Reading List
Here are some books that are recommended by other people who have been through AOSB & Sandhurst.
- The Human Face of War by Jim Storr
- Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel
- The Junior Officers’ Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- A History of Warfare by John Keegan
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- Who Rules the World? – Noam Chomsky
- Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders – L. David Marquet
- Leadership is just plain you – Field Marshal Slim.
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- Stand Up Straight – Paul Nanson
- Leadership – Learning From Great Leaders – John Adair
- No Mean Soldier – Peter McAleese
- 18 Platoon – Sydney Jary
- Soldier – General Sir Mike Jackson
- Oxford History of the British Army – David Chandler
- The British Officer- leading the Army from 1660 to the present – Anthony Clayton
- Acts of War: the behaviour of men in battle – Richard Holmes
- Rain – Barney Campbell
- Armageddon – Max Hastings
- Histories of Nations – Peter Furtado
- No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege – Adam Jowett – James Goodson
- Soldier in the Sand: A Personal History of the Modern Middle East
Recommended to watch :
- BBC News at 10
- Question Time
- Sunday Politics
- Newsround
Newsletters :
- The Economist
- The Times
- The Telegraph
- The Week Magazine
Podcasts :
- The Centre for Army Leadership podcast
- BBC Global News
- The Human Advantage
- BFBS Radio Sitrep
- Intelligence Squared
- Best of Today by Radio 4
- Any Questions? and Any Answers? by Radio 4
- The Briefing by Monocle