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In case you're looking for a good WWII book, Rick Atkinson's "The Guns at Last Light" is a great account of Operation Overlord and the Allied campaign through the end of the war. Be warned- the author has a very ostentatious vocabulary, and the profligate verbosity through which he dispenses the narrative is occasionally akin to fighting the dreaded Hun through the bocage.
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I just finished Matterhorn. Holy gently caress, what a great read that was. One of the best novels about Vietnam for sure.
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white privilege posted:Agreed, I'm not a fan of Ricks' books (or views, to be honest. The Petraeus dicksucking is excessive) but I thoroughly enjoy his blog. I've written some guest columns, and am a regular commenter. And in another instance of SA bleeding onto an otherwise respectable blog, Ricks wrote this post that featured none other than a now-private video from Caro's visit to Libya.
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If you're into adventure writing, the anthology collections of Mark Jenkins are really good. Dude was a columnist for Outside Magazine and now works for National Geographic, and his books "A Man's Life" and "The Hard Way" are great. He also wrote a book about cycling across Russia called "Off the Map" that is pretty  at times.
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