthand information, but his perspective is balanced; he lets 

his extensive research speak for itself. 
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Spector, Ronald H. Advice and Support: The Early Years, 

1941-1960. United States Army in Vietnam. 

Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United 

States Army, 1983. 

Setting high standards of scholarship, balance, and 

readability, this first volume in the U.S. Army’s official history 

of the Vietnam War describes the activities of the Army in 

Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance 

to the French government during the postwar years, and the 

adviser program that developed between 1954 and 1960. 

Webb, James H. Fields of Fire. New York: Bantam Boaks, 

1979. 

A former Marine captain, now secretary of the Navy, 

wrote this splendid novel and combat narrative of the Vietnam War. Webb vividly depicts the diverse characters of a 

Marine platoon, grunts who slogged their war through months 

of warfare in rice paddies and jungles. The tragedy, irony, 

and camaraderie of war are ably depicted here. 

EtheEl, Jeffrey, and Alfred Price. Air War South Atlantic 

New York: Macmillan, 1983. 

Based on personal interviews with British and Argentine 

pilots and other officers, the authors describe all the air actions that occurred in the Falkland Islands conflict in the 

spring of 1982. Even though repetitious and detailed, this 

study is valuable. 

Hastings, Max, and Simon Jenkins. The Battle for the 

Falklands. New York: Norton, 1983. 
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Two journalists who are military experts present a 

thorough, accurate, and readable account of the FalMand 

Islands War. 

Jolly, Rick. The Red and Green Life Machine: Diary of the 

Faiklands Field Hospital. London: Century Publishing 

Co., 1983. 

Surgeon Commander Jolly’s personal account of the 

medical aspects of the FalWands War is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the war. 

McManners, Hugh. FaIMands Commando. London: Kimber, 1984. 

In this Royal Artillery captain% memoir of the Falkland 

Islands campaign, McManners describes his daily routines and 

provides a personal view of a soldier aboard ships and in battle. Because of his assignment with the 148 Commando Forward Observation Battery of the Royal Artillery, whose main 

purpose was to control naval gunfire, he personally witnessed 

many significant actions in this campaign. 

Middlebrook, Martin. Operation Corporate: The Story of the 

FalkIands War, 1982. New York: Viking, 1986. 

A master British military historian turns his attention to 

Great Britain’s most recent major military confhct. The result 

is a readable and well-researched account of the Falklands 

War in which he explains the war% origins, mobilization, air 

warfare, the sinking of the Belgrano, and the problems of the 

Royal Navy in providing an effective antimissile defense for 

its ships. Using quotations from participants, he also 

evaluates the land battles. 
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Thompson, Julian. No Picnic: 3 Commando Brigade in the 

South Atlantic, 1982. London: Leo Cooper, 1985. 

In his personal narrative and campaign description focusing on operations, General Thompson, commanding officer of 

3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines, describes the actions 

of his unit from initial alert to the battles for Goose Green 

and Port Stanley in the Falklands. 

Adan, Avraham (Bren). On the Banks of the Suez: An 

Israeli General’s Personal Account of the Yom Kippur 

War. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1980. 

General Adan, in this memoir and lively account of his 

experiences as an armored division commander along the 

Suez Canal in the 1973 October War, criticizes Ariel Sharon 

as both commander and strategist. Armor officers will find 

this book particularly valuable. 

Gal, Reuven. A Portrait of the Israeli Soldier. Westport, 

CT: Greenwood Press, 1986. 

Gal, a veteran of twenty-three years’ service and for five 

years chief psychologist of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), 

describes how the IDF functions and how the Israeli Army 

trains and motivates its soldiers. Included in this book are 

chapters on women in the IDF, basic training, leadership, battle stress, ethics, and problems. 

