I read "Battle Cry" by Leon Uris just before joining the Corps. I knew them all at one point or another and lost most of them just as in his work. "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" is still inspiring. Ann Sperber's biography of Edward R. Murrow is a lesson in integrity. Davis Maraniss's work, "When Pride Still Mattered" is a study in the often high price of success.