ITT: /k/ approved literature

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Really helps conceptualize what the vietnam war was about, and why american troops had a tough time fighting vietcong. You fight a guerilla army with anti-guerilla tactics. A very dirty war.

>>31332311
I've heard that book is basically a work of fiction though. Like people can't find the records of any of these people involved.

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This classic right here. Back in high school I checked this book out of our library at least twice a year. When I first checked it out in 9th grade the last time someone checked it out was 2001. Ours was in lousy condition by my junior year, so I fixed it up a bit before returning it. I hope someone else in this thread or there appreciates it as much as I do.

>>31332345
Alright i'll look into that, probably after I finish it. The amount of detail is pretty crazy, especially since the author claims its pretty much oral history, as the guy told it over a tape recording

How does /k/ feel about All Quiet on the Western Front?

>>31332752
Read through it, bretty gud. I think it hits that sweet spot with war novels, where it is believable, educational and interesting.

>>31332752
Read it but then also read Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel. Two very different accounts. Hell, the guy who wrote All's Quiet has been criticized for not even fighting that much. But Ernst Junger fought at the Somme and the Kaiserschlatt.

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>>31332882
The guy who wrote all quiet was an Artillery man writing about infantry whereas Ernst Junger was in the shit stabbing brits and poo in the loos

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I'm thinking about reading this book does anyone know if it's a good one? also any recommendations on mercenary memoirs/books?

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Any good reads on the SAS? I've looked into some but the ones I've found seem to be wishy washy.

>>31333274
Task Force Black and Bravo Two Zero are the obvious ones that come to mind

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Loved this one, haven't read many /k/ books in general though. Looking forward to seeing what else you guys can highly recommend

Firebirds: The Best First Person Account of Helicopter Combat in Vietnam Ever Written

Acceptable Loss: An Infantry Soldier's Perspective

The Things They Carried

Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam

One Soldier's War

The Only Thing Worth Dying For

A Higher Call

Tigers in the Mud

Dispatches


My War Gone By, I Miss It So

Fireforce: One Man's War in the Rhodesia Light Infantry

The Bush War In Rhodesia: The Extraordinary Combat Memoir of a Rhodesian Reconnaissance Specialist

Horse Soldiers

Storm of Steel

The Things They Carried

Also, anything technical on weapons. Ian has a whole bunch hes read on his channel

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9e3UCcU00TR6tO-FH6v-xYAWtDm2vTrg
Just some of the few I've personally read, we really should make a list like we have for movies and vidya.

>>31332882
I'll have to check that one out. Thanks anon

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This book made me cry like a bitch around the time of the Special Attack units and manned suicide subs
This guy circled his parents place many times before going to ram a US Cruiser his father never seen him doing that and it had still resonated with him 60+ years later

>>31333274
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was a great account.

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“Throughout the war, it was always my endeavour to view my opponent without animus, and to form an opinion of him as a man on the basis of the courage he showed. I would always try and seek him out in combat and kill him, and I expected nothing else from him. But never did I entertain mean thoughts of him. When prisoners fell into my hands, later on, I felt responsible for their safety, and would always do everything in my power for them.

>“Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.”

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Anybody else read this series? Pretty dense, but well-written. I'm still working through it.

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>Local truces not infrequently took place between Germans and British or American troops, to allow wounded men to be removed from the battlefield.

>There was a notable incident in the Belgian village of Bure on 3 January 1945. During three days of bitter fighting between the British 13 Para and German panzergrenadiers supported by a tank, the battalion doctor David Tibbs was treating wounded men when his sergeant, Scott, reported that there were some badly wounded men in a house on the front line, and he was going to get them out. Tibbs, preoccupied with his work, acquiesced: “the Germans had a pretty good record of respecting the red cross in our sector.”

>Accompanied by the battalion padre, Sergeant Scott slowly drove an ambulance with a large red-cross flag up the main street. Firing on both sides stopped.

>Stretcher-bearers had begun to bring out the wounded when they heard the roar of a tank engine. A Panther clattered up the street towards them. It stopped by the ambulance, and the hatch opened. A German appeared, and admonished them in perfect English: “This time I let you do it—next time, I shoot!”

>He closed the hatch. The tank lurched back to the German line.

>The ambulance finished its work and drove to the rear. The battle resumed. Even on the British front, this episode provoked lasting astonishment. “Why were the Germans so accommodating?” mused Dr. Tibbs. “They must have hoped that we would behave in the same way in similar circumstances, and by and large, we did.”

>It was unthinkable that anything of the kind could have happened in the east.

This book was by far the best account of the final year of the war. All sides are treated with respect ( Except British High Command.)

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>>31332240
There's a lot of SEAL memery on /k/, but this is a seriously good fucking read right here.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND

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Some of my /k/ related reading material.
I'm sure /k/ hates some of them.

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Obligatory

>>31336113
>Fick
Nice man. Does he sound like the portrayal from Generation Kill?

Good read on mercenary work in the immediate post-Cold War years.

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>>31336170
And apparently I'm a dumbass who forgot the book.

>>31336141
Kinda sorta

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Pic related. I reread it every couple of years or so

>>31336179
>>31336170
Thanks m8, that looks bretty good