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History 304: American Military History: Course Bibliography

This guide provides information on resources that can be used for American Military History.

Course Bibliography

Overviews

“American Strategy from Its Beginnings Through the First World War” By Russell Weigley pp. 408-443; “German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare, 1914-1945,” pp. 527-597; “American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific War” by D. Clayton James pp. 703-722; in: Paret, Peter., Gordon Alexander Craig, and Felix Gilbert. Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986.) Malpass Library Stacks U162.M25 1986

Snow, Donald M., and Dennis M. Drew. From Lexington to Desert Storm: War and Politics in the American Experience. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.) Request through I-Share

Tomes, Robert R. U.S. Defense Strategy From Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom: Military Innovation and the New American Way of War, 1973- 2003. (London ; New York: Routledge, 2007.) Request through I-Share

Lexington & Concord

Ferling, John E. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. (Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.) Malpass Library Stacks E230.F47 2007

Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.) Request through I-Share

French, Allen. The Day of Concord and Lexington: The Nineteenth of April, 1775. (Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint company, 1969.) Malpass Library Stacks E241.L6 F8 1969

Hallahan, William H. The Day the American Revolution Began: 19 April 1775. (New York: William Morrow, 2000.) Malpass Library Stacks E209 .H36 2000

"Colonial Military Strategy” By Donald Stoker and Michael Jones, pp. 5-34; and “British Military Strategy” By Jeremy Black, pp. 58-72; in Stoker, Donald J., Kenneth J. Hagan, and Michael T. McMaster. Strategy in the American War of Independence: A Global Approach. (London ; New York: Routledge, 2010.) Request through I-Share

Gettysburg

Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command. (New York: Scribner's, 1984.) Malpass Library Stacks E475.53.C72

Downey, Fairfax. The Guns At Gettysburg. (New York: D. McKay, 1958.) Malpass Library Stacks E475.53.D75

Hess, Earl J.. Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-unit Effectiveness. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.) Request through I-Share

Jones, Archer. Civil War Command and Strategy: The Process of Victory and Defeat. (New York : Free Press, 1992.) Malpass Library Stacks E470.J74 1992

Reardon, Carol,, and Tom Vossler. The Gettysburg Campaign: June-July 1863.( Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2013.) at http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo37413

Battle of Tucker, Glenn. High Tide At Gettysburg: The Campaign in Pennsylvania. [1st ed.]. (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.)  Malpass Library Stacks E475.51 .T83

Battle of Belleau Wood

Gray, Randal. Kaiserschlacht, 1918: The Final German Offensive. (Danbury, Conn: Praeger, 1997.) Request through Interlibrary Loan

Griffiths, William R. The Great War. (Wayne, N.J.: Avery Pub. Group, 1986.) Request through I-Share

Grotelueschen, Mark E. The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Request through I-Share

Suskind, Richard. Do You Want to Live Forever! New York: Bantam Books, 1964. Malpass Library Stacks D545.B4 S8

Votaw, John F, and Duncan Anderson. The American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. (Oxford: Osprey, 2005.) Request through Interlibrary Loan.

Battle of Normandy / D-Day

Blumentritt, Günther., and David C. Isby. Fighting the Invasion: The German Army At D-Day. (London ; Mechanicsburg, PA: Greenhill Books ; Stackpole Books, 2000.) Request through I-Share

Harrison, Gordon A. Cross-Channel Attack. World War II, 50th anniversary commemorative edition. (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011.) http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo21090

Jackson, W. G. F. Sir. 'Overlord': Normandy 1944. (London: Carell, Paul. Invasion--they're Coming!: The German Account of the Allied Landings and the 80 Days' Battle for France. [1st American ed.]. (New York: Dutton, 1963.) Malpass Library Stacks D761.C333 1963

Norman, Albert. Operation Overlord, Design and Reality: The Allied Invasion of Western Europe. [lst. ed.]. (Harrisburg, Pa.: Military Service Pub. Co, 1952.) Malpass Library Stacks D756.5.N6 N67 1952c 1970r

Wilson, Theodore A. D-Day, 1944. (Lawrence, Kan.: Published for the Eisenhower Foundation, Abilene, Kan., by the University Press of Kansas, 1994.) Malpass Library Stacks D756.5.N6 D2 1994

Iwo Jima

Ross, Bill D. Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor. (New York: Vanguard Press, 1985.) Malpass Library Stacks D767.99.I9 R67 1985

Newcomb, Richard F. Iwo Jima. [1st ed.]. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.) Malpass Library Stacks D767.99.I9 N4

Sprietsma, Charles F. Analysis of the Battle of Iwo Jima. (Maxwell AFB, Al: Air Command and Staff College, Air University, 1984.) https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a143991.pdf or Request through Interlibrary Loan

Wood, James B. Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: Was Defeat Inevitable? (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.) Request through I-Share

Rottman, Gordon L, and Derrick Wright. Hell in the Pacific: The Battle for Iwo Jima. (Oxford: Osprey, 2008.) Request through Interlibrary Loan

Wright, Derrick. Iwo Jima 1945: The Marines Raise the Flag On Mount Suribachi. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004.) Request through I-Share

Tet Offensive

Daddis, Gregory A. Westmoreland's War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.) Request through I-Share

Oberdorfer, Don. Tet! 1st edition. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.) Malpass Library Stacks D2557.A62 T46

Summers, Harry G. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.) Malpass Library Stacks DS558.2.S95 1982

Warren, James A. Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam. (New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.) Request through I-Share

Willbanks, James H. The Tet Offensive: A Concise History. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.) Malpass Library Stacks DS557.8.T4 W54 2007

Wirtz, James J. The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.) Request through I-Share

Second Battle of Fallujah

Estes, Kenneth W. U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2004-2005: Into the Fray. (Washington, D.C.: History Division, U.S. Marine Corps, 2011.)  Malpass Library GovPubs.D214.13.IR 1/5 Also available online: http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo10899

“Engineers at War: Fallujah—November 2004” By John Maass, pp. 85-104 in Hoffman, Jon T. Tip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small-unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007. (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2009.) online at http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo913

Nance, Malcolm W. The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014. Second edition. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2015.) Request through I-Share

Rayburn, Joel, Frank K. Sobchak, et al. The U.S. Army in the Iraq War. Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil War, 2003-2006. (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute : U.S. Army War College Press, 2019.) Available online at https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo121367

West, Francis J. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah. (New York: Bantam Books, 2005.) Request through I-Share