Tell people about your Military books!
 

Being a Grognard, it's sure for all of us to have some military or history books sitting on the shelf. To own a spesific book for a grognard is as good as hunting a jewel on a forest, particularly if the book is a classic and not distributed anymore.
So, tell the people about your books, maybe some of us who don't have the specific book yet may borrow one's own.

Here are the books I own currently, to name some :

- Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
- The Fall of Berlin 1945, Antony Beevor
- Hitler Moves East 1941-1943, Paul Carrel
- The Face of Battle, John Keegan
- Battle for Budapest:100 Days in World War II, Krisztián Ungváry
- Hitler's War and The War Path, David Irving
- The Art of War, Sun Zu
- Coming of Age 1939-1946, John Cox
- Dirty Little Secret of World War II, James F. Dunnigan
- On War, von Clausewitz
- Osprey Battle Orders: Rommel's Afrika Korps
- Osprey Campaign: El Alamein 1942
- Osprey Campaign: Iwo Jima 1945
- Osprey Campaign: Normandy 1944
- Osprey Campaign: Operation Barbarossa AG Center
- Osprey Campaign: Sevastopol 1942
- Osprey Campaign: Stalingrad 1942

Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin have been my favorite, well written by the famous historian Antony Beevor
What about you guys?

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The Daily Mail just published an article today by Anthony Beevor:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-Sarkozy.html

He certainly doesn't gloss over the brutality.

Cheers,
Cross

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365 Days, by Ronald Glasser.
... nothing more need(ed) to be said ...

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What? Forget about D-Day? We always play that battle at least once a week:D:D

Never heard that Normandy book from Antony, I thought he is an Eastern Front historian...

The fact that operation in the west (in terms of brutality) is overshadowed by the Ostfront isn't an uncommon thing.
When talking about Ostfront, one suddenly imagine of the harsh winter, muddy terrain, millions of hordes of Bolsheviks, and especially the swarming lice. The latter, depicted in the book Stalingrad as "swarming and bulging on beards and eyebrows like grapes" really makes me chilled.

I'll give that book a try.

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Thanks for that Cross nice read.
Im even tempted to get some of his books.

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Among others:

Cutthroats by Robert C Dick, a memoir on his actions as a tanker in the PTO.

Submarine, Edward L Beach

A Perfect Hell, John Nadler. The story of the First Special Services Force. A great read, and good fodder for to build a campaign on when I'm snowed in next winter.

Red Scorpion, Peter Sasgen. The story of the USS Rasher against the Japanese.

Dak To, Edward Murphy. Vietnam.

Two others that are not strictly military but still apply.

The Prince, Machaveilli

The Qabus Nama (A mirror for princes), trans. by Rueben Levy
a similar text to The Prince, written by a Persian king in the 11th century. More broadly reaching than The Prince, with less backstabbing but the same empthesis on intrige.


Matt

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Beevor have written many books, not only Stalingrad and Berlin about the war on the Eastern front.

I have in my collection Beevors Paris after the Liberation 1944 - 1949, Crete - The Battle and the Resistance and The Battle for Spain. I haven’t bought the Normandy book yet, but I will. And of course Stalingrad and Berlin.

When it comes to books and movies I collect, so I have a pretty big collection, some of them rare. I also have a huge electronic collection of books and material.

Maybe I take some time one day and make a list of my collection.

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Lots of electronic books, did you mean eBooks?
I'm curious about your list, maybe you can share it with me? Rather than to own physical book, it'll be good to have the eBook. Maybe I can "borrow" some of yours?

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Yes, I have lots of eBooks’, but I don’t have any list of them.
I use a program called WhereIsIt, where I have scanned all my CD/DVDs. With this program I have control of what I have where.

There would be no problem sharing, but again there is no time to go through my collection yet, to make a list.

Maybe during summer break, maybe.

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He could make a list & rate them but as to "swaping" ebooks tend to be cheap as chips but still as you said breaking the law. This is a game company run forum so if you want to save a few bucks suggest think about doing it elsewhere as I can see little choice for them but to delete or lock this thread.<!-- / message -->

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Yeah, Imp
Sorry for that. I think it's going OOT.
I should know too that this forum is not intended to discuss "against the law" things.
Because I'm in a country where such thing (copyright violation) isn't concerned so much, I didn't aware that people might be "offended".
My fault, sorry.
Ok, stop talking about eBooks and "hijacking" problem.
I started this thread just for people to show and discuss their favorite books.


Cheers, RightDeve

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Was not offended thought original idea was a good one.

Besides I live in the UK where the goverment has decided white collar crime is fine.
Sorry to dip into politics but love the last one Alistair Darling made an inadvertant mistake according to our Prime Minister so basically is incapable of getting what amounts to his expenses right. This guy is in charge of our countrys finances & God help us all it shows a lot of 1+1 = 3 maths seems to be going on so it realy could have been an oversight on his behalf. It does not seem to occur to any of them that making excuses does not help as if they are true they are inept & unfit for the job anyway.

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I liked the thread.
Great to get other peoples view on books, and maybe pick up a hint on some good reading material.

I find the thread relevant to, since this is a war game, with tactics and a good portion of history.

The discussion about eBooks I won’t get in to. Personally I enjoy a good book, and buy them wherever I find them, or order them on the net.

I love to make a list one day of my books, movies and documentaries.

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:laugh::laugh::laugh:
Ok, guys, I think it's going far more OOT :D
It is intended to give comments on you fav. books, not to comment on the thread itself, eh.... LOLOL :D:D

Well, this I've just thought about
everybody knows that street fighting in Stalingrad often committed within 50 meters (say, 20 meters in Stalingrad book). My thought was how can this be simulated in game coz we know that even on the range 50 meters we are already adjacent to enemy unit and that would we so deadly?

Ok, anybody up for another list???

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There are three books by George G. Blackburn based on his war-time experiences:

Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944 (1997, ISBN 0-7710-1503-8),
The Guns of Victory: A Soldier's Eye View, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-45 (1997, ISBN 0-7710-1505-4),
Where the Hell Are the Guns?: A Soldier's View of the Anxious Years, 1939-44 (1999, ISBN 0-7710-1506-2).

All three are excellent though the first two would be of interest to most.

The power of artillery explained through the eyes of the longest surviving FOO in the Canadian army in WW2. Those who complain arty is too powerful in the game should read these books

Anything by Mark Zuehlke's Canadian Battle Series is good. I snap up each one in hardcover the week they are released

Operation Husky
Terrible Victory
Holding Juno
Juno Beach
The Gothic Line
The Liri Valley
Ortona

and

Brave Battalion: The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

Don