Book reviews can present key summaries, literary criticism and promote active discussion regarding the authors ideas. The following book reviews have been submitted to The Cove and will be continually updated. New submissions are welcome and are a great place for junior leaders to reflect and share their thoughts on ideas presented within literary works.
Art & Science of Thinking
- Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher by Nicholas Fern
- The Elite: Think Like an Athlete | Succeed Like a Champion by Dr Jo Lukins
- Learned Optimism: How to Change your Mind and your Life by Martin Seligman
- Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialist World by David Epstein
- 'Uncommon Soldier: Brave, Compassionate, Tough, The Making of Australia's Modern Diggers' by Chris Masters
- The Long Road: Australia's Train, Advise and Assist Missions Edited by Tom Frame
- Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General by Mungo Melvin
- The Peril of Incrementalism: A Call to Read 'Dereliction of Duty by HR McMaster
- Pegasus Bridge by Stephen Ambrose
- On The Psychology of Military Incompetence by Dr Norman Dixon
- Scorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew Salmon
- American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. White
- The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
Art & Science of War
- Black Hearts by Jim Frederick
- Moral Injury: Unseen Wounds in an Age of Barbarism by Tom Frame
- A Bias for Action: The German 7th Panzer Division in France and Russia, 1940 - 1941' by Dr R. Stolfi
- The Turn of the Tide, 1939-1943 by Arthur Bryant
- Fighting by the Minutes: Time and the Art of War by Robert Leonhard
- On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle by BA Friedman
- Phantom Soldier: The Enemy's answer to US Firepower by H. John Poole
- The Last Panther by Wolfgang Faust
- Keeping the Peace of the Realm by Samuel White
Leadership, Ethics and Society
- Fly: Life Lessons From the Cockpit QF32 by Richard de Crespigny
- Soldier and Gentleman: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914 - 1918 by William Westerman
- My Share of the Task: A Memoir' by Stanley McChrystal
Organisation, People & Projects
- American Nature: A History of Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodward
- Broken Nations: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont
- In the Wake of Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made by Norma F. Cantor
- No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
- Perception and Misperception in International Politics by Robert Jervis
- Slow: Live Life Simply by Brooke McAlary
- The Journey of You - Be the Hero of your own Adventure by Rebecca Jackson
- The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
Recommended Reading Lists
- Commanding Officer 16 Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery PME Resources 2020
- Commanding Officer 1st Intelligence Battalion 2019 - Reading List
- 2018 Reading List from CO 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment
- Combat Health Reading List 2017
- Land Electronic Warfare and Military Signals Intelligence (Historical Learning)
- CAAL Reading List
- Australian Army Reading List 2019
- The @LearningArmy Reading List 2017
- Chief of Army Reading List 2012