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Hi, I am looking to stock up my bookshelf with some more books. I would like stuff about Special Forces, famous military people, Fighting etc.. I can't really describe it but 'man' books would be a good general term :) I would prefer non-fiction such as biographies and all that. Also, they would have to be commonly available on stuff like Amazon.

Some examples are http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Warrior-Richard-Marcinko/dp/0671795937 and http://www.amazon.com/Paladin-Book-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289207806&sr=1-1

Thanks if anyone has any ideas.
 
classics.... The Art of War, Sun Tzu....The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli... Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T E Lawrence

WWII historical fictiion...Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk

VietNam...Bright Shining Lie, Neal Sheehan...The Doom Pussy, Elaine Shepard....historical- Street Without Joy, Bernard Fall, .. Making of a Quagmire, David Halberstam

Desert Storm.. Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNabb

Somalia and Iran...Blackhawk Down, Guest of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden
 
a lot of stuff can suddenly be outdated and wholly irrelavant by the time it's put to print.
the industry standard is material from jane's information group.
it's premium price, places it way beyond the reach of most ordinary folk i suppose.
see you got paladin, don't forget DELTApress, btw.
 
Some other options could be "Delta Force" by Eric Haney or "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden.
 
Civil War: Battle Cry of Freedom
WWI: First World War by John Keegan; My Reminiscences of East Africa by von Lettow-Vorbeck
Rogue Warrior: memoirs of the one of the most bada$$ SEALs - Richard Marcinko
 
"Fiction"

Arthur Koestler, The Gladiators
Howard Fast, The Unvanquished
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Émile Zola, The Downfall
John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front and A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Charles Yale Harrison, Generals Die in Bed
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Mikhail Sholokhov, Quiet Flows the Don (translation by Robert Daglish, edited by Brian Murphy. Sholokhov needs a new translation, but at least this one isn't abridged.)
Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
Michio Takeyama, Harp of Burma
Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Ha Jin, War Trash
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War

"History"

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War ("The Landmark Thucydides" is a great edition with lots of maps http://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Thucydides-Comprehensive-Guide-Peloponnesian/dp/0684827905/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289242968&sr=1-1)
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative
 
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Lone Survivior
Marine Sniper
Dear Mom
Black Friday Coming Down
The Moon is Always Full
There was Blood on the Snow
On Killing
On Combat
 
Will — G. Gordon Liddy

Hell’s Angel — Ralph "Sonny" Barger

War Story — Jim Morris

Once a Warrior King — David Donovan (psuedonym)

Reflections of a Warrior — Franklin D. Miller

Immediate Action — Andy McNab

Blue Highways — William Least Heat Moon

In the Belly of the Beast — Jack Henry Abbott

Education of a Wandering Man — Louis L’Amour

Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle — Richard Holmes

On Killing — Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

The Real Team — Richard Marcinko

SOG: The Secret War of America’s Commandos in Vietnam — John L. Plaster

Spetsnaz — Viktor Suvorov

The Good War — Studs Terkel

Cops — Mark Baker

Cop World: Inside an American Police Force — James McClure

Lead Poisoning: 25 True Stories from the Wrong End of a Gun — Chris Pfouts
 
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Judisicious Use of Lethal force - Massod Ayoob

Savage Strikes -Mark Hatmaker
 
Kill or get Killed-Col. Rex Applegate

Point Man-James "Patches" Watson(Marchinko's CPO)

The Ultimate Sniper-Major John Plaster

Knife Talk I and II-Ed Fowler

Fiction:

Point of Impact and Time to Hunt-Stephen Hunter

Small Vices-Robert B. Parker

Blue Belle-Andrew Vachss

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
on combat, dave grossman
one bullet away, nathaniel fick
band of brothers, stephen ambrose
generation kill, evan wright
homicide special, miles corwin
warrior soul, chuck pfarrer
where men win glory, jon krakauer
labarynth, randall sulivan
terror at beslan, john giduck


all are non fiction.
 
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk

Rifleman Dodd by C. S. Forester

With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowell Thomas

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

Betty Zane by Zane Grey
 
I am reading the Seven Pillars of Wisdom right now.

You should try The Great Game or Like Hidden Fire by Peter Hopkirk.

M.
 
Kohai999 said:
Kill or get Killed-Col. Rex Applegate

Point Man-James "Patches" Watson(Marchinko's CPO)

The Ultimate Sniper-Major John Plaster

Knife Talk I and II-Ed Fowler

Fiction:

Point of Impact and Time to Hunt-Stephen Hunter

Small Vices-Robert B. Parker

Blue Belle-Andrew Vachss

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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Point of Impact was good, much better then the movie. :thumbup:
 
Josh K said:
Point of Impact was good, much better then the movie. :thumbup:
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Point of Impact was given to me by the first LRRP in country(Vietnam) to get his beret.

Don't get much better than that.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Unrepentant Sinner: The Autobiography Of Col. Charles Askins [Paperback]
Charles Askins (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-S...1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289279430&sr=1-1-fkmr1

Product Description
Colonel Askins is an adventurer. Whether it be fighting his way out of an ambush, hunting tiger in Asia or sniping along the Rhine, Askins has done it with gusto. Here he recounts his early days as a forest ranger, his decade of slinging lead on the Mexican border, his astounding success as a competitive pistol shot, his combat participation in World War II, his adventures as a paratrooper in Vietnam and his career as one of the world's leading big-game hunters.
Product Details

* Paperback: 322 pages
* Publisher: Paladin Press (January 1, 1991)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 158160582X
* ISBN-13: 978-1581605822
* Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
 
For some REALLY good fiction reads with "take care of business characters" check out these guys:

Lee Child
Ted Bell
Stephen Hunter
Barry Eisler

Jeff
 
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