Gur, Mordechai. The Battle for Jerusalem. New York: 

Popular Library, 1978, ~1974. 
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General Gur’s “‘you-are-there” type of book presents an 

exciting personal account of the battle for Jerusalem during 

the 1967 Middle East War. Gur is great at description but is 

rarely analytical. 

Herzog, Chaim. The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in 

the Middle East. New York: Random House, 1982. 

Herzog’s excellent one-volume account of Israel at war 

analyzes the War of Independence, the Sinai Campaign sf 

1956, the 1967 Six-Day War, the war of attrition, the 1973 

Yom Kippur War, the Entebbe operation, and the invasion of 

Lebanon. 

Kahalani, Avigdor. The Heights of Courage: A Tank 

Leader’s War on the Golan. Westport, CT: Greenwood 

Press, 1984. 

This Israeli tank battalion commander’s account of battles on the Golan Heights during the 1973 Yom Kippur War 

is must reading for armor officers. Using tapes of battlefield 

communications, Kahalani provides a personal view of men at 

war and shows how they overcame initiaf defeat. The 

foreword is by General Dorm A. Starry, former commandant 

of the U.S. Army Armor School. General Kahalani attended 

the W.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1978. 

Luttwak, Edward N., and Daniel Horowitz. The Israeli Army, 

1948-1973. New York: University Press of America, 

1984. 

Luttwak and Horowitz focus on the men and ideas that 

shaped Israel’s defense forces, 
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Shazly, Saad el. The Crossing of the Srrez. San Francisco, 

CA: American Mideast Research, 1980. 

In his memoir of the 1973 October War, the Egyptian 

chief of staff presents a detailed and critical examination of a 

significant military operation. 

Brodie, Bernard, Strategy in the MissiIe Age. Princeton, NJ: 

Princeton University Press, 1959. 

America’s foremost nuclear strategist presents an analysis 

and synthesis of the major strategic ideas of the atomic age. 

This book is directed to military officers and political leaders. 

-* War and Politics. New York: klacmillan, 1973. 

This excellent collection of essays by a brilliant nuclear 

strategic thinker provides a good introduction to Brodie”s 

thought and writings. 

Kahn, Herman. On Thermonuclear War. 2d ed. Princeton, 

NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961. 

Kahn’s study is a heavy book on a heavy subject by a 

heavy author. Containing a series of lectures based on work 

done at the Rand Corporation, this dated and difficult to read 

book is historically important for setting the parameters for 

debates on nuclear warfare. 

Kaplan Fred M. The Wizards of Armageddon. New York: 

Simon and Schuster, 1983. 

In this very readable story of the strategists of the nuclear 

age, Kaplan weaves together the work of strategic thinkers, 
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military officers, and defense officials. He also evaluates the 

birth and work of the Rand Corporation. 

Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph. Rattle Studies: 

Ancient and Modern Battle. New York: Macmillan, 

1921; Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing Co., 

~1946; New York: A.&l!3 Press, 198?. 

Ardant du Picq (18X-70), a graduate of the French 

military academy who served France in the Crimea, Syria, and 

Algeria, was mortally wounded while leading his regiment 

near Metz at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War. 

During his lifetime, Ardant du Picq studied both ancient and 

modern warfare and concluded that success in battle i+s a matter of morale. In this classic study of the mora?. effect of combat, he provides an excellent analysis of the human reaction to 

the mental and physical demands of combat. 

Ellis, John. Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World 

War 1. New York: Pantheon Books, 19’76. 

Ellis creates a real sense of what trench warfare was like 

in World War I. 

The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II. 

hew York: Scribners, 1980. 

This choppy but informative study describes the efTect of 

combat on the individual soldier in World War II. 
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Gray, Jesse Glenn. The Warriors: Reflections on Men in 

Battle. New York: Harper and Row, 1970, ~1959. 

In telling what war means to him, Gray, a World War II 

combat veteran, asks and answers timeless qtestions about 

the test of combat. 

Kellett, Anthony. Combat Motivation: The Behaviour of SoIdiers in Battle. Boston: Kluwer, 1982. 

