Infantry School Reading List
By Rank
By Subject
Canadian Army Reading List
Introduction
Doctrine
Military Theory
Canadian Military Heritage
Military History
Campaign and Battle Studies
Leadership
The Human Factor
Technology
Future Warfare
Peacekeeping
Politics, International Relations and Economics
Ethics, Domestic Issues and Social Trends
Fiction
The Infantry School Reading List
Review book list by Subject:
General - Canadian Military History - Leadership, Memoires and Biography - History of War - Theory, Doctrine and Tactics - Canadian Society - Low Intensity Conflict and PeacekeepingReview book list by rank
General
Canadian Military History
Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World WarEnglish, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command
Leadership, Memoires and Biography
Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take a HeroPatton, War as I Knew It
Cordingly, ‘’In the Eye of the Storm: Commanding the Desert Rats in the Gulf War’’
History of War
Record, Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf WarClancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Theory, Doctrine and Tactics
Wee, Sun Tzu: War and ManagementVan Creveld, The Transformation of War
Leonhardt, The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and Airland Battle
Canadian Military History
Private - Corporal
Morton/Granatstein, Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919Granatstein/Morton, A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Gwyn, Tapestry of WarGoodspeed, The Armed Forces of Canada
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Douglas, Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World WarMorton, A Military History of Canada
Roy, 1944: The Cdns in Normandy
Williams, The Long Left Flank
Stanley, The Military History of an Unmilitary People
Granatstein/Morton, A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Bercuson, Maple Leaf Against the AxisGranatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War
Stacey, The Cdn Army 1939-45
Stacey, The Victory Campaign
Schreiber, Shock army of the British empire: The Canadian Corps in the last 100 days of the Great War
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
English, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High CommandLieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World WarEnglish, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command
General
Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World WarEnglish, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command
Leadership, Memoires and Biography
Private - Corporal
Davis, The sharp end: A Canadian soldier's storySajer, The Forgotten Soldier
Fraser, The Flashman Papers
Jack, The Bandy Papers:
Three cheers for me: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume one
That's me in the middle: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume two
The Bandy Papers: Me Too
The Bandy Papers: This One's on Me
Hitler Versus Me: Volume Eight of the Bandy Papers
Stalin Versus Me: Volume Nine of the Bandy Papers
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry OfficerWarrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Keegan, The Mask of CommandGraham, The Price of Command
Hyatt, General Sir Arthur Currie
Holmes, Firing Line
Caputo, A Rumor of War
Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Fraser, The Flashman Papers
Jack, The Bandy Papers:
Three cheers for me: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume one
That's me in the middle: The journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume two
The Bandy Papers: Me Too
The Bandy Papers: This One's on Me
Hitler Versus Me: Volume Eight of the Bandy Papers
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Dixon, On the Psychology of Military IncompetenceGuderian, Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare
Fraser, Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Patton, War as I Knew ItGuderian, Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Eisenhower, Crusade in EuropeKeegan, The Mask of Command
General
Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take a HeroPatton, War as I Knew It
Cordingly, ‘’In the Eye of the Storm: Commanding the Desert Rats in the Gulf War’’
History of War
Private - Corporal
Crane, The Red Badge of CourageRemarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Keegan, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Keegan, The Face Of BattleHollis, Platoon Under Fire
Tuchman, The Guns of August
Shaara, The Killer Angels
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Hastings, Battle for the FalklandsSajer, The Forgotten Soldier
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Luttwak, The Israeli ArmyHastings, Overlord:D-Day Battle for Normandy
Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany-June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945
Dunn, The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1918
Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
Cohen, The Stuff of Heroes: The Eight Universal Laws of Leadership
Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Barnett, The Desert GeneralsHorne, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Horne, To Lose a BattleKeegan, A History Of Warfare
Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
General
Record, Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf WarClancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Theory, Doctrine and Tactics
Private - Corporal
Heinlein, Starship TroopersHenderson, Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Martin, Poor Bloody Infantry
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Swinton, Defence of Duffer's Drift - (On-line version)English, On infantry
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Lind, Maneuver Warfare HandbookArt of War, The
Ardant du Picq, Battle Studies Ancient and Modern Battle
Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regimen
Rommel, Infantry Attacks
Beckwith, Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
English, On infantry
Martin, Poor Bloody Infantry
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Clausewitz, On WarHooker, Maneuvre Warfare an Anthology
Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Lupfer, The Dynamics of Doctrine
Von Mellenthin, Panzer Battles
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Toffler, War and Anti-War: Sense of Today's Global ChaosKaplan, The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Von Manstein, Lost Victories/the War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant GeneralSimpkin, Race to the Swift: Thoughts on 21st Century Warfare
General
Wee, Sun Tzu: War and ManagementVan Creveld, The Transformation of War
Leonhardt, The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and Airland Battle
Canadian Society
Private - Corporal
"Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms"Bercusson, Significant Incident
Master Corporal - Sergeant
Adams, Sex in the snow: Canadian social values at the end of the millenniumBrowning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Newman, The Canadian Revolution: From Deference to DefianceAdams, Sex in the snow: Canadian social values at the end of the millennium
Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Fields, The Code of the WarriorHolmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy: Machiavelli to the Nuclear AgeAdams, Sex in the Snow
Ignatieff, The warrior's honor: Ethnic war and the modern conscience
Bilton, Speaking Out: Untold Stories from the Falklands War
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Dunnigan, The Way of the Warrior: Leadership Lessons from History's Top Twelve Military MastersHolmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle
Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping
Private - Corporal
MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to SarajevoMaster Corporal - Sergeant
MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to SarajevoWarrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Honig, Srebrenica: Record of a War CrimeLawrence, "Anatomy of a Revolt"
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
Bellamy, Knights in White ArmourKitson, Low-Intensity Ops
Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
Scales, Firepower in Limited War
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862Scales, Firepower in Limited War
Peters, Fighting for the Future
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's ShenandoahValley Campaign, Spring 1862
Peters, Fighting for the Future
