Does anyone like war books?
War Books
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The Prince is probably one of my favourite books, if you'd count that for a war book. I would. I also loved Michael Collins' biography.
That's about all I got though, and I can't think of anything as to fiction. I actually got The Great War for Civilisation on my shelf looking at me right now, but it's a dense book.
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@badger
The prince was good, but I was mostly referring to firsthand accounts and such.
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@oromagi
Which ones would you recommend?
Not ranked- just ten favs in 3 categories
NON-FICTION
Tuchman's "The Guns of August"
Foote's "The Civil War: A Narrative Vols. 1-3"
Keegan's "The Face of Battle"
Keegan's "The Second World War"
Bowden's "Black Hawk Down"
Terkel's "The Good War"
Caesar's "The Gallic War"
Churchill's "The Second World War" Vols. 1-6
McCullough's "1776"
Connell's "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Big Horn"
FICTION
Shaara's "The Killer Angels"
Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead"
Jones' "The Thin Red Line"
Hemmingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Homer's "The Iliad"
O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"
O' Brian's "Master and Commander"
Mahfouz's "Three Novels of Ancient Egypt"
Shakespeare's "Henry V"
Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans"
SCI-FI/FANTASY
Tolkien's "The Return of the King"
Heinlein's "Starship Troopers"
Haldeman's "Forever War"
Clancy's "Red Storm Rising"
Donaldson's "The Illearth War"
Brin's "Startide Rising"
Brook's "The Sword of Shannara"
Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5"
Card's "Ender's Game"
Zelazny's "The Chronicles of Amber"
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@oromagi
Thanks for the list. I've read the LOTR books, those were good. I'll have to look for an audiobook versions of the Gallic wars, that sounds like a good one. I've been mainly reading memoirs of the eastern front in WW2, but I'm currently listening to "82 days in Okinawa"
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@Sum1hugme
I'd recommend Michael Collins' biography by Tim Pat Coogan.
I knew that Mao Tse Tsung had studied Collins’ tactics and that a Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzak Shamir, had used the codename ‘Micail’ during the Israeli War of Independence. One night in Jerusalem the editor of the Jerusalem Post, Ari Nath, summed up the position of the state Shamir helped to found, saying, ‘If they ever get a Michael Collins we’ll wake up one morning to find there’s not a supermarket left in Israel.’ For Michael Collins was the founder of modern guerrilla warfare, the first freedom fighter, or urban terrorist.
oro's recommendations seem actually awesome too though.
What do you mean by “War books”?
If I am thinking what you are thinking, then Mein Kampf would definitely count as one.
Or even the Bible.
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@oromagi
@Sum1hugme
Ah yes, Caesar's "The Gallic War"
Caesar always referring to himself in the third person, as he embarks upon his quest to murder, subjugate, and enslave some of the Gallic tribes.
Though to be fair, near everyone seemed to be murdering, subjugating, and enslaving one another back then, I 'think.
'Somewhat interesting I thought, since it was written by him, an actual person of long ago, justifying and propagandizing his deeds, laying his place in history.
Certainly the guy seemed to like Rome, and treat his army well.
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@Intelligence_06
Mainly firsthand accounts, like "In Deadly Combat" or "The Red Road from Stalingrad"
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@Sum1hugme
Oh, I thought you are talking about books that stimulate war.
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@Sum1hugme
All quiet on the western front is a good one. though its depressing
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@drlebronski
Thanks, you should read "Blood Red Snow." That one is one of my favorites.
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@Sum1hugme
Does anyone like war books?
The Old Testament (author/s unknown). The Jewish Wars - Flavius Josephus. Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire - Simon Johns. The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation - Donald Morris..... and quite a few more World at War I & II. The Egyptian Wars & Weapons.