Infantry School Reading List
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Canadian Army Reading List
Introduction
Doctrine
Military Theory
Canadian Military Heritage
Military History
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Leadership
The Human Factor
Technology
Future Warfare
Peacekeeping
Politics, International Relations and Economics
Ethics, Domestic Issues and Social Trends
Fiction
The Infantry School Reading List
Review book list by Subject:
General - Canadian Military History - Leadership, Memoires and Biography - History of War - Theory, Doctrine and Tactics - Canadian Society - Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping - Review book list by rankGeneral
Canadian Military History
Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World WarEnglish, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command
Leadership, Memoires and Biography
Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take a HeroPatton, War as I Knew It
Cordingly, ‘’In the Eye of the Storm: Commanding the Desert Rats in the Gulf War’’
History of War
Record, Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf WarClancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Theory, Doctrine and Tactics
Wee, Sun Tzu: War and ManagementVan Creveld, The Transformation of War
Leonhardt, The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and Airland Battle
Canadian Military History
Private - Corporal
Morton/Granatstein, Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919Granatstein/Morton, A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Gwyn, Tapestry of WarGoodspeed, The Armed Forces of Canada
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Douglas, Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World WarMorton, 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
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Bercuson, Maple Leaf Against the AxisGranatstein, 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
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
English, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High CommandLieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World WarEnglish, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command
General
Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World WarEnglish, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command
Leadership, Memoires and Biography
Private - Corporal
Davis, The sharp end: A Canadian soldier's storySajer, 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
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry OfficerWarrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Keegan, The Mask of CommandGraham, 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
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Dixon, On the Psychology of Military IncompetenceGuderian, Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare
Fraser, Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Patton, War as I Knew ItGuderian, Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Eisenhower, Crusade in EuropeKeegan, The Mask of Command
General
Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take a HeroPatton, War as I Knew It
Cordingly, ‘’In the Eye of the Storm: Commanding the Desert Rats in the Gulf War’’
History of War
Private - Corporal
Crane, The Red Badge of CourageRemarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Keegan, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Keegan, The Face Of BattleHollis, Platoon Under Fire
Tuchman, The Guns of August
Shaara, The Killer Angels
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Hastings, Battle for the FalklandsSajer, The Forgotten Soldier
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Luttwak, The Israeli ArmyHastings, 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
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Barnett, The Desert GeneralsHorne, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Horne, To Lose a BattleKeegan, A History Of Warfare
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
General
Record, Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf WarClancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Theory, Doctrine and Tactics
Private - Corporal
Heinlein, Starship TroopersHenderson, Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Martin, Poor Bloody Infantry
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Swinton, Defence of Duffer's Drift - (On-line version)English, On infantry
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Lind, Maneuver Warfare HandbookArt 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
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Clausewitz, On WarHooker, 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
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Toffler, War and Anti-War: Sense of Today's Global ChaosKaplan, The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Von Manstein, Lost Victories/the War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant GeneralSimpkin, Race to the Swift: Thoughts on 21st Century Warfare
General
Wee, Sun Tzu: War and ManagementVan Creveld, The Transformation of War
Leonhardt, The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and Airland Battle
Canadian Society
Private - Corporal
"Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms"Bercusson, Significant Incident
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Adams, Sex in the snow: Canadian social values at the end of the millenniumBrowning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Newman, The Canadian Revolution: From Deference to DefianceAdams, Sex in the snow: Canadian social values at the end of the millennium
Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Fields, The Code of the WarriorHolmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy: Machiavelli to the Nuclear AgeAdams, Sex in the Snow
Ignatieff, The warrior's honor: Ethnic war and the modern conscience
Bilton, Speaking Out: Untold Stories from the Falklands War
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Dunnigan, The Way of the Warrior: Leadership Lessons from History's Top Twelve Military MastersHolmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle
Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping
Private - Corporal
MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to SarajevoMaster Corporal - Sergeant
MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to SarajevoWarrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Honig, Srebrenica: Record of a War CrimeLawrence, "Anatomy of a Revolt"
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Bellamy, Knights in White ArmourKitson, Low-Intensity Ops
Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
Scales, Firepower in Limited War
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862Scales, Firepower in Limited War
Peters, Fighting for the Future
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's ShenandoahValley Campaign, Spring 1862
Peters, Fighting for the Future
