EUCOM reading list

(source) From Adm Stavridis' introductory video: "This reading list is your gateway to really understanding the sea in which you swim when you're part of the US European command. [...] I would say that if you want to help us be stronger together, spend a little time on the US European Command reading list."

This revision was published November 2011.

The Balkans

Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo

Ivo H. Daalder

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Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat

Wesley K. Clark

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The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999

Misha Glenny

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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Robert D. Kaplan

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Rebecca West

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Libya

South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara

Justin Marozzi

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In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar

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Horn of Africa

Djibouti: A Novel

Elmore Leonard

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The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World

Jay Bahadur

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Afghanistan

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

Peter Hopkirk

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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll

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Belgium and the Netherlands

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

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Rembrandt's Eyes

Simon Schama

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Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence

Ian Buruma

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General

Luigi Barzini

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The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815

Tim Blanning

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Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

Eliot A. Cohen

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson

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War in European History

Michael Eliot Howard

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Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe

James J. Sheehan

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The Great Upheaval: The Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

Jay Winik

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt

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The Afghan Campaign: A Novel

Steven Pressfield

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Fiction

Generations of Winter

Vassily Aksyonov

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The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

Honore de Balzac

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The New Confessions

William Boyd

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Albert Camus

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Flashman: A Novel

George MacDonald Fraser

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Northern Spain

DK Publishing

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Dead Souls: A Novel

Nikolai Gogol

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Günter Grass

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The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War

Jaroslav Hasek

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Franz Kafka

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The Ugly American

William J. Lederer

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carre

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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

Rudyard Kipling

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The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

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The Innocent: A Novel

Ian McEwan

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Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan

James A. Michener

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Orhan Pamuk

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Boris Pasternak

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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel

Per Petterson

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All Quiet On The Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

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Jose Saramago

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Bernhard Schlink

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Absurdistan: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Leo Tolstoy

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The Volcano Lover: A Romance

Susan Sontag

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Ali and Nino: A Love Story

Kurban Said

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Birds Without Wings

Louis de Bernieres

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Germany

A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People

Steven Ozment

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Edmund de Waal

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Italy

Luigi Barzini

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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System

Roberto Saviano

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Spain and Portugal

The First Global Village

Martin Page

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The New Spaniards

John Hooper

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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

Paul Preston

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Central and Eastern Europe

The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918 : A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary

A. J. P. Taylor

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Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present

Norman Davies

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To the Castle and Back

Vaclav Havel

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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

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Scandinavia & the Baltics

A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland

T.K. Derry

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A History of the Baltic States

Andres Kasekamp

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Russia Soviet Union and Central Asia

One Soldier's War

Arkady Babchenko

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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

Antony Beevor

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The Caucasus: An Introduction

Thomas de Waal

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A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End

Peter Kenez

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The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West

Edward Lucas

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Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

Roger Crowley

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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

Caroline Finkel

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Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds

Stephen Kinzer

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Israel Palestine, & Lebanon

Peacekeepers at War: Beirut 1983— - The Marine Commander Tells His Story

Col. Timothy J. Geraghty

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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Michael B. Oren

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Larry Collins

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Ancient Greece

Anabasis of Cyrus

Xenophon

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The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

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Rome

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

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Byzantine Empire

The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

Edward N. Luttwak

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Medieval Europe

The Enlightenment: An Interpretation

Peter Gay

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1815-1914

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918

Alan J. P. Taylor

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Waterloo: A Near Run Thing

David Howarth

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Europe & America

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

Robert Kagan

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First World War and Aftermath

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

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Military Innovation in the Interwar Period

Williamson R. Murray

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Second World War & Aftermath

The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm

Winston S. Churchill

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Cold War & Aftermath

A World Transformed

George H W Bush

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The Breaking Of Nations

Robert Cooper

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The Cold War: A New History

John Lewis Gaddis

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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place

Frederick Kempe

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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt

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France

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

Alistair Horne

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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Simon Schama

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British Isles

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

Thomas Cahill

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Queen Victoria's Little Wars

Byron Farwell

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The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery

Paul M. Kennedy

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The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company

John Keay

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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

Niall Ferguson

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