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Offline Marauding Conan

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Re: Favorite Military History Books
« Reply #30 on: April 14, 2009, 10:28:38 AM »
"Maverick" by Dennis Marvicsin. It's an personal account from a huey gunship pilot during the Vietnam War. It's blunt and pulls no punches. But they way he described his experience will have you rolling on the floor laughing.

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Re: Favorite Military History Books
« Reply #31 on: April 14, 2009, 07:17:51 PM »

This thread's got enough books in it to make one hell of a reading list! :aok

Other books I've liked a lot:

"The Rising Sun" by John Toland (World War 2/Pacific)

"We Were Soldiers Once and Young" by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore with Joseph Galloway (The battle of the Ia Drang Valley)

"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara,  :rock an absolutely fabulous historical novel about the battle of Gettysburg that won a Pulitzer Prize, and most deservedly so.  I've read it three times.  A true masterpiece.

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Re: Favorite Military History Books
« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2009, 12:48:09 PM »
George MacDonald Fraser (author of the excellent Flashman historical novels,)  Quartered Safe Out Here, his memoir of Burma in WWII where he was in a British rifle company:


http://www.amazon.com/Quartered-Safe-Out-Here-Harrowing/dp/1602391904

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Re: Favorite Military History Books
« Reply #33 on: April 16, 2009, 01:38:44 PM »
The River and the Gauntlet by S.L.A. Marshall...a very good Korean War read.
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Re: Favorite Military History Books
« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2009, 05:19:34 PM »
This is a great read if you want to learn about what really happened in the Battle of Trafalgar, and the storm that killed more sailors after the battle was over than during the battle itself:

http://www.amazon.com/Trafalgar-Biography-Battle-Roy-Adkins/dp/0349116326/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240006584&sr=1-4

I picked this up on a trip and read it on various flights.  Great quick read about British snipers in Iraq:

http://www.amazon.com/Sniper-One/dp/0141029013/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240006737&sr=1-2
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