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I'll start.
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>>28410456
Some of my books
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>>28410539
>The Fall of Reach

My nigga
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>>28410456
Dune, Frank Herbert.
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Some good shit I pulled off the shelves. Only thing I would add that I couldn't find would be City of Thieves by David Benioff.
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>>28410650
And I know these aren't books, but sort of in the same vein (physical media)
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>>28410539
Fallen angels
Muh nigga
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>>28410599
OP here. Should I get that book?
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>>28410925

Do you like Halo?

Yes?

Get it
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>>28410925
Guy who owns that book. Yes, it explains alot about halo that the games didn't
>that augmentation process
>those sacrifices the Spartans had to make in fucking training.
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>>28410950
Also more general details on the Chief operating with other spartans in the field
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>>28410456
Will and Ariel Durant History of Civilization series for a place to start asking questions and get a basic survey.

***2 MUST READS:***
Paul Fussell:
The Great War and Modern Memory
Wartime

Hunt for Red October because shubmarine.
Red Storm Rising for the attack on the CBG
The Man Who Never Missed cycle
Old Man's War (not all, as it gets a bit tiresome)
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
Lonesome Dove
Soldier of the Great War
Bureau 13 series by Nick Pollotta
Forever War
Starship Troopers
Team Yankee
Hammer's Slammers
Eye of the Needle
most Alistair Maclean
Lords of Discipline
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundson
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series (Master and Commander)
Mary Chestnut's Civil War


pardon tripcode
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>>28410747
Is this any good? Any other good books on Guerrilla warfare?
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Jack Reacher series of books by Lee Child.
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>>28410678
Please stop memeing
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>>28411077
c'mon, they're hit or miss, with some egregiously dreadful technical mistakes... don't even get me started on the movie casting
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>>28411109
>memeing

I'm not? I read it a couple months ago. Worth it.
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>>28410539
>ice cream and sadness
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>>28411126
Guys on here are always acting like the author thought AK's were around back then.
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>>28410650
I also enjoy tanks
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>>28410539
>Fallen Angels
Wew nice taste
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>>28410456
Started a thread few weeks back asking for books, here's my findings :D
Some are more k approved than k related
Achtung Panzer- Heinz Guderian
Notes of a Russian Sniper: Vassili Zaitsev and the Battle of Stalingrad
Helmet for My Pillow- Rober Leckie
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa- Eugene Sledge
Gunpowder- Jack Kelly
1453: The Clash of Islam and the West- Roger Crowley
Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945: A Critical Assessment- Rolf-Dieter Muller
Republic of Pirates- Colin Woodard
The Gun- C.J. Chivers
The Art of War- Sun Tzu
Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services- Benny Morris
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power- Victor Hanson
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century- Colonel Thomas X. Hammes
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West- Cormac McCarthy
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice- David Galula
Infantry In Battle- Infantry Journal Inc
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan- Lester W. Grau
On the German Art of War: Truppenführung: German Army Manual for Unit Command in World War II- Bruce Condell
Attacks- Erwin Rommel
Hatcher's Notebook- Julian S. Hatcher
Vietnam: A History- Stanley Karnow
Starship Troopers- Robert A. Heinlein
Storm of Steel- Ernst Jünger
One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander- Sandy Woodward
OUT OF ACTION- Chris Cocks
FIREFORCE: One Man's War in The Rhodesian Light Infantry- Chris Cocks
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima- James Mahaffey
Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life- Yuri Orlov
Grey Is The Color Of Hope- Irina Ratushinskaya
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II- Keith Lowe
Marine Sniper- Charles Henderson
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>>28411277
cont.
Silent Warrior- Charles Henderson
The Enemies trilogy- Matthew Bracken
The Great Betrayal- Ian Smith
The Way of Men- Jack Donovan
Dear Mom: A sniper's Vietnam- Joseph T. Ward
Chickenhawk- Robert Mason
Making a killing- James Ashcroft
Escape from Baghdad- James Ashcroft
A long way gone- Ishmael Beah
SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam- John Plaster
Acceptable Loss: An Infantry Soldier's Perspective- Kregg P. Jorgenson
Shake hands with the devil- Roméo Dallaire
On war- Carl von Clausewitz
War is a racket- Smedley Butler
The dogs of war- Frederick Forsyth
Roadside picnic- Strugatsky Brothers
I am Legend- Richard Matheson
Catch-22- Joseph Heller
The road- Cormac McCarthy
A canticle for Liebowitz- Walter M. Miller, Jr
Red Storm Rising- Tom Clancy
We were Soldier once... And young- Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway
Matterhorn- Karl Marlantes
The boys of 67'- Andrew wiest
Destroyermen
Dead Center- Ed Krugler
Use of weapons- Ian M Banks
Marine Sniper- Charles Henderson
Silent Warrior- Charles Henderson
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>>28411242
This tanks encyclopedy is very complete, I have the Planes one too, but the French translation is horrible
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>>28410950
Ghosts of Onyx was good too
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Pretty funny book, has interactivities for children and slow adults in the back.
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>>28411289
yeah it is, I got it to help me identify enemy tanks in war Thunder a while ago but I still go through it every once in a while
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>>28411118
I know, right!?
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>>28410456
any Tom Clancy fiction book is /k/ as fuck
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>>28411312
Never used it that way, i'll try
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>>28410456

The Most Dangerous Game

of course
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The Monster Hunters
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>>28411277
saved.

double plus on Grau's book. Have Donovan on my to read list on Kindle.

mfw someone read more than Smedley's quote
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>>28411296
>Richard M Nixon
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One of my favorites
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>>28411154
>Guys on here are always acting like the author thought AK's were around back then.

Then they're fucking stupid. Obviously the concept involves white supremacists time-travelling to the 1850's to give the Rebs AK's
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>>28411464
Is that in an actual library?
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>>28411464

Fun fact: the author of this book was a physics professor at Oregon State University/
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>>28411118
I remember your picture with the .22 laying on that couch, you have a nice comfy library there, dude.
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