Summer - United States Special Operations Command

SOF and SOF Medicine Book ListWe haven’t published the SOF reading list since the Summer 06 edition and recently received a request to republishit.Those of you who know COL Farr’s history of joining the Army at age 18 may realize that he has evidentlyconned the Army into sending him off for long term civilian schooling for his bachelor’s degree, two master’s degrees,and his doctor of medicine. Each time, he bought books. So below is his book list of military medical history and SpecialOperations Forces history books currently in his library. For a detailed list with the publishers and date of publication,please contact the JSOM at JSOM@socom.mil.If anyone has other books they would like to add to the list, let us know. The intent is to present a concise list of thevast array of reading material available that pertains to the mission of Special Operations – both past and present.We also strongly encourage readers to write a short review for the books they have read and/or have personal firsthand knowledge concerning a specific selection. This will help maintain a high degree of content validity.TITLE AUTHOR ISBN15 Months In SOG: A Warrior’s Tour T.L. Nicholson, T.P. Nichols 080411872890 Minutes at Entebbe W. Stevenson, U. Dan 0553104829200 Years of Military Medicine R.C. EngelmanA Bugle Calls: The Story of the Witwatersr and Rifles S. Monic 62013984A Concise History of U.S. Army Special Operations Forces G.T. Barker 0922004099A Concise History of the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry G.T. Barker 0922004021A Concise History of U.S. Army Airborne Infantry G.T. Barker 0922004013A Concise History of U.S. Army Special Operations Forces G.T. BarkerA Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot A.W. Bacot, J.V. Berlin 0872499707A Confederate Surgeon’s View of Ft. Donaldson… J. StanberyA Historical Perspective of SOF as Instruments of Strategy G.D. Jones CGSC 1991A History of Medicine in South Carolina: 1825-1900 J.I. Waring, R.H. Shryock SCMAA History of Military Medicine R.A. Gabriel, K.S. Metz 031327746XA History of Special Forces in Somalia 1992-5J.D. CeleskiA Man Called Intrepid W. Stevenson 0345310233A Medical Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain L. Appleby 05711739XA Prototype of a Confederate Hospital Center… P.W. Houck B0006ELBYYA Saw, Pocket Instruments, and Two Ounces of Whiskey:Frontier Military Medicine in the Great Basin A.P. Sohn 0870622722A Soldier with the Arabs J.B. Glubb 0006DI81OA Soldier’s Story: The Double Life of a Confederate Spy D.L. Phillips 567994253A Special Breed of Man E. Edell 0934588082A Surgeon’s Civil War: The Letters of Daniel M. Holt J.M. Greiner, et al. 0873384946A Study of the Medical Support to the Union & ConfederateArmies During the Battle of Chickamauga: Lessons &Implications for Today’s U.S. Army Medical Department LeadersD.A. Rubenstein CGSC, 1990A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Dida National Defense Review? C.W. Richards 1932019014A Systematic Review of “Commando” (Special) Operations1939-1980 E. Lutwak, et al.A Texas Surgeon in the C. S. A. J.Q. Anderson 0007E4AEGA Vast Sea of Misery: A History and Guide to the Unionand Confederate Field Hospitals at Gettysburg,July 1 to November 20, 1863 G.A. Coco 0939631091A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: The Diary of Esther Hawks G. Schwartz, E.H. Hawks 0872494357A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War S.B. Oates 0028740122About Face: Odyssey of an American Warrior D.H. Hackworth, J. Sherman 0671526928SOF Reading List 105