USMC Professional Reading Program MGySgt/Sgt Maj - CWO3/Capt
Discover the essential USMC Professional Reading List for MGySgt/Sgt Maj and CWO3/Capt ranks. Explore curated titles like *The Savage Wars of Peace*, *Once an Eagle*, and *The Quiet American*—covering history, strategy, and leadership to sharpen military insight.
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All for the Union
by Elisha Hunt Rhodes
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
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Ugly American
by William J. Lederer
The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism.
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Eagle Against the Sun
by Ronald H. Spector
Traces the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and examines the major battles and campaigns.
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.
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The Savage Wars of Peace
by Max Boot
An account of the undeclared wars in American history, including those fought in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, argues their role in American international affairs and profiles such figures as Stephen Decatur and Army Lieutenant George S. Patton. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
