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This thread is made to give positive feedback on a book you have read or heard and it would be a good book for us to read/hear
It's also a thread dedicated to authors you think should be presented here.
My favorite author is Tom Clancy and Stephen King.
I do not have favorite book I would say this one you should read.
Lastest book I heard was The Civil War a narrative part 1.
This thread shall not be seen as our "What are you reading right now"
Markus
CheckSix
08-06-21, 09:04 PM
Business in Great Waters: U-boat Wars, 1916-45. by John Terraine.
Over 800 pages, a classic work, comprehensive but readable. It details the complexity of the battles and the technical, intelligence and human factors involved.
There is also some interesting anecdotal content, like the tale of a U boat captain who forgot the type VII B had submerged saddle tanks and broke his neck diving off the conning tower.
tmccarthy
08-09-21, 04:09 AM
Subchaser by Edward P. Stafford
Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE343 by Edward P. Stafford
The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise by Edward P. Stafford
When Penguins Flew And Water Burned
By Jim Clonts, available thru Lulu.com
Jim was a Navigator and eventually a Radar Nav and Instructor Nav on B-52 G and H models with the 596th BW at Barksdale. His time in the Air Force ran from 1989 to 1998, meaning he started out near the end of the Cold War with SAC, went off to fly missions over Iraq during Desert Storm, then dealt with the uncertainties of an Air Force career prior to 9/11.
While he stays upbeat with the Air Force, you can pick up the frustrations of a guy who probably would have done the full 20 year tour if things hadn't changed so much, something I also experienced with the Navy. :doh:
The book is a great insight of what it felt like to be a B-52 crewdog and answers a lot of questions if you ever wondered about the folks who stood Nuclear Alert watches for one week every month. There's lots of meat for the Tech Geeks in terms of the plane and its missions balanced with a really good view of what made these guys tick.
:up:
The books you recommend does not have to be related to the military
It can be any book, fiction non-fiction, sci-fi, horror you think we should read
And not to forget authors same here.
Markus
The books you recommend does not have to be related to the military
It can be any book, fiction non-fiction, sci-fi, horror you think we should read
And not to forget authors same here.
Markus
They write books that aren't about the military?
Huh, imagine that..
:O:
Actually, I finally broke down and ordered Red Alert! by Peter Bryant.
This was the novel that inspired Failsafe and Dr. Strangelove. :yeah:
tmccarthy
08-15-21, 11:08 PM
Visions From a Foxhole: A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps
by William Foley
Reluctant Witness: Memoirs from the Last Year of the European Air War,
by Brian H. Mahoney
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II
by Belton Y. Cooper
The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
by Truman Smith
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa
by Col. Joseph H. Alexander (Ret.)
The Luck of the Draw: The Memoir of a World War II Submariner: From Savo Island to the Silent Service
by Captain C. Kenneth Ruiz USN (Ret.)
Blip, Ping, and Buzz: Making Sense of Radar and Sonar 1st Edition
by Mark Denny
Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
by James Calvert
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
by Léon Degrelle
Moscow Tram Stop: A Doctor's Experiences with the German Spearhead in Russia
by Heinrich Haape
Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict
by Alan Clark
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
by David Stahel
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
by Norman Ohle
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
by William Manchester
Jet Age Man: SAC B-47 and B-52 Operations in the Early Cold War
by Earl McGill
Thud Ridge: F-105 Thunderchief Missions Over Vietnam
by Jack Broughton
Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
by Peter Fey
The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard
by James G. Burton
tmccarthy
08-15-21, 11:18 PM
Non military books? That really stumped me for a solid few minutes! :hmmm:
A very short list but these have come to mind as memorable.
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi (as good as and in some ways better than the movie adaptation Goodfellas/ more stories and facinating details)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition by W.J. Rorabaugh
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters
by Sig Hansen
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