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What are some good /k/ books to read?
Shit similar to pic related for bonus points
It's breddy gud
Bumping. Anyone read the Tomorrow, When the War Began series? I saw the first movie and I liked it so I'm considering picking it up but just wondering if anyone else has read it.
>>30505199
I remember reading the book at some point while in school (like, 4 years ago maybe).
I remember it being pretty good but idk how much it got /k/ stuff right
>>30505068
Stranger in a strange land, by the same guy who wrote starship troopers.
>>30505246
Isn't that one of Heinlein's books where its more about sexual exploration rather than /k/ stuff?
>Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
Absolutely fantastic read on the 1st and 2nd Congo Wars. While it isn't too heavy on the combat aspects of it the book does a great job providing context and viewpoints of many of the sides involved in the largest war ever fought in Africa. Taught me among other things
>The Congo is where ideologies go to die
>African paratroopers are crazy (the African paratroopers threadcap that goes around here was about the Congo War)
>If your enemy is better equipped but you are much better trained, you can fuck them up
>Rwandans are operator as fuck
>>30505068
I'm still making my way through Fireforce
>>30505629
That's a damn good book on the day to day life in the RLI. If you have time, read this one by Dennis Croukamp. Guy was operator as fuck, but plays it all off in a rather humorous way. This guy was stuck deep in Mozambique after an insertion and had to make his way back to Rhodesia all the while dodging FRELIMO patrols. This guy did every sort of operating under the sun, all with equipment that was on a shoestring budget. It also includes pictures he took.
>>30505068
The Forever War is bretty good if you like sci fi.
>>30505199
10/10 its what got me into explosives and shit
Reposting the link with 4 Dalton Fury's Delta books.
>>30507502
fuck I'm dumb
https://www.sendspace.com/file/jnggda
>>30505068
If you liked One Soldier's War check out these three. They're great. Not quite as heavy as One Soldier's War (Zinky Boys gets pretty damn heavy tho) but they're all still great. Also >>30505629, I enjoyed Fireforce more than One Soldier's War, and the sequel Out of Action is also a fantastic read with some great parts oper8ing on horseback with some old Boers burning down communist huts inna veld
one soldiers war was an incredible book
Autobiography, goes into how he hunted in winter with his brother to the battle for Stalingrad. breddy gud, defo better than that contra-soviet bullshit movie with british accents all around
gave up on organising them three moves ago.
Victoria: A novel of 4th Generation War
>>30505199
Ah yes, the upside down version of red dawn. Pretty decent movie
>>30507795
Zinky boys is a great book. Very interesting to learn about everyone involved in the war effort.
>>30505068
Mostly historic non-fiction stuff here;
https://mega.nz/#F!ZAoVjbQB!iGfDqfBDpgr0GC-NHg7KFQ
Some of the German memoirs are on par with One Soldiers War.
War Dogs: Fighting Other Peoples Wars is fantastic book. It covers the various associations and ties mercenaries have to Africa and how they affect the region. It puts a different light on the people than "money hungry killers" and the South African Author is a very good writer. It is a humorless but energetic style that does not mince words, and does not overly emphasize what emotion a reader should feel towards a certain subject. It covers the Helicopter pilot Neal Ellis, Executive Outcomes from South Africa, and even American and SAS mercenaries. It also shows just how fucked the CIA is every once in a while.
>>30505068
>It's breddy gud
No, it isn't
Pretty damn good book on grunts kicking down doors and urban combat during the 2nd Battle of Fallujah
The best war story I have read in a long time
>>30515904
Have you read Black Edelweiss?
>>30516002
I've read Blood Red Snow but that is the one I am purchasing next
>>30510982
This is an excellent and didactic read about the collapse of America. Really makes you think "what if this actually happened," and the author's military segments are very insightful
Five stars
>>30516015
It's in here >>30512511
Just haven't read it yet. It gets compared to Forgotten Soldier a lot.
>>30516022
I heard it was rather overblown and more /pol/ than /k/.
>>30515174
Just finished this story. Great book.
>>30518268
This
Sven Hassel.
Wheels of Terror and SS-general are my favorite works of his. The books are quite historically inaccurate, but they are great showing the comradery between soldiers and the humor they use to cope with horrors of war.
Unintended Consequences obviously.
Also, can anyone recommend a book that covers all ammo types with their characteristics, history etc? I want to make some sense of the billion types there are. Think absolutely beginner tier.
Didn't really like One Soldier's War. Also he's a somewhat controversial figure with his anti-war political activism and composite characters.
