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REQUIRED:

WPHW The West Point History of Warfare (US Military History Edition) [Online only]

 

 

Alternate text:

William T. Allison, Jeffrey Grey and Janet G. Valentine, American Military History: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present, 2d ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012)

 

 

Cyrus F. Boyd, The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, 1861-1863, Mildred Throne, ed. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1998)

 

 

 

E. B. Sledge, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)

 

 

 

Robert Tonsetic, Warriors: An Infantryman’s Memoir of Vietnam. (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004)

 

 

 

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (though not required):

Walter E. Kretchik, U.S. Army Doctrine: From the American Revolution to the War on Terror. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011)