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Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: DiabloTX on June 20, 2006, 09:04:25 PM
Just finished reading a book and need a recommendation for my next one.

The last 3 books I've read:

A Man On The Moon - A. Chaikin

Lightning Strike - D. A. Davis

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors - J. D. Hornfischer


I prefer WWII fiction or non-fiction.

Or anything having to do with Naval history from sail to WWII.

Also, any good western novels as well.


Any recommendations?
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: SharkBait on June 20, 2006, 09:15:02 PM
Dumb but Lucky

A very different view on combat in Europe by a P-51 pilot.

The Fly Boys

What really happened to those guys shot down and didn't return in the same area George Bush got shot down in.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: APDrone on June 20, 2006, 09:20:04 PM
The First Team - Pacific Naval Air Combat Pearl Harbor - Midway

The First Team - Guadalcanal Campaign

John B. Lundstrom


'cept you probably already read those.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Mr Big on June 20, 2006, 09:20:04 PM
If you want to feel like a kid again:

"Big Red"

"Where the red furn grows"


Probably just cause I read them as a young kid, but I like the cheesy dog/kid books.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: DiabloTX on June 20, 2006, 09:25:18 PM
So far some interesting recommendations.  Except for you Nuke, go back to your room!  

I've already read Fly Boys.  Fire In The Sky was a great read too.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Mr Big on June 20, 2006, 09:26:34 PM
you never read them, did yah?
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: DiabloTX on June 20, 2006, 09:30:56 PM
Let's just say I preferred The Red Badge of Courage.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: DiabloTX on June 20, 2006, 10:12:09 PM
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Originally posted by APDrone
The First Team - Pacific Naval Air Combat Pearl Harbor - Midway

The First Team - Guadalcanal Campaign

John B. Lundstrom


'cept you probably already read those.


Actually, I haven't.  Will look for them next time I am at the bookstore.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Yeager on June 20, 2006, 10:15:08 PM
reading is bad for you, it lets other people get into your brain and take over.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: SMIDSY on June 20, 2006, 10:17:00 PM
"And Quiet Flows the Don"

and exelent WWI tale from the Russian front. about soldiers who go off to war and get swept up in the Russian Revolution.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Bronk on June 20, 2006, 10:38:32 PM
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Originally posted by Mr Big
If you want to feel like a kid again:

"Big Red"


 




Hmmm DiabloTX,feel like a kid again, and "Big Red".


Getting a bad picture here.



:D :D

Bronk
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: RightF00T on June 20, 2006, 10:46:43 PM
Digital Fortress....its from the same author of The Da Vinci Code(Dan Brown).  Its  a fictional story about the NSA and cryptographers.  You'll find yourself unable to put it down once you start reading it.  It has a crapload of plot twists, various info on the NSA and captivating literary descriptive writing.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Shuckins on June 20, 2006, 10:55:03 PM
There is a little know novel that I read in high school by an English author (can't remember his name) called "Six Point Buck."

It's the life story of a roe deer in England...with the author laying out a well defined view of the realities of life in the wild.

Heckuva better read than that sentimental tripe entitled "Bambi."

Regards, Shuckins
Title: Re: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: DREDIOCK on June 21, 2006, 12:29:31 AM
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Just finished reading a book and need a recommendation for my next one.

The last 3 books I've read:

A Man On The Moon - A. Chaikin

Lightning Strike - D. A. Davis

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors - J. D. Hornfischer


I prefer WWII fiction or non-fiction.

Or anything having to do with Naval history from sail to WWII.

Also, any good western novels as well.


Any recommendations?


Just got done reading
"Beyond Band of Brothers
The War Memoirs of Maj. Dick Winters"

Good book. Covers alot of areas that BOB didnt
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Vudak on June 21, 2006, 12:49:33 AM
For a good naval book Sail to WWII, check out "To Rule The Waves" by Arthur Herman.  

Just type that sucker in for Amazon, it'll pop right up with hardcover, paperback, etc.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Debonair on June 21, 2006, 01:08:00 AM
war in a stringbag
Title: Re: Re: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: DiabloTX on June 21, 2006, 01:18:59 AM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Just got done reading
"Beyond Band of Brothers
The War Memoirs of Maj. Dick Winters"

Good book. Covers alot of areas that BOB didnt


I saw that book when I bought Lightning Strike and The Last Stand...

I think I may get that one next.  Thanks!

I've read Band of Brothers twice.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: APDrone on June 21, 2006, 08:04:28 AM
Actually, I just remembered another fascinating book you might find interesting.  

Pacific War Diary.  

Basically a sailor's journal on a cruiser. Very enlightening to the daily life of the crew of a WW2 warship.

I found it a refreshingly different view of the war, and how miserable they must have been, compared to our cushy existance we take for granted today.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Masherbrum on June 21, 2006, 08:23:55 AM
Given up for Dead - Bill Sloan

The Longest Winter : The Epic Story of World War Ii's Most Decorated Platoon - Alex Kershaw

Secret Soldiers - Philip Gerard

The first one is the best WWII related book that I have read so far.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Edbert1 on June 21, 2006, 08:29:38 AM
"Gates of Fire"
(nothing to do with Micro$oft)
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Curval on June 21, 2006, 08:32:56 AM
"Stalingrad" by Anthony Beevor.

Amazing book.
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: Jackal1 on June 21, 2006, 08:45:21 AM
It`s not WWII, but Vietnam instead, but one of the best books I have ever read, bar none, is "The 13th Valley".
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: deSelys on June 21, 2006, 09:17:12 AM
In case you missed it, Enemy coast ahead by Guy Gibson.

The Aubrey serie by Patrick O'Brian (Royal Navy vs Napoleon's fleet). Excellent historical fiction. I dare say capital, upon my word!
Title: Need a new book recommendation...
Post by: ChickenHawk on June 21, 2006, 01:52:57 PM
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Originally posted by deSelys
The Aubrey serie by Patrick O'Brian (Royal Navy vs Napoleon's fleet). Excellent historical fiction. I dare say capital, upon my word!


I must also heartily endorse this series.  I read the entire Hornblower series by CS Forester and thought nothing could get better but I was wrong.  O'Brian is pure genius.