17 must-read nonfiction books like Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership by Winston S. Churchill

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Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

By: Winston S. Churchill

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The original British Army anthology on leadership, used to train generations of officers, brings to…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership by Winston S. Churchill , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Le… read more

Similar categories in Jocko Willink's Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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2. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

By: Ryan Holiday

4.15

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aureli… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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3. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

Similar categories in Michael Hofmann's Storm of Steel book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
  • war
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4. The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars

By: Patrick Hennessey

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

Patrick Hennessey is a graduate in his 20s. He reads Graham Greene, listens to early-90s house on h… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • war
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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5. A Short History of England

By: Simon Jenkins

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

England's history is the most exciting of any nation on Earth. Its triumphs and disasters are insta… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!

By: M.J. DeMarco

1.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Is the financial plan of mediocrity-a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as The Slowlane-your… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

4.14

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more

Similar categories in Randall Munroe's What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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8. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

Similar categories in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • war
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

9. House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

By: John R. Bruning , David Bellavia

3.92

Format: None pages,

One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action a… read more

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10. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

11. Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

By: Richard Holmes

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

A history of the common British soldier, from c.1760 to c.1860, this text filled with anecdote and … read more

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12. The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more

Similar categories in George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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13. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

Similar categories in Randall Munroe's What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2) book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
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14. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

Similar categories in James Holland's The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • war
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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15. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • war
  • nonfiction
  • military history
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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16. The Richest Man in Babylon

By: George S. Clason

4.25

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

The Richest Man in Babylon is an early twentieth century classic about financial investment and mon… read more

Similar categories in George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
"ليس بالشيء الطيب أن يجلس الرجل بلا عمل"

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

"إن روح المماطلة موجودة في داخل كل إنسان"

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

"As for time, all men have it in abundance."

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

"Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts."

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

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17. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

Similar categories in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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18. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

Similar categories in Steven Bartlett's The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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19. $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff (Acquisition.com $100M Series Book 2)

By: Alex Hormozi

4.61

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

You can get 2x, 10x, or 100x more leads than you currently are without changing anything about what… read more

Similar categories in Alex Hormozi's $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff (Acquisition.com $100M Series Book 2) book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"Reminder: You get rich from what you make. You become wealthy from what you own. And it took me years to realize this because not that long ago..."

-Alex Hormozi, $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff (Acquisition.com $100M Series Book 2)

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20. A Short History of the Corps of Royal Engineers

By: Institution of Royal Engineers

4.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

None read more

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21. Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

By: Winston S. Churchill

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The original British Army anthology on leadership, used to train generations of officers, brings to… read more

Similar categories in Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership book and Winston S. Churchill's Serve to Lead: The British Army's Anthology on Leadership

  • war
  • nonfiction
  • military history
  • leadership

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Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

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Patrick Hennessey

4.35

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Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

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James Holland

4.33

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Martha Wells

4.22

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John Scalzi

3.99

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Cody Cassidy

4.06

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