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Favorite WW2 Book
Posted on 7/31/24 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 7/31/24 at 8:46 pm
What’s your favorite WW2 book?
Just finished reading another wonderful book from Bill O’Reilly and looking for a good WW2 book next. TIA
Just finished reading another wonderful book from Bill O’Reilly and looking for a good WW2 book next. TIA
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Posted on 7/31/24 at 9:26 pm to jose
Winds of War, Vol. 1 & 2. Herman Wouk
Posted on 7/31/24 at 9:32 pm to jose
The Forgotten Soldier
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:30 am to JackDempsey
Who’s to the author to that? I see a couple of those titles on Amazon
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:45 am to jose
The Rising Sun by John Toland. Fascinating story of how Japan came to start a fight with the most powerful nation on earth.
In With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge. Used for the series The Pacific.
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie. Also used for the series The Pacific.
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer. Great fiction.
Slaughterhouse Five or Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut for a different approach.
In With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge. Used for the series The Pacific.
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie. Also used for the series The Pacific.
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer. Great fiction.
Slaughterhouse Five or Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut for a different approach.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:57 am to jose
A Time for Trumpets - Charles B. McDonald - Great book on the Battle of the Bulge
Citizen Soldiers by Ambrose also
Citizen Soldiers by Ambrose also
Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:06 pm to jose
Guy Sajer
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:24 pm to jose
Fiction
Winds of War
and
War and Remembrance
Ian Toll’s trilogy on the war in the Pacific
Humorous
Catch 22
Winds of War
and
War and Remembrance
Ian Toll’s trilogy on the war in the Pacific
Humorous
Catch 22
Posted on 8/2/24 at 7:16 am to rebelrouser
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The Rising Sun by John Toland
That was the first serious book I read about the origins and background Pacific War. (Strangely enough, I think the next book I read was Boyer's, By the Bomb's Early Light.) It still holds up.
(No cap, I just turned my head to the right, while typing this, and looked directly at my paperback copy of The Rising Sun.
) This post was edited on 8/2/24 at 7:17 am
Posted on 8/2/24 at 8:21 am to Ace Midnight
quote:
The Rising Sun by John Toland
That was the first serious book I read about the origins and background Pacific War.
Japanese history is completely insane and the book really captures that and also how the conflict could have been avoided by us. The feudal history of Japan is another crazy era.
Posted on 8/2/24 at 12:38 pm to rebelrouser
quote:
Japanese history is completely insane
A couple of fiction ones I really like:
The Emperor's General - James Webb. Told from the viewpoint of an aide to McArthur in post war Japan.
December 6 - Martin Cruz Smith. About an American in Tokyo on the eve of the war. Reminds me a lot of Bogart's character in Casa Blanca.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 9:01 am to jose
Winds of War and War and Remembrance are both classics. Also good is a 4-part series by Jeff Shaara
Not entirely about WWII, but it includes a portion of it, is Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer. One of my all-time favorite reads
Not entirely about WWII, but it includes a portion of it, is Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer. One of my all-time favorite reads
Posted on 8/3/24 at 4:23 pm to jose
Band of Brothers, but there have been several other I loved every page.
Posted on 8/3/24 at 10:19 pm to jose
Neptunes Inferno
Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers
Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers
Posted on 8/3/24 at 10:23 pm to jose
Hirohito and the making of modern Japan
Also any book about Franco
Also any book about Franco
Posted on 8/4/24 at 3:56 pm to DMagic
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
This post was edited on 8/4/24 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 8/5/24 at 12:22 pm to MAROON
For the navy fans, Shattered Sword and The Admirals are two of the best books on all things pacific naval front.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 9:12 pm to jose
The only one I’ve ever read, outside of “Farewell to Manzanar” for summer reading in high school, was “Neptune’s Inferno.”
Posted on 8/6/24 at 10:37 pm to Sasquatch Smash
I would add Unbroken. Not exclusive to
WWII but really enjoyed it.
WWII but really enjoyed it.
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