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Posted: 3/13/2023 11:21:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2023 5:22:51 PM EDT
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. White.
It's one of those books where you can easily read sixty pages before bed. Well-written and Grant was an amazing and intriguing figure. |
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Posted: 3/23/2023 11:40:03 PM EDT
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John Warwicker's Churchill's Underground Army.
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Posted: 4/11/2023 9:18:36 PM EDT
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Granddaddy, Tell Us About the War by Gowen.
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Posted: 4/12/2023 7:03:42 PM EDT
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William Tecumseh Sherman- In The Service Of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough
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Posted: 4/20/2023 6:31:55 PM EDT
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I Somehow Survived: Eyewitness Accounts from World War II edited by Klaus Forg
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Posted: 4/20/2023 8:19:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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The last one only lasted a couple of hours. Short (and useful to me).
Now on Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front by Luis Raffeiner. Initially had no interest but it was inexpensive at Edward Hamilton so I thought, why not? ETA: Read the first few chapters. He's South Tyrolean and it's the second book I've come across by a South Tyrolean. He served one year in the Italian Army and never renounced his Italian citizenship before going to Germany where he joins the Wehrmacht and is trained as a mechanic for a stug battalion. He says that while being the mechanic, he had to ride outside of the vehicle and was let in only during combat. Interesting read which is better than I originally anticipated. |
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Posted: 4/21/2023 10:48:49 PM EDT
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Jim Langley's Fight Another Day.
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Posted: 4/23/2023 1:41:08 PM EDT
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Recommendations on Cold Ware non-fiction?
I have finished the following:
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Posted: 4/23/2023 9:06:30 PM EDT
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
Excellent filling out of the history. |
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Posted: 4/24/2023 6:43:41 PM EDT
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Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan by Joseph Wheelan
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Posted: 5/5/2023 5:31:20 PM EDT
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
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Posted: 5/6/2023 2:49:06 AM EDT
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The White Pill: A Tale Of Good And Evil by Michael Malice.
Just finished it, and it's great. The tale of the rise and fall of communism in Europe. It's very well written, and is a real page-turner. I wholeheartedly recommend it. The Russian Revolution was as red as blood. The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison that the world had ever seen, a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe. It was a country where people's lives meant nothing, less than nothing—and they knew it. But no matter what atrocity that the Soviets committed—the secret police, the torture chambers, the show trials, the labor camps and the mass starvation—there was always someone in the West rushing to justify their bloodshed. For decades it seemed perfectly obvious that the USSR wasn’t going anywhere—until it vanished from the face of the earth, gradually and then suddenly. This is the story of the rise and fall of that evil empire, and why it is so important for the good to never give up hope. This is the white pill. |
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Posted: 5/6/2023 8:50:40 AM EDT
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Neptune's Inferno by James D. Hornfischer Damn he was an excellent writer.
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Posted: 5/6/2023 8:58:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ReservedRealist2: With the Old Breed, by E.B. Sledge Finally got around to watching The Pacific, had to reread it and Leckie's book Helmet for My Pillow and the rest of his Pacific volumes. |
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Posted: 5/6/2023 9:58:58 AM EDT
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A Sapper's War by Ralph Carr. His preface is spot on about war censors and locations being omitted by the writer or by the censor. I hate that (but understand) and he mentions the unit history helped him to rediscover the place where it was written. Once I asked a woman to go through the envelopes of her father's letters to locate the postmark so as to determine his location in England. All postmarked London (so no help).
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Posted: 5/6/2023 8:12:49 PM EDT
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"Facing Unpleasant Thoughts - The Narrative Essays of George Orwell"
A very timely book. His observation on how liberals try to rewrite history is as valid today as it was when he was writing in 1942. “Yet, after all, some kind of history will be written, and after those who actually remember the war are dead, it will be universally accepted. So for all practical purposes the lie will have become truth. “The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such event, “It never happened” — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five — well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs — and after our experiences. of the last few years that is not a frivolous statement.” |
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Posted: 5/15/2023 7:03:01 PM EDT
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Just finished Got to Go Now. It's 300 letters along with commentary by a soldier who was in the ASTP, assigned to the 410 Infantry Regiment, 103rd ID and sent to Southern France.
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Posted: 5/16/2023 3:07:43 PM EDT
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Kaufman & Kaufman's The American GI in Worldd War II: The Battle in France
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Posted: 5/17/2023 12:31:36 AM EDT
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South Pacific Cauldron, Alan Rems , a deeper dig into the Guadalcanal, Bougainville , etc campaigns.
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Posted: 5/20/2023 9:36:23 PM EDT
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Lindsay's The Sniper.
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Posted: 6/17/2023 10:48:50 PM EDT
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Just retuned from a week at Gettysburg and Antietam. In preparing for my trip the past few months I think I’ve watched every lecture on YouTube by the National Park Service and American Battlefield Trust.
I became infatuated with John Gibbon. Before I got home I ordered both of his books. This is the one I’m reading now. We finished our trip in D.C. and at Arlington National Cemetery my first stop was to see his grave and render my respects.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 5:52:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AlvinYork]
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continuing my perusal of the Pacific theater.
Just started....By Water Beneath the Walls : The Rise of the Navy SEALs Milligan, Benjamin H. Before They Were SEALs They Were Frogs: The Story of the Last Living Member of Class 1 of the Naval Special Warfare Operators Who Evolved into the Navy Seals Dawson, William, has been shipped. |
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Posted: 7/1/2023 6:17:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/14/2023 9:32:08 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/21/2023 9:34:08 AM EDT
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Beyond Band of Brothers - Dick Winters
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Posted: 8/21/2023 3:14:54 PM EDT
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen
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Posted: 9/26/2023 5:08:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RustyKnifeUSMC: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/301825/IMG_0961_jpeg-2885244.JPG I read that book and cited it. The author came across a cache of more material by Abbot and the last I heard he was working on revising it. |
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Posted: 9/26/2023 5:09:18 PM EDT
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The Breakthrough Battalion: Battles of Company C of the 133rd Infantry Regiment by Col. Richard Wilkinson.
