The February 2011 revision of the United States Military Academy reading list

(source) It is hoped that this guide will continue to serve the dual purposes of encouraging officers to persist in their professional education and in providing a resource for those in the field to consult when developing their own reading programs.

This revision

The Top Ten Military Classics

Book cover for On War

Book cover for Principles of Maritime Strategy

Book cover for History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political History: Antiquity

Book cover for The Command of the Air

Book cover for Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle

Book cover for Art of War

Book cover for The Art of War

Book cover for The Art Of War

Book cover for The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

Military Institutions and the Nature and Practice of War

Book cover for War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in History

Book cover for War and Politics

Book cover for Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton

Book cover for Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

Book cover for The Causes of Wars: And Other Essays

Book cover for The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations

Book cover for The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait

Book cover for Strategy

Book cover for On Guerrilla Warfare

Book cover for The pursuit of power: Technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000

Book cover for Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars

Book cover for Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

Book cover for The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe

Book cover for The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

First Person Accounts, Memoirs and the Experience of War

Book cover for House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

Book cover for Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Book cover for Once a Warrior King: Memories of an Officer in Vietnam

Book cover for One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Book cover for On to Berlin : Battles of an Airborne Commander, 1943-1946

Book cover for Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant  Volume 2

Book cover for Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

Book cover for Clay Pigeons of St. Lo: History of the 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment

Book cover for Storm of Steel

Book cover for WAR

Book cover for American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, And Vietnam

Book cover for Face of Battle

Book cover for Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War

Book cover for Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command

Book cover for We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

Book cover for The Forgotten Soldier

Book cover for With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Book cover for Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

Book cover for If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

The History of American Wars

Book cover for Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

Book cover for Washington's Crossing

Book cover for The War Of American Independence

Book cover for The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict

Book cover for The Mexican War, 1846-1848

Book cover for The Hard Hand of War

Book cover for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Book cover for The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

Book cover for Frontiersmen in Blue: United States Army & the Indian 1848-65.

Book cover for The War with Spain in 1898

Book cover for The Philippine War, 1899-1902

Book cover for The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I

Book cover for Closing With the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945

Book cover for Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan

Book cover for Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945

Book cover for The Korean War

Book cover for The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (Pacific Basin Institute Book)

Book cover for America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

Book cover for Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War

Book cover for Americans at War, 1975-1986: An Era of Violent Peace

Book cover for Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

Book cover for Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War

Book cover for The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

Wars and Warfare From the Ancients through the 21st Century

Book cover for The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

Book cover for The Art of Warfare in Western Europe during the Middle Ages from the Eighth Century (Warfare in History)

Book cover for War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450-1620

Book cover for The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars

Book cover for Military Experience in the Age of Reason

Book cover for Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession

Book cover for The Wars of Frederick the Great

Book cover for The Campaigns of Napoleon

Book cover for Napoleon's Wars: An International History

Book cover for The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon

Book cover for The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 18701871

Book cover for The Boer War

Book cover for The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866

Book cover for A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War

Book cover for Why the Allies Won

Book cover for The First World War

Book cover for A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

Book cover for The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict

Book cover for Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina

Book cover for The Forever War

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

Book cover for The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning

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

Top Ten Literary Works on Military Institutions, War, and Combat

Book cover for Red Badge Of Courage: An Episode Of The American Civil War

Book cover for The General

Book cover for Catch-22

Book cover for The Centurions

Book cover for Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

Book cover for Once An Eagle

Book cover for The Things They Carried

Book cover for All Quiet On The Western Front

Book cover for The Killer Angels: A Novel

Book cover for War and Peace