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pkells posted:I think we missed the perfect caption for your av: that's a good one...but reality is so much more entertaining. I love it when I have an excuse to say "cocksucker" in court. ActusRhesus fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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Madurai posted:Wanted: a history of the Indo-Paki wars of 1965 and/or 1971. The Blood Telegram is focused on the Bangladesh genocide and by extension the US (lack of a) response to it, but it touches pretty heavily on the 1971 war as well since those two events are pretty intertwined. Written by a professor at Princeton, it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction this year...it's really really good.
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Can anyone recommend any books covering green berets in vietnam? Or anything about the Montegards?
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Waroduce posted:Can anyone recommend any books covering green berets in vietnam? http://www.amazon.com/Sympathy-Devil-Kent-Anderson/dp/0553580876
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Waroduce posted:Can anyone recommend any books covering green berets in vietnam? http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Commandos-Behind-Enemy-Warriors/dp/0451214471/ref=la_B000AP7XYG_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413691747&sr=1-3 Vatek fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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Waroduce posted:Can anyone recommend any books covering green berets in vietnam? have a short documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz7xk_a6444
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Vatek posted:http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Commandos-Behind-Enemy-Warriors/dp/0451214471/ref=la_B000AP7XYG_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413691747&sr=1-3 This is a great book, I think he wrote two books about SOG. Nearly every SF book you'll read about Vietnam will talk about Montagnards, Nungs or some other indigenous peoples they train and fight with. Robin Moore's The Green Berets is pretty good and iirc the first book about SF and written by a civilian that went through SF training and was spent time in Vietnam with SF troops. Doesn't have much in common with John Wayne's movie The Green Berets which is sort of based on the book. Don't read his newer book written about SF and the invasion of Afghanistan though, one of his sources ended up being grade A bullshitter Jack Idema who never made it in SF and was despised by everyone else, they just tried to keep him away from anything important until they could get rid of him. Reflections of a Warrior is a memoir by Medal of Honor Recipient Franklin Miller. Really gets into the mindset of the kind of guy that would spend 7 and a half years in Vietnam, most of it with SOG. There's another book about SOG from an SF officers perspective, iirc it's called 18 Months in SOG but I don't remember the authors name. I vaguely remember him talking about some of the weird and ultimately useless technology they sent to SF to test in the field.
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awesome suggestions thanks but is this legit or are you loving with me? is this like Matterhorne for special forces or theres a joke going over my head
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Waroduce posted:awesome suggestions thanks I haven't read it since '06. I just remembered it being good.
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It looks good to me, I'm going to try to read it sometime. The content doesn't seem at all surprising to me considering the kind of situations SF soldiers found themselves in during Vietnam. Seems like a similar sentiment expressed by Franklin Miller in his book, he's also very upfront about the brutality and violence of his time in Vietnam and with a mindset I don't think many people expect when they read a book about Vietnam. Here's Miller's book http://www.amazon.com/Reflections-W...ns+of+a+Warrior
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pkells posted:Just finished The Martian by Andy Weir. I just read this a couple weeks ago on a friend's recommendation. Pretty great read, keeps the science pretty accurate as far as my layman's mind can tell. Pretty nailbiting in parts.
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Admiral Bosch posted:I just read this a couple weeks ago on a friend's recommendation. Pretty great read, keeps the science pretty accurate as far as my layman's mind can tell. Pretty nailbiting in parts. I liked when he was swearing on the chats with NASA. Trying to get a guy who got stranded on another planet to censor himself sounds like a very government sort of thing to do.
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Flikken posted:I liked when he was swearing on the chats with NASA. Trying to get a guy who got stranded on another planet to censor himself sounds like a very government sort of thing to do. LOOK SOME BOOBIES ( . Y . )
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Bolow posted:LOOK SOME BOOBIES ( . Y . ) AYYYYYYYYYY
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Bump for a very old thread but can anyone recommend anything on the Chechen conflict?
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Fangs of the Lone Wolf covers the tactics and strategies of the Chechens and Russians from 1994-2009. One soldier's war is the account of Arkady Babchenko who was conscripted into the Russian army the First War and volunteered for the 2nd. If you want a personal account how miserable life was for Ivan, this is the one. ANY book by Anna Politkovskaya about Chechnya. Her work was so good she was assassinated by the Russian government (Completely acting on their own, some FSB Agents just decided out of the blue to assassinate her in her apartment block's elevator, no really!). She rips into both sides of the conflict. Barrakketh fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield https://www.amazon.com/dp/006233381X/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_8NsSub109GWY2 Anyone know anything about this author? I am pre-ordering this book since I knew Lt. White. I just am wondering what I am in for.
