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Jocko Willink
Retired US Navy SEAL officer
Jocko Willink is a retired US Navy SEAL officer who commanded Task Unit Bruiser in Ramadi, and who has spent the years since turning what he learned there into books about leadership. Extreme Ownership, written with Leif Babin, argues that a leader owns every failure in their command without exception. He also writes fiction and a children’s series, and hosts the Jocko Podcast, which is built around reading and dissecting war memoirs and military history on air.
Hal Moore on Leadership
Winning When Outgunned and Outmanned
by Harold G. Moore · 2017 · Nonfiction
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Unflinching
The Making of a Canadian Sniper
by Jody Mitic · 2015 · Nonfiction
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Red Blood, Black Sand
Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima
by Chuck Tatum · 2012 · Nonfiction
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Machete Season
The Killers in Rwanda Speak
by Jean Hatzfeld · 2003 · Nonfiction
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The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
by Alistair Urquhart · 2010 · Nonfiction
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With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
by E.B. Sledge · 1981 · Nonfiction
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The Woman Who Could Not Forget
Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking
by Ying-Ying Chang · 2011 · Nonfiction
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The Rape of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by Iris Chang · 1997 · Nonfiction
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Omaha Beach and Beyond
The Long March of Sergeant Bob Slaughter
by John Robert Slaughter · 2007 · Nonfiction
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