Topic: Whats your favorite military book/novel? 5

FutureRANGER · February 18th, 2004

I just finished reading Black Hawk Down. Its such a good book. Really sad though (like most military literature).

Animal Mother · February 18th, 2004

Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden.
Team Yankee - Harold Coyle.
All quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque.
The Price of Glory - Verdun 1916 - Alistair Horne.
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy.
Stalingrad - Antony Beevor.
Berlin - 1945 Antony Beevor.
Paths of Glory - Anthony Clayton.
Iran-Iraq: War in the air - Tom Cooper & Farzad Bishop.

Puff1082 · February 22nd, 2004

"Company Commander" by John McDonald I believe. McDonalds time as CC before and after the Battle of the Bulge.

Redneck · February 22nd, 2004

I had forgotten about that book, Puff, that is one good read!

GuyontheRight · February 22nd, 2004

See No Evil by Robert Bear {Retired CIA agent}

Good Book, but I actually I put that down right in the middle, for reasons that should be left out of this conversation

Gunner13 · February 29th, 2004

Lots of good suggestions - here are some of my favorites (beyond some of those the have been already mentioned):

The Defense of Duffer’s Drift by E. D. Swinton (a must have, but out of print again

)
The Defense of Hill 781 by James R. McDonough (Swinton with a modern twist)
Steel Wind - Colonel Georg Bruchmuller and the Birth of Modern Artillery by David T. Zabecki
Panzer Battles by F. W. von Mellenthin
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian
Lost Victories by Erich von Manstein

Fiction:

Any of the Hammer’s Slammers stories by David Drake
Any of the Horatio Hornblower stories by C. S. Forester (Forester did it first and best :!: )
The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester
The General by C. S. Forester

TheSunsetSniper · March 4th, 2004

Well 'Marine Sniper' and 'Silent Warrior' are basically the same book, only with different details, but they are my favorite. They inspired me, and they rock.

Steel On Target · March 17th, 2004

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

FutureRANGER · March 18th, 2004

I just finished Rainbow Six. That book is insanely good.

Popeye · March 18th, 2004

Too many great ones, sorry lol especially WWII and Civil War TRUE accounts. My favorites.

February 18th, 2004	Post 42
Animal Mother Optio	Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden. Team Yankee - Harold Coyle. All quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque. The Price of Glory - Verdun 1916 - Alistair Horne. Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy. Stalingrad - Antony Beevor. Berlin - 1945 Antony Beevor. Paths of Glory - Anthony Clayton. Iran-Iraq: War in the air - Tom Cooper & Farzad Bishop. __________________ *Tanknet* - Military Forum. \"Blackburn finally got to make a plane the way they wanted to, they got a solid block of aluminium and drilled holes in it\". Comment on the Blackburn Buccaneer.

February 22nd, 2004	Post 44
Redneck Buttercup	I had forgotten about that book, Puff, that is one good read! __________________ No boom, no boom, no boom, Amen.

February 22nd, 2004	Post 45
GuyontheRight Tribuni Angusticlavii	See No Evil by Robert Bear {Retired CIA agent} Good Book, but I actually I put that down right in the middle, for reasons that should be left out of this conversation __________________ No Voice

February 29th, 2004	Post 46
Gunner13 Centurion Gear	Lots of good suggestions - here are some of my favorites (beyond some of those the have been already mentioned): The Defense of Duffer’s Drift by E. D. Swinton (a must have, but out of print again ) The Defense of Hill 781 by James R. McDonough (Swinton with a modern twist) Steel Wind - Colonel Georg Bruchmuller and the Birth of Modern Artillery by David T. Zabecki Panzer Battles by F. W. von Mellenthin Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian Lost Victories by Erich von Manstein Fiction: Any of the Hammer’s Slammers stories by David Drake Any of the Horatio Hornblower stories by C. S. Forester (Forester did it first and best :!: ) The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester The General by C. S. Forester __________________ "Americans are so hard to fight because they do not know their doctrine, and if they do, they do not feel compelled to follow it" - Unknown, but attributed to a Soviet Officer. Mortui Non Mordent - Pro Libertate Patriae - Celeritas Et Accuratio

March 4th, 2004	Post 47
TheSunsetSniper Optio	Well 'Marine Sniper' and 'Silent Warrior' are basically the same book, only with different details, but they are my favorite. They inspired me, and they rock. __________________ \"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.\" - TR

February 18th, 2004	Post 41
FutureRANGER Tribuni Angusticlavii	I just finished reading Black Hawk Down. Its such a good book. Really sad though (like most military literature).

February 22nd, 2004	Post 43
Puff1082 Tirones	"Company Commander" by John McDonald I believe. McDonalds time as CC before and after the Battle of the Bulge.

March 17th, 2004	Post 48
Steel On Target Milites Gregarius	The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer __________________ Steel On Target \"The guns, thank Gawd the guns\"

March 18th, 2004	Post 49
FutureRANGER Tribuni Angusticlavii	I just finished Rainbow Six. That book is insanely good.

March 18th, 2004	Post 50
Popeye Optio	Too many great ones, sorry lol especially WWII and Civil War TRUE accounts. My favorites. __________________ Geronimo !