Reserve Officers

Recommended Reading List

Reading Specifically Related to Reserve and National Guard Forces

A Supplement to the Recommended Reading Program of the Individual Services

Revision 12022004, Revision: 01302007

Title
Service
Publisher
Comments
Comprehensive:
Citizen Warriors: America's National Guard and Reserve Forces & the Politics of National Security, by Stephen Duncan; 1997
All
Presidio Press Policy through Operation Desert Shield & Desert Storm
The Guard and Reserve in the Total Force, The First Decade 1973-1983, Edited by Bennie J. Wilson III, 1986
All
National Defense University Press, Fort Lesley J. McNair The Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Royal Navy's Reserves in War & Peace 1903-2003, by Stephen Howarth, 2004 USNR Pen & Sword Famous Naval Author
Individual histories:
Spare Parts: A Marine Reservist's Journey from Campus to Combat in 38 Days, by Buzz Williams; 2004
All
Gotham Books Marine Corps Reservist Before, During, and After the Gulf War
A Very Long Weekend: The Army National Guard in Korea, 1950-1953, by William Berebitsky; 1996
All
White Main Publishing Co. Units Deployed in Korea
Unexpected Journey, by Randy K. & Roxanne Mills, 2000
USMCR
Naval Institute Press Marine Corps Reserve Company in Korea
Weekend Warriors, by Paul L. Cooper, 1996
USNR
Sunflower University Press Naval Air Reserve Squadron in Korea
Service histories:
Twice the Citizen, A History of the U. S. Army Reserve 1908-1995, by James T. Gurrie and Richard B. Grossland.
USAR
U. S. Govt Printing Office, 1997
Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War, The Army National Guard, 1636-2000, by Michael D. Doubler
ArmyNG & AirNG
University Press Of Kansas, 2003
U. S. Naval Reserve: The First 75 Years (1992)
USNR
Naval War College, Naval Reserve Paper No 1 Special study; no official history published
U. S. Naval Reserve: Chronology 1992 (1992)
USNR
Naval War College, Naval Reserve Paper 11 Special study; no official history published
Citizen Airmen, A History of the Air Force Reserve, 1946-1994, by Gerald T. Cantwell
USAFR
U. S. Govt Printing Office, 1997
Professional military association produced:
The ROA Story, by John T. Carlton and John F. Slinkman; 1982
All
Reserve Officers Association Out of Publication
Citizen Sailors: The U. S. Naval Reserve in War and Peace, by William R. Kreh; 1968
USNR
Naval Reserve Association Out of Publication
Heritage reading:
The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, by Richard Moe, 1993
All
Minnesota Historical Society Press In Print
The Story of a Regiment Being a Narrative of the Service of the Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War of 1861 to 1865 written by Judson W. Bishop, by Newell L. Chester, Editor, 2000
All
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc. In Print
The 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment by William J. K. Beaudot, 2003
All
Stackpole Books Published 2003

Out of Publication books can often be obtained via on-line auction web sites or on-line booksellers.

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