AH book club

[hcrana]

I see they've made a TV series based on The man in the High Castle... http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/if-japan-and-nazi-germany-won-wwii-a-look-at-the-man-in-the-high-castle.html

[Zoney]

I have seen the pilot which I liked.  I do not know if it has been picked up as a series however.

[JVboob]

Any of you men like reading about Vietnam , Seems I'm hooked on those mostly . Anyone know of a good read on this .

Guns up was good also look at 13cent killers by John J Culbertson
Blood on the Risers by John Leppelman
Acceptable Loss by Kregg P.J. Jorgensen
Seawolves by Daniel E. Kelly
And one I read in high school calls Fallen Angels I can't recall the authors name the copy I had was a paper back the cover being white with the title in red letters and soldiers standing in a group.

[Groth]

 Recommend 'Studio Europe' and 'Studio Asia' , by John Groth.
Good reads, rare but not pricey...the 2nd reads like our Vietnam, but it's the French, earlier. We just repeated the mistakes.

[Guppy35]

Any of you men like reading about Vietnam , Seems I'm hooked on those mostly . Anyone know of a good read on this .

"Dispatches". Michael Herr
"Rumor of War" Phillip Caputo
"Fields of Fire" James Webb

Those are my top three in that order.  Others worth the time include books by Tim O'Brien.  Tim Pages book detailing the correspondents and photographers killed is very worthwhile also.

[Soulyss]

"Dispatches". Michael Herr
"Rumor of War" Phillip Caputo
"Fields of Fire" James Webb

Those are my top three in that order.  Others worth the time include books by Tim O'Brien.  Tim Pages book detailing the correspondents and photographers killed is very worthwhile also.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is one of my favorite books, it's fiction (and actually has a re-occurring themes of facts vs memory and what's real).  It's a pretty quick read and I heavily recommend it, a great piece of literature.

I also really enjoyed The Cat From Hue by John Laurence.  The author was a war correspondent for Kronkite and adopted a feral cat while covering the batte for Hue.  The book chronicles his time in Vietnam and how perceptions of the war changed.

[Oldman731]

Any of you men like reading about Vietnam , Seems I'm hooked on those mostly . Anyone know of a good read on this .

I consider "365 Days" by Ronald Glasser to be one of the three or four best books written about any war.  For those of you who have read it, I know a guy who knew the real-life Macabe in "The Shaping Up of Macabe."

"Fields of Fire," as others have said.

"The Thirteenth Valley," by John del Vecchio, is vivid.  I rank it only slightly below "365 Days."

I don't think the factual histories will catch up with the novels until we can see whatever documentation the Vietnamese have from their side of the war.

- oldman

[GhostCDB]

Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun

[Flench]

Thanks for the tips . Going to the library in the morning . Well have to see what they got from what you guy's have posted . Thx

[Draggon]

Here are two great books I couldn't put down.
 first one is the Autobiography of Greg "Pappy" Boyington
The second is the Autobiography of the Highest scoring ace in WWII
Eric Harman, the Blonde Knight of Germany.
Great books!

[Changeup]

"Dispatches". Michael Herr
"Rumor of War" Phillip Caputo
"Fields of Fire" James Webb

Those are my top three in that order.  Others worth the time include books by Tim O'Brien.  Tim Pages book detailing the correspondents and photographers killed is very worthwhile also.

My Dad (Ranger, FO 173rd AB Vietnam 66-67, 68-69) gave me Fields of Fire and said, "This was how it was..."  Great book.

[BuckShot]

"The Fantastic civil war" is a compilation book of alternate history/ fictional American civil war short stories.

Some are horrible, but some are... Fantastic.

One covers U.S. and world history if the Confederacy won. A few more involved time travel and advanced weapons in the civil war. The Wright flyer makes an appearance.

Fun book.

[Flench]

"The Fantastic civil war" is a compilation book of alternate history/ fictional American civil war short stories.

Some are horrible, but some are... Fantastic.

One covers U.S. and world history if the Confederacy won. A few more involved time travel and advanced weapons in the civil war. The Wright flyer makes an appearance.

Fun book.

Something I can not read about . All my family was in that fight , lost most of them .

[Shrike]

My Dad (Ranger, FO 173rd AB Vietnam 66-67, 68-69) gave me Fields of Fire and said, "This was how it was..."  Great book.

Cool!  I need a good book from that era.  One of my favorite Vietnam books is by a Huey pilot called

"Chickenhawk" by Robert Mason

http://www.amazon.com/Chickenhawk-Robert-Mason/dp/0143035711/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428065503&sr=8-1&keywords=chickenhawk

[FBKampfer]

Something I can not read about . All my family was in that fight , lost most of them .

I think just about everyone who has US ancestors going back that far has somebody KIA or DWRIA in the Civil War.

I've always been utterly baffled by southerners' obsession with the Civil War. Granted it was a brutal, very personal war, but even Europe seems to have mostly forgiven Germany for WWII, and that's still within living memory.