NCO Reading List 2023 from AUSA (with clickable Amazon links)

RECOMMENDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTREADING LIST FOR NCOS 2023

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CPL – SGT

• Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. (335 pages)
• Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House, 1998. (412 pages)
• T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness. Washington, DC: Brassey’s Inc. 1994 (483 pages)
• Charles E. Heller and William A. Stoft, editors, America’s First Battles: 1776-1965. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 1986. (416 pages)
• David W. Hogan, Jr., 225 Years of Service, The US Army 1775-2000. Washington, DC: Center for Military History, 2000. (36 pages)
• John Keegan, The Face of Battle. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. (354 pages)
• Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, We Were Soldiers Once and Young. New York: Random House. 1992. (412 pages)
• Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle. New York: USAWC Foundation Press, 1995. (817 pages)
• Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. (355 pages)

 

SSG -SFC

• Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. (480 pages)
• Edward M. Coffman, The War To End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. (412 pages)
• Samuel P. Huntington, Soldier and the State. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University press, 1957. (534 pages)
• Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, 1987. (357 pages)
• Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander. Springfield, NJ: Burford Books, 1999. (278 pages)
• S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. (224 pages)
• Alan R. Millett and Peter Maslowski, For the Common Defense, A Military History of the United States of America. New York: The Free Press, 1984. (621 pages)
• Robert H. Scales, Jr., Certain Victory. Washington, DC: Brassey’s Inc., 1998. (448 pages)
• Mark A. Stoler, George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1989. (252 pages)
• Tom Willard, Buffalo Soldiers. New York: Forge Press, 1997. (336 pages)

MSG – CSM

• Roy E. Appleman, East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. (399 pages)
• Graham A. Cosmas, An Army for Empire: The United States Army and the Spanish American War. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1994. (349 pages)
• Robert A. Doughty, The Evolution of US Army Tactical Doctrine, 1946-1976. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute, 1979. (57 pages)
• Antoine Henri Jomini, Jomini and His Summary of the Art of War. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1965. (161 pages)
• Charles B. MacDonald and Sidney T. Mathews, Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo and Schmidt. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1952. (443 pages)
• James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (904 pages):
• Roger H. Nye, The Challenge of Command. Wayne, New Jersey: Avery Publishing Group, 1986. (187 pages)
• Dave R. Palmer, Summons of the Trumpet: US-Vietnam in Perspective. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978. (277 pages)
• Martin Van Creveld, Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. (284 pages)
• Russell F. Weigley, The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. (477 pages)

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST TO THE NCO

• William G. Bainbridge, Top Sergeant: The Life and Times of Sergeant Major of the Army William G. Bainbridge. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995. (357 pages)
• Roy Benavidez, The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez. San Antonio, TX: Corona Publishing Company, 1986. (293 pages)
• Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: Random House, 1998 (reissue). (308 pages)
• Arnold G. Fisch, Jr., The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps: The Backbone of the Army. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1989. (250 pages)
• Ernest F. Fisher, Jr., Guardians of the Republic: A History of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps of the US Army. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001 (475 pages)
• Mark F. Gillespie et al, The Sergeants Major of the Army. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1995. (180 pages) (new edition due in 2003)
• Sun Tzu and Sun Pin, The Complete Art of War. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. (304 pages)

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