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Posted: 4/4/2020 3:01:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: @TARHEEL_85. I contacted a Finn at ww2 forum. He told me the practice of chaining themselves to trees was pure Soviet propaganda. Sounds about right. From what little I have read about Finnish Sniping during WWII my understanding is that mobility was paramount which would run counter to idea of chaining yourself to a tree. |
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Posted: 4/4/2020 3:05:42 PM EDT
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Happy Jack's Go Buggy: A Fighter Pilot's Story by Jack Ilfrey with Mark Copeland
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Posted: 4/11/2020 11:42:05 AM EDT
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Just finished Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front.
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Posted: 4/19/2020 4:30:58 PM EDT
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Final book in George Koskimaki's trilogy on the 101 Airborne: Battered Bastards of Bastogne.
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Posted: 4/27/2020 7:46:01 PM EDT
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George F. Schneider's Survivor: Memoirs of a WW II Vet. Great startup with growing up during the Great Depression.
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Posted: 4/28/2020 6:03:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Always Faithful by 1st Lt. William Putney, D.V.M.
ETA: If you're a dog owner/lover, read this book! Besides training and leading a dog platoon in combat. in Guam, author was involved in training them for re-integration into civilian life rather than have them destroyed. Only a handful had to be destroyed because of the program. BTW, as the only doctor available, Lt. Putney also found himself treating people (locals on Guam).  War Dogs - Canines In Combat |
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Posted: 4/30/2020 10:50:56 PM EDT
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Papuan Campaign by US War Department.
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Posted: 5/1/2020 6:22:18 PM EDT
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Contact Front by ARFCOMs own Rick Partlow aka @rikwriter.
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Posted: 5/3/2020 7:42:09 PM EDT
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Lida Mayo's Bloody Buna. Read it over two decades ago and I'm now re-reading it because I have to write about it.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2020 2:21:19 PM EDT
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Operation Sea Lion by Peter Fleming
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Posted: 5/4/2020 2:28:56 PM EDT
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I'm re-reading ARFcom member RTUtah's book, "Gentle Propositions".
Thanks again, RT. 
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Posted: 5/5/2020 8:43:15 PM EDT
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John C. McManus' Fire and Fortitude about the U.S. Army in the Pacific 1941-3.
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Posted: 5/5/2020 8:43:54 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Dbl Tap
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Posted: 5/14/2020 10:35:26 PM EDT
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Gabriel Temkin's My Just War. A Polish refugee flees to the Russian side of Poland after the German conquest. He is drafted into the Soviet Army, works in a labor battalion, is captured, escapes, rejoins (after NKVD clears him) the Red Army and fights from the Donets to Hungary.
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Posted: 5/16/2020 4:01:37 PM EDT
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Donald Burgett's quartet of books on his experience in the 101 Airborne during WW II.
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Posted: 5/22/2020 7:50:54 AM EDT
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Look out below!
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Posted: 5/24/2020 9:59:06 AM EDT
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Carol Mather's When the Grass Stops Growing
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Posted: 5/28/2020 9:49:53 PM EDT
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Brainwashed - by an American who as a child in Germany is forced into the Hitler Youth and becomes a Luftwaffe auxiliary at a flak battery, an arbeitdienst worker for six months and then going into the Herman Goering Div. He does rear guard action against the Russians and his officers managed to get the battalion surrendered to the Americans. Post war he gets his citizenship restored and is drafted into the army during Korea.
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Posted: 6/1/2020 3:12:29 PM EDT
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Anthony Beevor and Luba Vinogradnova's A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman With the Red Army, 1941-1945. It is based on the notebooks of Soviet Red Star (armed forces newspaper) writer Grossman.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 6/5/2020 12:56:55 PM EDT
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Just finished a book about Dr. Joseph Warren: Founding Martyr by Christian DiSpigna. Warren is pretty much unknown but highly pertinent to the beginning story of our Revolution.
That one above got me into Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick --reading now. Extremely detailed and well researched. Somehow seems highly relevant to what we are going through now. |
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Posted: 6/5/2020 8:02:24 PM EDT
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just got done with Helmet for My Pillow (Leckie), With the Old Breed (Sledge), and Dress Her in Indigo (McDonald). All on the same day.
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Posted: 6/7/2020 9:35:44 PM EDT
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Webster's Paratroop Infantry. He was a member of the Band o' Bros and jumped in Normandy, Market-Garden but missed out on Bastonge due to being wounded at Market-Garden. He returned for the invasion of Germany.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 6/7/2020 10:36:49 PM EDT
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Savage Son by Jack Carr
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Posted: 6/7/2020 10:47:38 PM EDT
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Terminal List by Jack Carr
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Posted: 6/7/2020 10:51:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: -Ascent-]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FstFrd00: Terminal List by Jack Carr Just completed all three books (Terminal list, True Believer, and Savage Sons.) Great series. Now I’m half way through The Outpost. |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 11:09:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SonofLiberty1775: Just finished a book about Dr. Joseph Warren: Founding Martyr by Christian DiSpigna. Warren is pretty much unknown but highly pertinent to the beginning story of our Revolution. That one above got me into Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick --reading now. Extremely detailed and well researched. Somehow seems highly relevant to what we are going through now. Founding Martyr was a great book. |
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Posted: 6/10/2020 10:00:35 AM EDT
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Breuer's Drop Zone Sicily.
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Posted: 6/13/2020 8:08:49 AM EDT
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Max Hasting's Overlord
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Posted: 6/15/2020 9:37:45 PM EDT
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SOG Medic by Joe Parnar
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Posted: 6/16/2020 7:00:38 PM EDT
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Violence of Mind: Training and Preparation for Extreme Violence by Varg Freeborn
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Posted: 6/16/2020 7:15:17 PM EDT
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I read the Bible every day.
I've also been reading The Saxon Series by Bernard Cornwell which is what the Netflix series "The Last Kingdom" is based on. Just finished reading his latest book, Sword of Kings". |
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Posted: 6/17/2020 8:25:38 AM EDT
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Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. Started this morning.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 6/23/2020 4:57:37 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Sheepdogleader]
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Otto Kretschmer: The Life of Germany's Highest Scoring U-boat Commander
My favorite U-Boat book (and maybe all of WWII books) is Operation Drumbeat by Michael Gannon. While it is an overview of the U-boat campaign in WWII, it follows closely the career of Reinhard Hardegan. I first read it in 1995, and re-read it at least once every couple years. I have since read about 10 books on or by specific commanders. Some read well and some I couldn't even finish. I realized a while back that I hadn't read one specifically on Kretchmer, who was very well known and the highest "scoring" commander of the war, and that was with being captured in 1941! It kind of begs you to think of how much he could have accomplished has he not been captured (as we also must wonder with Pappy Boyington, for example.) Please note-when talking to solely historians and history buffs, I don't feel like I have to "defend" reading about former enemies who fought against us and our allies, but since this is a "general audience" forum, I will say I am 110% a proud American and 110% patriotic to the US. I was a soldier in the NC National Guard and a career law enforcement officer (four agencies) so I took "oaths" a number of times, and meant every word of them. I still get cold chills when the Star Spangled Banner is played, and my ring tone is "God Bless The USA!" Had I been 40 years earlier and in the war I like to think I would have tried my hardest to kill these men. However, that conflict being past, and us having the comfort of victory, I DO find their stories interesting. Of course their jobs involved causing death and destruction to Americans/allies, and I won't minimize that. However many people versed in Uboat history know that the Kriegsmarine was the LEAST "political" of the German military, and that there are many instances of bravery, heroics, and chivalry among the more professional commanders, and many things once used as propaganda were later proven to be false (machine gunning survivors in the water as a pattern for instance). |
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Posted: 6/23/2020 5:16:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/23/2020 6:53:09 PM EDT
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Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
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Posted: 6/24/2020 7:58:37 PM EDT
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace by Alex von Tunzelmann
I am very well-read on the Suez Crisis, as well as the Algerian War and Cold War intelligence history, and this book is absolutely tops to tie everything together. |
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Posted: 6/28/2020 10:43:26 PM EDT
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A General's Life by Omar Bradley with Clay Blair
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Posted: 7/5/2020 10:01:35 PM EDT
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Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor
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Posted: 7/10/2020 9:19:56 AM EDT
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Island of Fire: The Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad by Jason Mark.
I am fascinated by the battle of Stalingrad. |
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Posted: 7/10/2020 8:01:39 PM EDT
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Deadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense by Massad Ayoob
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Posted: 7/12/2020 11:37:47 AM EDT
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Semper Fi, Mac.
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Posted: 7/16/2020 8:38:04 AM EDT
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G. Company's War by Paul Roley. Two soldiers from Co. G, 2nd Battalion, 328 Infantry Regt., 26th Infantry Div. tell their story.
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Posted: 7/17/2020 3:09:43 PM EDT
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Ian Gardner's No Victory In Valhalla it's about 3/506.
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USA
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Posted: 7/26/2020 1:16:38 AM EDT
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Reading "The Dirty War" by Martin Dillon.
Goes into a ton of detail on the Troubles and the covert operations by both the IRA and the British. Pretty damn fascinating and amazing at all the politics that was played. I'm still early in the book, but basically the IRA was split between the Marxist and the nationalist (more align to the conservative Catholic church) factions. When the violence flared in Northern Ireland, there were calls to protect the Catholics there. The Marxist faction wanted to focus on political action and the national faction said "let's get some guns and go up there and protect them". The Republic of Ireland gov't wasn't too keen on the Marxist faction of the IRA in general and they were getting called out for not protecting the Northern Ireland Catholics, so they made a secret agreement to support the nationalists (which eventually became the Provisional IRA) with weapons, as long as they promised to keep the violence in Northern Ireland. Suffice to say, the Republic of Ireland gov't wasn't keen on that secret agreement getting out, so the Provisional IRA had a lot of leeway in how they handled things. Rf |
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Posted: 8/2/2020 9:17:37 PM EDT
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Ian Gardner's trilogy on the 101 in WW2, Deliver Us From Darkness.
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Posted: 8/7/2020 4:11:22 PM EDT
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Sergeant John Robert Slaughter's Omaha Beach and Beyond. Slaughter served in the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division.
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Posted: 8/9/2020 11:41:27 AM EDT
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Once in a Lifetime.
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Posted: 8/10/2020 8:13:26 PM EDT
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Nunneley and Tamayama's Tales By Japanese Soldiers
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Posted: 8/18/2020 8:15:24 PM EDT
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Martin Poppel's Heaven & Hell
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Posted: 8/21/2020 9:16:37 AM EDT
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Richard Blackburn's In The Company of Heroes
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