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| Douglas Nash's Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp. It's about the 272 Volks-Grenadier Division. |
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| Fighting Through To Hitler's Germany. It's about 1st Suffolk Regt. |
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| A Thousand Places Left Behind by Peter & E. R. Lutken. P. Lutken was part of Britain's V Force and later the OSS Detachment 101. |
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| Arnhem Spearhead by James Sims. British para account of serving under Col. Frost and his Stalag stay. |
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| Wilfried Sonnenthal's Memories of the Waffen SS |
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Originally Posted By Smurf10161: Thank you Jeeves- P.G. Wodehouse The plague of Models-Kenneth Green The ministry of ungentlemanly warfare-Damien Lewis What are your thoughts on the last one? I was considering buying it |
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Originally Posted By strider98: What are your thoughts on the last one? I was considering buying it $4 kindle version made it an easy decision for me, still in the middle of it. It's a good read of military adventure, some parts you may find comical-they were trained extensively to shoot pistols from the hip, try giving that advice in modern times. Enjoyable enough for the price point |
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Finished Albert Schwenn's Memoires of the Waffen SS Presently I'm read Ed Eaton's Mekong Mud Dogs. |
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| Rock Force. About the recapture of Corregidor. |
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| Put down Saga to read Alan Scott's Born to Survive. It's an autobiography of a RAF fighter pilot. |
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Finished both Saga and Born, now Four Hours of Fury about the 17th Airborne in Varsity. ETA: Best account of the American glider troop landing (or not) experience. |
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I'm in the early part of Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero. The book was sanctioned by the CIA, but the author does note in the forward that the FOUR prior authors who attempted to do a biography of Donovan were discouraged from doing so and ALL died before they completed their work. So far the book certainly puts a positive light on Donovan, but even then it drops bombs. Donovan was in the Oval Office in the hours after the Pearl Harbor attack and he notes "If the casualties, both human and material, had not been so heavy, the President might have been in a joyful mood."... Yes "The President's surprise was not as great as that of the other men around him. Nor was the attack{on Pearl Harbor} unwelcome. It had ended the past months of uncertainty caused by FDR's decision that Japan must be seen to make the first overt move." Why did America turn away from it's founding principles after WW2? Donovan's "chief accomplishment being that he prodded Washington military and political thought in 1940 from a doctrine established by George Washington into the twentieth century" Yeah, this book is a page turner. |
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Originally Posted By GrayMan66: Fall, or Dodge in Hell, Neal Stephenson I need to try that again, really didn't like it much the first time. And I actually liked REAMDE the second time around. But the real-life parts of Fall were sometimes really interesting, but so slanted that was uncharacteristic of Stephenson. I think he got a bit of TDS, but seemed to have recovered somewhat by Termination Shock, which was super. I can go on and on about how Fall was uncharacteristic of Stephenson's political criticisms. |
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Originally Posted By mPisi: I need to try that again, really didn't like it much the first time. And I actually liked REAMDE the second time around. But the real-life parts of Fall were sometimes really interesting, but so slanted that was uncharacteristic of Stephenson. I think he got a bit of TDS, but seemed to have recovered somewhat by Termination Shock, which was super. I can go on and on about how Fall was uncharacteristic of Stephenson's political criticisms. I had a similar reaction somewhere in the first 200 pages, but pressed on. I'm 600 pages in now. It's entertaining and somewhat thought provoking I'm curious how he'll wrap it up. I haven't read REAMDE or Termination Shock, but most of the others. Cryptonomicon was my first and it took me a while to adjust to his style. I was hooked shortly after. I really enjoyed The Baroque Cycle trilogy (I read it before it was released in more numerous shorter volumes) and Anathem. I'll save commentary on this one until I've finished it and had some time to think about it. Two things I like about Stephenson are that I often learn something new and usually some part of the story gives me a new insight or something deep to think about for a few days. |
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Originally Posted By GrayMan66: I had a similar reaction somewhere in the first 200 pages, but pressed on. I'm 600 pages in now. It's entertaining and somewhat thought provoking I'm curious how he'll wrap it up. I haven't read REAMDE or Termination Shock, but most of the others. Cryptonomicon was my first and it took me a while to adjust to his style. I was hooked shortly after. I really enjoyed The Baroque Cycle trilogy (I read it before it was released in more numerous shorter volumes) and Anathem. I'll save commentary on this one until I've finished it and had some time to think about it. Two things I like about Stephenson are that I often learn something new and usually some part of the story gives me a new insight or something deep to think about for a few days. I also highly recommend Seveneves out of his recent work, but I'm something of a minority in that. REAMDE is more of an action-adventure story, inconsistent but had its moments. Termination Shock was fantastic to me, but it had so many cultural touchpoints with me that I thought he really nailed (Texas ranch/bayou culture, Indian expats in Canada and returning to India) that it was a guided missile to my head. It's more of a 10-years-away from today thing, not far-out scifi, like a really good novel with a lot of Stephenson prediction about 4th or 5th gen war. If you read Termination Shock then I can talk about how Fall was so atypical to have the overt political commentary. Works like Cryptonomion and Termination Shock had it too, but much more fair and subtle. Perhaps I have been skewed by 2020 too. You would not believe Fall was published in mid-2019, the Moab thing is perfectly descriptive of the two views of the 2020 election, riots, covid, and December 37th. That's why I do give Fall some credit despite not liking it much to read the AI parts. But Stephenson does not really dive into it much, he has to skip forward too soon. |
