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Are you looking for novels or actual history?
I may be small, but I'm slow.
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Both.. I read Lone Survivor then went to a Novel (Transfer of Power), so I am kind of looking for actual history again.. I like to switch between the two..Originally posted by happyone View PostComment
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NovelsOriginally posted by dabrockster View Post
If you like alternate history Gingrich and Forstchen have a couple of good series.
Three books on the civil war using the premise that Lee follows Longstreets advice at Gettysburg
1. Gettysburg
2. Grant Comes East
3. Never Call Retreat
The have also written on World War II using the premise that Yamamoto was at Pearl Harbor and ordered the 3rd Strike
1. Days of Infamy
2. Pearl Harbor: December 8
Leanord Scott has some good ones about Viet Nam
1. Charlie Mike
2. Last Run
These are older books but I would also recommend them.
If you haven't read these two Uris' books I would recommend them also.
Battle Cry: follows the 6th Marine regiment's war in the Pacifice really closely
Armageddon looks at the end of WWII in Europe and goes through the Berlin Airlift
Bernie Lay
12 O'Clock High - I like the book much better than the movie. It is a thinly veiled look at the 306 BG in the early days of the 8th AF campaign in England
Histories
Korea
The Coldest Winter by Hablerstam - A very good look at the politics and strategy on how we got into to Korea and how it was fought through the spring of 1951.
The Darkest Summer by Bill Sloan - This a mainly a look at the Maries Campaigns in the Pusan Perimeter and Inchon with a brief look at what happened at the Chosin Reseviour.
WWII
Rick Atkinson's triolgy
Army at Dawn - The US Army in North Africa
Day of Battle - Sicily and Italy
There is supposed to be a 3rd one, but it hasn't been released yet.
Anything by Charles B. McDonald esp Company Commander and Time for Trumpets
I hope this helps
I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."Comment
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THANK YOU.. That gives me a long list to choose from... I am looking at the first three (About Civil War) and the two about Pearl Harbor as my options. They peak my interest...Originally posted by happyone View PostComment
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You are very welcome. If you find my suggestions match you tastes, let me know, I have alot more I can recommend. These are just some of the favorites on my bookshelf.Originally posted by dabrockster View Post
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I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."Comment
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currently: Catching Fire (second book of Hunger Games series); the Bhagavad Ghita.
Upcoming: Life of Pi, Freakonomics (finally)Comment
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Reading Moby Dick by Melville (I am ashamed to admit that but for certain portions needed for school I have never read it before) and I am stunned at how much the opening chapters where Ishmael describes his watery wanderlust and his experience at the Spouter's Inn and so forth reminds me of Kerouac's On the Road. Kerouac and Melville were kindred spirits, at some level.PLesa excuse the tpyos.Comment
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After going through this thread I have now reserved four books from the library.. Whichever comes first is what I'll read (Looks like 1776 will be up first)....
The Road
Tears in Darkness
1776
Day of InfamyComment
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I posted a long list of non-fiction WWII books in #163 on this thread. Here is a list of novels (not all WWII) I would recommend:Originally posted by dabrockster View Post
Harms Way by James Basset.
Run Silent, Run Deep, Dust on the Sea and Cold is the Sea by Edward L Beach. The first two are about the exploits of a WWII submarine and the third is a Cold War sub story. Beach served on sumbarines during the war and after.
Red Phoenix, Vortex, Cauldron, The Enemy Within, Day of Wrath and Dangerous Ground by Larry Bond.
The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, Sum of All Fears, Without Remorse, Debt of Honor, Executive Orders, Rainbow Six, The Bear and the Dragon, and Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy. Larry Bond co-authored Red Storm Rising with Clancy.
Flight of the Intruder, Final Flight, The Minotaur, Under Siege, The Red Horseman and The Intruders by Stephen Coonts.
Pride Runs Deep by R. Cameron Cooke. A good WWII submarine story, but the beginning is too much like the start of Twelve O'Clock High (the book and the movie). Once the sub reaches her patrol area it picks up.
Sword Point, The Ten Thousand, Code of Honor, Look Away, Until the End by and God's Children by Harold Coyle. Look Away and Until the End are set during the American Civil War.
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton.
The Deep Six by Martin Dibner.
Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime by John Dunning.