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Posted: 9/26/2023 5:56:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: lew]
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Social Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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CO, USA
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Posted: 10/7/2023 11:06:32 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Blood, Dust and Snow.
ETA: Book is by Fredrich Sander, a panzerwaffe leutnant who commanded a company in the 11th Panzer Regiment, 6th Panzer Division. Brainwashed in the Hitler Youth, he was happy to become a panzertrupper and started as a driver. He is a panzer commander during Operation Barbarossa. Initially equipped with Czech Pz 35(t), they lost every vehicle in the drive on Leningrad and became an ad-hoc infantry battalion. They were later reequppied with long barrel Pz III which he asserts can take out T-34s at 600 meters or less. He is injured during Manstein's drive to free the trapped Sixth Army in Stalingrad. While the book is silent, the foreword says he became a panzer trainer and was likely pressed back into service to fight the Americans who captured him. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 10/20/2023 10:52:52 AM EDT
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Rock of Anzio about the Thunderbirds, the 45th Infantry Div.
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Posted: 10/20/2023 12:07:13 PM EDT
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Air Apaches, by Jay Stout
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Posted: 10/20/2023 8:48:53 PM EDT
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The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins
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Posted: 10/21/2023 12:10:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Kihn]
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Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans/ Johnson
His writing is a little subdued/ bland. But he appears to be a statistician. The approach is excellent. surviving Gestapo notes/ case files from big, mid-sized and small German population centers in the Rhineland (Cologne, Krefeld, Bergheim(?)) Nice filling out of the Gestapo day-to-day. The post-war Trials. the excuses. He has a problem with the 'Ordinary Germans' argument. published 2000. It gets a middlin' star rating but I think it is underrated a bit. Writing stye a little off-putting but you get used to it (IMO). |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 10/23/2023 5:53:03 PM EDT
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Put down Rock of Anzio and finished The Road to Innsbruck and Back.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 9:52:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ReservedRealist2: With the Old Breed, by E.B. Sledge Follow that up with 'China Marine'. A lot of guys got screwed at the end of the war by the points system. Sledge's enlistment was 'to the end of hostilities +6 months' as he was USMCR. Bam! After the bomb fell it was off to China for him for a while. Sledge was raised as a southern gentleman and unlike many of his peers didn't dedicate all of his off duty time to drinking and whoring. He traveled in some fairly interesting circles in China. It's an interesting read. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 9:58:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Riter: Been reading Soldat. It's the taped recordings of German PoWs in British custody. From what I have gathered, Japanese POWS brought to the States is a lot more interesting. German/Italian culture was pretty close to ours while Japanese culture was completely different. About 5500 Japanese made it here and the few blurbs I have read in other books say they were really fish out of the water and were totally overwhelmed. While most POWs realized they were living better here than at home, it held tenfold for the Japanese. ANYONE THAT CAN RECOMMEND A BOOK (or six) ABOUT JAPANESE HELD IN THE STATES? |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 10/29/2023 7:36:21 PM EDT
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Finished Rock of Anzio and now Dance of Death.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/5/2023 4:01:26 PM EDT
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Finished Snatched From the Flames by Nathan Reynolds. He was in a Satanic family.
Now on Twenty-two on Peleliu by George Peto with Marter Margaritis. Peto is assigned to the First Marine Division after it finished its fighting on Guadacanal went to Australia. |
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Posted: 12/6/2023 2:55:51 PM EDT
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Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in Yemen 1962-67 by Jonathan Walker
FN-49- The Last Elegant Old World Military Rifle by Wayne Johnson |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/6/2023 6:33:42 PM EDT
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Gavin At War: The World War II Diary of Lieutenant General James M. Gavin
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/9/2023 10:37:05 PM EDT
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Put Gavin's book down for George Wagner's Voyage to War. Wagner was a mortarman in Co. C, 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th ID that fought in the ETO.
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Posted: 12/9/2023 11:12:55 PM EDT
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Windswept house.
I understand why we have a commie pope now. It has been a designed thing since Vatican 2 |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 3:23:47 PM EDT
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Just finished Don Brown and Jerry Yellin's The Last Fighter Pilot. While Don is a good writer, I don't care for his writing style. I concede it was neccessary to flush out the story othewise it would be phamplet size. The chapters written by Capt. Jerry Yellin were much better.
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Posted: 12/29/2023 3:27:01 PM EDT
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I just finished a few really mentally, emotionally powerful books so I'm just reading no brainers (The Natalie Halloway story and Beyond the wand).
But this past month I read: Demon Copperhead, Playing in the field of the Lord and Lonesome Dove. These were all amazing books but wiped me out emotionally. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:02:21 PM EDT
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Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen
The whole story is beyond insane. About to start The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens. |
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Posted: 1/1/2024 12:09:29 PM EDT
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John McManus' Island Infernos. It's book two of his triology on the US Army in the Pacific.
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Posted: 1/7/2024 10:46:47 AM EDT
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McManus' Island Infernos was a great read. I finally understand Holland Smith's relieval of US Army's 27th Infantry Division commander, R. Smith. I also got details of Anguar's commander, Maj. Goto's death.
Now onto the final book the trilogy, To the End of the Earth. |
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Posted: 1/11/2024 7:36:10 PM EDT
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John McManus' The Dead And Those About To Die. About the Big Red 1 @ Omaha.
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