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Posted: 1/16/2020 7:08:33 PM EDT
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Sgt. Murray Soskil's From The Bronx To Berchtesgaden. Murray was in Ordnance and trained to fix optics. Manpower shortage had him transferred to the infantry. To requalify, he had to shoot his M-1 again. At 200 yards he fired 100 yards away from the target. At 100 yards, he fired 50 yards away. Despite deliberately missing, the sergeant said, Well, you can always fix a bayonet on your rifle and qualified him as a rifleman and sent him to the Continent. He was sent to the 7th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division and fought across the Vosges Mountains and into Germany. By war's end, the only man who was present when he joined his company was the supply sergeant. Soskil was present when at the liberation of the Concentration Camp. A prisoner came up to the fence and asked him if he was American. He said yes. He then told the prisoner he was a Jew. Both men cried. The inmate without tears and Soskil with tears.
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Posted: 1/17/2020 8:33:55 AM EDT
[#2]
The Searchers by Alan le May
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Posted: 1/18/2020 12:23:38 AM EDT
[#3]
I just read General Toothpick and Nuts!. Both books are by troopers of the 501st (& 101 Div).
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MN, USA
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Posted: 1/19/2020 4:30:15 PM EDT
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The Mallorean series by David Eddings.
Probably on my tenth re-read through. Try to read it and it's predecessor, The Belgariad series every few years or so. But as time goes, the gap between re-reads grows larger. |
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Posted: 1/19/2020 5:55:44 PM EDT
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Just about finished with The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. But I have several others going as well.
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Posted: 1/22/2020 1:29:37 PM EDT
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Hyperion
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Posted: 2/2/2020 12:20:05 AM EDT
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Guy Sajer's The Forgotten Soldier.
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USA
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Posted: 2/16/2020 10:39:48 PM EDT
[#8]
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Barnes
How (Not) To Be Secular by Smith |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 2/18/2020 1:40:54 PM EDT
[#9]
The Lost City of The Monkey God
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Posted: 2/18/2020 3:42:35 PM EDT
[#10]
"Man's Search for Meaning" Viktor E. Frankl, 1946
First hand account of a concentration camp survivor. I should have read this years and years ago, it's deeply moving, very disturbing, and yet enlightening in a positive way. It's a must read. |
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Posted: 2/22/2020 11:42:44 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#11]
Hugh Scott's The Blue and White Devils. Intelligence officer/PR officer's account of the Third Infantry Division in WW II. That was Audie Murphy's division. It's good for an overall account of the division, something you don't get from reading a soldier's foxhole view of the war.
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Posted: 2/23/2020 6:27:15 PM EDT
[#12]
The Capture of Attu. Years ago I read the Ten Thousand Mile War by Brian Garfield. Marshall later said that he wish he'd never approve of the campaign. The casualties (from the weather) was very high because the Seventh Div (beercan) troops were not equipped for winter warfare. They had been training for Africa.
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AK, USA
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Posted: 2/23/2020 9:27:48 PM EDT
[#13]
Just finished the Old Man and the Wasteland by Nick Cole. Post-apocalypse America setting, with an old man as the protagonist. Highly recommend it. It’s free if you have Kindle Unlimited.
Amazon link |
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Posted: 2/24/2020 1:06:49 PM EDT
[#14]
The Wandering Inn by pirateaba
A tale of a girl, an inn, and a world full of levels. Two volumes on Amazon, and much more as a web serial. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 2/25/2020 11:36:42 AM EDT
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The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
By Caleb Carr Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/2/2020 9:12:57 AM EDT
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"Dog Soldiers" by Robert Stone
"Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II" by David Stafford. Hking |
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Posted: 3/2/2020 1:08:47 PM EDT
[#17]
Just started Red Road From Stalingrad by Mansur Abdulin.
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Posted: 3/5/2020 12:26:49 PM EDT
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Strike and Hold by T. Moffatt Burriss.
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Posted: 3/18/2020 10:58:51 AM EDT
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Just finished Fernand Kaisergruber's We Will Not Go To Tuapse. It's by a Belgian who enlisted into the German Army, got converted to the SS and did five years in a Belgian prison for that.
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Posted: 3/25/2020 1:05:35 PM EDT
[#20]
Al Brown's My Comrades And Me.
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Posted: 3/25/2020 1:36:12 PM EDT
[#21]
Gust front by Ringo
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Posted: 3/25/2020 2:14:46 PM EDT
[#22]
"At War With The Wind" David Sears The US Navy's struggle with the Japanese Kamikazis
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2020 6:59:11 PM EDT
[#23]
Just started Mindhunter, by John E. Douglas, retired FBI profiler.
