Judge Advocate General’s Warrior-Attorney Regiment Reading List (JAG)

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The Judge Adviocate General (JAG) Reading list was produced by JAGWAR.com, a private website intended to:

Inspire Army Judge Advocates,
Legal Administrators, and
Paralegals to be Soldiers first…

Thanks to JAGWAR for producing the below reading list and also recommend you view TJAG and DJAG’s “Lifelong Learning Reading List”, available HERE.

HEROES AND GRIT
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath	By Michael Norman
Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany	By Stephen Ambrose
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War	By Mark Bowden
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era	By Chad Williams
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy Seal Team Six Operator Adam Brown	By Eric Blehm
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman	By Jon Krakauer
Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield	By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Greatest Generation	By Tom Brokaw
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption	By Laura Hillenbrand
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor	By William Breuer
Into the Rising Sun: World War II’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat	By Patrick O’Donnell
Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War	By Bruce Henderson
All American: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq	By Robert McGovern
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History	By Saul David
LEADERSHIP AND COMBAT
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education	By Craig Mullaney
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer	By Nathaniel Fick
A Message to Garcia: And Other Essential Writings on Success	By Elbert Hubbard
WAR THROUGH HISTORY
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae	By Steven Pressfield
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War	By Andrew Roberts
The Afghan Campaign: A Novel	By Steven Pressfield
The Things They Carried	By Tim O’Brien
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War	By Karl Marlantes
MILITARY ANALYSIS
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations	By Michael Walzer
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror	By Michael Hayden