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the gently caress is a special ops battlefield?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:the gently caress is a special ops battlefield? Sounds like a lovely map with too many sniper rifle drops
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Barrakketh posted:Fangs of the Lone Wolf covers the tactics and strategies of the Chechens and Russians from 1994-2009. I just finished the Arkady Babachenko one. gently caress me, who'd be a conscript in that army, harrowing read even before he got to the actual fighting part.
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I did one of those freebie Audible trials and listened to Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War on the way to and from work. LINK The book does a good job of capturing the futility of reason and just how loving stupid war is. edit- just =/= job Hekk fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jan 15, 2015 |
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Matterhorn was fantastic, I'd love to see it as a movie.
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Elendil004 posted:Matterhorn was fantastic, I'd love to see it as a movie. Forget a movie, make it an HBO miniseries. They haven't done Vietnam yet anyway.
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Tour of Duty wasn't good enough for you? 
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Vatek posted:Forget a movie, make it an HBO miniseries. They haven't done Vietnam yet anyway. A Bright Shining Lie. Edit: Though I guess that wasn't a miniseries.
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:I did one of those freebie Audible trials and listened to Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War on the way to and from work. Especially the ending
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If you haven't read Matterhorn you are a bad person
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Matterhorne is amazing. If you liked it, Sympathy For The Devil is the same sort of book from a more personal perspective. It follows one kid in special forces. The author based it on his own experiences. It was recommended to me in this thread I think, and I was initially doubtful as to the quality bc the cover art looks like it was designed by a 13 year old, and the title was sort of eye-rolling imo, but its very very good. E: further up on this page actually
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Waroduce posted:Matterhorne is amazing. If you liked it, Sympathy For The Devil is the same sort of book from a more personal perspective. It follows one kid in special forces. The author based it on his own experiences. It was recommended to me in this thread I think, and I was initially doubtful as to the quality bc the cover art looks like it was designed by a 13 year old, and the title was sort of eye-rolling imo, but its very very good. Told ya so.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Amazon had the Kindle version of all 6 volumes for 2 bucks. Yea. Bought. I am finding the $2 Kindle version very annoying to read. It seems like a straight, unedited scan of the print version, so footnote numbers read as "^5," "^10" etc. The footnotes themselves are inserted willy-nilly into the main text with no break at the end, so you can start reading a footnote then return to the main text without realizing it. Other footnote-heavy ebooks I've read have grouped all the footnotes at the end of each chapter with hyperlinks to and from the main text. I'm either gonna spring for the more expensive Kindle version or just get it in print.
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Yeah, that's the one I've got. It's also next to impossible to figure out which editor's comments you're reading.
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Waroduce posted:Matterhorne is amazing. If you liked it, Sympathy For The Devil is the same sort of book from a more personal perspective. It follows one kid in special forces. The author based it on his own experiences. It was recommended to me in this thread I think, and I was initially doubtful as to the quality bc the cover art looks like it was designed by a 13 year old, and the title was sort of eye-rolling imo, but its very very good. Sympathy For The Devil is amazing, and he has a follow on book called Night Dogs. I highly recommend you read that too.
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What are some good books regarding the Korean War? Also, I was interested in picking up The Clay Pigeons of St. Lo. Has anyone read that book?
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This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach is the classic history. It suffers a bit at the end from the geopolitical point the author makes at the end, since it was written before Vietnam, but the bulk of the book is excellent history. It tends to focus on the tactical and operational, not delving into the strategic side of things too much. The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam is also very good. It gets into the strategic side of things a bit more than Fehrenbach's work. They're both well worth reading.
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Seconding Coldest Winter, amazing book. Highly recommended
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Thirding Coldest Winter, rarely have I disliked someone as much as Ned Almond!
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jesus christ the ending to matterhorn. gently caress.
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ded posted:jesus christ the ending to matterhorn. gently caress. Wouldn't it just make a great miniseries?
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ded posted:jesus christ the ending to matterhorn. gently caress. Yup Vietnam in a nutshell
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Sad King Billy posted:Thirding Coldest Winter, rarely have I disliked someone as much as Ned Almond! A little late but fourthing Coldest Winter. An unbelievably fantastic military history. Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950 by Martin Russ is also excellent and more detailed than Coldest Winter, but more narrowly focused. The battles around Chosin were some of the most intense in the history of the US armed forces and Russ does a great job of describing small-unit actions and conditions. Really down into the weeds of "this platoon held this hill and this squad did this so this company did this" while still covering a Corps-level engagement. Coldest Winter is a better whole-war story but Breakout is a gripping and educational read.
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