A sociological study by a Canadian, this work is dry reading but contains many gems of insightful analysis. 

Leed, Eric J. No Mart3 Land: Combat and Identity in Warld 

War I, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 

The author examines the traumatic experience of combat 

in the trenches. 

Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience 

of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: Free 

Press, 1987. 

Based on extensive original research, this book is a marvelous and sensitive study of the attitudes, beliefs, and valu.es 

of Civil War soldiers on both sides, Linderman separates the 

romantic myths of the Civil War from the harsh and brutal 

realities of that war and conveys a message about combat that 

today’s officers will find valuable. 

MacDonald, Charles Brown. Company Cammander. New 

York: Bantam Books, 1978, ~1947. 

The author, a U.S. Army captain and infantry company 

commander, wrote this personal, authentic story about leading 

men in combat against the Germans during World War II. 

This is a classic of men in battle and small-unit leadership. 
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Marshall, S. L. A. Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle 

Command in Future War. Gloucester, M.A: Peter 

Smith, 1978, c1947. 

First published in 1947, this book highlights General Marshall’s perception of soldiers in combat based on his own experiences in two world wars and on extensive interviews of 

combat troops. This book is essential reading for all commanders from platoon to division. Questionable, however, 

are Marshall’s statistics on ratios of fire. 

Moran, Charles McMoran Wilson, Baron. The Auatomy of 

Courage. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967. 

Based on Lord Moran’s experiences as a medical officer 

on the Western Front during World War I and as Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s physician during World War II, this 

classic volume explores how soldiers overcome fear, While 

Lord Moran writes from the British point of view, he understands courage and how a soldier displays it. 

Bialer, Seweryn, ed. Stalin and His Generals: Soviet 

Military Memoirs of World War II. Boulder, CO: 

Westview Press, 1984, ~1969. 

Professor Bialer has compiled a significant source of information on the World War II Soviet Army and its officers. 

This volume includes translated selections from the memoirs 

of forty-five leading Soviet Army officers that describe command relationships with Joseph Stalin. Bialer also includes excellent editorial introductions and explanatory annotations. 
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Curtiss, John Shelton. The Russian Army Under Nicholas I, 

18254855. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1965. 

This detailed, scholarly book describes early Russian campaigns against the Persians, Turks, and Poles; assesses 

Nicholas as a commander; and discusses the structure, equipment, training, and life of Russian Army soldiers, AIso included is an account of the Crimean War. 

Davies, Norman. White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet 

War, 1919-20. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1972. 

The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was an independent 

Polish enterprise that brought Poland independence for 

twenty years. This volume examines the military, political, 

and diplomatic events of the Polish-Soviet War and reviews 

Pheir significance. Also included is a chapter that analyzes the 

August 1920 Battle of Warsaw. 

Erickson, 3ohn. The Road to Berlin: Continuing the History 

of Stalin’s War With Germany. Boulder, CO: Westview 

Press, 1983. 

This comprehensive account of warfare on the Eastern 

Front in World War II (1943-45) contains 640 pages of text 

and is a first-rate study. 

The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin’s War With Germany. 

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983, cl975 

This thorough, detailed, and well-written book shows why 

Erickson is the world-recognized expert on the Soviet military 

in World War II. 

The Soviet High Command: A Military-Political His- -* 

tory, 19184941. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984, 

c1962. 
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Erickson presents an excellent study of Soviet Army command from the Russian Revolution to World War II. The 

chapters on Frunze (the Soviet Clausewitz) are essential for 

an understanding of Soviet military thought. 

GIantz, David M. August Storm: Soviet Tactical and Qperational Combat in Manchuria, 1945. Leavenworth Papers 

no. 8. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute, 

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1983. 

