Silent Hunter UK Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 Currently tackling The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman. Was on the 'bucket' list for awhile now. Read this one about six years ago - I highly recommend it. I've mentioned this before, but Macmillian and Kennedy read this just before the Cuban Missile Crisis kicked off. Had to read her "The Zimmerman Telegram" in high school, finally got to this one late last year. Massive in detail, definitely NOT light reading: will require your fullest attention, but worth doing. The first chapter, with the crowned heads of Europe at King Edward VII's funeral, is alone worth the price of admission. The Eastern Front gets under-appreciated here; we focus on the Western Front (which killed more British Empire subjects than the entire Second World War) a bit too much without looking at some of the other stuff in that brutal war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncepulido Posted March 11, 2012 Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 An interesting article about the nature of war, war in art, anti-war thoughts and his refutation: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/T...ew-old-lie-7300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmaidhof Posted May 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 One nugget from my current reading Arabs At War, Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 by Kenneth M. Pollack is that I never knew the official or semi-official name of the HAWK SAM is "Homing All The Way Killer" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Hunter UK Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 One nugget from my current reading Arabs At War, Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 by Kenneth M. Pollack is that I never knew the official or semi-official name of the HAWK SAM is "Homing All The Way Killer" It isn't - it's a backronym. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CV32 Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 Anyone read this one yet? "The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King — The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea," by Walter R. Borneman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Hunter UK Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 No, but I'm currently reading this particular gem: Rowland White's latest book White's previous works include one on the BLACK BUCK raids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 I'm reading Harold Coyle's "Team Yankee" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Yankee . The book takes the premise of "The Third World War" and looks at that war through the eyes of a US armor company. Good read so far, about halfway through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CV32 Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 Scored a bunch of used books today for a coupla bucks apiece ... now to find time to read them. Admiral Arleigh (31 knot) Burke, by Ken Jones and Hubert Kelley Jr. Sink 'Em All, by Charles A. Lockwood, Vice Adm, USN, Rtd Carrier, by John Wingate Ace! A Marine Night Fighter Pilot in WWII, by Col R. Bruce Porter Submarines at War, 1939-45, by Alastair Mars The Big E, by Cdr Edward P. Stafford, USN Inside the Soviet Army, by Viktor Suvorov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Hunter UK Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Inside the Soviet Army, by Viktor Suvorov Ah, Suvorov. Picked this one up in a charity shop for a couple of quid. Some of the stuff about the conditions of conscripts is very interesting; mind you, the whole thing does read like a gift to a Cold War paranoiac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CV32 Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Ah, Suvorov. Picked this one up in a charity shop for a couple of quid. Some of the stuff about the conditions of conscripts is very interesting; mind you, the whole thing does read like a gift to a Cold War paranoiac. Yes, I expect so. Published in 1982. I think I might have read this book before ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmaidhof Posted September 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Elusive Victory, The Arab-Israeli Wars 1947-1974 by Trevor N. Depuy. Very interesting. Currently in the October 1973 War and the Israeli's just punched General "Bren" Adan's Ugdah across the canal to Sharon's bridgehead and they are now racing down toward Suez, racing to enclircle the Egyptian 3rd Army before the UN Ceasefire takes effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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