Reading List

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