Specialization Is For Insects

To borrow a phrase from Robert A. Heinlein, I try not focus too narrowly on any given topic; it's the surprises that are most interesting...

For those of you who do not have access to my LinkedIn "Reading List by Amazon," here are some of my non-fiction shooting, hunting, fighting, and warfare favorites:

1776 by David McCullough

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose

A History of Warfare by John Keegan

A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa: Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa by Frederick Courteney Selous

A Rifleman Went To War by Herbert W. McBride

African Rifles & Cartridges by John Taylor

After Big Game in Central Africa by Edouard Foa

American Hunting Rifles: Their Application in the Field for Practical Shooting by C. Boddington

Another country: Personal adventures of the twentieth century by Jeff Cooper

Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Douglas D. Scott, Richard A. Fox Jr., Melissa A. Connor, Dick Harmon

Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Re-examined by Richard Allan Fox Jr.

Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting by Jim Posewitz

Big Game Hunting and Collecting In East Africa, 1903-1926 Kalman Kittenberger 
  
Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose

Cooper on handguns by Jeff Cooper 

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 

1754-1766 by Fred Anderson

Days Afield: Journeys and Discoveries in Hunting and Fishing by Thomas McIntyre

Death in the Desert: The Fifty Year's War for the Great Southwest by Paul I. Wellman

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Fireworks: A Gunsite Anthology by Jeff Cooper
  
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides

Guide to Nyati: The Art of Hunting the African Buffalo

Gun and camera in southern Africa; a year of wanderings in Bechuanaland, the Kalahari  Desert, and the Lake River country, Ngamiland by H A Bryden

Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus *

Hiroshima by John Hersey

History of Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Hit Or Myth by Louis Awerbuck

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari by R. Ruark

Horned Death by John Burger

In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection by Massad F. Ayoob

Instinctive Shooting by G. Fred Asbell

Kill or Be Killed: The Rambling Reminiscences of an Amateur Hunter by Major W. Robert Foran

Kursk: The Clash of Armour by Geoffrey Jukes

Lion-Hunting in Somali-Land by C. J. Meliss

Longbow: A Social and Military History by Robert Hardy

Moving Mountains, Lessons in Leadership & Logistics From the Gulf War by Lt. Gen. William G, Pagonis

No Second Place Winner by Bill Jordan

Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression by Robert L. O'Connell

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick

Principles of Personal Defense by Jeff Cooper

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II by George MacDonald Fraser

Rifles For Africa by Gregor Woods

Roman Warfare by Adrian Goldsworthy

Safari Rifles by Craig Boddington

Sharpshooting For Sport And War by William Wellington Greener

Shots at Big Game by Craig Boddington

Shots fired in anger: A rifleman's view of the war in the Pacific by John B George

Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell

Song of the Paddle: An Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Camping by Bill Mason

Stalking & Still-Hunting by G. Fred Asbell

Street Smart Gun Book by John Farnam

Tactical Reality: An Uncommon Look at Common-Sense Firearms Training and Tactics by Louis Awerbuck

That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen P. Halbrook

The AK47 Story by Edward Clinton Ezell

The Art of the Rifle by Jeff Cooper

The Art of War in the Middle Ages: A.D. 378-1515 by Charles Oman

The Combat Shotgun And Submachine Gun: A Special Weapons Analysis by Chuck Taylor

The Complete Book Of Combat Handgunning by Chuck Taylor

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

The Farnam Method of Defensive Handgunning, Second Edition by John S. Farnam

The Fighting Rifle: A Complete Study of the Rifle in Combat by Chuck Taylor

The Hunting Rifle: Design, Selection, Ballistics, Marksmanship by Townsend Whelen

The Mask of Command by John Keegan

The Modern Technique of the Pistol by Gregory B. Morrison

The Lost Art of War: Recently Discovered Companion to the Bestselling The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

The Rifle in America by Philip B. Sharpe

To Ride, Shoot Straight & Speak the Truth by Jeff Cooper

The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 by Stephen E. Ambrose

Up North (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Sam Cook

Use Enough Gun by Robert Ruark

With British Snipers to the Reich by Capt. C. Shore 

* Okay, Herodotus was pretty fanciful, less so than Homer - who was clearly a storyteller without pretense, but not nearly so careful as Thucydides - the West's first serious historian.

UPDATE: As of late March 2012 I have discovered Goodreads and have moved many of my reading details here http://www.goodreads.com/michael_brady