James Mattis’s 2019 Reading List

Viscount Slim was the finest British field commander in World War II. In 1941, the Japanese had driven the British out of Southeast Asia. In his book Defeat into Victory, Slim explains how he reinvigorated his beaten forces and outmaneuvered the Japanese.

E. B. Sledge, in With the Old Breed, wrote for generations of grunts when he described the fierce fighting on Okinawa and the bonds that bind men together in battle.