Recommended books by Mark Moyar (bio following):
FRESHMEN
What all entering freshmen should have read
1. The Iliad (Homer)
2. Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
3. The Conservative Mind (Russell Kirk)
4. Who Killed Homer (Victor Davis Hanson)
5. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
6. The Black Book of Communism (Stephane Courtois)
7. Witness (Whittaker Chambers)
8. Unprotected (Miriam Grossman)
9. Civil Rights (Thomas Sowell)
10. The Forgotten Man (Amity Shlaes)

SENIORS
What all graduating seniors should have read:
1. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
2. Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
3. The Closing of the American Mind (Allan Bloom) v 4. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke)
5. God and Man At Yale (William F. Buckley)
6. The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)
7. The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
8. The Haunted Wood (Allen Weinstein)
9. Triumph Forsaken (Mark Moyar)
10. Why I Turned Right (Mary Eberstadt, ed.)

Dr. Mark Moyar
Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the U.S. Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia
Dr. Moyar received a B.A. summa cum laude in history from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University. To date, he has published two books on the Vietnam War and is nearing completion of a history of counterinsurgency. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications.  Dr. Moyar has taught previously at Cambridge University, Ohio State University, and Texas A & M University.

Books by Dr. Moyar:
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
An engaging read of the history of the Vietnam War you are not likely to get in a class. Read a review here: Weekly Standard

Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong

Co-authored with Harry G. Summers, Phoenix and The Birds of Prey:
Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam