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Posted: 3/2/2020 2:34:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/9/2020 7:53:19 PM EDT
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Herbert McBride- "A rifleman went to war" and "The emma gees"
"Some desperate glory" by Vaughan is also very good. |
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Posted: 3/11/2020 8:47:45 AM EDT
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The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
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Posted: 3/11/2020 8:55:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/11/2020 9:18:28 AM EDT
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Another vote for Storm of Steel
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Posted: 3/14/2020 1:52:29 PM EDT
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Storm of Steel is fantastic account of WW1
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Posted: 3/15/2020 6:50:36 AM EDT
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There’s A Devil In The Drum- John Lucy
Goodbye To All That- Robert Graves Storm of Steel- Jünger All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Remarque |
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Posted: 3/15/2020 8:15:22 AM EDT
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History of the 318 Infantry 80th Div.
I cant get link to work but type 318th into the search box or whatever unit and you may be suprised by the amount of info you can find. I ran across this online resource while researching my Great Grandfathers unit. Pretty much a day day account from training at Fort Lee to the action in France and back home. It was a treasure to find for my family. |
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Posted: 3/20/2020 10:50:16 PM EDT
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Thanks everyone!
Stay safe out there! |
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Posted: 3/21/2020 4:59:54 PM EDT
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Another vote for Storm of Steel.
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Posted: 3/23/2020 11:18:42 PM EDT
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The First World War by John Keegan
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque |
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Posted: 4/6/2020 5:11:16 PM EDT
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"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo
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Posted: 4/28/2020 11:19:57 PM EDT
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Sometimes it is neat to see contemporaneous accounts of events.
Archive.org is a good source for books from that era- for example, a search: Search, "World War, 1914-1918" with 20,000 results |
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Posted: 5/26/2020 9:44:55 PM EDT
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Edward Hamilton books has 1/60 Fredric M. Crum's Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout. Crum was more influential that Hesketh Prichard in organizing the sniping movement in WW I. If you're into sniping, get it. I think it's only $5 which is a lot less than what I paid.
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Posted: 5/27/2020 9:42:52 PM EDT
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Anyone read Shaara's To The Last Man? It's historical fiction, but man do its online reviews say good things. Either way I'm buying it.
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Posted: 6/11/2020 6:54:54 PM EDT
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Anything by Lynne MacDonald, and Winston Groom (Forrest Gump author) wrote a very good account of Ypres.
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Posted: 9/7/2020 9:53:21 PM EDT
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Catastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings. It’s a detailed account of the first few months of the war and details how it started and that politics around it.
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Posted: 11/13/2020 12:24:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/13/2020 1:42:19 AM EDT
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Make the Kaiser Dance by Henry Berry
It is interviews of veterans. Berry's follow up books on WW2 and Korea are good as well. I believe Berry himself was a WW2 Marine. |
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Posted: 11/13/2020 2:23:49 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/14/2020 12:57:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone read Shaara's To The Last Man? It's historical fiction, but man do its online reviews say good things. Either way I'm buying it. Ordered and read this. Highly recommended. The opening chapter, the Private Temple (Belleau Wood, etc.) chapters, and Patton chapters are visceral and expertly detailed. |
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Posted: 11/14/2020 1:24:23 AM EDT
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Castles of Steel by Robert Massie.
Fascinating read on the naval aspects of the war to end all wars. |
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Posted: 12/20/2020 9:46:23 AM EDT
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Now It Can Be Told
"Sir Philip Gibbs (May 1, 1877 – March 10, 1962) was an English journalist and novelist who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War." |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:21:21 PM EDT
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World War I The African Front by Edward Paice
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Posted: 2/21/2021 9:43:14 PM EDT
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 Rock of the Marne. I have watched 1917 twice, and it does not even compare to this book. Rock of the Marne is way better than that movie. There are a lot of different characters with first hand accounts, the excitement, the twists and turns, it would make an awesome movie. I cannot imagine the terror these American soldiers felt. They were so brave to hold off the Germans and save Paris, while the French abandoned their posts and retreated, the Americans stayed. One of my favorite sections was a part where a bayonet instructor/trainer was in the midst of hand to hand combat with Germans coming over the railroad track berm. This fellow soldier watched him/instructor dodge a bayonet thrust from a German, swipe with bayonet across the German’s throat and then follow through with a butt thrust that decapitated the German. The fellow soldier vomited as he watched this...the way the author Harris writes describes it way better than my summary. |
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Posted: 2/21/2021 9:53:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Castles of Steel by Robert Massie. Fascinating read on the naval aspects of the war to end all wars. Also its prequel "Dreadnought". |
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