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01-04-2013, 08:01 AM
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01-04-2013, 08:20 AM
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Johnny Got His Gun
All Quiet On the Western Front
The Things They Carried
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01-04-2013, 08:30 AM
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01-04-2013, 08:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arcadia, CA | | | Smaller Unit history:
The Heights of Courage, Avigdor Kahalani about mostly the 77tth Tank Battalion on the Golan Heights in 1973.
Large overview: Geoffrey Perrot's There Is A War to Be Won, The US Army in WWII.
Novel Senator James Webb Fields of Fire, a Marine infantry platoon in Vietnam.
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01-04-2013, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: North Carolina | | | The Devils Guard is another relatively unknown WWII/Vietnam book. It tells the story of how the French Foreign Legion recruited former Nazi SS troops to fight for them in Vietnam, instead of being tried for war crimes. It's debated if its based on truth or if its pure fiction. Very interesting read regardless if its true or not.
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01-05-2013, 05:45 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford, former combat correspondent in Vietnam. This is the book on which Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket was based. Very short, incerdibly powerful.
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. Another Vietnam book about the author's experiences as a helicopter pilot.
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01-05-2013, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reading, U.K. | | | I've got quite a few (a couple have already been mentioned):
Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose.
Beyond Band of Brothers - Richard Winters.
Ghost Soldiers - Hampton Sides.
With the Old Breed - Eugene Sledge.
Green Berets in Korea - Fred Heyhurst.
The Korean War - Max Hastings.
Soldier Against the Odds (One Man's War in Korea & One Man's SAS) - "Lofty" Large.
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01-05-2013, 06:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | I'm really into History books too. I just got Anthony Brevors book on the Spanish civil war. My favorites so far were:
Anthony Brevors "Stalingrad"
David Halberstams "The Coldest Winter" His history of the Korean war is fascinating.
Michael Orens "Six Days of War". In fact I'll go as far as to say no one can have a grasp of the issues in the Mid East today without understanding the conditions on the ground from 1962-1968 and Oren explains them as well as anyone.
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01-06-2013, 05:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: North Carolina | | | John L Plaster's "Secret Commandos" is another GREAT Vietnam book. It's the second book following SOG. This one is more about his personal experiences and stories of other Green Berets. I swear, if they made a movie that was based of the events of these warriors, without embellishment to he stories, most people wouldn't believe them. Absolutely amazing individuals.
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01-06-2013, 07:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: One coast or the other. | | | The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme - John Keegan
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - David Grossman
War in European History - Michael Howard
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age - Paret and Craig (Eds)
The Sociology of War and Violence - Sinisa Malesevic (? sp) |
01-06-2013, 08:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Elmwood, IL | | | "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat - It is a novel about the crew of British antisubmarine ships in the Atlantic during WWII. Based on Monsarrat's experiences as a frigate captain. I read it my senior year of high school and have read it every 4 - 5 years since.
"Dispatches" by Michael Herr - I read it in a Modern Lit class my senior year of college. I recognized quite a few of the stories from "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket." I'll probably have to dig it out and read it again now.
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