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Posted: 9/27/2005 6:12:23 AM EDT
oh sweet jeebus...i have this book and i broke it out to read just for shits and giggles being one of the first paperbacks i ever bought with my own money. it's a fictional story about former waffen ss joining the french foreign legion and fighting in vietnam. it's an old book (1972) and has seen better days. it got wet and the pages have yellowed and i marked several passages. anyway, i wanted a better copy so i went to abebooks.com and looked it up...omfg!!!
devil's guard search i think i'll retire and buy an island in tahiti! 
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Posted: 9/27/2005 6:35:20 AM EDT
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What a great book. We sure could learn some lessons in dealing with "insurgants" from that book.
Wet n' mangled it's still worth a bundle. I wonder why it hasn't been published in paperback again. I know you can find an on-line version of the first book. There are two more after Devil's Guard. |
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Posted: 9/27/2005 6:37:58 AM EDT
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Just a note- it's NON fiction!
That really happened. I had the book and sold it a couple of years ago on another forum (with the sequel, which was not as good) for $100. Edit: And I was not putting the screws to anybody- people in the thread said "I would buy that book for $100" and I said "sheese, I'll sell both that and the sequel for $100!" and someone took me up on it... And two other guys emailed me later to see if I still had the books! |
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Posted: 9/27/2005 12:06:59 PM EDT
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Tagged for later.
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Posted: 9/27/2005 12:11:18 PM EDT
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Good book, but I thought it was fiction.
I know former Wermacht and SS soldiers went into the Foreign Legion and fought for the French in Vietnam, but my understanding was that The Devil's Guard was fictional. |
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Posted: 9/27/2005 12:13:46 PM EDT
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I kept looking at the spine and in the frontispiece... It was nonfiction. |
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Posted: 9/27/2005 12:16:11 PM EDT
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I had both books & gave them away after I read them. I wish I hadn't done that.
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Posted: 9/27/2005 12:17:37 PM EDT
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Whole thing is available for free on the 'net:
members.cox.net/freestuff/DevilsGuard/ I know the printed book is still worth money but this is a FWIW to people who want to read it. Gets pretty good after they get to Indochina. 
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Posted: 9/27/2005 12:19:00 PM EDT
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I have it in .pdf format. It's definitely an educational read: a great counterinsurgency primer.
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Posted: 9/27/2005 12:19:56 PM EDT
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Then good. They really gave it to the politically incorrect shorthand for our enemies in Vietnam. |
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Posted: 9/28/2005 6:40:45 PM EDT
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Found it in my local library.
In the non-fiction section, FWIW. |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 11:27:11 AM EDT
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it's marked as nonfiction but i seem to remember reading years ago that elford was a history buff and made the book up (kinda like sven hassel). still good reading, though!
i had "devil's inferno" when it first came out but it was so bad i got rid of it! d'oh!!! unbelievable, ain't it! 
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Posted: 9/29/2005 11:30:51 AM EDT
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Thanks for the link. I'm gonna print it out and read it (can't stand reading long things on the screen).
Someday I'll buy a copy, but there's so many other books I need right now. |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 11:34:00 AM EDT
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That's news to me! |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 11:45:43 AM EDT
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Read the book while in college. I need to read it again.
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Posted: 9/29/2005 11:54:09 AM EDT
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don't even ask me where i read that, it was like 10-15 years ago! it might have even been the opinion of someone else that i just remember as coming from elford... |
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Posted: 9/29/2005 5:09:00 PM EDT
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This is good stuff, imo.
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