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MilitaryReadingList is about Military Books. We started this site in 2000 with the intent to make available the books on the various military service reading lists. Since that time, the means to find and read books on the recommended reading lists has become much easier. The increased popularity of digital books has further changed how we read and collect. This site will forever be a work in progress as there are thousands of books on the military that we have not discovered yet and thousands that have yet to be written.
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June 2025 Recommendation
Title: The Last Stand of Fox Company
Author: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
Book Description:
The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin offers a harrowing, ground-level account of one of the most heroic stands in Marine Corps history. Set during the brutal winter of 1950 in the Korean War, the book follows the 246 Marines of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, tasked with holding Toktong Pass—a vital link between embattled forces at the Chosin Reservoir and their route to the sea. Under the command of Captain William Barber, a seasoned combat leader from Iwo Jima, the company endured five nights of relentless attacks from vastly superior Chinese forces. Drury…
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| October | 2024 | Washington’s Marines by Jason Q. Bohm |
| September | 2024 | The Kill Chain by Christian Brose |
| 3 | 3 | The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence by Roger H Nye |
| 4 | 4 | The Art of War by Sun Tzu |
| 5 | 5 | The Second World War by John Keegan |
| 6 | 6 | The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause by Major Damon Gause |
| 7 | 7 | Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach by Dandridge M. Malone |
| 8 | 8 | The Three Meter Zone by James D. Pendry |
| 9 | 9 | The Threatening Storm by Kenneth Pllack |
| 10 | 10 | Battle Cry of Freedom by James M McPherson |
| 11 | 11 | Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T Phillips |
| 12 | 12 | Battles of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1781 by W J Wood |
| 13 | 13 | Company Commander by Charles Brown MacDonald |
| 14 | 14 | The Face of Battle by John Keegan |
| 15 | 15 | A Message to Garcia by E Hubbard |
| 16 | 16 | Band of Brothers by Stephen E Ambrose |
| 17 | New to List | The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara |
| 18 | 18 | Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers by Richard E neustadt |
| 19 | 19 | A History of Warfare by John Keegan |
| 20 | 20 | The Syrian Rebellion by Fouad Ajami |