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Posted: 12/7/2020 7:00:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/10/2020 12:09:11 PM EDT
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Mal_Means_Bad recommended Anthony Beevor's book, Fall of Berlin. Audio is free on YouTube and I've been listening to it for several days and finished it this morning. I'm buying a copy so I can go over the endnotes and sources.
Presently on Gordon Rottman's Soviet Rifleman |
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Posted: 12/10/2020 5:07:54 PM EDT
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Patton's Lucky Scout.
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Posted: 12/11/2020 2:31:54 PM EDT
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Patton: Ordeal and Triumph
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Posted: 12/14/2020 5:54:31 PM EDT
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The Equus Men: Rhodesia’s Mounted Infantry: The Grey’s Scouts 1896-1980 by Alexandre Binda
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Posted: 12/18/2020 10:25:43 AM EDT
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I put down the Patton book (1/3rd read) for Boris Gorbachevsky's Through The Maelstrom. Awesome post war account of a Soviet officer who post-war emmigrated to America and could write safely out of the reach of the NKVD/KGB. Not anti-Russian/Soviet but more honest. Gorbachevsky's more useful for my research.
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Posted: 12/19/2020 11:10:20 AM EDT
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Gerhardt Thamm - Boy Soldier: A German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight
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Posted: 12/20/2020 12:35:57 PM EDT
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Beyond Valor.
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Posted: 12/20/2020 12:54:49 PM EDT
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Rereading the Guardians series. 80s cheese with lots of hip firing and dated tech. Very enjoyable lol
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Posted: 12/20/2020 2:34:00 PM EDT
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Midnight in Chernobyl
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Posted: 12/29/2020 9:04:34 AM EDT
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Just finished Patton: Ordeal and Triumph and now onto Patton's War As I Knew It
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Posted: 1/7/2021 11:27:52 AM EDT
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Col. Robert S. Allen's Lucky Forward
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Posted: 1/10/2021 10:32:11 AM EDT
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Petr Mikhin's Guns Against The Reich. Artilleryman's memoirs which for me is something different.
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Posted: 1/12/2021 9:34:26 AM EDT
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Current read is Jeff Shaara's "To Wake the Giant" about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 I've been reading a lot of his books lately - he bases his work on historical research but personalizes them by giving voice to the characters. AT the end of the book he gives an account of each character he features and what happened to them later in life or the impacts they had if they died. |
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Posted: 1/12/2021 10:46:28 AM EDT
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The Citadel of Freedom and Resistance to Tyranny.
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Posted: 1/12/2021 5:26:53 PM EDT
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Just finishing Leckie's book Okinawa the Last battle of WWII.
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USA
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Posted: 1/12/2021 9:39:07 PM EDT
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Fahrenheit 451
Killing Crazy Horse The US Constitution - A Reader (Hillsdale College) |
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Posted: 1/13/2021 12:42:49 PM EDT
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82nd Airborne's James Megellas' All The Way To Berlin.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 2:53:43 PM EDT
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Robert DeBard's The Gift of Significance.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 3:05:01 PM EDT
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Brad Taylor's "American Traitor" currently.
Just finished in the past few weeks: "Collateral Damage", "The Deathbringers", and "Kane: Darkness Upon Us" By Brent Towns. |
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Posted: 1/16/2021 11:18:20 AM EDT
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Henry Langrehr's Whatever It Took
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GA, USA
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Posted: 1/16/2021 9:14:34 PM EDT
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Finished in the last few weeks
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam Stephan Sears Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942 Ian W Toll Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville:The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War Winston Groom Currently The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific 1942-1944 Ian W Toll |
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Posted: 1/16/2021 10:03:20 PM EDT
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Just got this in the mail from ThriftBooks, Marine! : The Life of Chesty Puller.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 4:29:50 PM EDT
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Leo Inglesby's A Corporal Once.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 6:55:10 PM EDT
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Dwayne Burns' Jump.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 1/18/2021 5:42:46 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2021 5:59:31 PM EDT
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Just started William Wharton's Shrapnel. It's a short, funny book.
