Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Library
His reading list contains 54 titles and highlight what he said capture the history, culture and evolution of the Marine Corps. The library was developed with assistance from the Marine Corps Association and contains almost two dozen books on the Commandant's Professional Reading List.
It also includes books about the business world such as "Good to Great" and "Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way".
SgtMaj Barrett plans to leave his office library at the Pentagon when he retires and hopes it grows in the future.
Sgt Maj Barrett's Library:
13 Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale Library of Military History)
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
Bayonet! Forward: My Civil War Reminiscences
Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir (Bluejacket Paperback Book Series)
Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
Edson's Raiders: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion in World War II (Leatherneck Classics)
Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization
Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps (Bluejacket Books)
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United States Marines at War in the Pacific
Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II
Once a Marine: The Memoirs of General A. A. Vandegrift Commandant of the U.S. Marines in WW II
Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
Rifleman Dodd (Great War Stories)
The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way
Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Story Vietnam Continues
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Bridge at Dong Ha (Bluejacket Books)
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
The General (Great War Stories)
The Gift of Valor: A War Story
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
The Lions of Iwo Jima (John MacRae Books)
The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines
The Navajo Code Talkers (25th Anniversary Edition)
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign (Great War Stories)
War in the Pacific 1941-1945 (General Military)
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War Never Ends
Categories: Professional Military Reading
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