Military History: A Selected Bibliography

Abstract

Military historian Williamson Murray has prepared this selected bibliography as a guide to the vast body of military histories and as a reading program that could extend our understanding and comprehension of that terrible, yet intriguing, human phenomenon that is war. JAWP) is making it available to those individuals in DoD and the Services who feel that history can shed light on the problems they confront today. The bibliography is derived from the substantial literature on European and American military history The works were chosen for a variety of reasons: quality of scholarship, point of view subject matter, and readability. They are categorized by period and subject matter, and given a rating by the author. The first chapter contains an annotated list of twenty-five books that Dr. Murray considers essential to the library of a warfighter, scholar, or student of military history.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA423012

Entities

People

  • Williamson Murray

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Civil War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design