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Posted: 10/4/2019 10:00:54 AM EDT
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Looking for recommendations on any quality books on the Mexican American War from the Mexican perspective. I've got a pile of stuff from the US perspective.
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Posted: 10/5/2019 11:53:28 AM EDT
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John Walter’s Snipers at War
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Posted: 10/16/2019 8:54:31 PM EDT
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Shattered Sword
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Posted: 10/18/2019 7:50:41 PM EDT
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Hot and Cold: Memoirs Of A Rhodesian SAS Soldier by Brian Jackson
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Posted: 10/22/2019 5:51:50 PM EDT
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Dingo Firestorm: The Greatest Battle of the Rhodesian Bush War by Ian Pringle
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:38:42 PM EDT
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Just started the Last Stand of the tin can sailors
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Posted: 10/22/2019 10:04:13 PM EDT
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Done with Last Centurian. Moved on to Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, then Coraline, and now I'm on book 4 of the Eragon series.
All audiobooks though. Gotta love my job... as long as I do my work & keep one ear uncovered, they let me listen to music/radio/books whatever. 
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Posted: 10/23/2019 8:36:31 PM EDT
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The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew
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Posted: 11/4/2019 2:49:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: code99]
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After having finished volume 1 of a planned 3 volume biography of Stalin by Stephen Kotkin, I am now on volume 2, "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler".
I have become convinced that Kotkin is the authority on Stalin and the USSR, but as he himself said, "The book is 850 pages long, over a thousand including source notes, but my wife says it reads like no more than 700." He is a great lecturer with a fine sense of humor and a good writer, but there is sooooo much minutiae and the books sometimes plod along and my eyes glass over.... |
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Posted: 11/12/2019 9:47:04 PM EDT
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Just finished Mark Schwartz’s War and Peace and IT as well as his A seat at the table. Just started Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams.
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Posted: 12/22/2019 12:17:31 PM EDT
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Listening to Donald Miller’s “The Story of World War II”.
Excellent! Highly recommended. |
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Posted: 12/22/2019 8:40:50 PM EDT
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Reading Gene Kim’s ‘Unicorn Project’ now.
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Posted: 12/23/2019 1:46:21 AM EDT
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Da Nang Diary by Tom Yarborough about the OV10s that worked in the Prairie Fire program
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Posted: 12/30/2019 10:37:01 PM EDT
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The Swamp Fox by John Oller. I got it for Christmas and so far it’s excellent.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:32:12 PM EDT
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Col. R. Ernest Dupuy's St. Vith: Lion In The Way. It's about the ill-spoken 106th Infantry Division at Bastonge. Two of its infantry regiments were captured but the third joined in the defense of St. Vith.
As for the two that were captured, no division (including the Big Red 1, 29th, 36th, 45th, 82, 101) could have held that 22-27 miles of land. They were on the east side of the Our River with only two bridges available to them to escape west. The Germans captured the bridges and their ammunition was nearly exhausted. Air supply was cancelled and they had no choice but to surrender. Blame Allied Command for its failure to approve of the request to withdraw. It was felt that since the 106 held part of the West Wall (sometimes called the Siegfried Line), that it the salient could be used as a springboard into Germany. |
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Posted: 1/4/2020 10:49:08 AM EDT
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Rehfeldt's Mortar Gunner On The Eastern Front.
Re: Dupuy's book on the 106 at St. Vith, it needs a lot more maps. |
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Posted: 1/5/2020 11:07:38 AM EDT
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Simon Schama's book on the French Revolution.
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Posted: 1/6/2020 7:54:27 PM EDT
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Bloody Mohawk
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Posted: 1/7/2020 10:43:39 PM EDT
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John L. Stewart's The Forbidden Diary
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Posted: 1/8/2020 12:03:37 AM EDT
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The Army of the Potomac - glory road Bruce Catton
ARRLs Tech Q and A for tech license |
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Posted: 1/9/2020 8:02:36 PM EDT
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Allen F. Chew's The White Death. It's about the Winter War. Chew taught at the Air Force Academy and has crossed the Styx. Too bad as I have questions.
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Posted: 1/16/2020 7:09:26 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: 1/16/2020 9:30:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2020 7:21:49 PM EDT
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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce by Kent Nerburn
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Posted: 1/18/2020 12:25:35 AM EDT
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General Toothpick and Nuts!. Both books are by troopers of the 501st Regt (101 Airborne)
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Posted: 1/18/2020 2:19:42 AM EDT
[#26]
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers by Brian Kilmeade.
I really enjoyed his Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. |
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NE, USA
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Posted: 1/21/2020 11:33:54 PM EDT
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1913: In search of the world before the Great War by Charles Emmerson
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Posted: 2/1/2020 5:02:53 PM EDT
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Life and Fate by Vasiliy Grossman.
A story of Soviets during the Battle of Stalingrad. The book is historical fiction but the author was a combat correspondent for the Red Army at Stalingrad. |
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Posted: 2/2/2020 12:20:49 AM EDT
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Guy Sajer's The Forgotten Soldier.
