Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes, best Vietnam War novel I’ve ever read
danellender on
All the Light We Cannot See. My father said From Here to Eternity was his favorite. Another wartime novel worth reading is HMS Ulysses by Alistair Maclean.
Horeya_Syreni on
The 25 Hour , it was epic … I read All Quiet on The Western Front but the movie is too way much better…
mooimafish33 on
Hardly a hot take, but All Quiet on the Western Front legitimately is one of the most effective anti-war books I’ve ever read. Some of the scenes are almost too horrific and I feel that it gives a more accurate view of what war is like as opposed to more glory and patriotism focused books.
petulafaerie_III on
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
SalshichaMordiscada on
Warday.
World War Z
Not true war books but written histories from wars that never were, in pseudo-documentary format.
Warday deals with the state of US a few years after a limited nuclear exchange between the two superpowers. A couple journalists travel across the Continental US and through interviews, vivid descriptions and others we get a pretty solid view of the whole society gone.
World War Z. Yeah, the movie was meh, but the book and the Audiobook are both pretty solid.
luvliijen on
war and peace by leo tolstoy
BabyImafool on
The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brian about the Vietnam war was a sobering sad read. Catch-22 by J. Heller is satire, but a deep read about the futility about it all. For pulp, World War Z is a fantasy horror. To answer your question, what kind of book do you want to read? Serious or fiction, allegorical or historical?
Waynersnitzel on
**Band of Brothers** by *Stephen Ambrose*
Follows the American paratroopers of E company 506th Airborne from training to the end of World War 2 through Normandy, Holland, Bastogne and Germany. Incredible story of camaraderie, bravery, and leadership (Capt. Winters is the quintessential infantry commander).
rocketpastsix on
“Miracle At Midway” by Gordon Prange was really good. Super in depth about the fleet movements of Japan and America up to the battle of Midway.
“Gettysburg” by Stephen Sears is another book like “Miracle At Midway” as it’s really in depth about the battle of Gettysburg.
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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes, best Vietnam War novel I’ve ever read
All the Light We Cannot See. My father said From Here to Eternity was his favorite. Another wartime novel worth reading is HMS Ulysses by Alistair Maclean.
The 25 Hour , it was epic … I read All Quiet on The Western Front but the movie is too way much better…
Hardly a hot take, but All Quiet on the Western Front legitimately is one of the most effective anti-war books I’ve ever read. Some of the scenes are almost too horrific and I feel that it gives a more accurate view of what war is like as opposed to more glory and patriotism focused books.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Warday.
World War Z
Not true war books but written histories from wars that never were, in pseudo-documentary format.
Warday deals with the state of US a few years after a limited nuclear exchange between the two superpowers. A couple journalists travel across the Continental US and through interviews, vivid descriptions and others we get a pretty solid view of the whole society gone.
World War Z. Yeah, the movie was meh, but the book and the Audiobook are both pretty solid.
war and peace by leo tolstoy
The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brian about the Vietnam war was a sobering sad read. Catch-22 by J. Heller is satire, but a deep read about the futility about it all. For pulp, World War Z is a fantasy horror. To answer your question, what kind of book do you want to read? Serious or fiction, allegorical or historical?
**Band of Brothers** by *Stephen Ambrose*
Follows the American paratroopers of E company 506th Airborne from training to the end of World War 2 through Normandy, Holland, Bastogne and Germany. Incredible story of camaraderie, bravery, and leadership (Capt. Winters is the quintessential infantry commander).
“Miracle At Midway” by Gordon Prange was really good. Super in depth about the fleet movements of Japan and America up to the battle of Midway.
“Gettysburg” by Stephen Sears is another book like “Miracle At Midway” as it’s really in depth about the battle of Gettysburg.