![]() Highlighting the value of reading in both a philosophical and a practical sense, The Leader’s Bookshelf provides sound advice on how to build an extensive library, lists other books worth reading to improve leadership skills, and analyzes how leaders use what they read to achieve their goals. Whether individuals work their way through the entire list and read each book cover to cover, or read the summaries provided to determine which appeal to them most, The Leader’s Bookshelf will provide a roadmap to better leadership. The Leader’s Bookshelf synthesizes their responses to identify the top fifty books that can help virtually anyone become a better leader.Įach of the works – novels, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, management publications – are summarized and the key leadership lessons extracted and presented. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success in spite of the many demanding challenges they faced. Hue 1968 is a gripping and moving account of this pivotal moment.īuy “The Leader’s Bookshelf” at įor the last several years Adm. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. With unprecedented access to war archives in the U.S. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. ![]() American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the Front’s presence, ordering small companies of Marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. Within hours the entire city was in their hands save for two small military outposts. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. First published in hardcover in 1984, this book has remained popular ever since with Marines of every rank. In addition, he describes the Corps’s relationship to other services, especially during the unification battles following World War II, and offers new insights into the decision-making process in times of crisis. He also takes a close look at Marines in war, offering challenging accounts of their experiences in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. ![]() Krulak also addresses the most basic but challenging question of all about the Corps: how does it manage to survive – even to flourish – despite overwhelming political odds and, as the general writes, “an extraordinary propensity for shooting itself in the foot?” To answer this question Krulak examines the foundation on which the Corps is built, a system of intense loyalty to God, to country, and to other Marines. ![]() Deftly blending history with autobiography, action with analysis, and separating fact from fable, General Krulak touches the very essence of the Corps: what it means to be a Marine and the reason behind its consistently outstanding performance and reputation. Marines – their fights on the battlefield and off, their extraordinary esprit de corps. In this riveting insider’s chronicle, legendary Marine General “Brute” Krulak submits an unprecedented examination of U.S. ![]()
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