List of favorite political/military books you have read?

Strategy by B.H. Liddell Hart confidant of Churchill, Patton and others

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

On the official Marine Corps Reading List for Decades

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Also on the Marine Corps Reading List

Blood Stripes by David J. Danelo

Marine Infantry in Iraq

Generation Kill by Evan Wright

Lee's Lieutenants by DH Freeman

A classic, love the prose



Memiors of Ulysses S Grant

Indispensable

The Patton Papers edited by Blumenson

Patton is the man



John Adams by David McCullough

Be good and do good

Crimsoned Prairie by SLA Marshall

Marshall was practically the official Army historian

The 13th Valley by John M. del Vecchio

I cannot recommended this book highly enough. Army Band of Brothers fighting the VC


A Sense of Honor by James Webb

Any book by Sen. Webb is good


Fields of Fire by James Webb

Ditto

A Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo

Infantry lieutenant in Viet Nam


Sand in the Wind by Robert Roth

Another great Viet Nam novel

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson

Starts of with detailed description of the United States at mid century

Soldier by Anthony B. Herbert

Fighting the establishment

The Battle For Guadalcanal by Samuel Griffith

A very close run fight

Black Thursday by Martin Caidin

The darkest days for the B-17s

Thud Ridge by Col. Jack Broughton

Fighting Washington as much as the North Viet Namese



Fighter Pilot by Christina and Robin Olds

This is also a great book.

Bomber Command by Max Hastings

The RAF - not effective over Germany


The Berlin Raids by martin Middlebrooks

Ditto

The Luftwaffe War Diaries by Cajus Bekker

The other side of the hill.



The First and the Last by Adolf Galland

Galland was shot down twice in the same day

The United States Marine Corps in World War Two by SE Smith

Episodic account of the Marines against Japan


Churchill and the Montgomery Myth by RW Thompson

Monty sucked

The Bombers and the Bombed by Dr. Richard Overy

This is new, great account of the bombing of Germany

Masters of the Air by Miller, US Army Air Corps kicking arse

That's a start

On War - Carl von Clausewitz

Ted Sorensen's JFK is exhaustive, but told from the perspective of a confidant as opposed to a biographer.

Despite your politics, excellent book

In retrospect by McNamara was a good Vietnam book

A fine list sir

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A fine list sir

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Thanks!

Panzer Commander by Hans von Luck
Introduction by our own Stephen E. Ambrose.

The Marxists by C. Wright Mills who in this 1962 copyrighted work, in retrospect, was explaining how the foundation was being laid for where we are now.

Smoke and Mirrors by Dan Baum
(Drug War)

Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
(That book was almost as popular as the Bible during the forming of our nation)