Colonel GIantz, a former instructor at the US. Army 

War College and an expert on World War II Soviet ruilitary 

history,. provides detailed case studies of various levels of 

Soviet command that illustrate the state of Soviet military art 

in 1945. The Soviets have found it useful to study this campaign. 

-* August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in 

Manchuria. Leavenworth Papers no. 7. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Cornmand and General Staff College, 1983. 

In this work, the author provides an informative study of 

the Soviets” rapid campaign against Japan. This volume is useful for students of Soviet offensive military doctrine. 

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Grossman, Vasily. Life and Fate: A Novel. Translated by 

Robert. Chandler. New York: Warper & Row, 1985, 

~1980. 

Vasily Grossman (1905-64), a novelist and Soviet war correspondent during World War II, personally witnessed the 

defense of Stalingrad, the capture of Berlin, and the horrors 

of the Holocaust. In this epic novel, which was banned in the 

Soviet Union, he vividly portrays his experiences. U.S. Army 

Soviet foreign area officers recommend this work for its 

unique account of life in the Soviet military and society during 

World War II. 

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Keep, John L. H. Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in 

Russia, 1462-1874. New York: Oxford University Press, 

1985. 

Professor Keep, in this well-researched and clearly written work, outhnes the development of the Russian Army from 

its medieval origins to the introduction of universal military 

service in 1874. He devotes particular attention to such 

themes as the evolution of the service state, recruitment, army 

life, the officer corps, financial difficulties, and the military in 

politics. 

Lehovich, Din&y V. White Against Red: The Life of 

General Anton Deniken. New York: Norton, 1974. 

This detailed biography of a leader of the White Army’s 

opposition to the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War was 

written by a veteran of Deniken’s army. Readable and informative, this volume examines military tactics and operations’ 

as well as political considerations. 

Suvorov, Viktor. Inside the Soviet Army. New York: Macmillan, 1982; New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1985. 

A former Soviet officer who defected to the West 

provides a fascinating account of the Soviet Army, including 

its doctrine, weapons, and tactics. This highly controversial 

and opinionated book should be read with caution, 

particularly the sections on high-level command and organization. 

Wildman, Allan K. The End of the Russian Imperial Army: 

The Old Army and the Soldiers Revolt (Mar&-ApriI 

1917). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. 

In this work, Professor Wildman focuses on the role of 

the Russian Army in the 1917 Revolution. He examines the 

czar’s army during the early 1900s and then concentrates on 

the soldiers’ mutiny. Emphasis is on the World War I Rus- 
Allen, Louis. Singapore, 1941-1942. Newark: University of 

Delaware Press, 1977. 

Allen gives an account of the well-prepared and wellexecuted light infantry thrust by the Imperial Japanese Army 

in Malaya in 1942. Also provided is information about the 

British view of World War IX in Asia. 

Chassin, Lionel Max. The Communist Conquest of China: A 

History of the Civil War, 19451949. Cambridge, MA: 

Harvard University Press, 1965. 

Chassin’s work is an excellent source of information on 

military operations during the Chinese Civil War. 

Dorn, Frank. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1341: From 

Marco Polo Bridge to PearI Harbor. New Yor_k: Macmillan, 1974. 

Darn, who served on General Joseph ‘Tinegar Joe” Stilwell’s staff, presents some firsthand knowledge about the 

immense, but often ignored, campaigns waged by the 

Japanese in China during the Greater East Asian War. 

Drea, Edward J. Nomonhan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939. Leavenworth Papers no. 2. Fort Leavenworth, 

KS: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and 

General Staff College, January 1981. 

Before World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army (ISA) 

developed an offensive tactical doctrine designed to allow its 
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infantry forces to fight successfully against a superior foe, the 

Soviet Union. A battle test of that doctrine’s effectiveness occurred from June through August 1939 along the Outer 

Mongolian-Manchurian border. This essay follows the daily 

operations of the IJA infantry units that were in constant contact with Scwiet forces. 

