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Fav War stories/books

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  • 12-06-2004 12:00pm
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    RicardoSmith
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    Whats you fave war stories, books? Heres some of mine.

    Das boot
    Chickenhawk
    Thud Ridge
    The Forgotten Soldier
    Biggles


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    simu
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    Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (more anti-war though)

    Also, whilst not a dedicated war book, there's a lot of great stuff about WW2 in Cryptonomicon by Neal Steaphenson


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    RicardoSmith
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    Originally posted by simu
    Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (more anti-war though)

    Also, whilst not a dedicated war book, there's a lot of great stuff about WW2 in Cryptonomicon by Neal Steaphenson

    Sounds an interesting book. I'll have to read that one.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440180295/104-3933120-0711168?v=glance


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    Manach
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    Flight of the Intruder - Stephen Coonts
    Sharpe's Triumph - Bernard Cornwell
    The 10,000 - Xenophon
    Jarhead - Anthony Swofford


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    pork99
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    For non-fiction military history some really good reads just of the top of my head are

    "The Face of Battle" by John Keegan

    "Death's Men" (about life in the trenches in WWI) by Denis Winter

    "An Intimate History of Killing" by Joanna Burke

    "Stalingrad" by Anthony Beevor

    "The Sharp End" and "A Social History of the Machine Gun" by John Ellis

    "Citizen Soldiers" and "D Day" by Stephen Ambrose

    "Tank" by Patrick Wright

    "Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket" by Richard Holmes


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    pork99
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    Have to add "Why the West has Won, Culture and Carnage from Salamis to Vietnam" by Victor Davis Hanson


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    echomadman
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    I always liked Leon Uris's novels, most, if not all of them of them revolve around WWII.
    H.H. Kirst wrote some brilliant books aswell, The Gunner Asch ones were a good read.
    The Thin Red Line is well worth a read too imo
    Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (more anti-war though)

    Also, whilst not a dedicated war book, there's a lot of great stuff about WW2 in Cryptonomicon by Neal Steaphenson

    Agreed on both of those too.
    The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman is another great war book, albeit in a sci-fi backdrop.
    The Penguin Book of War is class to, Its a compendium of short stories, poems and excerpts about war from the ancient greeks up to modern times.


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