Professional Military Reading - the CSAF list

Every year, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force (as well as other military leaders) puts out a list of books he recommends all AF personnel read. The new list, from General T. Michael Moseley, was provided to AF base library directors yesterday so that we could place our orders. These are the titles for 2008, with those the Offutt Base Library owns marked with an asterisk - the others are on order.


Our Military Heritage:
*At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, by Gordon Prange
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century, by Ivan Musicant
Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign, by Scott Bowden and Bill Ward
Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years, by Keith D. McFarland and David L. Roll

Our Air Force Heritage:
First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-Torn Skies Above Britain, by Geoffrey Wellum
Gods of Tin: The Flying Years, by James Salter
*Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot, by Starr Smith

Our Mission, Doctrine, and Profession:
John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power, by John A. Olsen
*On the Edge of Earth: The Future of American Space Power, Steven Lambakis
Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat, by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris

Our Nation and World:
*The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, by Bernard Lewis

Previous lists are available at the CSAF Professional Reading Program site.

The Chief of Naval Operations list
The U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List
The Marine Corps Professional Reading Program


Book links are to Amazon.com for convenience of reading reviews, not as an endorsement of a specific company.

Currently Reading: regional librarian newsletters such as NLCommunicator and NCompass(Nebraska Library Commission), Eastern Express (Eastern Library System - east central Nebraska), SoLiS (Southeast Library System - southeast Nebraska), MPLA (Mountain Plains Library Association), and Meridian Monitor (Meridian Library System - western Nebraska)
Currently Listening to: "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin