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Posted: 6/19/2009 12:42:16 PM
I'm a little bit surprised that with all the books on sniping listed no one seems to have mentioned, "A Rifleman Went to War" by Herbert W. McBride.
This is THE definitive book on sniping written by the man who first wrote about sniping techniques which he largely personally developed on the battlefields of WWI. At any rate, it's a good read as well as a somewhat scary view into the psychology of the type of individual who is particularly suited to this kind of work. |
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Posted: 7/10/2009 11:13:05 AM
I encourage everyone to read Paul Howe's Leadership And Training For The Fight.
Paul Howe is a retired Delta guy. He currently owns and operates Combat Shooting and Tactics. The book is a series of vignettes of his experiences in Somalia and Panama, each followed by an AAR; what went well, what went wrong, and what he and others learned from the experience. He doesn't sugarcoat mistakes - in fact the number of things that don't quite go right might be surprising, but these guys just adjust and keep on rolling towards the objective. Another good read by a retired CAG guy is The Mission, The Men, And Me by Pete Blaber. |
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Posted: 7/11/2009 10:33:04 PM
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I have two I would toss in to read. These are zombie books and great reads.
You can find these at Permuted Press and most local book stores. 1- Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne great book fast read and its in its second printing with a third getting ready to be released. This is in a series part two due out later and the author has been signed to do a seven book series. This book is in pre-order state as its been picked up by a major printing company. About the book- Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. INTERCEPT COMPLETE_ Survivor, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. -The world of the undead 2-EDEN by Tony Monchinski great book and a great author. I have talked with him in emails a good bit. He is of all things a school teacher and in all places NY. I loved EDEN and hope to have another one as I think it will be a series. About the book- Seemingly overnight the world transforms into a barren wasteland ravaged by plague and overrun by hordes of flesh-eating zombies. A small band of desperate men and women stand their ground in a fortified compound in what had been Queens, New York. They've named their sanctuary Eden. Harris末the unusual honest man in this dead world末races against time to solve a murder while maintaining his own humanity. Because the danger posed by the dead and diseased mass clawing at Eden's walls pales in comparison to the deceit and treachery Harris faces within. |
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Posted: 7/28/2009 3:11:07 AM
Wilbur Smith's "A Falcon Flies"
It is the first book of 4 in a series that follows the history of a family in southern Africa and the land that would become Rhodesia. All the way from the British combating the slave trade in the 1860s to the Rhodesian war in the late 1970s. I will post more recommendations, it is late and this is the first time I ever looked in the book forum. |
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Posted: 9/27/2009 4:10:08 AM
My Dad was in Vietnam, and I found an author named Joe Haldeman that was also in Vietnam. That war has always fascinated me, so I picked up his first story "The Forever War". It's SF, in the vein of R. Heinlein, and it is phenomenal.
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Posted: 9/28/2009 7:37:38 PM
Here are my favorite military, spycraft, action adventure and mystery novelists. Excuse the long list, I read alot.
Andrew Britton Dale Brown Joe Buff Ward Carroll Tom Clancy Stephen Coonts Harold Coyle Clive Cussler Patrick Davis David Debatto Jim Defelice Michael Dimercurio Jack Dubrul Barry Eisler Vince Flynn David Hagberg Brian Haig Jack Higgins Stephen Hunter James Huston Gordon Kent Jon Land John R. Maxim Andy McNab Oliver North David Poyer H. Jay Riker Patrick Robinson James Rollins Brad Thor I have a few other authors that I like but I figured that's a good long list already. |
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Posted: 10/3/2009 2:23:59 AM
Originally Posted By crazytuco: World War Z by Max Brooks John Scalzi's Old Man's War series of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigade, and The Last Colony And the best stuff I've read in a long time is George R. R. Martin's still unfinished Song of Ice and Fire series which so far includes Game of Thrones, Clash of Kings, Storm of Swords, Feast for Crows, and the still promeised but so far undelivered Dance of Dragons. This series is starting to film as an HBO series later this year. +1 to all of these. I just finished Old Man's War, great book. Getting the other two shortly. |
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Posted: 10/13/2009 9:20:23 PM
Here are a few that I've enjoyed:
Feast Of Bones, Daniel Bolger. Fiction Written from the Soviet Air Assault perspective. SOG, James Plaster. Non Fiction Special Operations Viet Nam. Wayne Goddard's $50.00 Knife Shop, Wayne Goddard. Non fiction. Knifemaking. With The Old Breed, E.B. Sledge. Non Fiction USMC in WWll. The Hunter, The Hammer, And Heaven, Robert Young Pelton. Non Fiction Current Events. Eric |
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Posted: 10/28/2009 12:53:58 AM
Crime and Punishment
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Posted: 11/15/2009 5:12:43 PM
Originally Posted By joker581:
Dick Couch's books about the SEALs are great-The Warrior Elite, The Finishing School, and Down Range. I don't know about his fiction books. Chosen Soldier, his book about Army Special Forces training is okay, but there are better books out there on that particular subject. The Finishing School is good, I'm reading it now. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell is a GREAT book. |
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Posted: 1/2/2010 2:12:24 AM
A Rumor of War - Phillip Caputo
In The Line of Fire : A Memoir - Pervez Musharraf Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden Making a Killing - James Ashcroft The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter Thompson My War - Colby Buzzel D Day - Stephen Ambrose |
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Posted: 1/20/2010 1:47:13 PM
I am reading a translated version of Menzel's History of Germany in three volumes published in 1899. It is an interesting perspective being written before WWI. He has a very vibrant style and finds much pride and glory in his heritige, Being as how this is probably what the Germmans of WWII got their history education from it gives insight into them from that perspective. It can be found in full view on Google books or reading copies are reasonable from abebooks. Very recomended and not typical dry writing style. He was a fairly prominent historian in his time.
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Posted: 2/22/2010 11:14:41 PM
Originally Posted By Kujo:
One Second After by William Forstchen +1 to this. I just finished and it was a VERY good read I haven't looked through each page so sorry if these are repeats. The Men, The Mission and Me by Pete Blaber Bravo Two Zero by Andy Mcnab Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney Recondo by Larry Chambers anything by Gary Linderer |
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Posted: 3/3/2010 12:20:31 PM
The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
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Posted: 3/8/2010 6:53:37 PM
Unintended Consequences by John Ross.
A must read if you are part of the gun culture. |
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Posted: 3/10/2010 8:25:48 PM
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The Hot Gates , i read it about 2 years before the 300 movie came out. Not too fantasy compared to 300. (not read Tides of War yet but i have it) About Face: Odyssey of an American Warrior (long book, the first half is great, the second drags a little) Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 (i liked this one a bit, though some called it boring) War of the Rats Fox on the Rhine ( a what if ww2 did not end like it did) The Master Sniper, and all of the Bob Lee Swagger stories (which they simply ripped off for the movie shooter, since its a shell of what the book is) i dont know if anyone here is a sci-fi , warhammer/warhammer 40k fan but many of the books out now are pretty good scifi from the Black Library Gaunt's Ghosts series of books Soul Drinker The Horus Heresy series is top knotch and a host of others. |
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Posted: 5/5/2010 9:04:13 PM
[Last Edit: 5/5/2010 9:12:11 PM by loadbearing511]
I found a new book at B & N that I am about to start called The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged A New Afghanistan by Eric Blehm
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Posted: 5/29/2010 1:49:57 PM
Originally Posted By loadbearing511:
I found a new book at B & N that I am about to start called The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged A New Afghanistan by Eric Blehm Just finished this. Some pretty powerful stuff in their given the current situation. |
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Posted: 6/5/2010 5:41:19 PM
[Last Edit: 6/5/2010 5:43:39 PM by jaybird013]
Why Israel Can't Wait by Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D. Very good book to understand the threat to Israel and understand why they raided the ship recently and the threat of Iran to them and America.
They Must Be Stopped by Brigitte Gabreil Because they Hate by Brigitte Gabreil, these two books will open your eyes to the threat that we face of radical Islamic terrorist in America. Matthew Brackens series of books are also good. The Manchurain President by Aaron Klien exposes Obama and his ties to communiast, socialist, andother anti-American extremist. I have plenty more books that are also good. |
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Posted: 6/10/2010 10:36:45 PM
I saw it mentioned in here once but felt that it should be mentioned again. John Steakleys "Armor" is a great read for anyone into Science Fiction. One of the reviews I read for this book put it best by saying that the book would be just like Starship Troopers if Heinlein could write action. I have read this book a litteral 14 times in the 7 years I've owned it.
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Posted: 7/20/2010 9:59:09 PM
[quote]Originally Posted By WolfTrack:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand +1 It's long, and a little weird at times, but everyone on this board should read it. |
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Posted: 7/27/2010 5:24:50 PM
Originally Posted By Polish_Infidel:
Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen Have you read FIRST IN by Gary Schroen? The writer is the guy who started Jawbreaker. He was in country a few days after September 11th until Berntsen replaced him. |
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Posted: 8/20/2010 9:34:23 PM
Some good recommendations here. . . .I'll add a few. . . .all non-fiction
I've become interested in WW1 and that time period末-a true hinge-point in history. . . Anyway a friend's father, now deceased, had this book and my friend past it on to me . . .don't know if it's still in print, but it's a great read about what life was like for soldiers in the trenches of WW1 "Some Desperate Glory" by Edwin Vaughn. It was a diary he kept as a very young subaltern in the English Army. He died in the twenties, and one of his children found it in a cabinet. I don't believe it was published until the late 60's or early 70's. . . . Another book that I read, that was recommended by someone here a few years ago: Under the Red Sea Sun. Can't remember the author's name. . . story of a Navy salvage expert, (think he was almost 50 when recalled to duty in WW2) sent to IIRC, Eritrea (East Africa coast) to get former Italian port operational after they scuttled the ships, and wrecked the facilities. . . Good story of a guy doing his best with very little resources in an out of the way place. . .no banners waving, gung-ho hero stuff. . . don't think it will appeal to younger people, but older ones will appreciate this theme. . .inspiring book really. .would make a great movie IMHO if done right. . . Also, another diary, Life in Custer's Cavalry末Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz. I found it fascinating (my wife was bored with it), as it gives a real window into a time and place that is gone, but is, in a way, not too distant. I was struck while reading it that the Battle of Little Big Horn (which the author did NOT take part in), was less that 100 years before the height of the Viet-Nam war. . . so much happened it what is really a short time. . . Good reading. . . |
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Posted: 8/22/2010 12:14:19 AM
Originally Posted By OlympicArmsFan:
I have two I would toss in to read. These are zombie books and great reads. You can find these at Permuted Press and most local book stores. 1- Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne great book fast read and its in its second printing with a third getting ready to be released. This is in a series part two due out later and the author has been signed to do a seven book series. This book is in pre-order state as its been picked up by a major printing company. About the book- Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. INTERCEPT COMPLETE_ Survivor, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. -The world of the undead 2-EDEN by Tony Monchinski great book and a great author. I have talked with him in emails a good bit. He is of all things a school teacher and in all places NY. I loved EDEN and hope to have another one as I think it will be a series. About the book- Seemingly overnight the world transforms into a barren wasteland ravaged by plague and overrun by hordes of flesh-eating zombies. A small band of desperate men and women stand their ground in a fortified compound in what had been Queens, New York. They've named their sanctuary Eden. Harris末the unusual honest man in this dead world末races against time to solve a murder while maintaining his own humanity. Because the danger posed by the dead and diseased mass clawing at Eden's walls pales in comparison to the deceit and treachery Harris faces within. Why the fuck would you recommend EDEN? That is a serious question. I have known 5 year old children who could articulate their thoughts better then the author of that book. Not to mention the spelling... |
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Posted: 8/31/2010 1:49:10 PM
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The Long Walk - Written by Stephen King under a psuedonym which I can't remember. Richard Bachman |
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