SFTT Recommended Reading

 

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E-1 through E-5

NCO through O-3

O-4 and Above

 

 




O-4 and Above

(Also suitable for Senior Staff NCO's and Warrant Officers)

The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force in World War II
Morale: A Study of Men and Courage
Grant Takes Command
On War
Patton: A Genius for War
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account
Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
Forward Into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to Vietnam
Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War
George Washington & The American Military Tradition
Reminiscences of a Marine
U.S. Marine Corps Aviation: 1912 to the Present
Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
It Doesn't Take A Hero
History of Marine Corps Aviation in WWII
A People Numerous & Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for
American Independence
Defeat Into Victory
Eagle Against The Sun: The American War With Japan
Command In War
Supplying War: Logistics From Wallenstein to Patton
One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990
Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign, 1944-1945
The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
The General's War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf
The Years of MacArthur
The U.S. Marines Corps and Defense Unification 1944-47: The Politics of Survival
Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802
The Army and Vietnam
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps, 1917-1956
The Making of Strategy
Follow Me II: More on the Human Element in Leadership
Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf
War
How the War was Won
Take That Hill: Royal Marines in the Falklands War
The Enlightened Soldier; Scharnhorst and Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805
The Supreme Commander; The War Years of Ambrose General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Foundations of Moral Obligation: The Stockdale Course
The Campaigns of Napoleon
Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman
Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-
1939
Logistics in the National Defense
War Secrets in the Ether: The Use of Signals Intelligence by the german Military in WWII
The General
From Beirut to Jerusalem
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
To Lose a Battle: France, 1940
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
Luftwaffe
A Democracy At War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in WWII
The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam
Nimitz
Korean War
A Bridge Too Far
The Marine Corps Search For a Mission 1880-1898
Race to the Swift: Thoughts on Twenty First Century Warfare
Pershing, General of the Armies
The Peloponnesian War
The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918
Our Great Spring Victory: An Account of the LIberation of South Vietnam
Once a Marine: The Memoirs of General A. A. Vandegrift, USMC
Eisenhower's Lieutenants: the Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945
Lejeune: A Marine's Life, 1867-1942
The Best and the Brightest
On The Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000
Diplomacy
GIAP: The Victor in Vietnam
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines
What Are Generals Made Of?
My American Journey
Maverick Marine: General Smedley Butler and the Contradictions of
American Military History
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
The Nightingale's Song
No Bended Knee
Lost Victories by Erich von Manstein

 




NCO through O-3

The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force in World War II
Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders
On Infantry
Grant & Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship
How We Won the War
American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy, 1877-1889
Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle
Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator
The Face of Battle
Maneuver Warfare Handbook
We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang, the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
The U.S. Marine Corps Story
The Military: More than Just a Job
Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ
Challenge of Command: A Reading for Military Excellence
Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor
The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic WWII Autobiography
Firepower in Limited War
The Killer Angels
Tarawa: The Story of a Battle
Art of War
U.S. Constitution
United States Marine Corps
Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle
Guerrilla Strategies: A Historical Anthology from the Long March to Afghanistan
The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940
Street Without Joy
Profession of Arms
Battle for the Falklands
Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign
The War of the American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies,and Practice
Once a Legend: "Red Mike" Edson of the Marine Raiders
Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology
Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916
Infantry in Battle (U.S.)
The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps
The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War
Reminiscences
Company Commander
Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare
Defense of Hill 781
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Second World War
Company Command: The Bottom Line
Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps
For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America
Gallipolih
The Anatomy of Courage
Once an Eagle
Small Wars Manual
Follow Me, Human Element in Leadership
No Victor, No Vanquished: Yom Kippur Warh
History of U.S. Military Logistics, 1935-1985: A Brief Review
Fortunate Son
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
Douglas Southall Freeman on Leadership
On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
The Easter Offensive, Vietnam, 1972

 




E-1 through E-5

The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force in World War II
Rifleman Dodd

Starship Troopers
A Message to Garcia
The Bridge at Dong-Ha
U.S. Marines: 1775-1975
Fields of Fire
The Old Man's Trail
Ender's Game
Uncommon Men: Sergeants Major of the Marine Corp
Red Badge of Courage
Marine: The Life of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller, USMC (Ret)
Fire in the Streets: The Battle for Hue, Tet, 1968
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan
Soldier's Load and Mobility of a Nation
The Right Kind of War
Battle Leadership
The Defense of Duffer's Drift
Fix Bayonets!
Battle Cry
The Village