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Posted: 4/30/2021 1:47:22 PM EDT
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I don't know which one yet but I'm fixin to read one of these four that I just got today...
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Posted: 4/30/2021 2:06:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Mowat And No Birds Sang I read several of Ernie Pyle's books including the ones you mentioned Piccolo. Both you mentioned are very enjoyable and I can see why the GIs loved him. @Piccolo - you'll probably enjoy And No Birds Sang. Subaltern is lost in London and in the blackout's darkness, finds what he believes is a Bobby. He prevails upon the Bobby for directions to the hotel he is seeking. The Bobby guides him there and when they get to the light of the hotel lobby, the helpful "Bobby" was a Read Admiral. I would have shrunk into a floor crack. The admiral was quite cheerful about it and gracious over the whole affair. It's something you would have written. When I got out of army basic my mother thought an Air Force colonel was a skycap. The colonel picked up my bag, quietly whispered "Not one word!" to me and hauled my duffel bag all the way to the car. I was one shaken up private! |
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Posted: 5/3/2021 7:51:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/3/2021 7:52:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2021 11:20:52 PM EDT
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Arno Sauer's In the Hell of the Eastern Front
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Posted: 5/11/2021 11:28:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2021 10:01:08 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By 4v50: Mowat And No Birds Sang Just received his sequel, The Regiment. |
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Posted: 5/14/2021 3:20:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piccolo: When I got out of army basic my mother thought an Air Force colonel was a skycap. The colonel picked up my bag, quietly whispered "Not one word!" to me and hauled my duffel bag all the way to the car. I was one shaken up private! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piccolo: When I got out of army basic my mother thought an Air Force colonel was a skycap. The colonel picked up my bag, quietly whispered "Not one word!" to me and hauled my duffel bag all the way to the car. I was one shaken up private! LOL @piccolo - I shared your story with my cousin who recently retired as a full bird colonel with the Air Farce. She looked like a kid back then (even today despite being over 50 she still looks like a twenty-something) When I went to Disneyland as an Air Force Academy cadet in uniform, a stranger assumed I worked there and wanted to know where the bathroom was. |
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Posted: 5/18/2021 11:45:14 AM EDT
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The Gulag Archipelago by Solzjenitsyn. Read chapter 1 so far and his writing is excellent but boy, is it depressing. I've read about the Soviet suppression of its citizens since the '70s but his writing really brings it home.
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Posted: 5/19/2021 8:02:53 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2021 4:02:27 PM EDT
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Ordinary Men: Police Reserve Battalion 101 and The Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning
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Posted: 5/22/2021 2:23:50 PM EDT
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Had to put down Solzehnytsin as it was too depressing for the present. Read Vol 1 & 2 of War and Love about an American whose family moved to the Soviet Union in hte '30s. The author served as a tanker in the Red Army during WW II.
Now reading Thiel The Wolves of World War II about an old farmer forced into fighting WW II. |
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Posted: 5/27/2021 1:28:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/27/2021 2:05:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Put down Solzehnytsin's book for Farley Mowat's My Father's Son.
ETA: My Father's Son starts where No Birds Sings ends. Mowat is no longer serving as a platoon commander but as the Brigade IO. Written decades after the war, it gives an entirely different perspective than that of a line officer. All three books (No Birds Sings, The Regiment and My Father's Son) are very different from one another. Just got a contract for my 180k word plus/370 plus page manuscript on WW II sniping. It should be released in 2022. |
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Posted: 5/30/2021 7:46:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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@Piccolo - I think you will really enjoy this book. Dust off the library card.
Still a PFC: A Combat Marine in WW II by Eugene Peterson. Don't mess with Smitty Rosie, a tomato picker of Mexican descent caught the eye Private E. Smitty who asked her out to the opening of the New Moon Bar and Grill of Brawley, California. It was the bar's opening day and it was decorated with streamers, balloons and had party favors. Best of all, opening drinks were on the house. The couple anticipated having a festive time at the opening. Off they went with high expectation for a night of dancing and partying. But the New Moon Bar & Grill burned down on opening night. "Our boys on the 'Port Watch' dragged back into Camp. They had all witnessed the fire and told us the ruin was complete. I noticed Smitty was one of the few not expressing regret of the demise of the New Moon Bar and Grill. I asked Smitty, 'You don't seem to share the sorrow over the New Moon loss?' Smitty seemed hesitant but replied, 'That bartender told me to 'get that s**** b*tch out of here and across the tracks where she belonged.' I left but before going I threw a match into the waste paper basket of the head (toilet.)' Smitty cracked a broad smile and said,'He didn't have to say that. I like Rosie and he really hurt her.' After this confession I always paid particular attention when Smitty appeared to be getting upset." The author was to witness another of Smitty's git even event later. "My friend E. L. Smith (of New Moon's fire fame) and I were involved in building crates and frames for shipping desks, gun sight and other items that had to be carefully protected in transit. Smithy was placing 2x4's around a field desk. He seemed to be having difficult driving nails into the very hard lumber. When out of nowhere, an irtate Major grabbed Smithy's hammer and snapped, 'What kind of a dumb son of a bitch can't use a hammer properly?' Smithy and I stood back as the Major proved he could wield a hammer. As he was putting on his exhibition of hammer proficinecy, I felt I should have told the Major that Private Smith did not take criticism very well. As he returned the hammer to Smithy, he stated the desk being crated was his and that it was 'an old English Army field desk used by many members of his family.' He stated it had to be crated to assure it did not move while in shipment. The Major departed as quickly as he appeared. I saw in Smithy's eyes that look I saw when he returned from the New Moon's Bar and Grill's demise. Smithy now entered into his work as a man possessed. He kept repeating the Major's last words, 'not move while in shipment.' He would lay a 2x4 across the 'old english army field desk' then drive a six inch spike trough the 2x4 into the mahogany top of the field desk. After appying six to eight spikes into the desktop, he administed a like number to each side and the bottom, continuing his chant, 'no movement in shipment.' As we left for lunch, Smithy assured me that the desk would not move in transit. He reveled in the fact 'there are tmes when one gets a great deal of satisfaction in a job well done.' I am certain the Major's questioning Smithy's family lineage drove Smithy's enthusiasm." From Still a PFC by Eugene Peterson. It's a hilarious book. I suspect the Major was a New England blue blood used to mistreating the little fish. |
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Posted: 5/31/2021 12:57:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2021 1:00:30 PM EDT
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Farenheit 451
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Posted: 5/31/2021 1:02:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Just got a contract for my 180k word plus/370 plus page manuscript on WW II sniping. It should be released in 2022. Congratulations! |
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Posted: 6/2/2021 1:31:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/2/2021 8:14:16 PM EDT
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From Here to There: The Long Way Home by 135 Infantry Regt/34 Inf. Div's T. E. Stephens.
