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**Sgt_Steiner** · 12-06-2006, 22:55

"Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer, Hitler's armnaments minister & pet architect. Truly fascinating insight into a bonkers regime.

Demarkation

Steiner

**Lepus** · 12-06-2006, 23:28

Berlin and Stalingrad by Beevor.

**CheekieNorthernMonkie** · 12-06-2006, 23:29

Originally Posted by Xplosiverab

Berlin and Stalingrad by Beevor.

Not the ACF Manual..... I'm shocked

**Sgt_Steiner** · 12-06-2006, 23:32

Originally Posted by Xplosiverab

Berlin and Stalingrad by Beevor.

Great books Rab, particularly liked "Berlin"

Steiner

**Run_Charlie!** · 12-06-2006, 23:44

Originally Posted by Sgt_Steiner

Steiner

With a moniker like that, I thought you'd say cross of iron!

**Eleusinian** · 13-06-2006, 00:42

"Strange Meeting" by Susan Hill

**Is_That_A_Wah** · 13-06-2006, 01:47

"Goodbye To All That" by Robert Graves. Best book about the 1914-18 war by far.

**gearupflapup** · 13-06-2006, 03:49

"Quartered Safe Out Here" George MacDonald Fraser

**LankyPullThrough** · 13-06-2006, 04:09

Re. the suggestion of "Full Metal Jacket', I think the movie came from two books. Isn't the training bit ('Get off my obstacle!') from 'The Short Timers' by Gustav somebody (?). I know the in-country bit is largely based on Michael Herr's 'Dispatches', not least because he wrote the screenplay. 'Dispatches' is the only book I have read that has made my feet start sweating with the tension. Once read, never forgotten.

**Greengrass** · 13-06-2006, 04:49

I would go for dispatches as well damm fine read marred only by the fact as he wrote the screen play for most of the famous Vietnam movies it seems a bit clichéd until you realizes it all happened. Mind you the picture he paints of the unprofessional and down right dangerous attitude within the US ranks I am not surprised they lost.