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  1. 12-06-2006, 21:53 #1
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    Best War Book

    Because books are always better than films

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  2. 12-06-2006, 21:54 #2
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    Re: Best War Book

    Sven Hassel - all of them!
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    Re: Best War Book

    "Stalingrad" - the beginning of the end.
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    Re: Best War Book

    For a good laugh I find Leo kessler hard to beat. Especially the ones set post 1943. Carnage, depravity, looting, Nazis. He had it all. Pity he then wrote history books under his real name of Charles Whiting, and didn't change his style. Fact and fiction are the same thing to old Leo / Charles.
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    Re: Best War Book

    You were right with the rabbit..
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    Re: Best War Book

    Because I am dutch and we were responsible for deporting over 97% of our jewish population in WW2, Shindlers Arc does it for me. We take the piss out of what we do in Iraq, Afghanistan and my personal favourite OP BANNER. But we do this job for a reason for all our bluster, the only people who are confirmed pacifists are soldiers, and if the powers that be listened to us more often the world would be a better place.

    Sorry rant over!
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    Re: Best War Book

    Tough choice here, but I'll submit Pegusas Bridge as one of my favorites
    "They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children" - al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Information Minister

    "How many men does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. Because men aren't afraid of the dark!" - Hank McCoy

    "One of the downsides to being a martyr is that you have to die" - Dogma
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    Re: Best War Book

    Two of my favourites are:

    'Warriors on Wheels' by Park Yunnie, who was 2IC of Popski's Private Army.

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    'The Only Way Out' which is an infantryman's memoirs from Normandy to the Schwartzwald (jan '45). Excellent book, but I can't remember the name of the author offhand.



    Edit: It was R.M. Wingfield.
    Excerpt from The Four Slappers of the Apocalypse.

    And when I had opened the fourth beer, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and her that sat on him was the wife, and Hell followed with her......
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    Re: Best War Book

    Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis about the early days of the RFC. Awesome.
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    Re: Best War Book

    Devil's Guard - George Robert Elford

    So good, I think it's still doing the rounds of the Coldstreams (lent to bro-in-law 15 years ago and not seen since).
    "Hurrah for the Works Group" just doesn't have the same ring...

    "A volunteer is worth ten pressed men."
    So, a TA battalion or nine Regular Guards battalions? Not a difficult choice, then (especially as we don't have nine Regular Guards battalions).

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    Re: Best War Book

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

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    Get one for yourself...
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    Re: Best War Book

    Berlin and Stalingrad by Beevor.
    Proxima sed non corona.
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    Re: Best War Book

    Quote Originally Posted by Xplosiverab
    Berlin and Stalingrad by Beevor.
    Not the ACF Manual..... I'm shocked
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    Re: Best War Book

    Quote Originally Posted by Xplosiverab
    Berlin and Stalingrad by Beevor.
    Great books Rab, particularly liked "Berlin"

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    Re: Best War Book

    Quote Originally Posted by Sgt_Steiner

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