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 Peacekeeping - Review book list by rank
General
Canadian Military History
- Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War
- English, The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command
Leadership, Memoires and Biography
- Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take a Hero
- Patton, 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 War
- Clancy, 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 Management
- Van 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 1914-1919
- Granatstein/Morton, A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945
Master Corporal - Sergeant
- Gwyn, Tapestry of War
- Goodspeed, The Armed Forces of Canada
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
- Douglas, Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War
- Morton, 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 Axis
- Granatstein, 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
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
- Granatstein, Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War
- English, 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 War
- English, 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 story
- Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
- Fraser, The Flashman Papers
- Jack, The Bandy Papers:
Master Corporal - Sergeant
- Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
- Keegan, The Mask of Command
- Graham, 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 Incompetence
- Guderian, 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 It
- Guderian, Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
- Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe
- Keegan, The Mask of Command
General
- Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take a Hero
- Patton, 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 Courage
- Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front Keegan, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle
Master Corporal - Sergeant
- Keegan, The Face Of Battle
- Hollis, Platoon Under Fire
- Tuchman, The Guns of August
- Shaara, The Killer Angels
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
- Hastings, Battle for the Falklands
- Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
- Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
- Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
- Luttwak, The Israeli Army
- Hastings, 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 Generals
- Horne, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815
- Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
- Horne, To Lose a Battle
- Keegan, A History Of Warfare
- Clancy, Into the Storm: A Study in Command
General
- Record, Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf War
- Clancy, 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 Troopers
- Henderson, 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 Handbook
- Art 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 War
- Hooker, 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 Chaos
- Kaplan, 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 General
- Simpkin, Race to the Swift: Thoughts on 21st Century Warfare
General
- Wee, Sun Tzu: War and Management
- Van 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 millennium
- Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
- Newman, The Canadian Revolution: From Deference to Defiance
- Adams, 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 Warrior
- Holmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle
Chief Warrant Officer - Major
- Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy: Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
- Adams, 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 Masters
- Holmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle
Low Intensity Conflict and Peacekeeping
Private - Corporal
- MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo
Master Corporal - Sergeant
- MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo
Warrant Officer - Second Lieutenant - Lieutenant
- Honig, Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
- Lawrence, "Anatomy of a Revolt"
Master Warrant Officer - Captain
- Bellamy, Knights in White Armour
- Kitson, 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 1862
- Scales, Firepower in Limited War
- Peters, Fighting for the Future
Lieutenant Colonel - Colonel
- Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah
- Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
- Peters, Fighting for the Future
- The O'Leary Collection; Medals of The Royal Canadian Regiment.
- Researching Canadian Soldiers of the First World War
- Researching The Royal Canadian Regiment
- The RCR in the First World War
- Badges of The RCR
- The Senior Subaltern
- The Minute Book (blog)
- Rogue Papers
- Tactical Primers
- The Regimental Library
- Battle Honours
- Perpetuation of the CEF
- A Miscellany
- Quotes
- The Frontenac Times
- Site Map
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