Dreyer, Edward L., and Frank Algerton ICierman. Chinese 

Ways in Warfare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University 

Press, 1974. 

This collection of campaign case studies shows how wars’ 

were fought in China from 500 B.C. to 1556 AD. 

Mao, Zedong. Selected Military Writings. Beijing: Foreign 

Language Press, 1972, 1966. 

This collection contains many of Mao’s most significant 

essays on the theory and practice of war, especially the 

“‘people’s ~ar,‘~ 

Peattie, Mark R. Xshiwara Kanji and Japan’s Confrontation 

With the West. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University 

Press, 1975. 

Peattie’s biography of Ishiwara Kanji provides rare insights into the mentality of the Japanese military leadership 

on the eve of World War II. Ishiwara Kanji was one of the 

chief Kwantung Army plotters in 1931. 

Powell, Ralph L. The Rise of Chinese Military Power, 1895 

1912. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955, 

Powell describes Chinese efforts to establish modern 

military forces and the impact that the creation of such forces 

had on Chinese society and government. 
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Presseisen, Ernst Leopold. Before ession: Europeans 

Prepare the Japanese Army. Tucson: University of 

Arizona Press, 1965. 

In this scholarly volume that studies the institutional underpinnings of the Imperial Army, Press&en describes 

Japan’s modern military establishment in the decades of its 

formation. 

Sheridan, James IE. Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng 

Yu-hsiang. Stanford, CPr: Stanford University Press, 

1966. 

During the first half of the twentieth century, China was 

beset by regional conflicts as military leaders used their forces 

to compete for greater power. This study describes one of 

China’s most famous and successful warlords and analyzes 

what warlordism meant for China. 

Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China. New York: Grove 

Press, 1968, c1937. 

The author, a young American journalist who spent seven 

years in China, provides the classic account of Yenan China 

and the promise and excitement of the Chinese Communist 

movement. Edgar Snow knew Mao Zedong and wrote the 

first connected history of Mao, his colleagues, and their 

revolution. 

Sun Tzu. The Art of War. Translated by Samuel B, Griffith. 

New York: Oxford University Press, ~1963. 

Even though this preeminent book in Chinese military 

literature dates from the fourth century B.C., many of Sun 

Tzu’s ideas on military conflict appear remarkably modern. 

This book was a source for some of Mao Zedong’s military 

theories. 
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Turnbull, Stephen R. The Samurai: A Military History. 

1977. Reprint. Cincinnati, OH: Seven Hills Books, 1983. 

This volume is a comprehensive and readable account of 

warfare in Japan up to the modern era. 

Warner, Denis Ashton, and Peggy Warner. The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 19641905. 

New York: Charter House, 1974. 

The Warners provide a clear and thorough description of 

the events and circumstances of land warfare in the RussoJapanese War. 

Whitson, William W. The Chinese High Command: A History of Communist Military Politics, 1927-71. New 

York: Praeger Publishers, 1973. 

This is an excellent study of the growth of Communist 

military power in China and the importance of the personal 

bonds formed by men who shared the hardships and dangers 

of combat for many years. 

Blair, Clay. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against 

Japan. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1975. 

This book is a lengthy, readable, popular account of US. 

submarine operations against Japan in World War II. 

Brodie, Bernard. A Guide to Naval Stratea. Princeton, NJ: 

Princeton University Press, 1958, cl.942 

Brodie’s primer explains the basic concepts of naval 

strategy and was used as a textbook in Navy officer training 
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s,chooIs and as required reading aboard ship. First titled A 

Layman’s Guide to Naval S-ate&v, the book remains a useful 

introdu.ction to sea power. 

Gorshkov, Sergei Georgievich. Red Star Rising at Sea. 

Annapohs, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1974. 

This work originally appeared in 1972-73 as a series of 

eleven articles titled ““Navies in War and Peace’” in Mcmkoi 

Sbamik [Naval Digest], the official journal of the Soviet Navy. 

