MCPON reading list - U.S. Navy Owner's & Operator's Manual 2004

All Hands, Jan, 2004

The following books comprise the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy's Naval Heritage/Core Values Reading Guide as revised in August 2002. This list is updated periodically as part of the Chief Petty Officer Transition Season. The books are available through the Navy Exchange or the Uniform Center toll free ordering system.

The Leadership, Management and Personal Growth Reading Guide was updated in July 2002. This reading list is intended as a guide for all enlisted Navy leaders. Each of the books on this list contains sound management concepts and ideas, many of which can he applied to your leadership role in the Navy. Keep in mind that many of these books are written by civilians, for the civilian workplace, so not everything will directly apply.

"A" list: Required Reading

A Most Fortunate Ship: Narrative History of Old Ironsides by Tyrone G. Martin

A Sailor's Log: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life by Rear Adm. Robley D. Evans

A Voice From the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech by Samuel Leech

Battleship Sailor by Theodore C. Mason, Edward L. Beach Jr.

Brave Ship, Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott

Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey by Alvin Kernan

Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir by Edward C. Raymer

Devotion to Duty: A Biography of Admiral Clifton A.F. Sprague by John F. Wukovits, Thomas B. Buell

Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War by Ivan Musicant

Every Other Day: Letters from the Pacific by George B. Lucas

Good Night Officially: The Pacific War Letters of a Destroyer Sailor: The Letters of Yeoman James Orvill Raines by James O. Raines

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton (new for 2002)

In Love and Won The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years (Revised and Updated) by Jim and Sybil Stockdale

Iwo by P, Richard Wheeler

Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy by Dennis J. Ringle

Naked Warriors: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Frogmen by Frances Douglas Fane and Don Moore

Nimitz by E.B. Potter

Quiet Heroes: Navy Nurses of the Korean War 1950-1953 by Frances Omori

Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in World War II by John Lodwick

Raiders of the Deep by Lowell Thomas, Gary E. Weit (photographer)

Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War by Edward J. Marolda and Robert J. Schueller Jr.

Ship's Doctor by Terrence Riley

Submarine Diary: The Silent Stalking of Japan by Corwin Mendenhall, I.J. Galantin

The Bottle of Cope Esperance: Encounter at Guadalcanal by Charles O. Cook

The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy by Clark G. Reynolds

The Fighting Liberty Ships: A Memoir by A.A. Hoehling

The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Block Novel Officers by Paul Stillwell

The Last Patrol by Harry Holmes

Thunder Below: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey

Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945 by C. Raymond Calhoun

We Will Stand By You: Serving in the Pawnee, 1942-1945 by Theodore C. Mason

What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines by Dorothy Still Danner

"B" List: Reference

A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A Dahlgren by Robert J. Schneller Jr.

Admiral John H. Towers: The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy by Clark G. Reynolds

Air Raid: Pearl Harbor!: Recollections of a Day of Infamy by Paul Stillwell

All at Sea: Coming of age In World War II by Louis R. Harlan

American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-Present by Jack Sweetman

Assault from the Sea: The Amphibious Landing at Inchon by Curtis A. Utz

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange

Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Noval Service by Robert Shenk

Book of Navy Songs by The Trident Society

Clash of the Titans: World War II at Sea by Walter J. Boyne

Cordon of Steel: The U.S. Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Curtis A. Utz

Crossed Currents: Navy Women from World War I to Toilhook by Jean Ebbert, Marie-Beth Hall

E-Boot Alert: Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet by James Foster Tent

Great American Naval Bottles by Jack Sweetman

Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marines in World War H by John Bunker

History of the U.5. Navy, Vol. 1, 1775-1941 by Robert W. Love Jr.

History of the U.S. Navy, Vol. 2, 1942-1991 by Robert W. Love Jr.

History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol.I-XV, by Samuel Eliot Morison

Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 by Stuart H. Rochester, Frederick T. Wiley

Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U.S. Navy by Gerald E. Wheeler

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Magnificent Mitscher by Theodore Taylor, Jeffrey G. Barlow

Miracle at Midway by Gordon W. Prange

Okinowa: The Lost Battle of World War II by Robert Leckie