This is The Chief of Staff of the US Army’s recommended professional reading list. The original of this list includes descriptions of each volume, and is available for download at www. clashofarms. com. Army Heritage and Military History for Cadets, Soldiers, and Junior NCOs Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest . New York: Simon &Schuster, 1992. (335 pages) Rick Atkinson. The Long Gray Line . Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin 1989. (589 pages) Tom Brokaw. The Greatest Generation . New York: Random House, 1998. (412 pages) T. R. Fehrenbach. This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness . Brassey’s Inc. 1994 (483 pages) Charles E. Heller and William A. Stoft, editors. America’s First Battles: 1776-1965 . Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas. 1986. (416 pages) David W. Hogan, Jr. A Concise History of the United States Army, 1775-2000: 225 Years of Service to the Nation . Washington, D. C. : CMH, 2000. (36 pages) John Keegan. The Face of Battle . New York: Vintage Books, 1977, (354 pages) Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once, and Young . New York: Random House. 1992. (412 pages) Anton Myrer. Once an Eagle . New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1968. USAWC Foundation Press, 1995. (817 pages) Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels . New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. (355 pages) Company Grade Officers and Company Cadre NCOs Steven Ambrose. Citizen Soldiers . New York: Simon &Schuster, 1997. (480 pages) Edward M. Coffman, The War To End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I . New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. (412 pages.) Samuel P. Huntington. Soldier and the State . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University press, 1957. (534 pages) Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War . New York: The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan 1987. (357 pages) Charles B. MacDonald. Company Commander . Spring . eld, N. J. : Burford Books, 1999. Original edition, 1947. (278 pages) S. L. A. Marshall. Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War . Reprint, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1978. Originally published by Infantry Journal Press, 1947. (215 pages) Alan R. Millett, and Peter Maslowski. For the Common Defense, A Military History of the United States of America . New York: The Free Press, 1984. (621 pages) Robert H. Scales, Jr. Certain Victory . Reprint, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1994. (434 pages) Mark A. Stoler, George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century . Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. (252 pages) Tom Willard. Buffalo Soldiers (Black Saber Chronicles) . Forge Press, 1996. Field Grade Officers and Senior NCOs Roy E. Appleman. East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950 . College Station, TX. : Texas A&M University Press, 1987. (399 pages) Graham A. Cosmas. An Army for Empire: The United States Army and the Spanish American War . 2nd edition. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane, 1994. (349 pages) Robert A. Doughty. The Evolution of U. S. Army Tactical Doctrine, 1946-1976 . Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute, 1979. (57 pages) Antoine Henri Jomini. Jomini and His Summary of the Art of War . Reprint, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole books, 1965. (161 pages) Charles B. MacDonald and Sidney T. Mathews. Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt . Washington, D. C. : Center of Military History, U. S. Army. (443 pages) Roger H. Nye. The Challenge of Command . Wayne, New Jersey: Avery Publishing Group, 1986. (187 pages) Dave R. Palmer, Summons of the Trumpet: U. S. -Vietnam in Perspective . San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978. (277 pages) Martin Van Creveld. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. (284 pages) Russell F. Weigley, The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. Original edition, 1973. (477 pages) Senior Leaders above Brigade Carl von Clausewitz. On War . Ed. and trans Peter Paret and Michael Howard, . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984. (732 pages) Kent Roberts Green . eld (ed.) Command Decisions . Washington, D. C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, 1960. (565 Pages) Michael Howard, War in European History . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976. (165 pages) . Paul Kennedy. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers . New York: Random House, 1987. (677 pages) Henry Kissinger. Diplomacy . New York: Simon &Schuster, 1994. (912 pages) Williamson Murray and Alan R. Millett, eds. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (428 pages) Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. (941 pages) Harry Summers. On Strateg y . Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1982. (225 pages) Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War . Trans. Rex Warner. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1972. (648 pages) BT Back to The Naval Sitrep # 26 Table of Contents Back to Naval Sitrep List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List & copy Copyright 2004 by Larry Bond and Clash of Arms. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history and related articles are available at http://www.magweb.com