With all my routines out the window these past few weeks...it'd been not since last week that I read any of this book...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
https://smile.amazon.com/Call-Sign-Chao ... 8&qid=&sr=
In what I'd prior read I'd already read the huge premium that Mattis puts on reading.
At the end there was a reprint of this article about him:
General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read
https://www.businessinsider.com/viral-j ... nes-2013-5
At the end of the book he had a list ofrecommended books (from the above email / article).
But I'm now seeing that, unlike the book, this article does not list those books. I'll look for them elsewhere.
Found a source:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/425 ... al_Reading
I've hardly read any. except for:
Did read Black Hawk Down (and watched the movie several times. One of my all-time favorite war movies.)
Read Hillenbrand's Unbroken (and have never seen the related movie but also read the subject's own book).
This appears to not be the same list as was in the book as the book has Gates's "Duty" which I did partially read.
Or, Tuckman's "Guns of August" which I also read and which was excellent. After I read her description of the person who'd been assassinated which was the catalyst for World War I I immediately made the parallel between that person and George Bush (2nd). I was reading that while at our end of year softball playoffs. As soon as I read the paragraph description I gave the book to my coach, told him to read the paragraph, and to tell me who it described today. He said, "Bush".
I did not read the particular recommended Max Hasting book he cited but I've read other of his and he is absolutely astoundingly outstanding in his writing and providing me information about World II that I'd never previously known, a historical period of which I'd prior read a lot.
Vinny