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What're some good /k/ books?
yeah i read it.
it was okay.
gave it to my son before he deployed to Afghanistan for some light reading.
he said he read some of it.
>>28354309
"Inside Delta Force"
OG Operator.
"Cold Zero" by Christopher Whitcomb is pretty baller too
>>28354309
- "One Soldiers War in Chechnya" by Arkady Babchenko
- "Dispatches" by Michael Herr
- "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright
- "Hommage to Catalonia" by George Orwell
- " The Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy
- "Red Army" by Ralph Peters
- "Chieftains" by Bob Forrest-Webb
>>28354309
"The Gun" by CJ Chivers
"To Hell and Back" By Audie Murphy
"Notes of a Sniper" By Visily Zaitsev
"One Soldier's War" By Arkady Babchenko
Are a few I've read and enjoyed
Blood red snow
But not for the Fuhuer
Für Volk und Führer
In deadly Combat
Soldat
Black Edelweiss
The things they carries was pretty good
Don't forget SOG: The Untold Story of America's Commandos in Vietnam.
Patches of fire by Albert French.
Still the only book to make me cry and one of the best books I ever read.
Its a true story too.
Recently finished this one, I highly recommend it.
The things they carried by Tim O'Brien is probably one of my favorite books
>>28355042
>"The Gun" by CJ Chivers
Seconding this. The entire history of the Kalashnikov, starting with the Gatling gun
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason(Huey pilot in Nam)
My country and my life by Alexander Lebed (Soviet/Russian VDV officer, fights in Afghan and a few other conflicts, rises to minister of defense under Yeltsin,possibly assasinated on Putin's order because he was loved by the troops)
Three sips of gin by Tim Bax (Rhodesia Selous scouts)
Dalnaya bombardirovachnaya by Golovanov (WW2 Soviet Marshal of aviation, its about long range bombers)
My silent war by Kim Philby (spy stuff, no action)
>American Spartan
Story of Jim Gant, SF officer who basically went native in Afghanistan and went off the deep end
>War by Sebastian Junger
Made by one of the guys who made Restrepo, the book gives more details on the guys at that outpost and some of what they did when they came home
>Fireforce
Story of a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry during his service, goes pretty in depth on tactics and weaponry used during the Bush War
A Nightmares Prayer (Meh, read it. was okay. won't read it again)
Generation Kill (My favorite one)
One Bullet away (still haven't finished that yet, but very good so far.)
The forever War (VERY interesting, political stuff)
>>28354309
Read
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Rev up that depression tovarisch
>>28354309
Outlaw Platoon
The Only Thing Worth Dying For
Blackhawk Down
The Reaper
Ender Series
Starship Troopers
