MCPON reading list – Owner’s & Operator’s/Manual 2002 – Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
The following comprise the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy’s Naval Heritage/Core Values Reading Guide as revised in 2001. This list is updated as part of the Chief Petty Officer initiation season. The books are available through the Navy Exchange or the Uniform Center toll-free ordering system.
“A” List: Required Reading List
The Fighting Liberty Ships – A Memoir
by A.A. Hoehling
A Sailor’s Log: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life
by Rear Adm. Robert D. Evans
Tin Can Sailor – Life Aboard the USS Sterett, ’39 -’45
By C. Raymond Calhoun
Battleship Sailor
by Theodore C. Mason
Brave Ship, Brave Men
by Arnold S. Lott
We Will Stand By You – Serving in the Pawnee, ’42-’45
by Theodore C. Mason
Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey
by Alvin Kernan
Thunder Below
by Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey
The Battle of Cape Esperance — Encounter at Guadalcanal
by Capt. Charles Cook
The Golden Thirteen — Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
by Paul Stillwell with Colin L. Powell
The Last Patrol
by Harry Holmes
Raiders from the Sea
by John Lodwick
Submarine Diary — The Silent Stalking of Japan
by Rear Adm. Corwin Mendenhall
Devotion to Duty — A Biography of Admiral Clifton A. F Sprague
by John F. Wukovits
Every Other Day: Letters from the Pacific
by George B. Lucas
In Love and War: Revised and Updated
by Jim and Sybil Stockdale
Nimitz
by E. B. Potter
Ship’s Doctor
by Capt. Terrence Riley
What a Way to Spend a War. Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines
by Dorothy Still Danner
Naked Warriors
by Cmdr. Frances Douglas Fane and Don Moore
Iwo
by Richard Wheeler
Descent Into Darkness
by Cmdr. Edward C. Raymer
Blood on the Sea
by Robert Sinclair Parkin
On Watch
by Adm. Elmo Zumwalt
Wake of the Wahoo
by Forrest J. Sterling
Quiet Heroes
by Cmdr. Frances Omori
The Fast Carriers — The Forging of an Air Navy
by Clark G. Reynolds
A Most Fortunate Ship — Narrative History of Old Ironsides
by Tyrone Martin
A Voice From the Main Deck
by Samuel Leech
Amongst My Best Men — African Americans in the War of 1812
by Gerald T. Altoff
Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy
by Dennis J. Ringle
Divided Waters – The Naval History of the Civil War
by Ivan Musicant
That Gallant Ship: Yorktown
by Robert Cressman
By Sea, Air, and Land — An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia
by Edward J. Marolda
Shield and Sword — The U.S. Navy and the Persian Gulf
by Edward J. Marolda and Robert J. Schneller Jr.
My Father, My Son
by Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Elmo Zumwalt III
Good Night Officially
by E. I. Jernigan
by William M. McBride
Tin Can Man
Raiders of the Deep
by Lowell Thomas, introduction by Gary E. Weir
“B” List: Reference
American Naval History — An Illustrated Chronology of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-Present
by Edward J Marolda
The Book of Navy Songs
by The Trident Society
Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-92
by Thomas Wildenberg
Sea Power: A Naval History
by E. B. Potter
Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! — Recollections of a Day of Infamy
by Paul Stillwell
E-Boat Alert — Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet
by James Foster Tent
Heroes in Dungarees – The Story of the American Merchant Marines in World War II
by John Bunker
Unsung Sailors — The Naval Armed Guard in World War II
by Justin F. Gleichauf
The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway
by John B. Lundstrom
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942
by John B. Lundstrom
Admiral John H. Towers — The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy
by William F. Trinmble
The Magnificent Mitscher
by Theodore Taylor
At Dawn We Slept
by Gordon W. Prange
Prisoners of the Japanese
by Gavon Daws
The Two Ocean War
by Samuel Eliot Morrison
History of the U.S. Navy. Vol. One, 1775-1941
by Robert W. Love Jr.
Clash of the Titans
by Walter J. Boyne
Okinawa — The Last Battle of World War II
by Robert Lackie
Normandy by Vice Adm.
William P. Mack
War at Sea
by Nathan Miller
War Beneath the Sea
by Peter Sudfield
Miracle at Midway
by Gordon W. Prance
Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service
by Robert Shenk
Rocks & Shoals: Naval Discipline in the Age of Fighting Sail
by James E. Valle
The Unsinkable Fleet: The Politics of U.S. Navy Expansion in World War II
by Joel R. Davidson
Run Silent/Run Deep
by Capt. Edward L. Beach
Decision and Dissent with Halsey at Leyte Gulf
by Carl Solberg
PT 105
by Dick Keresey
Submarine Commander
by Paul Schratz
We Pulled Together and Won! Personal Memories of the World War II Era
by Reminisce Books
War in the Boats
by Capt. William J. Ruhe
Submarine Admiral
by Adm. J. J. Galantin
All at Sea
by Louis R. Harlany
Slow Dance to Pearl Harbor — A Tin Can Ensign in Prewar America
by Capt. William J. Ruhe
The People Navy
by Kenneth J. Hagan
Longitude
by Dava Sobel
U-Boat Commander
by Peter Cremer
Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid
by Gerald E. Wheeler
Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan
by Richard A. Russell
Assault from the Sea — The Amphibious Landing at Inchon
by Curtis Utz
Cordon of Steel: The U.S. Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Curtis Utz
Swift and Effective Retribution — The U.S. Sixth Fleet and the Confrontation with Qaddafi
by Joseph T. Stanik
Revolt of the Admirals
by Jeffrey Barlow
A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A Dahlgren
by Robert J. Schneller
One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990
by George Baer
Great U.S. Naval Battles
by Jack Sweetman
History of the U.S. Navy Part II
by Robert Love
Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the U.S. Navy 1945-1975
by Malcolm Muir
Quiet Warrior: A Biography of ADM Raymond A. Spruance
by Thomas Buell
Anchors and Eagles
by Paul Adkisson
Honor Bound: The History of American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
by S.I. Rochester and F. Wiley
And I Was There
by Rear Adm. Edwin T. Layton
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal
by Robert D. Ballard
Crossed Currents: Navy Women from World War I to Tailhook
by Jean Ebbert/Marie-Beth Hall
“C” List: Reference
History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. I to XIV
by Samuel Eliot Morrison
Leadership, Management & Personal Growth Reading List
Built to Last
by James Collins and Jerry Porras
Changing the Game
by Eric G. Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
by Christopher Locke and Rick Levine
Decision Traps: Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them
by I. Edward Russo and Paul J.H. Schoemaker
Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
by Robert E. Quinn
Digital Economy
by Don Tapscott
The Digital Estate
by Chuck Martin
Futurize Your Enterprise: Business Strategy in the Age of the E-customer
by David Siegel
The Human Side of intranet: Content, Style and Politics
by Jerry W. Koehler and Thorn Dupper
Imaginization
by Gareth Morgan
In Athena’s Camp
by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt
The Leadership Engine — How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level
by Noel M. Tichy and Eli B. Cohen
Leadership is an Art
by Max DePree
Leadership Without Easy Answers
by Ronald Heifetz
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman
Managing at the Speed of Change
by Daryl R. Conner
Who moved my Cheese?
by Spencer Johnson M.D.
The Other 90%
by Robert K. Cooper
The Power of Alignment
by George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky
Leading Change
by John P. Kotter
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