Favorite military novels?
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Don't believe anyone has started a thread on this. List your recommendations here (& pray tell why).
Quickly, my top 3:
1. The 13th Valley, by John M. Del Vecchio.
2. The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien.
3. Fields of Fire, by James Webb.
Hmm, all Vietnam War fiction .... -
BlackHawk Down
We were soldiers,Once and Young
Bravo two Zero
The One That Got Away -
All the Tom Clancy books.
esp these:
Rainbow 6
Debt of Honour
Sum of All Fears
Clear & Present Danger
Without Remorse
The Bear & The Dragon -
Love the Long Gray Line.
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Pulau Tekong ghost story
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good oneOriginally posted by dibilo:Pulau Tekong ghost story
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sun zi bing fa yan yi
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Not fiction/novel, but reads like one:
The jungle is Neutral ( Lt Col Specer Chapman)
= true account of war in Jungles of Malaya in WW2. Although the author survived the jungles, he committed suicide when he became a school teacher.......perhaps his mind never left the jungles........poor chap......this Chapman -
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Blue Max by Jack D. Hunter
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich
anything by Sven Hassel -
Love the Long Gray Line.
Hey, no count ~lol~ . That's a factual account, if you're referring to the story of the West Point class of 1966. I could've named Michael Herr's "Dispatches" or Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War" otherwise.
If you love TLGL, I'll recommend another older but just-as-powerful book: Myra MacPherson's Long Time Passing: Vietnam & the Haunted Generation. -
not sure it's factual account, but since my officer did not return my book after i lend it to him, i can't check.Originally posted by Moxie:Hey, no count ~lol~ . That's a factual account, if you're referring to the story of the West Point class of 1966. I could've named Michael Herr's "Dispatches" or Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War" otherwise.
If you love TLGL, I'll recommend another older but just-as-powerful book: Myra MacPherson's Long Time Passing: Vietnam & the Haunted Generation.
anyway, no one say must be fiction mah -
Charile Mike by LEONARD B. SCOTT
Rainbow six
The jungle is Neutral ( Lt Col Specer Chapman) -
Jane's Warship Recognition Guide
ok so its not a novel.
mmm...the hunt for red october and red storm rising
Patrick Robinson and Michael DiMercurio novels are all nice...Stephen Coonts too. argh. -
I read 2 translated novel/accounts written by former Vietcongs/NVA.
Can't remember the names. My favourite one was written by a former NVA. Had the word "Bugles" somewhere in the title.
You think the US soldiers had a hard time in Vietnam? Their tour lasts 1 year or something...
The NVA fought till they die, too badly wounded or if they are lucky enough to survive, the full ten years or so of the entire conflict.
They, too, were demoralised. They didn't fight for ideology. They fought to stay alive and for their buddies.
They, too, took drugs to keep themselves sane in the jungle. But they didn't buy them, they knew which plants in the jungle to smoke or chew to get high.
After the war, the Vietnamese veterans also went home to a mixed reception. Even though they are victors/heroes, the soldiers in the end were the losers. They got discriminated by potential employers who feel they are too difficult to employ as workers being more used to fighting and killing. The civiilan police targeted former soldiers as potential criminals. They lost their girlfriends to other people who didn't go to war etc. Basically the same shxt deal the US veterans got.
I used to think the communists in Vietnam were the bad guys but afterwards, I feel they were just fighting for their freedom and way of life. -
PLA ones- setting in during Japanese invasion of China and Korean war.
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All Rogue Warrior Books by Richard Marcinko
Art of War
Pathfinder! First in. Last out by Richard Burns -
war diaries:entries from ww2(or something like that)
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Me too...Originally posted by HENG@:All the Tom Clancy books.
esp these:
Rainbow 6
Debt of Honour
Sum of All Fears
Clear & Present Danger
Without Remorse
The Bear & The Dragon
But my favourite is Red Storm Rising.. -
Me too..Originally posted by HENG@:All the Tom Clancy books.
esp these:
Rainbow 6
Debt of Honour
Sum of All Fears
Clear & Present Danger
Without Remorse
The Bear & The Dragon
But my favourite is Red Storm Rising -
The Hope and The Glory by Herman Wouk.
Wouk is an israelite raised in the US i think and is a historian by training. The main characters in these 2 accounts are set against true events and real historical characters such as Moshe Dayan, David Elaazar and Golda Meir. The timeline basically starts from the birth of the nation (partition act passed by UN) and ends somewhere after the Yom Kippur War.
What makes his style of writing so good is his additional information and insight into the political aspect of the Jewish Parliament and US Govts, which in turn influenced the actions of the War Cabinet. That and how he weaved actual events of the 5 wars Israel exprienced against his main fictional characters. -
Dont forget the Aviation technothrillers...always packed full of aerial action! Never a dull page!
From Dale Brown
Battle Born
Air Battle Force
Armageddon
Dreamland
Piranha
Plan Of Attack
Hammerheads
Fatal Terrain
Wings Of Fire
Warrior Class
Robert Gandt
Black Star
Shadows of War
With Hostile Intent
Stephen Coonts
Cuba
Combat
HongKong
Under Siege
War In The Air
There's loads more where that came from....Do a search over at amazon.com for authors like Gordon Kent, Bob Norris, Richard Herman, Ward Carroll, etc etc etc... -
the jungle is Neutral is a very good account of the WWII in malaya...
the pegasus bridge and band of brothers -
The Warrior Elite. Dick Couch
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Leon Uris : Exodus :
Story about the fight to establish a homeland for the Jews...the establishment of Israel
Chin Peng : My side of History:
Chin Peng's revelation of his role in the Malayan Emergency...includes the part he played in the elimination of Lai Teck, master Special branch triple agent. -
I get tired just reading the chapter on hellweek.....Originally posted by duajia:The Warrior Elite. Dick Couch
well written..