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Sunday, March 23, 2003 :::
Me vs. The Marine Corps Professional Reading Program List
If you read this blog on any kind of regular basis, I think you know I like reading about history and war. I ran across this The Marine Corps Professional Reading Program List courtesy of Metafilter. This is a list of recommended reading for Marines in this program. They are required to read two to four books from the list, depending on their rank, each year. Things like this make me wish I had my own web page, I'd post the whole list and put check marks next to each one as I read them. But not being able to do that, here's a list of books from the list I have read, arranged by which rank is recommended to read them.
Private, PFC, and Lance Corporals
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Corporal and Sergeant
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Staff Sergeant, Warrant Officer, and 2nd and 1st Lieutenants
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
Pegasus Bridge by Stephen Ambrose
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The U.S. Constitution by James Madison and others
Gunnery Sergeant, 1st Sergeant, Master Sergeant, Chief Warrant
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne
The Price of Admiralty: the Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan
Battle Cry of Freedom: the Civil War Era by James McPherson
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge
Major and Chief Warrant Officer
Knight's Cross: a Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel by David Fraser
Master Gunnery Sergeant, Sergeant Major and Lieutenant Colonel
Obviously I jumped over this rank.
Colonel
A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
General
Reached my level of incompentence here.
I've got a lot of reading to do. There's some interesting stuff on the list.
If you're still with me...
Quote of the Day:
The trenches were the concentration camps of the First World War; and though this analogy is what an academic reviewer would call unhistorical, there is something Treblinka-like about almost all accounts of 1 July, about those long docile lines of young men, shoddily uniformed, heavily burdened, numbered about their necks, plodding forward across a featureless landscape to their own extermination behind the barbed wire.
--- John Keegan, The Face of Battle
::: posted by tom at 11:28 PM
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