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The Arnheiter Affair, by Neil Sheehan Incident in Vietnam that was the inspiration for Wouk's Caine Mutiny, and a good read for anyone who hates khakis generally. Rules of the Game, by Andrew Gordon It's nominally about Jutland, but in a larger sense it's about organizations and how they're run.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2019 22:34 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:02 |
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Kenneth Pollack's Armies of Sand may not be as one-theory-to-explain-everything as the author was hoping for, but it's a fine read.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2019 17:33 |
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Just finished Brendan Koerner's Now the Hell Will Start, the story of the manhunt for Herman Perry. Vivid picture of not only vintage 1940s racism, but the outrageous ratfuck that was the building of the Ledo Road from Burma into China.
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# ¿ May 1, 2020 16:46 |
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Sad King Billy posted:
Reading everything Glen Cook writes is an extremely good use of your time. Dude was, IIRC, a QM1 back in the day.
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# ¿ May 11, 2020 21:02 |
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Tameichi Hara's Japanese Destroyer Captain, while noticeably self-serving, is a fascinating look at the other side of some of the big battles of the war.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2022 05:38 |
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I'm working my way through Ian W. Toll's Pacific War books and though they're very well-put together and readable, he keeps putting "the" in front of ships' names and it is ACTIVELY HARMING ME.
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# ¿ May 5, 2022 22:22 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:02 |
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FrozenVent posted:I’m a maritime expert for a living and I put “the” in front of boat’s names all the time. Which, in vernacular, is fine. You just don't write it that way.
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# ¿ May 29, 2022 17:23 |