Hey @Piccolo - see if you can get this book via the library or inter-library loan. The guy is hilarious and his writing style is like yours. The GI who polished his bore with steel wool and softened the rifling (court martial and fined $87), a guy who faked a medical disorder to get an honorable discharge. You can thank me later. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 6:35:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Just started William Wharton's Shrapnel. It's a short, funny book. Hey @Piccolo - see if you can get this book via the library or inter-library loan. The guy is hilarious and his writing style is like yours. The GI who polished his bore with steel wool and softened the rifling (court martial and fined $87), a guy who faked a medical disorder to get an honorable discharge. You can thank me later. Found it. 8 bucks on eBay Tales of the South Pacific now. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:16:19 PM EDT
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Written on the Knee by Theodore Electris
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Posted: 1/20/2021 1:57:46 PM EDT
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Guy Whidden's Between the Lines and Beyond: Letters of a 101st Airborne Paratrooper.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 4:01:21 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Herbert Obermayer's Soldiering For Freedom
Obermayer was a ASTP Cadet studying civil engineering at William & Mary College (Williamsburg, VA) when the program was terminated and he was pressed into an engineering battalion where he became a quasi-medic (at least he gave shots). That unit is disbanded and he's sent to the Quartermaster's Corps where he's with a unit that serves the gas pipe line. Lots of theft from French civilians that slows the gas to the armies (especially Patton's Third Army). Then on page 146 he wrote: Boredom is far superior to bullets, so with only these two alternative, I'm glad to settle for the former. |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 10:12:00 PM EDT
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Portuguese Dragoons 1966-1974 by John P. Cann
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Posted: 1/23/2021 11:12:45 PM EDT
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Scholars of Mayhem by Guiet and Smith
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Posted: 1/24/2021 6:22:37 AM EDT
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Ernest K. Gann
Fate is the Hunter. |
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Posted: 1/26/2021 2:08:17 PM EDT
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Captured Yesterday: The World War II Diary of Tony B. Lumpkin. Lumpkin was a tanker captured in N. Africa.
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Posted: 1/26/2021 3:31:30 PM EDT
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Currently reading Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. Prior to that was Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynn. Next up will be either Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning or Rebel Yell by S.C. Gwynn.
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Posted: 1/29/2021 4:48:19 PM EDT
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Artem Drabkin & Isaak Kobylyanskiy's Red Army Infantrymen Remember the Great Patriotic War. It's a collection of accounts by sixteen Soviet infantrymen.
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Posted: 1/30/2021 10:50:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/30/2021 10:54:17 AM EDT
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Forgot to post the last few books I’ve read. Just finished this one. I’m fairly knowledgeable on S.F. Vietnam history and MACV SOG but this was very interesting as the author served in Laos after his tour in Nam with USAID.
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Posted: 1/30/2021 10:57:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/30/2021 12:49:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Isaak Kobylyanskiy's From Stalingrad to Pillau.
Like the below, it was written in America after he left the Soviet Union. Boris Gorbachevsky's Through The Maelstrom. Awesome post war account of a Soviet officer who post-war emmigrated to America and could write safely out of the reach of the NKVD/KGB. Not anti-Russian/Soviet but more honest. Gorbachevsky's more useful for my research. P. 251-2. Post-war some Uzbek soldiers were given false names, a strange uniform and sent in to help Uyghurs in China fight the KuoMinTang. I wasn't aware of that. @LittlePony P. 259. Discharged, he unwittingly buy boots that were nothing more than polished cardboard that appeared to be leather. When he showed his father, his father suspected something was wrong and scratched it with a nail. Anyway, he finds the scoundrels a few days later and recovers less than half of his money from them. P. 297. At a war reunion, a soldier insists on seeing a doctor who attended to him. They knock on her and her husband's door at midnight. She doesn't recognize him at all and wants him to leave. Before anyone can stop him, he walks right up to her bed, drops his pants and then his drawers. She recongizes the scar and then knew the soldier and had a joyous reunion (presumably after he pulled his pants up). What cajones! |
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Posted: 1/30/2021 5:12:28 PM EDT
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Fate is the Hunter.
Ernest Gann. |
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Posted: 1/31/2021 9:15:45 PM EDT
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Herbert Scherer's If You Doubt in God. About a German soldier who survived Soviet captivity in Siberia.
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Posted: 2/1/2021 5:39:33 PM EDT
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Jim Rickards' Afteremath.
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Posted: 2/6/2021 8:37:32 AM EDT
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The Good Soldier
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Posted: 2/9/2021 8:48:42 PM EDT
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Book 3 of 4: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | by Robert A. Caro |
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Posted: 2/15/2021 1:09:53 PM EDT
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Roy E. Rayle's Random Shots. It's about Post WW II military small arms development.
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Posted: 2/15/2021 1:13:40 PM EDT
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Matthew Bracken’s Domestic Enemies. This will be the third time through the trilogy.
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Posted: 2/15/2021 6:50:04 PM EDT
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Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell
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Posted: 2/16/2021 3:40:32 PM EDT
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Jim Rickards' The New Great Depression
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