No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis

by Jim Proser

Book Overview

The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today: Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

A devout student of history and erudite reader revered by rank and file soldiers, officers, academics, politicians, and ordinary citizens, General James Mattis is one of the most admired leaders serving America today. A man who has long used his position as a model for the soldiers he leads,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062803913
• ISBN13: 9780062803917
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Broadside Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Read "Call sign Chaos" instead

1st of all I love General Mattis. This book obviously wasn't written with his help. It's recycled stories and excerpts from various books by other authors, newspaper publications, military briefings, speeches, & second hand accounts by some people who served with Mattis. If you want real Mattis, read his own book "Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead" by Mattis & Bing West. Proser skips all around from 9/11 back to 2003 to 1991 and back to 2000, accounting for different battles and plans, it's confusing to follow. The books Proser took excerpts from (such as "One Bullet Away" by Fick, "Generation Kill" by Wright, "No True Glory" by West) are far better reads than this book.