In 1974, the articles, each with a commentary by a senior U.S. 

naval officer, appeared in English in the United States Naval 

Institute Proceedings. Especially significant is Admiral 

Gorshkov’s explanation of the reasons behind the rise of 

Soviet naval power during his tenure as commander in chief 

of the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1986. 

The Sea Power of the State. Annapolis, MD: Naval 

institute Press, 1979. 

In this translation from Russian, Admiral Gorshkav explains why the Soviet Union as a world superpower requires a 

large modern navy. Prominent naval analysts disagree as to 

whether this book is a statement of doctrine or one of advocacy. 

Hagan, Kenneth, ed. In Peace and War: lnterprretations of 

American Naval History, 1775-1984. 2d ed. Westport, 

CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. 

Hagan’s collection of eighteen scholarly articles by different authors surveys U.S. naval history since the American 

Revolution. Especially helpful are the lists of additional readings at the end of each article. This is a useful work for discovering current trends in naval history research and writmg. 
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Karsten, Peter. The Naval Aristocracy: The Golden Age of 

Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American 

Navalism. New York: Free Press, 1972. 

This controversial but scholarly social history offers a 

critical appraisal of the U.S. Navy officer carps and its 

development from 1845 to 1925. 

Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783. New York: Hill and Wang, 1957, ~1890. 

Mahan’s object in writing this book was to estimate the 

effect of sea power on the course of history and the prosperity 

of nations. Admiral Mahan (1840-1914) had a direct and 

profound influence on the theory of sea power and naval 

strategy, and this book served as the basis for his rise to fame. 

While much of the work is no longer relevant, it is worth reading for historicai background and far the questions Mahan 

raised about the utility of sea power. 

Marder, Arthur Jacob. From the Dreadnought to Scapa 

Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919. 

5 vals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961-70. 

Marder has produced a scholarly, multivolume study on 

the Royal Navy from 1904 to 1919 that covers the service of 

Admiral Sir John Fisher, who became First Sea Lord in 1904. 

This era of naval history included the launching of H,M.S. 

Dreadncrught in 1906, the outbreak of World War I, the 

U-boat campaigns, the convoy system, and the 1918 raid on 

Zeebrugge. According to Marder, Admiral Fisher had the six 

essentials of a great militaryleader: guts, charm, ruthlessness, 

vision, strength, and brains. This is a masterful study of a 

remarkable man and a significant period of British naval history. 
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Marison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval 

Operations in Wwld War II. 15 ~01s. Boston: Little, 

Brown, 1947-62. 

A massive study written by America’s mast famous 

modern naval historian, this history is essential for a study of 

specific operations. Morison, however, failed to consider the 

strategic impact of differences in British and American war 

aims and the importance of interservice rivalries. This series 

was synopsized in The Twcr-Ocean War. 

Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an 

Air Navy. Huntington, NY: R. E. Krieger, 1978, ~1968. 

Reynolds provides a thorough and accurate history of 

World War II naval aviation. 

Seager, Robert. Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Man and His 

Letters. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1977. 

This is a complete, accurate, and readable biography of 

M&in. 

Dauhet, Giulia. The Command of the Air. Washington, DC: 

Qffice of Air Farce History, 1983. 

Written by a famous Italian officer and originally 

published in 1921, this work is the classic statement about the 

absolute value of strategic air power. 
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Futrell, Robert Frank. Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: A History 

of Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force, 1907- 

1964. Maxwell Ax Force Base, AL: Air University, 1971. 

Concentrating on institutional thought and the organizational framework of the Air Force, Futrell provides a detailed 

and well-documented intellectual history of the U.S. Air 

Force. 

Hastings, Max. Bomber Command. New York: Dial Press, 

1971. 

