Suggestions for Military History Reading-Vanity for Care Packages

12/8/2003 | Armymarinemom

[armymarinemom]

I need suggestions for Military History Books. Paperback editions would be nice due to shipping weight to go to Afghanistan.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

For classic military history try Hannibal Crosses the Alps and/or Xenophon's March(Into the Lair of the Persian Lion)
by John Prevas. Da Capo press.

Prevas retraces their journies and provides superb military analysis.

[Verginius Rufus]

For a serious student of history, Thucydides is an essential author. His Peloponnesian War is available in several paperback translations. Plutarch's Lives are worth reading & also available in various translations--there is a good new selection in the Oxford World's Classics in two volumes: Greek Lives and Roman Lives.

For American history, there's Ulysses Grant's Personal Memoirs (Penguin ed.) and Jay Winik, April 1865: The Month That Saved America. A readable general history of the U.S. (to the 1970s) by an outsider is Hugh Brogan's The Pelican History of the United States of America.

[ErnBatavia]

"A Marine Named Mitch"...Mitchell Paige (A history of his Marine Corps career, including his exploits at Guadalcanal)

[WFTR]

General A.P. Hill, The Story of a Confederate Warrior, by Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr.,

Another good one by Dr. Robertson is called Soldiers Blue and Gray. A very long biography written by Dr. Robertson is called Stonewall Jackson, The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. I took a class from him years ago and have enjoyed reading his books. He's a world authority on the war.

Race and Mediocrity in Louisiana
Bill

[Steelerfan]

Great thread. I'll have some shopping to do this weekend.

[Steelerfan]

Great thread. I'll have some shopping to do this weekend.

[twigs]

Thank you for the correction. Wish I had had him as a professor when I was in school. He's a wonderful writer and thinker. Good speaker too.