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Commandant’s Choice Book — to be read by all Marines


First To Fight: An Inside View Of The U.S. Marine Corps By retired Lt. Gen. Victor H. Krulak

Recruit/Poolee

I’m Staying With My Boys By Jim Proser And Jerry Cutter

The United States Marines: A History By Edwin H. Simmons

Private/Private First Class

A Message To Garcia By Elbert Hubbard

Rifleman Dodd By C.S. Forester

Blink By Malcolm Gladwell

1984 By George Orwell

No True Glory By Bing West

The Gift Of Valor By Michael M. Phillips

Lance Corporal

The 360 Degree Leader By John Maxwell

The Afghan Campaign By Steven Pressfield

My Men Are My Heroes By Nathaniel R. Helms

Starship Troopers By Robert Heinlein

The Ugly American By Eugene Burdick And William J. Lederer

We Were One By Patrick K. O’donnell

Corporal

Afghanistan By Stephen Tanner

All Quiet On The Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque

Chosen Soldier By Dick Couch

Flags Of Our Fathers By James Bradley

Ghost Soldiers By Hampton Sides

Noble Warrior By James E. Livingston, Colin D. Heaton, and Anne-Marie Lewis

Once A Marine By Nick Popaditch and Mike Steere

The Defence Of Duffer’s Drift By Ernest Dunlop Swinton

Marines In The Garden Of Eden By Richard Lowry

Sergeant

American Soldiers By Peter S. Kindsvatter

Common Sense Training By Arthur S. Collins

Counterinsurgency Warfare By David Galula

From The Horse’s Mouth By Major Ted Mckeldin

The Killer Angels By Michael Shaara

A Soldier’s Load And The Mobility Of A Nation By S.L.A. Marshall

Storm Of Steel By Ernst Junger

The Village By Bing West

Tip Of The Spear By G.J. Michaels

With The Old Breed By E.B. Sledge

Staff Sergeant

A Bell For Adano By John Hersey

American Spartans By James A. Warren

The Arab Mind By Raphael Patai

Attacks By Erwin Rommel

Battle Cry By Leon Uris

The Defense Of Hill 781 By James Mcdonough

The Face Of Battle By John Keegan

The Last Stand Of Fox Company By Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

Mccoy’s Marines By John Koopman

On Killing By Dave Grossman

Soldiers Of God By David Hagberg

The Speed Of Trust By Stephen M.R. Covey

Gunnery Sergeant

Afghan Guerilla Warfare By Ali Jalali and Lester W. Grau

Tiger Force: A True Story Of Men And War By M. Sallah and M. Weiss

Islands Of The Damned By R.V. Burgin and Bill Marvel

Killing Ground On Okinawa By James H. Hallas

The Mission, The Men, And Me By Pete Blaber

On Combat By Dave Grossman and Loren W. Christensen

Ride The Thunder By Richard Botkin

The Savage Wars Of Peace By Max Boot

Victory At High Tide By Robert D. Heinl

We Were Soldiers Once And Young By Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

Master Sergeant/First Sergeant

The Accidental Guerilla By David Kilcullen

Courageous Follower By Ira Chaleff

Fields Of Battle By John Keegan

Forgotten Warriors By Thomas Hammes

Ghost Wars By Steve Coll

The Guns Of August By Barbara W. Tuchman

The Lexus And The Olive Tree By Thomas Friedman

The Passion Of Command By Bryan Mccoy

Seven Deadly Scenarios By Andrew Krepinevich

The Sling And The Stone By Thomas X. Hammes

Technology And War By Martin L. Van Creveld

Master Gunnery Sergeant/Sergeant Major

Achilles In Vietnam By Jonathan Shay

At The Water’s Edge: Defending Against The Modern Amphibious Assault By Theodore Gatchel

