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List of favorite political/military books you have read?
Posted on 1/2/17 at 8:34 am
Posted on 1/2/17 at 8:34 am
Anybody have a good list?
Posted on 1/2/17 at 8:49 am to biggsc
Strategy by B.H. Liddell Hart confidant of Churchill, Patton and others
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
On the official Marine Corps Reading List for Decades
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Also on the Marine Corps Reading List
Blood Stripes by David J. Danelo
Marine Infantry in Iraq
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Lee's Lieutenants by DH Freeman
A classic, love the prose
Memiors of Ulysses S Grant
Indispensable
The Patton Papers edited by Blumenson
Patton is the man
John Adams by David McCullough
Be good and do good
Crimsoned Prairie by SLA Marshall
Marshall was practically the official Army historian
The 13th Valley by John M. del Vecchio
I cannot recommended this book highly enough. Army Band of Brothers fighting the VC
A Sense of Honor by James Webb
Any book by Sen. Webb is good
Fields of Fire by James Webb
Ditto
A Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo
Infantry lieutenant in Viet Nam
Sand in the Wind by Robert Roth
Another great Viet Nam novel
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
Starts of with detailed description of the United States at mid century
Soldier by Anthony B. Herbert
Fighting the establishment
The Battle For Guadalcanal by Samuel Griffith
A very close run fight
Black Thursday by Martin Caidin
The darkest days for the B-17s
Thud Ridge by Col. Jack Broughton
Fighting Washington as much as the North Viet Namese
Fighter Pilot by Christina and Robin Olds
This is also a great book.
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
The RAF - not effective over Germany
The Berlin Raids by martin Middlebrooks
Ditto
The Luftwaffe War Diaries by Cajus Bekker
The other side of the hill.
The First and the Last by Adolf Galland
Galland was shot down twice in the same day
The United States Marine Corps in World War Two by SE Smith
Episodic account of the Marines against Japan
Churchill and the Montgomery Myth by RW Thompson
Monty sucked
The Bombers and the Bombed by Dr. Richard Overy
This is new, great account of the bombing of Germany
Masters of the Air by Miller, US Army Air Corps kicking arse
That's a start
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
On the official Marine Corps Reading List for Decades
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Also on the Marine Corps Reading List
Blood Stripes by David J. Danelo
Marine Infantry in Iraq
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Lee's Lieutenants by DH Freeman
A classic, love the prose
Memiors of Ulysses S Grant
Indispensable
The Patton Papers edited by Blumenson
Patton is the man
John Adams by David McCullough
Be good and do good
Crimsoned Prairie by SLA Marshall
Marshall was practically the official Army historian
The 13th Valley by John M. del Vecchio
I cannot recommended this book highly enough. Army Band of Brothers fighting the VC
A Sense of Honor by James Webb
Any book by Sen. Webb is good
Fields of Fire by James Webb
Ditto
A Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo
Infantry lieutenant in Viet Nam
Sand in the Wind by Robert Roth
Another great Viet Nam novel
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
Starts of with detailed description of the United States at mid century
Soldier by Anthony B. Herbert
Fighting the establishment
The Battle For Guadalcanal by Samuel Griffith
A very close run fight
Black Thursday by Martin Caidin
The darkest days for the B-17s
Thud Ridge by Col. Jack Broughton
Fighting Washington as much as the North Viet Namese
Fighter Pilot by Christina and Robin Olds
This is also a great book.
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
The RAF - not effective over Germany
The Berlin Raids by martin Middlebrooks
Ditto
The Luftwaffe War Diaries by Cajus Bekker
The other side of the hill.
The First and the Last by Adolf Galland
Galland was shot down twice in the same day
The United States Marine Corps in World War Two by SE Smith
Episodic account of the Marines against Japan
Churchill and the Montgomery Myth by RW Thompson
Monty sucked
The Bombers and the Bombed by Dr. Richard Overy
This is new, great account of the bombing of Germany
Masters of the Air by Miller, US Army Air Corps kicking arse
That's a start
This post was edited on 1/2/17 at 9:42 am
Posted on 1/2/17 at 8:53 am to biggsc
I cannot recommend these two books enough.
Posted on 1/2/17 at 8:57 am to biggsc
Liberty and Tyranny by the Great One
Posted on 1/2/17 at 9:06 am to biggsc
Ted Sorensen's JFK is exhaustive, but told from the perspective of a confidant as opposed to a biographer.
Despite your politics, excellent book
Despite your politics, excellent book
Posted on 1/2/17 at 9:12 am to biggsc
In retrospect by McNamara was a good Vietnam book
Posted on 1/2/17 at 9:34 am to goatmilker
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A fine list sir
Thanks!
Posted on 1/2/17 at 10:38 am to biggsc
Fine list you guys.
My one of my professors at UA wrote this if interested in the Warnbetween the States:
My one of my professors at UA wrote this if interested in the Warnbetween the States:
Posted on 1/2/17 at 11:18 am to biggsc
Panzer Commander by Hans von Luck
Introduction by our own Stephen E. Ambrose.
The Marxists by C. Wright Mills who in this 1962 copyrighted work, in retrospect, was explaining how the foundation was being laid for where we are now.
Introduction by our own Stephen E. Ambrose.
The Marxists by C. Wright Mills who in this 1962 copyrighted work, in retrospect, was explaining how the foundation was being laid for where we are now.
Posted on 1/2/17 at 11:26 am to biggsc
With the Old Breed
by Eugene Sledge
Cliff's: Marine infantryman's view of island hopping.
by Eugene Sledge
Cliff's: Marine infantryman's view of island hopping.
Posted on 1/2/17 at 11:34 am to biggsc
Smoke and Mirrors by Dan Baum
(Drug War)
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
(That book was almost as popular as the Bible during the forming of our nation)
(Drug War)
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
(That book was almost as popular as the Bible during the forming of our nation)
Posted on 1/2/17 at 11:38 am to WhiskeyPapa
This is also a very good book, and Pressfield was gracious enough to exchange several e-mails with me.
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