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Posted: 6/3/2021 2:16:01 PM EDT
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Rereading Sledge's book With the Old Breed. Just got done with a couple of Leckie's books including Helmet for My Pillow on the same subject.
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Posted: 6/3/2021 3:31:46 PM EDT
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The Fighting Lady about YORKTOWN CV-10.
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Posted: 6/3/2021 5:33:19 PM EDT
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Bogachev's For the Motherland! For Stalin!
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USA
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Posted: 6/6/2021 7:51:27 PM EDT
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The youtube channel hone&comb has multiple audio books....spanning across centuries...ive listened to a few german armor books and theyve been intriguing
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Posted: 6/7/2021 8:07:30 PM EDT
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From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-45 by Evgennii D. Monisuhko.
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Posted: 6/7/2021 11:50:56 PM EDT
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Night of Long Knives by Max Gallo
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Posted: 6/12/2021 7:25:05 AM EDT
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A Dangerous Assignment.
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Posted: 6/17/2021 12:21:18 PM EDT
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Thomas Taylor's The Simple Sounds of Freedom about 506th PIR (101 Airborne)'s Joe Beryle.
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Posted: 6/20/2021 10:01:29 PM EDT
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Airborne: The Combat Story of Ed Shames by Ian Gardner
BTW, this thread has been most useful. I had to figure out what were the last two books by Soviets that I had read and they were listed here.  Spent last week in school (tuning single action revolvers) and didn't read a word at all. Finished Shames last night. |
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Posted: 7/1/2021 2:28:51 AM EDT
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GI Limey by Guard
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MI, USA
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Posted: 7/1/2021 3:45:06 AM EDT
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Be about neural plasticity 'n shit, wut evar that be |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 9:53:06 PM EDT
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Letters From a Soldier by William Kay. Kay was an engineer in the Big Red One.
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Posted: 7/5/2021 12:48:58 AM EDT
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Thunder Below by Eugene Fluckey. USS BARB.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 7/5/2021 1:27:34 AM EDT
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Good to great series.
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Posted: 7/7/2021 7:07:21 PM EDT
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Operation Lighthouse: Rhodesian Internal Affairs 1972-1980 by Gerry van Tonder and Dudley Wall
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Posted: 7/19/2021 7:36:34 AM EDT
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“Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig”by Jonathan Eig
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Posted: 7/19/2021 7:38:22 AM EDT
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“Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty” by Charles Leerhsen.
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Posted: 7/19/2021 8:38:58 AM EDT
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Finished Letters From a Solider last night. Too busy collecting images for the book and writing captions for them. Going to start Chuikov's The Fall of Berlin.
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Posted: 7/19/2021 3:00:21 PM EDT
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I'm re-reading Roots of Freedom: a primer on modern liberty, by Danford.
The author was the host of radio free Europe during the cold War if I recall correctly and the book explores the origins of the concept of individual freedom and the view of the individual versus the collective from Greece into the 20th century. If you value and treasure your freedom it is worth reading and is usually found for around ten bucks. The book helps one get his mind around group think amd socialist thought process. When you understand this, you understand your enemy, the end of your liberty. |
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Posted: 7/29/2021 1:19:50 PM EDT
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Everything is Fine With Me. It's letters from a Big Red One Soldier.
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Posted: 8/1/2021 10:40:50 AM EDT
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Hans Werner Woltersdorf's Gods of War
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Posted: 8/4/2021 10:21:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/10/2021 6:20:55 PM EDT
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Erhard Steiniger's Radio Operator On the Eastern Front.
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Posted: 8/12/2021 9:34:42 AM EDT
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Boy Soldier of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Johnnie Wickersham edited by Katheleen Gorman
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Posted: 8/15/2021 4:29:36 PM EDT
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Hard Tack and Coffee.
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Posted: 8/16/2021 12:20:11 AM EDT
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The Bomber Mafia.
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Posted: 8/21/2021 11:35:44 PM EDT
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Lives of the Great Patriotic War
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Posted: 8/22/2021 5:10:47 PM EDT
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From Port Hudson to Cedar Creek: The Civil War Letters of Charles Washington Kennedy, Edward Steers, ed.
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Posted: 9/20/2021 4:33:22 PM EDT
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Between dirt deliveries I finished the Port Hudson to Cedar Creek book and started Invading Hitler's Europe.
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Posted: 9/25/2021 8:53:05 PM EDT
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To D-Day and Back.
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