Sup /lit/. Trying to get back into reading again, what would be your recommendation for war novels on tankers or pilots/aircrew men? I see a lot of books on infantry but not on those in the vehicles. Bonus points for WWII and nonfiction
>inb4 bullshit like fury
Also general war literature
>>7381672
catch-22famtbh
>>7381690
Thank you! But what does faith mean?
>>7381711
*famtbh
>>7381672
Fury is a loose adaptation of Moby-Dick.
>>7381766
bold claim, senpai
>>7381767
I didn't come up with the idea, but once I read about it I suddenly realized why I liked Fury so much.
>>7381711
>>7381722
>11
>22
>nice
desu means to be honst. senpai means family
from what i gather niggers on twitter say it to such a degree that it's become a meme here to end everything with it. also baka means shake my head. so it would be something like this.
>nigger culture is repulsive baka desu senpai
>>7382034
>caring about dubs
>spoon-feeding
>all those typos
>>>/r/eddit
>>7381672
If You Survive talks about tanks quite a bit
>>7382036
>caring about dubs
yup u should too
>spoon feeding
oh my
>all those typos
oh boy
i always thought reddit was pro nigger?
>>7381672
I'm writing one about pilots, basically a modded concept of Red Dawn/ Red Storm Rising.
All I can say. I feel your pain man, Sorri
>>7381672
Is that film worth a peek, lads?
>>7382062
I mostly dont like war movies, but that one wasnt too bad
>>7382062
it's alright. ending was a bit much but everything else seemed pretty plausible and nicely done. germans were only semi demonic. maybe in a hundred years they'll be human.
James Salter (rip ;_;) wrote two good novels about USAF sabre pilots: The Hunters and Cassada. I tried reading Saburo Sakai's memoirs but I found out that it was cobbled together by translators out of interviews and separate pieces and that ruined it for me. Why translate out of the Japanese and add a bunch of stuff not in the original book actually written by Sakai?? Sounds fishy. Hans Ulrich Rudel also wrote a war memoir that's been translated into English but it's also been edited and sanitized.
I bet with google, patience and access to a good library one could dig up a lot of good non fiction stuff, or if one was willing to pay via amazon, abebooks etc. I would love to find good fiction about military aviation.
-Messerschmitts Over Sicily (ww2 - interesting and you can read a bit of it on google books i think to get an idea of whether to take it)
-Another opinion for The Hunters,
-Darwin Spitfires (nonfic, ww2- 1 Raaf during 42-43, but it's academic and exhaustive and bretty well done, problem is finding it out there)
Clostermann tells a good story, First Light is an okay read (both for Battle of Britain stuff?).
Dunno much about nonfic sadly. Hope that starts you off somewhere you like.
