Has Anyone...?

[fbWldcat]

Read E.B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed" His account of Peleliu and Okinawa?

or Lecky's book "Helmet For My Pillow?"

If you have, great   

[mbailey]

Let me know how u like it sir,

I just got done reading (over the last couple of months )  Flyboys ( the story of 8 downed pilots over ChiChi Jima ( Bradley )  The Few ( Alex Kershaw) The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Thomas Cutler) and Clash of the Carriers The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot (Barrett Tillman )


All extremely factual and well written books.Picked them up and could not put them down. Now im looking for another good one to read, any suggestions would be appreciated, I mostly enjoy WWII aviation oriented books and Id like to find a real good WWII Naval aviation book, but am open to anything WWII related.

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Mbailey

[Golfer]

Yes.  I've been saying for some time to the folks who were "disappointed" in The Pacific HBO miniseries that the books would shine a whole new light on what was impossible to cover in only 10 episodes.

John Basilone's biography is good reading as well.

[fbWldcat]

Just started "With The Old Breed" and it is already one helluva book, first 15 pages 

[Wayout]

 It's great.  I bought my first copy in 1982, wore that one out and bought another copy a few years ago.  The Forgotten Soldier is another great one about the fighting in Russia.

 

[mechanic]

Half way through Boy Soldiers, about WWI infantry. Not really the right topic but just thought I'd mention it. Quite amazing the kind of lives people were living not even 100 years ago.

[OSU]

Let me know how u like it sir,

I just got done reading (over the last couple of months )  Flyboys ( the story of 8 downed pilots over ChiChi Jima ( Bradley )  The Few ( Alex Kershaw) The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Thomas Cutler) and Clash of the Carriers The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot (Barrett Tillman )


All extremely factual and well written books.Picked them up and could not put them down. Now im looking for another good one to read, any suggestions would be appreciated, I mostly enjoy WWII aviation oriented books and Id like to find a real good WWII Naval aviation book, but am open to anything WWII related.

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Mbailey

Flyboys was really good. If you need suggestions, look for Armageddon and Retribution by Max hastings. I'm halfway through Armageddon and I can't put it down. Both are about the last two years of WWII in Germany and Japan respectively covering both the Eastern and Western fronts in great detail. As for books related to aviation, the only ones I've read are Flyboys, Half a Wing, Three Engines, and a Prayer, which is about B-17s over Germany and The Wild Blue, which is about B-24s.

[1pLUs44]

Let me know how u like it sir,

I just got done reading (over the last couple of months )  Flyboys ( the story of 8 downed pilots over ChiChi Jima ( Bradley )  The Few ( Alex Kershaw) The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Thomas Cutler) and Clash of the Carriers The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot (Barrett Tillman )


All extremely factual and well written books.Picked them up and could not put them down. Now im looking for another good one to read, any suggestions would be appreciated, I mostly enjoy WWII aviation oriented books and Id like to find a real good WWII Naval aviation book, but am open to anything WWII related.

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Mbailey

Flyboys is a great read IMHO. Started on With The Old Breed, and a lot of it is just like the series.

[Spikes]

The Forgotten 500 is good.

[mbailey]

Flyboys was really good. If you need suggestions, look for Armageddon and Retribution by Max hastings. I'm halfway through Armageddon and I can't put it down. Both are about the last two years of WWII in Germany and Japan respectively covering both the Eastern and Western fronts in great detail. As for books related to aviation, the only ones I've read are Flyboys, Half a Wing, Three Engines, and a Prayer, which is about B-17s over Germany and The Wild Blue, which is about B-24s.

I just ordered both the Max Hastings books, should be here in a week or so. Thanks for the suggestions, The forgotton 500 and The Old Breed are next. Thanks guys.

If you get a chance, read the ones that i listed, all were great. Flyboys broke my heart,and made me angry all at one time. The others ( Expecially The Few ) were awesome

Edit: I didnt mean to hijack your thread FbWldcat, I just figured if i could get or throw out some suggestions it couldnt hurt  

[Yenny]

"With The Old Breed" is a really good read 

[fbWldcat]

Does anyone know of a book (could be already listed, I'm not sure) that is an account of Guadalcanal?

Some great replies, I'll have to make a book spree at my library soon 

[Golfer]

Helmet for my Pillow and I'm Staying With My Boys.

[Patches1]

Fire in the Sky is another good read.

[Babalonian]

A friend lent me his copy of "With the Old Breed", been reading it this month actually (already 2/3 done).

Past couple months I read the revised and updated "A Dawn Like Thunder" about Torpedo Squadron 8 in a pacific campaign (great book, I really enjoyed it) and the revised and updated "Flying Tigers" by Daniel Ford (a good read, I liked it, I would ding the athor for going on at length though at various points like it were a direct online forum responce to his past critics). 

I read "Clash of the Carriers" this past winter, I also would recomend it for a good read.

I need some new books, I think I'll pick up Flyboys and The Forgotten 500, maybe either I'm Staying with My Boys or Helmet for My Pillow to read and share with my friend who lent me WtOB.