The Reading Programme - Part 2

Campaigns Studied in the OTW

Normandy

Six Armies in Normandy

J. Keegan

D Day

A. Beevor

Decision in Normandy

Carlo D'Este

Pegasus Bridge

S.E Ambrose

Over Lord
D-Day and the
Battle for Normandy 1944

M. Hastings

Arnhem

A Bridge too Far

C. Ryan

It Never Snows in September

Kerslake

Arnhem 1944

M. Middlebrook

Arnhem

Maj Gen Urquahart

The Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge

B. MacDonald

Battle of the Bulge

J.P. Pallud

Hurtgen
Forest

The Battle of the Hurtgen Forest

C. Whiting

Casino

Casino: Portrait of a Battle

F. Majdalany

Monte Casino

M. Parker

Falklands War
1982

No Picnic

General J Thompson

Goose Green
A battle is fought to be won. 

M. Adkin

Falklands Commando

Capt. H. McManners R.A.

Other Conflicts

Vietnam

The Last Valley:
Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in
Vietnam

M. Window

A Bright Shining Lie

N. Sheehan

Middle-East

The Arab-Israeli Wars

C. Herzog

The Great War of Civilistation:
The Conquest of the Middle East

R Fisk

Six Days of War

M. B. Owen

Algeria

A Savage War of Peace

A Horne

Lebanon

Pity the Nation

R. Fisk

Balkans

The Death of Yugoslavia

L. Silber & A. Little

My War Gone By, I Miss it so

A. Lloyd

Iraq

Crusade:
The Untold Story of the Gulf War (1991)

R. Atkinson

Fiasco

T.E Ricks

The Occupation:
War and Resistance in Iraq

P. Cockburn

Afghanistan

Danger Close

Col S. Tootal

UN PKO

Deliver us from Evil

W Shawcross

Rwanda

Shake Hands with the Devil

R Dallaire

Leaders and Leadership

In the eyes of the Storm:
Commanding the Desert Rats in the Gulf War

Maj-Gen P. Cordingley

It Doesnt take a Hero

H. Norman Schqwarzkopf

We Were Soldiers Once and Young

Lt Gen H.G. Moore
J Galloway

Eisenhower Soldier & President

Stephen E. Ambrose

Warlord (Churchill at War)

Carlo D'Este

A Soldiers Way

Gen Colin Powell

The Challenge of Command

R. H. Nye

Leadership: Theory and Practise

P. G. Northouse

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership

B. Jackson & K. Parry

Junior Leadership

Follow Me!:
The Human Element in Leadership                

Maj Gen A. S. Newman

Company Command:
The Bottom Line

J.G. Meyer Jr.            

Company Commander

C. B. McDonald

Small Unit Leadership:
A Commonsense Approach

Col. D.M. Malone (USA Retd)

The Mask of Command

J. Keegan

The Face of Battle

J. Keegan

Forgotton Soldiers

B. Moynihan

Once a Warrior King:
Memories of an Officer in Vietnam

D. Donovan

Rifleman Dodd: A Novel of the Pennisula Campaign

C.S. Forrestor

The Defence of Duffer's Drift
- a fictional account of a platoon commander's misadventures in the Boer War

E. D Swinton

Storm of Steel
-
memoir of a German Infantry soldier in WWI

E. Junger

With the Old Breed
-
the experiences of a U.S.M.C. infantryman in the Pacific Campaign in WWII

E. B. Sledge


Counter Insurgency

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

D. Galula

Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency

R. Trinquier

Counterinsurgency: Fm 3-24

Gen. D. H. Petraeus

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife:
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya & Vietnam

J. A. Nagl

 

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