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

Book cover for Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo

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

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

Book cover for Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Book cover for Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Libya

Book cover for South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara

Book cover for In the Country of Men

Horn of Africa

Book cover for Djibouti: A Novel

Book cover for The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World

Afghanistan

Book cover for The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

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

Belgium and the Netherlands

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

Book cover for Rembrandt's Eyes

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

General

Book cover for The Europeans

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

Book cover for Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

Book cover for The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Book cover for War in European History

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

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

Book cover for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Book cover for The Afghan Campaign: A Novel

Fiction

Book cover for Generations of Winter

Book cover for The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

Book cover for The New Confessions

Book cover for The Stranger

Book cover for The Brothers Karamazov

Book cover for Crime and Punishment

Book cover for Flashman: A Novel

Book cover for DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Northern Spain

Book cover for Dead Souls: A Novel

Book cover for The Tin Drum

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

Book cover for The Castle

Book cover for The Ugly American

Book cover for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Book cover for The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

Book cover for The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca

Book cover for The Innocent: A Novel

Book cover for Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan

Book cover for Snow

Book cover for Doctor Zhivago

Book cover for Out Stealing Horses: A Novel

Book cover for All Quiet On The Western Front

Book cover for The Cave

Book cover for The Reader

Book cover for Absurdistan: A Novel

Book cover for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Book cover for War and Peace

Book cover for The Volcano Lover: A Romance

Book cover for Ali and Nino: A Love Story

Book cover for Birds Without Wings

Germany

Book cover for A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People

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

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

Book cover for The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Italy

Book cover for The Italians

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

Spain and Portugal

Book cover for The First Global Village

Book cover for The New Spaniards

Book cover for The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

Central and Eastern Europe

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

Book cover for Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present

Book cover for To the Castle and Back

Book cover for Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Scandinavia & the Baltics

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

Book cover for A History of the Baltic States

Russia Soviet Union and Central Asia

Book cover for One Soldier's War

Book cover for Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

Book cover for The Caucasus: An Introduction

Book cover for A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End

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

Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

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

Book cover for Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

Book cover for Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds

Israel Palestine, & Lebanon

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

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

Book cover for O Jerusalem!

Ancient Greece

Book cover for Anabasis of Cyrus

Book cover for The History of the Peloponnesian War

Rome

Book cover for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Byzantine Empire

Book cover for The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

Medieval Europe

Book cover for The Enlightenment: An Interpretation

1815-1914

Book cover for The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918

Book cover for Waterloo: A Near Run Thing

Europe & America

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

First World War and Aftermath

Book cover for The Guns of August

Book cover for Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Book cover for Military Innovation in the Interwar Period

Second World War & Aftermath

Book cover for The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm

Cold War & Aftermath

Book cover for A World Transformed

Book cover for The Breaking Of Nations

Book cover for The Cold War: A New History

Book cover for Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place

Book cover for Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

France

Book cover for A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

Book cover for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

British Isles

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

Book cover for Queen Victoria's Little Wars

Book cover for The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery

Book cover for The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company

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