Recently I've started too take up reading in my spare time, and I've been looking for good War novels. And I'm reading a War Book right now named Miracle Of St. Anna and I've been looking for some graphic war novels. Anybody a big reader and know alot of warbooks?
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War Novels?
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Check out The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien. Very compelling, character driven short stories set in the Vietnam War era.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a classic.
Only other war book I read was Red Badge of Courage, which was HORRIBLE.
The book can be summarized thusly: "I need to shoot someone in the face to PROVE that I am a man."
Only other war book I read was Red Badge of Courage, which was HORRIBLE.
The book can be summarized thusly: "I need to shoot someone in the face to PROVE that I am a man."
'The Fist Of God' by Frederick Forsythe is a pretty good read.
Set during the first Iraqi War, all about covert operations and the British SAS.
Set during the first Iraqi War, all about covert operations and the British SAS.
Among classics, I always liked Catch-22.
Another really good one is "Ghost Soldiers," which is the true story of a WWII mission in which some Rangers, heavily supported by local Philipino sympathizers, staged one of the most successful surprise raids of all time. The raid rescued U.S. POWs who had survived tha Bataan Death March and years of brutal captivity, probably only hours or days before thay all would have been killed. It's not too long, and riveting. I think I read it in a single sitting.
Another really good one is "Ghost Soldiers," which is the true story of a WWII mission in which some Rangers, heavily supported by local Philipino sympathizers, staged one of the most successful surprise raids of all time. The raid rescued U.S. POWs who had survived tha Bataan Death March and years of brutal captivity, probably only hours or days before thay all would have been killed. It's not too long, and riveting. I think I read it in a single sitting.
graphic novels or graphic novels?
Either way, I'm giving you neither...
nonfiction (but also nonboring)
Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNabb and Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowen are two of the best war books I've ever read. I highly recommend both.
Either way, I'm giving you neither...
nonfiction (but also nonboring)
Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNabb and Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowen are two of the best war books I've ever read. I highly recommend both.
These are some really good ones:
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks;
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Naked and the Dead - Normal Mailer
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemmingway
- Black Hawk Down (the book on which the movie was based - this is VERY graphic - if that's what you are into).
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks;
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Naked and the Dead - Normal Mailer
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemmingway
- Black Hawk Down (the book on which the movie was based - this is VERY graphic - if that's what you are into).
Does Slaughterhouse 5 count? There's a lot about WWII there, but it's not centered about it.
Well, it's a short book and you should read it anyway.
Well, it's a short book and you should read it anyway.
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Flyboys - James Bradley
Great novel focused on WWII on the islands of Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima. Courageous story about 9 men in the U.S. Airforce that bombed the islands and got captured and tortured by the Japanese.
Great novel focused on WWII on the islands of Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima. Courageous story about 9 men in the U.S. Airforce that bombed the islands and got captured and tortured by the Japanese.
Graphic? Anything by Sven Hassel will do. Though those are filled with heaps of completely uncalled-for acts of extreme brutality and filled to the brim with filth of ludicrous magnitudes as well. In ways you wouldn't even associate the most brutal WWII-portrayal with.
One of my all-time favorites is "Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. It's an autobiographical account of a French-German teen conscripted into the German Army after the fall of France on 1940. It runs through his life until the end of the war. It's an amazing story from a perspective that is not widely heard in the Western World tody. I can't recommend it enough! I picked up my copy through amazon.
It has pictures too! lol...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574882864/
Best of luck in your search!!
It has pictures too! lol...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574882864/
Best of luck in your search!!
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Catch-22 is very good, I highly reccomend it. Slaughterhouse 5 is also worth the read, as is For Whom the Bell Tolls.
bobba66 said:
I second this one heartily! Great read, and have gone back
and read it over and over.
In the fiction category, I really like the
Berlin Noir trilogy by Philip Kerr.
I keep buying copies and giving them to people.
It is set pre and post WWII.
The Eagle has Landed is a good spy novel. Jack Higgins.
Though Jack does get boring if you read too much of his stuff.
Alistair MacLean wrote some good ones, H.M.S Ulysses
and Where Eagles Dare come to mind.
In non fiction, the Sajer book above is very good, it was
recommended to me by P. Aaron, and well worth the time.
Also, I really like the book Stalingrad by Antony
Beevor. Excellent author that makes the total destruction of
the German Sixth Army come to life.
Related historical fiction novels are Enemy at the Gate
by William Craig and War of the Rats by David L.
Robbins.
Enjoy!
Berlin Noir trilogy by Philip Kerr.
I keep buying copies and giving them to people.
It is set pre and post WWII.
The Eagle has Landed is a good spy novel. Jack Higgins.
Though Jack does get boring if you read too much of his stuff.
Alistair MacLean wrote some good ones, H.M.S Ulysses
and Where Eagles Dare come to mind.
In non fiction, the Sajer book above is very good, it was
recommended to me by P. Aaron, and well worth the time.
Also, I really like the book Stalingrad by Antony
Beevor. Excellent author that makes the total destruction of
the German Sixth Army come to life.
Related historical fiction novels are Enemy at the Gate
by William Craig and War of the Rats by David L.
Robbins.
Enjoy!
