Reading List
Advice for the AOSB Essay Writing, Interviews and Group Discussions. Useful reading to improve your military knowledge and improve your current affairs .


As part of your preparation. You will not do yourself any harm reading about British History, British Army History, Campaign Histories, Low Level Operations, Warfare and Leadership. Some of my most recommended are below. There are also some PDF docs at the very bottom of the page.

I personally found some of the documents very useful. There is a strong focus on leadership principles and officer qualities; identifying these and living by them should form the foundation for any potential officer. There is also a very useful Army fitness guide which should be looked over.

I also strongly recommend you get into the habit of keeping up to date with current affairs. You can never know too much about what is going on right now and having brushing up on your current affairs will help you in the AOSB Essay Writing and also in the group discussions and interview. Some of the most effective ways to improve you current affairs knowledge:

  • Subscribe to THE WEEK magazine.

  • Subscribe to online newsletters: BLOOMBERG, REUTERS, AL JAZEERA​

  • Watch QUESTION TIME, BBC NEWS AT 10, THE ANDREW MARR SHOW and SUNDAY POLITICS.​

  • Read THE ECONOMIST.

  • Read a decent newspaper like, THE TIMES, THE TELEGRAPH.

  • The ARRSE current affairs forum is also very good and people obviously discuss a lot of topics regarding the military.

  • Listen to PODCASTS. I recommend Best of Today by Radio 4, Any Questions? and Any Answers? by Radio 4 and The Briefing by Monocle


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Recommended Reading:


  • Post Capitalism: A Guide to Our Future - Paul Mason

  • Who Rules the World? - Noam Chomsky

  • Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders - L. David Marquet

  • Leadership is just plain you - Field Marshal Slim.

  • The Art of War - Sun Tzu

  • Leadership - Learning From Great Leaders - John Adair

  • No Mean Soldier - Peter McAleese

  • 18 Platoon - Sydney Jary

  • Soldier - General Sir Mike Jackson

  • Oxford History of the British Army - David Chandler

  • The British Officer- leading the Army from 1660 to the present - Anthony Clayton

  • Acts of War: the behaviour of men in battle - Richard Holmes

  • Encyclopedia of modern British Army Regiments - P.D. Griffin

  • Rain - Barney Campbell

  • Armageddon - Max Hastings

  • Histories of Nations - Peter Furtado

  • No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege - Adam Jowett - James Goodson

  • Soldier in the Sand: A Personal History of the Modern Middle East

    This link has some more brilliant su    ggestions :

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