VRC Reading List:

General• The War That Comes Home

◦ Aaron Glantz• Band of Sisters

◦ Kirsten Homsedt• Devil Dogs

◦ Even Write• Soft Spots

◦ Clint Van Winkle• Odyseus in America

◦ Johnothan Shay• Achillies in Vietnam

◦ Johnothan Shay• Wounded Warriors

◦ Mike Sayer• House to House

◦ David Belavia• On Call in Hell

◦ CDR Richard Jadick• The Veterans Survival Guide

◦ John D. Roche• The Forever War

◦ Dexter Filkins• Boots On The Ground

◦ Karl Zinmeister• Down Range: To Iraq and Back

◦ Bridget Cantrell• The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

◦ John Crawford• Best Care Anywhere

◦ Phillip Longman• The Unforgiving Minute

◦ Craig M. Mullany• War and The Soul

◦ Ed Tick• Barrons Officer Candidate School Test • Moving a Nation To Care

◦ Illona Megher• To Benning and Back V.I The making of

a Citizen Soldier◦ Monroe Mann

• An Operators Manual to Combat PTSD◦ Ashley Hart II

Conflict Specific

• The Prince of Marshes ( Iraq)◦ Rory Stuart

• The Places in Between (Afghanistan)◦ Rory Stuart

• The Forever War (Iraq)◦ Dexter Filkins

• Ghost Wars(Afghanistan)◦ Steve Coll ( Afghanistan)

• Fiasco ( Iraq)◦ Thomas Ricks

• Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan◦ Aaron Glantz

• In the Graveyard of Empires America's War in Afghanistan.◦ Seth G. Jones

• In Conflict; Iraq War Veterans speak on Duty, Loyality and the Fight to Stay Alive.◦ Yvonne Latty and Max Cleland

• Through Veterans eyes: The Iraq and

Afghanistan Experience.◦ Larry Mineir

• New Title I (Iraq/Afghanistan veteran Handbook)◦ Wolfgang Ward

• The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving In Iraq◦ Helen Benedict

• Taliban◦ Ahmed Rashid

Other Books:• The Gamble

◦ Thomas Ricks• Joke One: A Maine Platoons Story of

Courage, Leadership and Brotherhood.◦ Donovan Cambell

• Veterans Benefits for Dummies◦ tbd

• After the War Zone (A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families)◦ Mathew J. Freidman Phd

• Operation Homecoming◦ Andrew Carroll

• Not a Good Day to Die◦ Sean Naylor

• The Forgotten Soldier◦ Guy Sajer

• The Last Ridge◦ McKay Jenkins

• Black Hawk Down◦ Mark Bowden

• Counterinsurgency Warfare◦ David Galula

• Gates of Fire◦ Steven Pressfield

• Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife◦ John Nagl

• One Bullet Away◦ Nathaniel Fick

• On Killing◦ David Grossman

• The Soldier and The State◦ Ernst Junger

• We were soldiers once ...and young

◦ Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway• The Things They Carried Away

◦ Tim O'Brian• The Red Badge of Courage

◦ Stephen Crane• Platoon Leader

◦ James McDonough• Ordinary Men

◦ Christopher Browning