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The Infantry School Reading List

Review book list by rank: 

Pte/Cpl - MCpl/Sgt - WO/2Lt/Lt - MWO/Capt - CWO/Maj - LCol/Col - Review book list by subject.

Private - Corporal

Canadian Military History

Morton/Granatstein,
Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919
Granatstein/Morton, A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945

Leadership, Memoires and Biography

Davis, The sharp end: A Canadian soldier's story
Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
Fraser, The Flashman Papers
Jack, The Bandy Papers:
Three cheers for me: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume one
That's me in the middle: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume two
The Bandy Papers: Me Too
The Bandy Papers: This One's on Me
Hitler Versus Me: Volume Eight of the Bandy Papers
Stalin Versus Me: Volume Nine of the Bandy Papers

History of War

Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Keegan, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle

Theory, Doctrine and Tactics

Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Henderson, Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Martin, Poor Bloody Infantry

Canadian Society

"Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms"
Bercusson, Significant Incident

Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping

MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo

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Master Corporal - Sergeant

Canadian Military History

Gwyn, Tapestry of War
Goodspeed, The Armed Forces of Canada

Leadership, Memoires and Biography

Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

History of War

Keegan, The Face Of Battle
Hollis, Platoon Under Fire
Tuchman, The Guns of August
Shaara, The Killer Angels

Theory, Doctrine and Tactics

Swinton, Defence of Duffer's Drift  - (On-line version)
English, On infantry

Canadian Society

Adams, Sex in the snow: Canadian social values at the end of the millennium
Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping

MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo

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Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant- Lieutenant

Canadian Military History

Douglas,
Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War

Morton, A Military History of Canada
Roy, 1944: The Cdns in Normandy
Williams, The Long Left Flank 
Stanley, The Military History of an Unmilitary People
Granatstein/Morton, A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945

Leadership, Memoires and Biography

Keegan, The Mask of Command
Graham, The Price of Command
Hyatt, General Sir Arthur Currie 
Holmes, Firing Line
Caputo, A Rumor of War
Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Fraser, The Flashman Papers
Jack, The Bandy Papers:
Three cheers for me: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume one
That's me in the middle: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume two
The Bandy Papers: Me Too
The Bandy Papers: This One's on Me
Hitler Versus Me: Volume Eight of the Bandy Papers
Stalin Versus Me: Volume Nine of the Bandy Papers

History of War

Hastings, Battle for the Falklands
Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign

Theory, Doctrine and Tactics

Lind, Maneuver Warfare Handbook
Art of War, the
Ardant du Picq, Battle Studies Ancient and Modern Battle
Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regimen
Rommel, Infantry Attacks
Beckwith, Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
English, On infantry
Martin, Poor Bloody Infantry

Canadian Society

Newman, The Canadian Revolution: From Deference to Defiance
Adams, Sex in the snow: Canadian social values at the end of the millennium
Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping

Honig, Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
Lawrence, "Anatomy of a Revolt"

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Master Warrant Officer - Captain

Canadian Military History

Bercuson,
Maple Leaf Against the Axis

Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War
Stacey, The Cdn Army 1939-45
Stacey, The Victory Campaign
Schreiber, Shock army of the British empire: The Canadian Corps in the last 100 days of the Great War

Leadership, Memoires and Biography

Dixon, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
Guderian, Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare
Fraser, Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Richardson, Fighting Spirit

History of War

Luttwak, The Israeli Army
Hastings, Overlord:D-Day Battle for Normandy
Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany-June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945
Dunn, The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1918
Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
Cohen, The Stuff of Heroes: The Eight Universal Laws of Leadership
Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

Theory, Doctrine and Tactics

Clausewitz, On War
Hooker, Maneuvre Warfare an Anthology
Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Lupfer, The Dynamics of Doctrine
Von Mellenthin, Panzer Battles

Canadian Society

Fields, The Code of the Warrior
Holmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle

Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping

Bellamy, Knights in White Armour
Kitson, Low-Intensity Ops
Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
Scales, Firepower in Limited War

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Chief Warrant Officer - Major

Canadian Military History

English,
The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command

Leadership, Memoires and Biography

Patton, War as I Knew It
Guderian, Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare

History of War

Barnett, The Desert Generals
Horne, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command

Theory, Doctrine and Tactics

Toffler, War and Anti-War: Sense of Today's Global Chaos
Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

Canadian Society

Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy: Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
Adams, Sex in the Snow
Ignatieff, The warrior's honor: Ethnic war and the modern conscience
Bilton, Speaking Out: Untold Stories from the Falklands War

Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping

Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
Scales, Firepower in Limited War
Peters, Fighting for the Future

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Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel

Canadian Military History

Granatstein,
Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War
English, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command

Leadership, Memoires and Biography

Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe
Keegan, The Mask of Command

History of War

Horne, To Lose a Battle
Keegan, A History Of Warfare
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command

Theory, Doctrine and Tactics

Von Manstein, Lost Victories/the War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General
Simpkin, Race to the Swift: Thoughts on 21st Century Warfare

Canadian Society

Dunnigan, The Way of the Warrior: Leadership Lessons from History's Top Twelve Military Masters
Holmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle

Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping

Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
Peters, Fighting for the Future

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