Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
(Berkley Trade, 2008)
The essential tasks of the military leader, summarized by Dick Winters (2/506 Airborne Infantry Regiment, WWII):
“I may not have been the best combat commander, but I always strove to be. My men depended on me to carefully analyze every tactical situation, to maximize the resources that I had at my disposal, to think under pressure, and then to lead them by personal example.”