I've read American sniper, Lone survivor, and marine sniper. What are some other books you have read and were good. It doesn't have to be about just snipers. Im interested in Anything about US military
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Re: What books to read?
Citizen Soldier by Stephen Ambrose is way up on my list. It goes from D-Day to the end of WWII in Europe with the American GI. The book is written from accounts of the soldiers who fought the battles.
There is also a trilogy, The Liberation Trilogy written by Rick Atkinson that is very well written.
Volume One, An Army at Dawn, The War In North Africa, 1942-1943
Volume Two, The Day of Battle, The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
He is currently working on Volume three. I really enjoyed his writing style. It gave the best insight I have read on the infighting among the Allies and the command squabbling. I really enjoy reading history, but not the dry textbook type. These are my favorites behind Citizen Soldier.
Citizen Soldier by Stephen Ambrose is way up on my list. It goes from D-Day to the end of WWII in Europe with the American GI. The book is written from accounts of the soldiers who fought the battles.
There is also a trilogy, The Liberation Trilogy written by Rick Atkinson that is very well written.
Volume One, An Army at Dawn, The War In North Africa, 1942-1943
Volume Two, The Day of Battle, The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
He is currently working on Volume three. I really enjoyed his writing style. It gave the best insight I have read on the infighting among the Allies and the command squabbling. I really enjoy reading history, but not the dry textbook type. These are my favorites behind Citizen Soldier.
Re: What books to read?
I Like Trigger Men, Roughneck Nine-One, Generation Kill, Hogs in the Shadows, American Heroes in Special Operations, just to name a few.
I Like Trigger Men, Roughneck Nine-One, Generation Kill, Hogs in the Shadows, American Heroes in Special Operations, just to name a few.
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Chicken Hawks By Robet Mason is a very good Vietnam era book
Mission MIA will make you shed a tear at the end of it. Another Vietnam era book
Guns Up Vietnam era.
Chicken Hawks By Robet Mason is a very good Vietnam era book
Mission MIA will make you shed a tear at the end of it. Another Vietnam era book
Guns Up Vietnam era.
Re: What books to read?
Nonfiction;
Sniper one, Dan Mills
Sniper, Gina Cavallaro w/ Matt Larson
The last wolf, Cox
Marine sniper, Charles Henderson
Sniper, Adrin Gilbert
Dead center, Ed Kugler
Hogs in the shadows, Mil Afong
A rifleman went to war, Herbert Mcbride
Cold zero, Christopher Whitcomb
The one round war, Peter Senich
Sniper on the eastern front, Albrecht Wacker
Silent warrior, Charles Henderson
Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden
American Sniper, Chris Kyle
Fiction;
Kill Zone, Jack Caughlin
The silent men, Richard Dickinson
Steven Hunter series
All of the Tom Clancy novels.
Nonfiction;
Sniper one, Dan Mills
Sniper, Gina Cavallaro w/ Matt Larson
The last wolf, Cox
Marine sniper, Charles Henderson
Sniper, Adrin Gilbert
Dead center, Ed Kugler
Hogs in the shadows, Mil Afong
A rifleman went to war, Herbert Mcbride
Cold zero, Christopher Whitcomb
The one round war, Peter Senich
Sniper on the eastern front, Albrecht Wacker
Silent warrior, Charles Henderson
Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden
American Sniper, Chris Kyle
Fiction;
Kill Zone, Jack Caughlin
The silent men, Richard Dickinson
Steven Hunter series
All of the Tom Clancy novels.
Re: What books to read?
I am about 2/3 through Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, if you like WWII history. Be warned, it is intense and has so much info in it one can easily be over whelmed.
I am about 2/3 through Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, if you like WWII history. Be warned, it is intense and has so much info in it one can easily be over whelmed.
Re: What books to read?
from a fiction stand point, I really liked Point of Impact and the rest of Steven Hunter's books. Non Fiction, just finished Given Up for Dead by Bill Sloan. Really good read about the battle for Wake Island at the start of WWII.
from a fiction stand point, I really liked Point of Impact and the rest of Steven Hunter's books. Non Fiction, just finished Given Up for Dead by Bill Sloan. Really good read about the battle for Wake Island at the start of WWII.
Re: What books to read?
Fiction, vince flynn has a great bunch of books starting with term limits.
Fiction, vince flynn has a great bunch of books starting with term limits.
Re: What books to read?
Some of my favorites (listed in no meaningful order):
One Bullet Away, Nathaniel Fick
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose
Helmet for My Pillow, Robert Leckie
With the Old Breed at Pelieu and Okinawa, E.B. Sledge
Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
Landscape Turned Red, Stephen Sears
Gettysburg, Stephen Sears
Some of my favorites (listed in no meaningful order):
One Bullet Away, Nathaniel Fick
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose
Helmet for My Pillow, Robert Leckie
With the Old Breed at Pelieu and Okinawa, E.B. Sledge
Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
Landscape Turned Red, Stephen Sears
Gettysburg, Stephen Sears
Re: What books to read?
I liked all of these
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I liked all of these
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Re: What books to read?
X2 for Webb - The Red Circle. Very interesting. Along the same lines as Lone Survivor and American Sniper. Also recommend Unbreakable. Top ten a while back. Very inspiring story
X2 for Webb - The Red Circle. Very interesting. Along the same lines as Lone Survivor and American Sniper. Also recommend Unbreakable. Top ten a while back. Very inspiring story
Re: What books to read?
One of my top 3 is Unintended Consequences by John Ross, good history lesson on the 2nd. amendment. A little hard to find.
Boyd, by Robert Coram. He helped design the F-16 and the A-10.
Tom Clancy's early stuff, Red Storm Rising and The Bear and the Dragon.
If you want to peek over the edge try Patriots by John Rawles.
One of my top 3 is Unintended Consequences by John Ross, good history lesson on the 2nd. amendment. A little hard to find.
Boyd, by Robert Coram. He helped design the F-16 and the A-10.
Tom Clancy's early stuff, Red Storm Rising and The Bear and the Dragon.
If you want to peek over the edge try Patriots by John Rawles.
Re: What books to read?
No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan
Written by Mitch Weiss and Kevin Maurer.
The story of ODA 3336 and my friend John Wayne Walding's unit and their survival story.
No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan
Written by Mitch Weiss and Kevin Maurer.
The story of ODA 3336 and my friend John Wayne Walding's unit and their survival story.
