Summer - United States Special Operations Command

TITLE AUTHOR ISBNSub Rosa S. Alsop 0156863006Tanganyikan GuerrillaJ.R. SibleyTerrain Factors in the Russian Campaign016001946XThe Art of War Plus The Ancient Chinese Revealed Sun Tzu 1929194196The Dressing Station: A Surgeon’s Chronicle of War andMedicine J. Kaplan 0802117074The First Professional Revolutionist E.L. Eisenstein 0674304004The Medical Department: Medical Service in the WarAgainst Japan M. Condon-Rall, A. Cowdrey 0160492653The Philippine War, 1899-1902 B.A. Linn 0700612254The Politics of Resistance in France, 1940-1944: A Historyof the Mouvements unis de la Résistance J. Sweets 0875800610The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy inChina F. Jullien, J. Lloyd 0942299949The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. B.F. Smith 0233975772The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru G.G. Ellenbogen, G. Gorriti 0807846767The Withered Vine C.R. Shrader 0275965449The Women Who Lived for Danger M. Binney 0060540877The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico D. Ronfeldt, et al. 0833026569Theoretical Perspectives of Terrorist Enemies as Networks R.G. SpulakThey fought alone J. Keats B0006AYKWITito’s Partisans 1941-45 V. Vuksic 1841766755U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Cold War L. Thompson 1853675067United States Army and World War 2: Selected Papers Fromthe Army’s Commemorative Conferences J.L. Bellafaire 016049589XWar of the Flea: Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare R. Taber, B.E. O’Neill 1574885553War Stories of the Green Berets H. Halberstadt 076031974XWarfare in the Far North W. Erfurth 00075X6Wilderness Medicine: Management of Wilderness andEnvironmental Emergencies. P. Auerbach, MD 0323032281Witness to War: An American Doctor in El Salvador C. Clements 0553050648The following is a compiled list of SOF related books recommended for your reading by those who were there. This list is complementsof Len Blessing. Every attempt is made to maintain the list’s integrity with respected and legitimate works. I have removedthe books that duplicated COL Farr’s list. Readers who feel a selection does not merit inclusion are encouraged to contact us with disputes.TITLEAUTHOR00:19:57 Dave F. StaffordA Tear For SomaliaDouglas T. Collins(Written by a Brit who married a Somali woman while serving as amember of the British Camel Corps after the end of WWII.Not a history, but it does give insight into Somali society.)A Very Short WarJohn F. Guilmartin Jr(About the last gunfight and the last sacrifices of the Vietnam-erawar in the recovery of the crew and ship SS Mayaguez in 1975.)Advice and Support: The Early YearsRonald H. SpectorAirborne and “Special Forces”Hans Halberstadt(non-fiction, good quick references, especially for family or civilians)American GuerrillaUnknown(WW II U.S. led guerrillas in Phillipines)Band of BrothersStephen Ambrose(A great story about “E” Company, 506th PIR, 101st ABN Division in WWII.)Battle for the Central Highlands: A Special Forces StoryGeorge E. DooleyBeyond Nam DongRoger Donlon116Journal of Special Operations Medicine Volume 9, Edition 3 / Summer 09