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Posted: 3/26/2020 6:51:25 AM EDT
[#24]
The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton
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Posted: 3/28/2020 1:43:34 AM EDT
[#25]
Untouched Heroics
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VA, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2020 11:19:50 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VacaDuck: The ABC's (and 912's) of Porsche Engines by Harry Pellow. just randomly looking through the thread. This is a Great Book: great useful and entertaining. 356s are my favorite car...... |
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Posted: 3/28/2020 2:17:26 PM EDT
[#27]
On the second to last book of The Lost Fleet. Great series.
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Posted: 3/31/2020 7:29:47 PM EDT
[#28]
Just starting the master and Commander series. They any good?
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Posted: 4/1/2020 12:08:11 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nightstalker32: Just starting the master and Commander series. They any good? Just a little 
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Posted: 4/1/2020 10:30:55 AM EDT
[#30]
I haven't started it. Im assuming the entire series is great then ? Lmao
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/1/2020 11:36:43 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Ramsey118]
[#31]
The Ice Man, Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
im so surprised this thread isn't the highest trending thread on ARF atm, with the communistic lock down most are under and all. |
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Posted: 4/1/2020 11:53:57 AM EDT
[#32]
Silly 'uman. Everyone knows gun guys can't read!
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Posted: 4/1/2020 11:55:45 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nightstalker32: I haven't started it. Im assuming the entire series is great then ? Lmao Yes, it's fantastic.  Attached File(missing #11, WFT?) |
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Posted: 4/2/2020 9:20:52 PM EDT
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Rifleman by Gregg.
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Posted: 4/4/2020 3:37:57 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Guy Sajer's The Forgotten Soldier. Should I read this or Blood Red Snow first? |
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Posted: 4/4/2020 12:31:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VitalSignsAbsent: Should I read this or Blood Red Snow first? Blood Red Snow. BTW, reading A Tomb Called Iwo Jima. Accounts from surviving Japanese. |
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Posted: 4/8/2020 1:44:20 PM EDT
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Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Such a good book. Loved it...very creative. I'm trying to work my way through the television series, but after the first couple episodes they veered very much away from the book. 
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Posted: 4/8/2020 2:22:59 PM EDT
[#38]
Just finishing up Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana.
In the middle of The Warwolf: A Peasants Chronical of the Thirty Years War by Hermann Lns |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/10/2020 9:25:05 AM EDT
[#39]
In Harms Way
About the sinking of the USS Indianapolis FANTASTIC! |
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Posted: 4/11/2020 11:42:28 AM EDT
[#40]
Just finished Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front.
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Posted: 4/12/2020 6:58:51 PM EDT
[#41]
Koskimaki's Hell's Highway. About the 101 in Market Garden.
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Posted: 4/14/2020 11:58:55 PM EDT
[#42]
Brandon Sanderson's "Starsight". Finished Skyward not too long ago, I'm liking the series so far.
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USA
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Posted: 4/16/2020 10:05:48 PM EDT
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About Face, Hackworth
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MN, USA
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Posted: 4/17/2020 2:00:30 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Overtorque: About Face, Hackworth Nice, it is on my list. I am finishing up E.B. Sledges With the Old Breed. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/18/2020 11:37:40 AM EDT
[#45]
With the Old Breed is one of my top three of all time.
 Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wolfglock: Nice, it is on my list. I am finishing up E.B. Sledges With the Old Breed. |
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Posted: 4/19/2020 4:30:34 PM EDT
[#46]
Final book in George Koskimaki's trilogy on the 101 Airborne: Battered Bastards of Bastogne.
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Posted: 4/20/2020 8:36:02 PM EDT
[#47]
That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. Eckert. It has probably been 30 years since I last read this. Really enjoyed it before so I'll see if it's as good the second time around.
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2020 10:32:22 AM EDT
[#48]
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the secret mission of 1805
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USA
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Posted: 4/26/2020 6:47:59 PM EDT
[#49]
Finished the Hackworth book. I can't recommend it. Not bad. Just not good.
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Overtorque: With the Old Breed is one of my top three of all time. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Overtorque: With the Old Breed is one of my top three of all time. Originally Posted By Wolfglock: Nice, it is on my list. I am finishing up E.B. Sledges With the Old Breed. |
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Posted: 4/27/2020 7:46:29 PM EDT
[#50]
George F. Schneider's Survivor: Memoirs of a WW II Vet. Great startup with growing up during the Great Depression.
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