What to do this weekend? Well, here is the grandmother of all military reading lists

Top 60 Recommended Leadership Texts – Global Reading Lists

f

Code

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

23

ML

The Face of Battle – John Keegan

22

ML

Defeat into Victory – William Slim

15

ML-Biog

The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence – Roger Nye

13

ML

We Were Soldiers Once and Young – Harold Moore & James Galloway

13

ML-Biog

The Mask of Command – John Keegan

13

ML

Masters of War – Michael Handel

12

ML

Supreme Command – Eliot Cohen

11

ML

Command in War – Martin Van Creveld

10

ML

The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara

9

Fiction

Company Commander – Charles McDonald

9

ML

Dereliction of Duty – H.R. McMaster

9

ML

Battle Studies – Ardant Du Picq

9

ML

This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness – T.R. Fehrenbach

9

ML

Band of Brothers – Steven Ambrose

8

History

Acts of War – Richard Holmes

8

ML

Thinking in Time: Uses of History for Decision Makers – R. Neustadt & E. May

8

Leadership

In Defence of Duffer’s Drift – Ernest Dunlop Swinton

8

ML

Leadership: The Warrior’s Art – Christopher Kolenda

7

ML

Panzer Leader – Hans Guderian

7

ML-Biog

Diplomacy – Henry Kissinger

7

History

The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli

7

Lead

Small Unit Leadership: A Common-sense Approach – Dandridge Malone

7

ML

Once an Eagle – Anton Myrer

7

Fiction

The Forgotten Soldier – Guy Sajer

7

ML-Biog

History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides

7

History

Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

6

Fiction

On The Psychology of Military Incompetence
– Norman Dixon

6

ML

Leadership Without Easy Answers – Ronald Heifetz

6

Leadership

Follow Me: The Human Element in Leadership – Aubrey Newman

6

Leadership

One Hundred Days: Memoir of the Falklands Battle Group Commander – Sandy Woodward

6

ML-Biog

Caesar’s War Commentaries – Julius Caesar

6

ML

Into the Storm: A Study in Command – Tom Clancy & Frederick Franks

5

ML

Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel – David Fraser

5

ML-Biog

The General’s War – Michael Gordon & Bernard Trainor

5

ML

Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein

5

Fiction

Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Battle – James McDonough

5

ML-Biog

The Anatomy of Courage – Lord Moran

5

ML

War As I Knew It – George S. Patton

5

ML-Biog

My American Journey – Colin Powell & Joseph Persico

5

ML-Biog

Infantry Attacks – Erwin Rommel

5

ML-Biog

Hope is Not a Method – Gordon Sullivan & Michael Harper

5

Lead/ML

It Doesn’t Take a Hero – Norman Schwarzkopf & Peter Petre

5

ML-Biog

George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century – Mark Stoler

5

ML-Biog

Good to Great – Jim Collins

5

Leadership

Battle Leadership – Adolf von Schell

5

ML

Eisenhower: Soldier and President – Steven Ambrose

4

ML-Biog

On Becoming a Leader – Warren Bennis

4

Leadership

The Military Maxims of Napoleon – Napoleon Bonaparte

4

ML

The Starfish and the Spider – Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom

4

Leadership

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

4

Fiction

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey

4

PD

A Genius for War: A Life of General George S. Patton – Carlo D’Este

4

ML-Biog

The Instruction of Frederick the Great for His Generals – Frederick the Great

4

ML

The Generalship of Alexander the Great – J.F.C. Fuller

4

ML-Biog

Commander in Chief – Eric Larrabee

4

ML

The Soldier’s Load and the Mobility of a Nation – S.L.A. Marshall

4

ML

Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War – S.L.A. Marshall

4

ML

Reveries – Maurice, Comte De Saxe

4

ML

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character – Jonathon Shay

4

Psychology