Code Name Verity, young British aviatrix and female Scottish spy trapped behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied France.
CMarlowe on
Herman Wouke wrote the huge duology, the Winds of War. Combined, it’s something like 2,500-3,000 pages. He wrote the slightly more digestible and quite political–but probably in ways you may not expect–The Caine Mutiny. This won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952. The book really stuck with me, as I so thoroughly disagreed with what Wouke was trying to say in climax of the book.
The Cruel Sea is just about a year-by-year account of a man’s adventures and trials in the Royal Navy. It was written in 1951, but holds up quite well. It can be pretty brutal. There’s not a great deal of gore, but you really feel the emotional toll the war takes on the sailors, and the impact of the decisions they have to make.
Bugzzzie on
If I could recommend one book for the rest of my life it would be The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.
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Code Name Verity, young British aviatrix and female Scottish spy trapped behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied France.
Herman Wouke wrote the huge duology, the Winds of War. Combined, it’s something like 2,500-3,000 pages. He wrote the slightly more digestible and quite political–but probably in ways you may not expect–The Caine Mutiny. This won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952. The book really stuck with me, as I so thoroughly disagreed with what Wouke was trying to say in climax of the book.
The Cruel Sea is just about a year-by-year account of a man’s adventures and trials in the Royal Navy. It was written in 1951, but holds up quite well. It can be pretty brutal. There’s not a great deal of gore, but you really feel the emotional toll the war takes on the sailors, and the impact of the decisions they have to make.
If I could recommend one book for the rest of my life it would be The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.