The Crisis Of Islam By Bernard Lewis

The Coldest War By David Halberstam

Crisis Leadership By Gene Klann

The General By C.S. Forrester

The Mask Of Command By John Keegan

No Bended Knee By Merril B. Twining

On War By Carl Von Clausewitz

A Peace To End All Peace By David Fromkin

Officer Candidate/Midshipman

The Armed Forces Officer, Department of Defense

My Men Are My Heroes By Nathaniel R. Helms

United States Marines: A History By Edwin H. Simmons

On Infantry By John A. English

2nd Lieutenant/Warrant Officer/Chief Warrant Officer 2

The Art Of War By Sun Tzu

Blink By Malcolm Gladwell

Counterinsurgency Warfare By David Galula

Leadership: The Warrior’s Art By Christopher D. Kolenda, Walter F., Jr. Ulmer, and Barry R. Mccaffrey

The Mission, The Men And Me By Pete Blaber

The Savage Wars Of Peace By Max Boot

Soldiers Of God By Robert D. Kaplan

The Speed Of Trust By Stephen M.R. Covey

Storm Landings By Joseph H. Alexander

A Tactical Ethic By Dick Couch

The Village By Bing West

1st Lieutenant/Chief Warrant Officer 3

Note: The first seven books of this list should be read in order, as they trace the evolution of warfare from first to fourth generation.

The Enlightened Soldier By Charles Edward White

Seeds Of Disaster By Robert Doughty

Stormtrooper Tactics By Bruce I. Gudmundsson

Command Or Control By Marin Samuels

The Breaking Point By Robert Doughty

Fighting Power By Martin L. Van Creveld

Transformation Of War By Martin L. Van Creveld

Attacks By Erwin Rommel

Battle Leadership By Adolf Von Schell

The Peloponnesian War By Donald Kagan

The Last Stand Of Fox Company By Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

Captain/Chief Warrant Officer 4

The Arab Mind By Raphael Patai

The Defense Of Hill 781 By James Mcdonough

The General By C.S. Forrester

Lions Of Iwo Jima By Fred Haynes

Lost Victories By Erich Von Manstein

The Mask Of Command By John Kegan

Passion Of Command By Bryan Mccoy

Sources Of Power By Gary Klein

Starship Troopers By Robert Heinlein

The Tipping Point By Malcom Gladwell

Victory At High Tide By Robert D. Heinl

We Were Soldiers Once And Young By Harold G. Moore And Joseph L. Galloway

Major/Chief Warrant Officer 5

The Crucible Of War By Fred Anderson

The Guns Of August By Barbara W. Tuchman

In The Gray Area By Seth Folsom

This Kind Of War By T.R. Fehrenbach

The Landmark Thucydides By Robert Strassler

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, And The Battle Of Little Bighorn By Nathaniel Philbrick

The Lexus And The Olive Tree By Thomas Friedman

Masters Of War By Michael Handel

Once An Eagle By Anton Myrer

Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Goodwin

Tiger Force: A True Story Of Men And War By M. Sallah and M. Weiss

Utmost Savagery: The Three Days Of Tarawa By Joseph H. Alexander

Wired For War By P.W. Singer

Lieutenant Colonel

A Bell For Adano By John Hersey

Accidental Guerilla By David Kilcullen

At The Water’s Edge: Defending Against The Modern Amphibious Assault By Theodore Gatchel

The Blitzkrieg Legend By Karl-Heinz Frieser

The Bottom Billion By Paul Collier

Brute: The Life Of Victor Krulak By Robert Coram

Carnage And Culture By Victor Hanson

Defeat Into Victory By William Slim

Forgotten Warriors By Thomas Hammes

A Peace To End All Peace By David Fromkin

Seven Deadly Scenarios By Andrew Krepinevich

Colonel To General

Another Bloody Century By Colin Gray

The Coldest Winter By David Halberstam

The Crisis Of Islam By Bernard Lewis

Decoding Clausewitz By Jon Sumida

Dereliction Of Duty: Johnson, Mcnamara, The Joint Chiefs Of Staff, And The Lies That Led To Vietnam By H.R. Mcmaster

Diplomacy By Henry Kissinger

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World By Raghuram Rajan

How Wars End By Gideon Rose

Poorer Richard’s America By Tom Blair

Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln As Commander In Chief By James Mcpherson

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, And Leadership In Wartime By Eliot A. Cohen