Fireforce was pretty interesting, but not phenomenal.
Really loved Starship Troopers, but more the introductory chapter and its perspective on civic duty and ideology.
Two I could give high recommendations that I haven't seen in this thread yet would be Unintended Consequences and Tigers in the Mud. The first is a fictional work that really fascinated me. A lot of /k/ politics, but I liked the specifics, allusions to historical events, and just the interesting narrative. The second, Otto Carius's biography, saying how it was on the eastern front as a German tanker, then moving to the western front in the "wonderweapon" jagdtiger.
Currently, House to House --the memoir of the clearing of Fallujah, is on the rack, but I'm looking for more good reads.
>>30518520
House to House is intense as fuck, though a bit short. Very recommended.
>>30518464
Bump
Defiant By Alvin Townley, gripping story of the POW in the Hanoi Hilton
>>30507795
If you like those, you'll also like Free Fall by Nicolai Lilin. It's heavy as fuck (guy claims that all the stories are real just not all lived by himself). Siberian Education is excellent as well, just not a war book, it's about growing up in the russian mafia.
>>30512511
Thanks for this!
>>30518520
>Unintended Consequences
>That sniper sequence at the end
>Cracking skulls at a 1000 yards
>Oh yes
Any books about the French side of ww1 or ww2
>>30522420
pretty good graphic novel.
>>30522716
also check out The Centurions by Jean Lartéguy for French post WW2.
>>30522716
>>30522733
Any other good war comics? I read a lot of 'The 'Nam' but it was really hindered by the comics code.
>>30505629
For everyone https://mega.nz/#!44gjzJAI!WIEJsVv1YaO0SNsRULnyaEGxyseHt9tch0K544B9uNY
>>30522420
Excellent account of Verdun and the whole western front from the eyes of a french corporal
>>30505068
Isn't this author a giant libtard?
>>30523884
Garth Ennis's Nick Fury run
Any books you guys recommend on Ancient Greece? I was going to start reading The Greeks soon
Fucking faggots
Is this good?
Just finished this one not to long ago. I definitely enjoyed it and for someone who has always wanted to know more about what PMCs do. This book help shed a little light on that subject.
From the cover I get this sense that the writer is trying a lot to come off as a beard bearin, bullet muchin, babby killer. However if anything by the end of the book it reveals just how human and fragile some members of the special forces can be.
Also the story has events all over the world ranging from humdrum VIP security work in China, to the balls to the wall assault on the American Embassy in Benghazi.
If anyone is looking for something PMC related this one is definitely worth a read overall, and if anyone could recommend any other PMC focused books that would be great!
I hesitate to call this a CLASSIC only because my library of completed military non-fiction is quite small, but man I considerate it anyway. A fantastic book that covers the journey of a few cool spooks across Afghanistan during the opening blows of the war on terror. The book totally captures the feel of being thousands of miles from any friendly elements. As well as completing one of the spookiest of spooky missions of all time with only a handful of fine gentlemen, a nation of tireless fighters, and a couple of fly-boys.
For anyone interested in the military special operations that occurred in Afghanistan directly after 9/11. This is the book for you.
It's a bit of a dry read, but it helped me understand exactly how the British managed to get all that shit 8,000 miles from the UK to the Falklands Islands.
>>30526781
How long is the book m8?
I'm interested in that topic a bit myself.
>>30526874
About 300 pages or so. It's not too long.
Another book I liked was "One Hundred Days" by Sandy Woodward. He recounts his time as commander of the British task force aboard HMS Hermes, but also added his day-to-day journal entries at the end of the book. It's one thing to hear about the overview after a battle, but another entirely to read a commander's thoughts while the result is in doubt.
Also, it really hit home about ships and their maintenance. The biggest goal was accomplishing the retaking of the islands before the fleet fell apart. The second was making the various important bits work (like the Marconi employee who was aboard Brilliant doing tech support while being strafed by Argentinian Mirages).
Watch a unit crumble as the Iraq insurgency goes into overdrive. Total failure of leadership. See how war can take some men with an already twisted moral compass and lead them right over the edge. Compelling on multiple levels.
Inside Delta is a very good book, talks about major engagements Delta was in through the cold war and after
Bravo Two Zero
Night Stalkers - Michael Durant
Any about pilots
I read pic related during a trip in South-East Asia. Pretty good book. Pretty good trip, too.
>>30505068
Metro series if you enjoy the SHTF scenario
>>30515174
this