A thorough and accurate history of the bomber command’s air offensive against Germany in World War II, this 

book focuses on high-level decision making and the actions of 

six typical line squadrons. Hastings emphasizes the high 

human cost of the British strategic bombing campaign and assesses the differences between the ambitious objectives of air 

power enthusiasts and their abilities. 

Hurley, Alfred F. Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power. 

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975. 

This Air Force officer provides the best balanced and accurate biography of Mitchell. 

Kennett, Lee B. A IIistory of Strategic Bombing. New York: 

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982. 

In this brief, well-written survey of strategic bombing 

from its balloon origins to World War II, Professor Kennett 

demonstrates that the history of aviation is the story of 

machines and men as well as the interaction between the two. 

Kohn, Richard H., and Joseph P. Harahan, eds. Air Superiority in World War II and Korea: An Interview With 

Gen. James Ferguson, Gen. Robert M. Lee, Gen. William 

Momyer, and Lt. Gen. Elwood P. Quesada. USAF War- 
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rior Studies. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1983. 

Based on the World War II and Korean War experiences 

of four Air Force general officers, this oral interview focuses 

on a crucial first element in all air operations: air superiority. 

This is one of several historical studies from the Office of Air 

Force History in support of Project Warrior, a program that 

promotes the continuing study of military history. Other 

works in the series include William H. Tunner, Over the 

Hump (1985 reprint of a 1964 work); Wayne Thompson, ed., 

Air Leadershtjl: Proceedings of a Conference at BolEing Air 

Force Ba.se, April 13-14, 1984 (1986); Richard P. Hallion, The 

Literature of Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Air Power (1984); 

U.S. Air Force, Office of Air Force History, Condensed 

Analysis of the Ninth Air Force in the European Theater of 

Operations (1984 reprint of a 1946 work); John L. Frisbee, 

Makers of the United States Air Force (1987); Earle E. 

Partridge, Air Interdiction in World W&r I’ Korea, and t/ietnam: An Irttewiew ?V%h Earle E. Partridge, Jacob E. Smart, 

and John W; Vog& Jr. (1986); and Charles A. Ravenstein, X&e 

O~anization and Lineage of the United States Air Force (1986). 

Middlebrook, Martin. The Nuremberg Raid, 30-31 March 

1944. New York: William Morrow, 1974. 

Middlebrook vividly describes the bombing raid that cost 

the Royal Air Force its heaviest losses. He explains why 96 

out of 799 bombers were lost and provides fascinating details 

about this raid and the strategic bomber offensive. Middlebrook’s other works on World War II bombing operations 

are The Battle of Hamburg: Allied Bomber Forces Against a 

Gemart City in 1943 (New York: Scribner, 1981) and laze 

Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission (New York: Scribner, 1983). 
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Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of Air Power. New 

York: William Morrow and Co., 1986. 

Lively writing and a broad scope make this an excellent 

survey of the military use of airplanes from the Wright 

brothers to the Falkland Islands War. 

Winter, Denis. The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the 

First World War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 

1983, ~1982. 

Using memoirs, diaries, and official reports, Winter 

describes the service of British World War I pilots from their 

enlistment to demobilization. He explains how pilots trained, 

how maintenance on aircraft was performed, and how pilots 

physically and emotionally dealt with aerial combat. 

Braestrup, Peter. Big Story: How the American Press and 

Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 

1968 in Vietnam and Washington. 2 ~01s. New Haven, 

CT: Yale University Press, 1983, ~1977. 

Braestrup writes a thorough, accurate, readable study of 

the Tet 1968 offensive and the U.S. press. 

Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty From the Crimea to 

Vietnam -The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker. New York: Harcourt Brace 

Jovanovich, 1975. 

An outstanding narrative history of war correspondents, 

Knightley’s account is excellent reading that provides valuable 

historical perspective. 

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Sims, Robert B. The Pentagon Reporters. Washington, DC: 

National Defense University Press, 1983. 

In this handy information source, Sims identifies and 

describes current (1982) media defense correspondents. 

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