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The Bookshelf provides recommended reading lists and book reviews. The reviews give a synopsis of the book and lessons learned. Submissions are welcome and are a great place for junior leaders and new authors to make a start.

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Reading Lists and Resources

Combat Commander’s Reading List

Busy Platoon Commander’s Reading List

Junior Leader Recommended Reading

Why Science Fiction is Good for PME

Marine Corps Reading Program

CO's Reading List, 1st Regiment, RAA

Book Reviews

Why Army Officers Should Read About Lord Horatio Nelson

James Davis January 17, 2017

The Ones We Let Down: Toxic Leadership Culture and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine

Shannon Lewis-Simpson and Anne Reiffenstein March 26, 2023

The Next World War: How Science-Fiction PME Enables Future Force Adaptation

Alexander Beavan June 16, 2022

The Humble Gardener — A Leadership Reflection on McChrystal’s Team of Teams

Steve Cotterill July 30, 2017

The Busy Platoon Commander’s Reading List

Chris Hall January 5, 2018

Learning from the Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List

Matthew Dirago July 5, 2017

Lazy PME: Using Science Fiction Television to Enhance Professional Military Education

Tom Bittner May 6, 2018

Junior Leader Professional Military Education

Samuel Cox March 5, 2020

Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

Samuel Cox November 1, 2020

Inherent Resolve – Predeployment reading list

Mark Mankowski July 1, 2018

GC Partner – The Bookshelf

Grounded Curiosity September 15, 2019

Book Review: Sky Pilot: History of Chaplaincy in the RAAF 1926-1990

Darren Cronshaw February 11, 2024

Book Review: Mission Command in the Israel Defence Forces by Brig General Gideon Avidor

Chris Bulow May 11, 2021

Book Review: Head & Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership, by Kirstin Ferguson

Darren Cronshaw April 13, 2024

Book review: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible voyage, by Alfred Lansing

Michael Turner April 23, 2023

Book Review- Digital Downfall, by Hugh Taylor

Darby Nelson September 10, 2020

Book Review – What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Bruce D Perry & Oprah Winfrey

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – War and Moral Injury: A Reader, edited by Robert Emmet Meagher and Douglas A. Pryer

Darren Cronshaw September 2, 2021

Book Review – The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, by Christian Brose

Dylan Nigh February 12, 2022

Book Review – The Human Face of War

Chris Hall August 3, 2017

Book Review – The Future of War: A History

James Bedogni May 13, 2018

Book Review – The Five Dysfunctions of a TEAM: A Leadership Fable, by Patrick Lencioni

Darren Cronshaw April 14, 2024

Book Review – The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter Senge

Darren Cronshaw April 20, 2024

Book Review – The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, by Stephen R Covey

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – Stopping Military Suicides: Veteran Voices to Help Prevent Deaths, by Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor

Darren Cronshaw September 16, 2021

Book Review – Run For Your Life: How one woman ran circles around breast cancer, by Cathy Baker

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber, by John Blaxland & Clare Birgin

Darren Cronshaw April 24, 2024

Book Review – Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally, by Kelly Starrett with T J Murphy

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – Ralph Honner: Kokoda Hero, by Peter Brune

Darren Cronshaw January 30, 2022

Book Review – Preventing Unjust War: A Catholic Argument for Selective Conscientious Objection, by Roger Bergman

Darren Cronshaw September 28, 2021

Book Review – Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein

Nathan Woodcock August 1, 2021

Book Review – No time for spectators, by Martin Dempsey

Jess Ward July 16, 2020

Book Review – Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace: Religious Leader Engagement in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments, by S. K. Moore

Darren Cronshaw December 2, 2021

Book Review – Line in the Sand: A life-changing journey through a body and a mind after trauma, by Dean Yates

Darren Cronshaw April 2, 2024

Book Review – Leadership Secrets of the Australian Army, by Nicholas Jans

Darren Cronshaw August 12, 2021

Book Review – I was not built to break, by Stephane Vander Bruggen

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer and August Cole

Lachlan Rowe April 6, 2021

Book Review – Freedom, by Sebastian Junger

Samuel Cox May 31, 2021

Book Review – Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Jack Ryan June 29, 2021

Book Review – ENDURE: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, by Alex Hutchinson

Darren Cronshaw March 19, 2023

Book Review – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H Pink

Darren Cronshaw and George Minns May 14, 2024

Book Review – Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, by Brené Brown

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – COSSAC, by Stephan C. Kepher

Lachlan Rowe February 2, 2021

Book Review – Bill the Bastard by Roland Perry

Lachlan Rowe October 6, 2019

Book Review – Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity away from the Battlefield, edited by Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson

