CSAF Reading List

The new Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List is now available. We have all of these books available to loan to our pattrons, as do all base libraries.

The books included on the list are divided into two sections: Our Military History and Our Air Force Heritage.
Our Military History:

• A History of the American People – Paul Johnson


• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era – James M. McPherson


• 1776 – David McCullough


• General George Washington: A Military Life – Edward G. Lengel


• The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America – Ken Pollack


• Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution – Richard M. Ketchum

Our Air Force Heritage

• Air Force Roles and Missions: a History – Warren A. Trest


• Airpower Against Terror: America’s Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom – Benjamin Lambeth (RAND)


• Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas that Revolutionized War, From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II – Stephen Budiansky


• A Question of Loyalty: Gen Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nation – Douglas Waller


• Billy Mitchell: Crusader for Air Power – Alfred F. Hurley


• Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century – W. David Lewis


• The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid, America's First World War II Victory – Craig Nelson


• The Influence of Air Power upon History – Walter J. Boyne


• Locating Air Force Base Sites: History’s Legacy – Edited by Frederick J. Shaw


• Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power Economic and Military – William Mitchell