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Originally Posted By mPisi: I also highly recommend Seveneves out of his recent work, but I'm something of a minority in that. REAMDE is more of an action-adventure story, inconsistent but had its moments. Termination Shock was fantastic to me, but it had so many cultural touchpoints with me that I thought he really nailed (Texas ranch/bayou culture, Indian expats in Canada and returning to India) that it was a guided missile to my head. It's more of a 10-years-away from today thing, not far-out scifi, like a really good novel with a lot of Stephenson prediction about 4th or 5th gen war. If you read Termination Shock then I can talk about how Fall was so atypical to have the overt political commentary. Works like Cryptonomion and Termination Shock had it too, but much more fair and subtle. Perhaps I have been skewed by 2020 too. You would not believe Fall was published in mid-2019, the Moab thing is perfectly descriptive of the two views of the 2020 election, riots, covid, and December 37th. That's why I do give Fall some credit despite not liking it much to read the AI parts. But Stephenson does not really dive into it much, he has to skip forward too soon. Originally Posted By mPisi: Originally Posted By GrayMan66: I had a similar reaction somewhere in the first 200 pages, but pressed on. I'm 600 pages in now. It's entertaining and somewhat thought provoking I'm curious how he'll wrap it up. I haven't read REAMDE or Termination Shock, but most of the others. Cryptonomicon was my first and it took me a while to adjust to his style. I was hooked shortly after. I really enjoyed The Baroque Cycle trilogy (I read it before it was released in more numerous shorter volumes) and Anathem. I'll save commentary on this one until I've finished it and had some time to think about it. Two things I like about Stephenson are that I often learn something new and usually some part of the story gives me a new insight or something deep to think about for a few days. I also highly recommend Seveneves out of his recent work, but I'm something of a minority in that. REAMDE is more of an action-adventure story, inconsistent but had its moments. Termination Shock was fantastic to me, but it had so many cultural touchpoints with me that I thought he really nailed (Texas ranch/bayou culture, Indian expats in Canada and returning to India) that it was a guided missile to my head. It's more of a 10-years-away from today thing, not far-out scifi, like a really good novel with a lot of Stephenson prediction about 4th or 5th gen war. If you read Termination Shock then I can talk about how Fall was so atypical to have the overt political commentary. Works like Cryptonomion and Termination Shock had it too, but much more fair and subtle. Perhaps I have been skewed by 2020 too. You would not believe Fall was published in mid-2019, the Moab thing is perfectly descriptive of the two views of the 2020 election, riots, covid, and December 37th. That's why I do give Fall some credit despite not liking it much to read the AI parts. But Stephenson does not really dive into it much, he has to skip forward too soon. Seveneves wasn't too bad of a concept, but he missed several things that would have happened or wouldn't happened. Click To View Spoiler |
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I read Seveneves right after it came out. It was ok, but not as good as Cryptonomicon or The Baroque Cycle. I enjoyed Snow Crash, but The Diamond Age was better. The Moab and Ameristan stuff were not up to par. ETA Click To View Spoiler |
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I just finished "The Unit" by "Adam Gamal". Some really snaky Delta Force people in a unit so secret it has no name just code names that constantly change. Early names were "The Army of Northern Virginia" and "Gray Fox". They do the targeting for Delta and SEAL 6, and on demand do the hitting themselves. |
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Originally Posted By DaGoose: Seveneves wasn't too bad of a concept, but he missed several things that would have happened or wouldn't happened. Click To View Spoiler I can't comment on the science or their strategy. Would love to see Stephenson's depiction of riding on an Orion vehicle. But to me the appeal of Seveneves is that it's a most "human" book. Showing the full range of human behavior from the most noble to the most horrible. I only have a few books in this category for me. The six pages of Doob's trip with his son to the launch pad near Seattle is some of Neal's best writing for celebration of western civilization, poignancy of imminent death amidst your family, and inviting the reader to think about what it must have been like there for the next 20 months, just trying to send one more load. |
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Originally Posted By GrayMan66: I read Seveneves right after it came out. It was ok, but not as good as Cryptonomicon or The Baroque Cycle. I enjoyed Snow Crash, but The Diamond Age was better. The Moab and Ameristan stuff were not up to par. ETA Click To View Spoiler People on Reddit get mad when you point out that driving a technical was the best way to visit certain cities in 2020. Click To View Spoiler |
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Edison by Morris. You could spend a lifetime going down the rabbit hole of Notes. The first chapter (Part One) has 255 notes. Apparently Edison had enough eccentricity and oddness to match his genius. |
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I finished Kill Anything That Moves, The Real American War in Vietnam. Difficult subject to read about, very one sided book, can't recommend it. Just started Trilobyte by JL Bourne. I've read his Day by Day Armageddon series and enjoyed them, but this one just doesn't do anything for me. |
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