Darren Cronshaw August 5, 2021

Book Review – A Life Without Limits: A World Champion’s Journey, by Chrissie Wellington

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower, by Matt Fitzgerald

Darren Cronshaw May 20, 2024

Book Review – Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century by Anthony King

Lauren Hutchinson December 16, 2021

Book Review – Ultralearning, by Scott Young

Christopher Wooding May 7, 2020

Book review – Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet

Darren Cronshaw and Callum Smyth April 3, 2024

Book Review – Trust and Leadership, edited by Russell W. Glenn

Emma Watson May 6, 2021

Book Review – Tribe: On homecoming and belonging

Jess Ward July 7, 2019

Book Review – Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke

Darby Nelson July 2, 2020

Book Review – The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War 1942-1946, by Alan Powell

Joshua Higgins October 26, 2021

Book Review – The Success Principles, by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer

Isaac Williams October 6, 2020

Book Review – The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan

Nick Alexander March 26, 2020

Book Review – The Great Successor, by Anna Fifield

Jacob Choi February 13, 2020

Book Review – The Great Influenza

James Savage March 10, 2019

Book Review – Team of Teams

Jess Ward September 7, 2018

Book Review – Team of Teams

Brendan Robinson July 9, 2017

Book Review – Tales From The Cold War, by MD Mahler

Chris Bulow August 2, 2022

Book Review – T-minus AI

Jacob Choi September 8, 2020

Book Review – Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstain to Patton by Martin Van Creveld

Joshua Smith September 12, 2021

Book Review – Steve Hansen: The Legacy, by Gregor Paul

Chris Bulow September 30, 2021

Book review – Start With Why? by Simon Sinek

Darren Cronshaw and Gysbert Seegers May 21, 2024

Book Review – Snipers at War: An Equipment and Operations History

Aaron Garnham April 29, 2019

Book Review – Selling Schweinfurt, by Brian Vlaun

Christopher Wooding February 7, 2021

Book Review – Red Badge of Courage, by S Crane

Michael Turner September 25, 2022

Book Review – Pure Logistics: The science of war preparation

Jess Ward March 7, 2018

Book Review – Principles, by Ray Dalio

Jess Ward May 21, 2020

Book Review – Philosophy for polar explorers

Chris Bulow January 16, 2020

Book Review – On Tactics by B.A. Friedman

Christopher Wooding April 28, 2021

Book Review – On Operations, By BA Friedman

Chris Bulow May 5, 2022

Book Review – Monash and Chauvel by Roland Perry

Chris Bulow April 20, 2021

Book Review – Marlborough, England’s Fragile Genius, by Richard Holmes

Braden Holmes June 18, 2020

Book Review – Invasion Rabaul, by Bruce Gamble

Chris Bulow September 9, 2021

Book Review – In the Warlords’ Shadow

Nicholas Waugh June 3, 2018

Book Review – How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

Samuel Cox May 23, 2021

Book Review – Goodbye to all that

Nick Alexander January 3, 2019

Book Review – Generals die in bed

Jess Ward March 8, 2018

Book Review – Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age

Chris Bulow May 3, 2019

Book Review – David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell

Christopher Wooding June 4, 2020

Book Review – Das Reich by Max Hastings

James Davis January 9, 2018

Book Review – Cybersecurity Ethics An Introduction, by Mary Manjikian

Darren Cronshaw April 10, 2024

Book Review – Courage Under Fire, by Daniel Keighran VC

Brody Hannan September 26, 2021

Book Review – Call Sign CHAOS

Jess Ward January 30, 2020

Book Review – British Generals in Blair’s Wars

Daniel Hebditch October 3, 2017

Book Review – Blood Year

Nicholas Waugh June 10, 2017

Book Review – Asymmetrical Warfare

Jess Ward May 1, 2019

Book Review – ANZAC’s Long Shadow: The cost of our national obsession

Jess Ward November 7, 2018

Book Review – ANZAC Sniper

Jess Ward April 7, 2018

Book Review – Anatomy of Failure

Jess Ward July 12, 2018

Book Review – Anatomy of a Campaign

James Davis September 2, 2018

Book Review – An Unending War

James Savage May 27, 2018

Book Review – All you need is kill

Jess Ward June 7, 2019

Book Review – Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War

Daniel Hebditch January 10, 2019

Book Review – Accessory to War, by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang

Chris Bulow March 9, 2021

Book Review – 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis

Nathan Woodcock October 19, 2021

Book Review – 1984, by George Orwell

Chris Bulow September 29, 2020

Book Review – ‘The Resilience Shield: SAS Resilience Techniques to Master you Mindset and Overcome Adversity,’ by Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk DSC and Tim Curtis

Christopher Booth October 28, 2021

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