Brigadier General Henry J. Reilly Memorial Library

Brigadier General Henry J. Reilly Memorial Library

About Brig. Gen. Reilly

Henry J. Reilly (1881–1963) graduated from West Point in 1904 and served during World War I (1914-1918).  During that war, he commanded the 83rd Infantry Brigade of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division of the United States Army.  He helped found the Reserve Officers Association in 1922 and served as its first president. From 1922 to 1925, he also edited The Army and Navy Journal. As a civilian, he was a military analyst and war correspondent.

His Collection

This book collection contains roughly 1,500 volumes collected by Brig. Gen. Reilly during his lifetime.

Sherman : soldier, realist, American by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Sr. (1993)
Initiation, the perfecting of man by Annie Besant (1923)
Billy Mitchell : crusader for air power by Alfred F Hurley (1975)
Edward S. Corwin's The Constitution and what it means today by Edward S Corwin (1978)
Illustrated catalog of Civil War military goods : weapons, insignia, uniform accessories, and other equipment by Schuyler, Hartley & Graham (1985)
The American way of war : a history of United States military strategy and policy by Russell Frank Weigley
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)
Why the North won the Viet Nam War edited by Marc Jason Gilbert (2002)
A cold corner of hell; the story of the Murmansk convoys, 1941-45 by Robert Carse (1969)
Leyte Gulf ; armada in the Pacific by Donald GFW Macintyre (1970)
The coming explosion in Latin America by Gerald Clark (1963)
Write it right, a little blacklist of literary faults by Ambrose Bierce (1909)
Those who love : a biographical novel of Abigail and John Adams by Irving Stone (1965)
Defeat into victory by William Joseph Slim (1961)
The hinge of fate by Winston Churchill (1950)
Russian and nomad by E Nelson Fell (1916)
Men of Waterloo by John Patrick Sutherland (1966)
The last days of Hitler by HR Trevor-Roper (1947)
Inside Russia today by John Gunther (1958)
A nation at war in an era of strategic change by Williamson Murray (2004)
The memoirs of Field-Marshal the viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. by Bernard Law Montgomery (1958)