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Posted: 2/15/2020 3:38:56 PM EDT
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Chuck Tatum’s ‘Red Blood, Black Sand”.
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Posted: 2/18/2020 10:01:01 AM EDT
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audiobook version of “To Hell and Back”. Audie Murphy.
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Posted: 2/22/2020 11:43:48 AM EDT
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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: 2/22/2020 12:33:17 PM EDT
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Just finished The Coveted Black and Gold by J D Lock, just started The Quick Red Fox by John D McDonald
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Posted: 2/23/2020 6:28:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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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.
Very good book. A few maps and one showing the movement of troops was excellent. The book is in two parts. First is the official narrative showing movements and battles. The second consists of first hand accounts by the soldiers who fought there. The only thing that could make it better (not possible now) are accounts from the Japanese side. Then again, when only 34 or so survived, don't expect much. |
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Posted: 2/25/2020 1:38:38 AM EDT
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Audiobook: “Helmet For My Pillow” by Robert Leckie
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Posted: 3/2/2020 1:09:25 PM EDT
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Just started Red Road From Stalingrad by Mansur Abdulin
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Posted: 3/11/2020 6:37:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/13/2020 10:25:56 PM EDT
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Finland at War: The Winter War 1939–40 by Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter and Toni Wirtanen.
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Posted: 3/14/2020 2:55:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rocco1695:
“On The Devil’s Tail” by Paul Martelli https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/301825/25CFACEE-31E9-4F82-B849-8C3E23A4C92C_jpe-1311497.JPG |
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Posted: 3/14/2020 2:57:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TARHEEL_85:
Finland at War: The Winter War 1939–40 by Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter and Toni Wirtanen. |
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Posted: 3/14/2020 6:11:06 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TARHEEL_85]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
@TARHEEL_85 - does it mention Finnish sniping? I ask because the Soviets mentioned that the Finns would penetrate their lines, climb trees and chain themselves to it. I doubt very much if this happened. Trees posts are suicidal to use and I think the Finns aren't crazy or stupid to chain themselves to a tree. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Originally Posted By TARHEEL_85:
Finland at War: The Winter War 1939–40 by Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter and Toni Wirtanen. Unfortunately Finland at War: The Winter War only mentions sniping in passing. The book covers Finnish and Soviet Army actions during the war at the battalion level and above (mostly from the Finnish point of view) not going into much depth on the air campaign, naval actions or the politics of the war. It is filled with pictures and interspersed with maps and short biographies that are a few paragraphs long. While I would have loved a broader and deeper history with a bit of the personal experience of the war included I still very much enjoyed Finland At War: The Winter War. The way it was laid out made for an easy read. Most of the other books I have read about The Winter War delve more into the political machinations of the war so I didn't view the very limited coverage in Finland at War as a great loss. I am looking forward to finishing Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 and seeing if I can improve on the knowledge of The Continuation War I gained in reading The German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945 by Earl F. Ziemke (pdf link). |
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Posted: 3/16/2020 4:29:33 PM EDT
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Thanks Tarheel_85. We had an expert (Alan Chew) here in Colorado, but he passed away a few years ago.
Right now I'm reading Fernand Kaisergruber's We Will Not Go To Tuapse. |
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Posted: 3/25/2020 1:04:54 PM EDT
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Al Brown's My Comrades And Me.
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Posted: 3/26/2020 5:46:39 PM EDT
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Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 by Myron Echenberg
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Posted: 3/27/2020 2:22:49 AM EDT
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Finally reading Unintended Consequences.
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Posted: 3/28/2020 1:39:46 AM EDT
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Untouched Heroics
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AL, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2020 1:46:17 AM EDT
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The Last Fighter Pilot (WWII - 1945) by Don Brown, and Capt. Jerry Yellin.
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Posted: 4/2/2020 9:22:36 PM EDT
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Rifleman by Gregg.
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Posted: 4/4/2020 12:34:02 PM EDT
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A Tomb Called Iwo Jima by Dan King
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Posted: 4/4/2020 12:35:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TARHEEL_85: @4v50 Unfortunately Finland at War: The Winter War only mentions sniping in passing. The book covers Finnish and Soviet Army actions during the war at the battalion level and above (mostly from the Finnish point of view) not going into much depth on the air campaign, naval actions or the politics of the war. It is filled with pictures and interspersed with maps and short biographies that are a few paragraphs long. While I would have loved a broader and deeper history with a bit of the personal experience of the war included I still very much enjoyed Finland At War: The Winter War. The way it was laid out made for an easy read. Most of the other books I have read about The Winter War delve more into the political machinations of the war so I didn't view the very limited coverage in Finland at War as a great loss. I am looking forward to finishing Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 and seeing if I can improve on the knowledge of The Continuation War I gained in reading The German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945 by Earl F. Ziemke (pdf link). @TARHEEL_85. I contacted a Finn at ww2 forum. He told me the practice of chaining themselves to trees was pure Soviet propaganda. |
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