There
are a lot of great books out there to add to one’s professional reading list.
Besides many of the books already mentioned, these are some of what I have on
my bookshelves.
“Crazy
Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors” - Stephen E. Ambrose
“Manhunt:
The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad” – Peter L. Bergen
“Red
Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone” – Chuck Tatum
“Incredible
Victory: The Battle of Midway” – Walter Lord
“Democracy
in America” – Alexis de Tocqueville
“The
First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt” – T.J. Stiles
“At
Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor” – Gordon W. Prange
“Makers
of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age” – Peter Paret
“Leadership:
The Warrior’s Art” – Christopher D. Kolenda
“Sherman:
Great Generals Series” – Steven E. Woodworth
“American
Creation: Triumph and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic” - Joseph J.
Ellis
“Inferno:
The World at War 1939-1945” – Max Hastings
“Midnight
Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War” - Tony Horwitz
“Undaunted
Courage” - Stephen Ambrose
“The
H.L. Hunley” - Tom Chaffin
“Catch-22”
– Joseph Heller
“Watership
Down” - Richard Adams
“American
Sniper” - Chris Kyle
“The
Portable Conservative Reader” – Russell T. Kirk
“War
& Friendship” - Colonel Pill-ki Chung
“Flags
of Our Fathers” – James Bradley
“Fighting
For America: Black Soldiers – The Unsung Heroes of WW2” – Christopher P. Moore
“The
Fourth Star” – David Cloud & Greg Jaffe
“American
Soldier” – GEN Tommy R. Franks
“The
Rape of Nanking” – Iris Chang
“The
Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution” – Brion McClanahan
“Stars
in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign” – Shelby Foote

SSG Broadbent, excellent recommendation much appreciated, this sounds like a great read, thanks for sharing!

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CSM Poll, Outstanding selection... thanks for sharing!! http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121357
