U.S. Marine Corps Military Reading Lists

The Nightingale's Song

By: Robert Timberg
Paperback Edition

Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle. A riveting tale that illuminates the flip side of the fabled Vietnam generation -- those who went.

$12.75

The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane
Paperback Edition
Fiction

One of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, the novel imagines the Civil War's terror and loss with an unblinking vision so modern and revolutionary that, upon publication, critics hailed it as a work of literary genius. Ernest Hemingway declared, "There was no real literature of our Civil War . . . until Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage."

$7.75

The United States Marines

By: Edwin Howard Simmons
Paperback Edition

The fourth edition of Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Simmons’s popular history of the U.S. Marine Corps has been updated and revised. It reflects the latest scholarship on events reaching back to the Corps’s beginnings in November 1775, when the Second Continental Congress authorized two battalions of American Marines, to 2001. As updated, it includes material on the tumultuous events of the last quarter-century in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Bangladesh, Somalia, and Haiti.

$18.75

This Kind of War

By: T.R. Fehrenbach
Paperback Edition

This Kind of War has been studied by two generations of soldiers. Fehrenbach describes good decisions and bad ones with insight and expertise. But what he does best of all, and what is so memorable, is his eloquent, sometimes painful description of the GIs who must bear the burden of those decisions. That is the awful beauty of this bookï¿½it cuts straight to the heart of all the political and military errors, and reveals the brave souls who have to bleed and die for mistakes made. A timely reissue of a military classic.ï¿½ï¿½Gen. Colin L. Powell

$21.50

Utmost Savagery

By: Joseph H. Alexander
Paperback Edition

The author's comprehensive account of the amphibious seizure of Tarawa by the Central Pacific Force in November 1943, based on new sources and interviews with survivors, captures the full flavor of the violent three-day fight that left 6,000 men dead.

$6.99

We Were Soldiers Once and Young

By: Lt. General Harold G. Moore
Paperback Editon

In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War.

$14.45

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