Originally Posted by Mr_Deputy

Quartered Safe Out Here
Sniper One
Dear Mom : A Sniper's Tale (Vietnam diary)
Sven Hassel - Wheels of terror
1 Soldier O: SAS - The Bosnian Inferno by Monnery, David (probably crap)
1 Into the Heart of Borneo: An Account of a Journey Made In 1983 to the Mountains

Eclectic mix there feller.

> Flicked through Sniper 1 in WH Smith's - read Richard Holmes' 'Dusty Warriors' to get the overview first!
> If 'Wheels of Terror' is the first Sven Hassel you've read - good. As he got into his stride they got much more absurd.....and if you find 27th (Penal) Panzer regiment in any official orbat of the Wehrmacht , I'll eat my Halal Menu 'C'.
I read those books as a 15 year old....then went and read 'All Quiet on the Western Front' ....first time I'd ever thought of the German Army as , well,' just like us really '......which stayed with me till I visited Belsen.

Just finished ' The Last Fighting Tommy' - Harry Patch with Richard van Emden......not only did Mr Patch survive the Somme in 1917 ( wounded in action) but in the Second World War as a member of the Auxillary Fire Service he then survived being strafed by a Dornier engaged in leisurely bombing Bath.....Mr Patch recently celebrated his 110th birthday and appears to be going strong .....

After that, I ripped through Cormac McCarthy's << No Country For Old Men >> - excellent but I've been a fan since reading 'All the pretty Horses' way back when. Not seen the film with Tommy Lee Jones but on the 'to rent' list.


Currently reading << Forrest Gump>> - and will be backtracking US Army accounts of Pleiku during the Tet offensive as a result to see how much it tallies!

Don Cabra

Reading two books at the moment (I always tend to read one reference type and a novel at the same time - well not literally but you get the idea!):

George Lucas A Biography (by John Baxter) - interesting, but has several glaring errors in it.

The Fifth Element (By Terry Bisson - novelisation of the Luc Besson movie) - more depth to the characters but worryingly has an Italian Archiologist using a Sten SMG in 1913!

Originally Posted by Mr_Deputy

Currently reading << Forrest Gump>> - and will be backtracking US Army accounts of Pleiku during the Tet offensive as a result to see how much it tallies!

Don Cabra

Might be worth checking out Winston Groom’s early work

Better Times Than These

It’s a fictionalized version of his own service in Vietnam with the 7th Cavalry
One of the minor characters is obviously a prototype for Forrest Gump.

http://www.amazon.ca/Better-Times-Th...8467788&sr=8-3

Originally Posted by DANJANOU

Originally Posted by Mr_Deputy

Currently reading << Forrest Gump>> - and will be backtracking US Army accounts of Pleiku during the Tet offensive as a result to see how much it tallies!

Don Cabra

Might be worth checking out Winston Groom’s early work

Better Times Than These

It’s a fictionalized version of his own service in Vietnam with the 7th Cavalry
One of the minor characters is obviously a prototype for Forrest Gump.

http://www.amazon.ca/Better-Times-Th...8467788&sr=8-3

Danjanou,
Goatman is doing that not me by the way. Quote thing gone hay-wire.
All I know is where Gump got shot. That's right. In the butttocKKs.

I am however reading a whole load of Vietnam stuff still. Been working through about 20 or so first hand accounts and also some DVD documentaries. Prefer the books.
I'd like to get some accounts written by NVA or VC - if any one knows please advise. Not see any/many/one which didn't cost a fortune in my searches so-far.

Ooops

Fall of the House of Bush - Craig Ungar
Sahara - Craig Cussler
Through our Enemies Eyes - Michael Scheuer
Up to Now - William Shatner :o

I am currently reading A Monk in the SAS by Paul Sibley,He shares his thoughts, feelings and often amazing experiences of his military career.I found the descriptions of places and events enthralling, and particulally the authors skill of capturing the often complex Arabian cultural differences with our own. An excellent book

Originally Posted by Private_Pike

Originally Posted by _Artemis_

Just finished The God Delusion

He didn't come over so well in the Genius of Charles Darwin, where instead of espousing the great man whose work he clearly wishes were his own, he was reduced to bullying school boys rather than trying to convince them of the theory of evolution. As AA Gill put it in todays Times it appeared more like God's revenge on Darwin.

That's really interesting: if he's turning on Darwin too (who, as you rightly say, he seems to venerate in TGD), that suggests Dawkins might simply be an iconoclast. I'll have a read.

Originally Posted by Private_Pike

As to why Dawkins is so rabidly anti -theistic (I don't know if this is a real word or whether it has just evolved ) , I would venture that he may have been royally bug gered by a Roman Catholic Priest.

If you've not already read TGD, that's remarkably perceptive: he mentions that he was groped by a priest (albeit an Anglican one), or a teacher, can't remember which. Still, I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt and conclude his (very well-argued and -evidenced) outrage against thesism/deism is basically rationally-based

Ray Mears goes Walkabout. Written to accompany his excellent television series. Got it signed too!

Originally Posted by atonement

I am currently reading A Monk in the SAS by Paul Sibley,He shares his thoughts, feelings and often amazing experiences of his military career.I found the descriptions of places and events enthralling, and particulally the authors skill of capturing the often complex Arabian cultural differences with our own. An excellent book

I mentioned this book in another thread and I'm pleased that you enjoyed it as much as I did. Pete... err... Paul's OC on the Op Storm phase was Bruce Niven who was a prolific photographer on the jebel. His photos appear in quantity on the 'Alley' thread in the QM's forum.

As for 'Paul' he's one of life's good blokes and a ferkin good medic, still working on with the NHS.