Going Deep, Hog Down, Fort Apache and Snake Eaters of James Ferro's Hogs series about A-10 Wharthogs during the 1991 Gulf War.
Time and Tide by Thomas Fleming. About a fictional U.S. Navy cruiser during World War II.
The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester. My dad joined the navy after high school because he had read Forester's Horatio Hornblower books.
Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen.
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre.
South to Java by William P. Mack and William P. Mack, Jr. About an old four stack destroyer in the early battles of the Pacific War.
Where Eagles Dare and Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean.
The Bridges at Toko Ri and Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener.
The Med by David Poyer. Finished that one a few weeks ago.
The Bedford Incident by Mark Rascovich. An American destroyer faces off with a Soviet Submarine during the Cold War.
Silver Star, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Navy Cross of H. Jay Riker's Seals: The Warrior Bread series.
The Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara. About the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara. The prequel and sequel to his father's The Killer Angels. Also The Rising Tide and The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara, which are about World War II in Europe.
Show of Force by Charles D. Taylor. A battle between an American supercarrier and a Soviet carrier.
The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk.Col. Klink: "Staff officers are so clever."
Gen. Burkhalter: "Klink, I am a staff officer."
Col. Klink: "I didn't mean you sir, you're not clever."Comment
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Originally posted by USS Utah View Post
THANKS.. These two lists should keep me busy for a while..Comment
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Started the Remains of Company D by James Carl Nelson
Nelson recontructs the history of his grandfathers World War I unit, D Co 28th Inf Reg, 1st Inf Div.
It has been a really intresting read. His grandfather never talked about his experiences and Nelson gets his papers after he passes. He starts a project to find out all he can about what had happened to him and ends up researching the company and what happened to the men of D Co.
It is both a history of the unit and a history of his search for other members of the unit.
I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."Comment
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I just finished Dickens' Little Dorrit. Dickens fans (not many of us here, as far as I know) should read this one carefully. It is his darkest novel and has some of the most interesting, deeply-flawed characters of any of his books I have read yet. It's also incredibly timely, but I won't say why so as to avoid any spoilers. Mostly I loved the commentary on human nature.
I am fascinated by Dickens' work. I plan to read everything he ever wrote and am about halfway there. (My favorite so far is "Bleak House.") I've also read one biography of the man and plan to read the latest - a very thick tome indeed - later this year. When you get to know an author's work it is very interesting to see what was happening in his life at the time he was writing a particular book, and to watch his work and worldview evolve accordingly.
I am taking a break from Dickens for a while (I have learned it's important to do that) and am going to re-read The Brothers Karamazov now. I want to find out if I see more in the novel now that I missed when I was younger. Besides, Dostoevsky said Dickens greatly influenced him. Maybe I can detect that influence now.
Speaking of that, if anyone here read Dickens in high school and didn't like him, I encourage you to give him another try. For example, everyone in my era read Great Expectations in junior high, and didn't like it much. I think that's too bad, because I don't think anyone under 30 can really understand a book with disappointment as a key theme. For similar reasons, A Tale of Two Cities is a great read for an adult.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-ExuperyComment
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tomeOriginally posted by LA Ute View Post
Main Entry: tome
Pronunciation: \ˈtōm\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos section, roll of papyrus, tome, from temnein to cut; akin to Middle Irish tamnaid he lops, Polish ciąć to cut, and perhaps to Latin tondēre to shear
Date: 1519
1 : a volume forming part of a larger work
2 : book; especially : a large or scholarly book"75-10 the last two games? Is my math right? It's enough to make me reconsider my embrace of science over Christianity."--SU
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to have fumbled this football."
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Yes, Coastal that's what I meant by "tome." Read Dickens, my boy - you'll pick up more than a few archaic words! He likes "relict," for example, and "irruption." Fortunately my Kindle allows me to look up definitions easily.Originally posted by Coastal Ute View Post“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-ExuperyComment
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In college, I took a class on Dickens. We were required to read a Dickens novel a week; a near impossibility. It gave me some good insights on Dickens and his writing, but I did not enjoy the class. In recent years, I have reread some of his novels and find them much more palatable. By the way, if you want to read a tome, try the unabridged version of Les Miserables. I read it in French and it took me months, but what an interesting book.Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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