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I am a Soldier, too: The Jessica Lynch Story

The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler's Europe

Castles of Steel : Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq

Ripples of Battle : How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

Absolutely American : Four Years at West Point

The Burma Road : The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II

Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II

The March Up: Taking Baghdad With the 1st Marine Division

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

An Army at Dawn : The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

Given Up for Dead : America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island

The Iraq War: A Military History

 

Recommended Reading

8th Air Force at War
: Memories and Missions, England 1942-45

Martin W. Bowman 1994

82nd Airborne Division
in Colour Photographs
(Europa Militaria, No 9)

Mike Verier  1991

100 Battles That Shaped World History
Samuel Willard Crompton  1997

The 101st Airborne at Normandy
Mark A. Bando, Mark Banda  1994

The 761st Tank Battalion
(African-American Soldiers)

Kathryn Browne Pfeifer  1994
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The 900 Days : The Siege of Leningrad 
Harrison Evans Salisbury 1985
Read about the battle that was the turning point of WWII

1066 : The Year of the Conquest
David Armine 1981

A-Train : Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
Charles W. Dryden  1997

Achtung-Panzer! :
The Development of Armoured Forces,
Their Tactics and Operational Potential

Heinz Guderian 1995

Afrikakorps : Self Portrait
Dal McGuirk 1992

The African-American Soldier :
From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell

Michael Lee Lanning 1997

Air and Space #23:
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

James H. Doolittle 1992

Air Raid-Pearl Harbor!
:The Story of December 7, 1941
Theodore Taylor  1991

Air Warfare : The Encyclopedia of 20th Century
Peter G. Cooksely 1998

America's Longest War
:The United States and Vietnam, 
1950-1975 (America in Crisis)
George Herring  1996

The American Arsenal
The World War II Official Standard Ordnance
Catalog of Small Arms, Tanks, Armored Cars,
Artillery, Antiaircraft Guns, Ammunition
Ian V. Hogg 1996

Art of War
Tzu Sun / 1984
Great insight into Chinese martial philosophy.

Breakout : The Chosin Reservoir Campaign Korea 1950
Martin Russ 1999

Black Valor : Buffalo Soldiers
and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898

Frank N. Schubert 1997

 

Blind Man's Bluff:
The Untold Story of American
Submarine Espionage"

Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew

The Buffalo Soldiers
Catherine Reef 1993

Churchill and Secret Service
David Stafford / Hardcover / Published 1998

Citizen Soldiers
The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches
to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany.
Stephen E. Ambrose  1997

D-Day June 6, 1944 : 
The Climactic Battle of World War II
Stephen E. Ambrose / Paperback / Published 1995

Everything We Had
An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three American Soldiers Who Fought It
Albert Santoli   1988

The First World War
John Keegan 1999

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond 1997

The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara 1993
Essential Civil War Reading

The Last Days of Innocence: 
America at War, 1917-1918
Meirion and Susie Harries

Making the Corps
Thomas E. Ricks 1997

The Name of War :
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Jill Lepore  1998

On War
Carl Von Clausewitz  1984
Read from the master of western warfare.

The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang  1997

Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
Horst Faas  1997

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich : A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer 1991

Saving Private Ryan
Max Allen Collins 1998

Saving Private Ryan
: A Film by Steven Spielberg
1998

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young : Ia Drang : The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore 1993
The finest account of men at war probably ever written.

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang 1992

 

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