Oh, I'm well aware of that...I first read them when I was in college, and a professor who also had the books pointed that out-especially the lack of any treatment of partisan warfare or the Einsatzgruppen's activities. Too bad he never did a final book to tell the final story from Summer '44 to the end. Though Antony Beevor's book on Berlin treats the Vistula-Oder Offensive and Pomerania well enough.
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I finished reading The Gun by C. J. Chivers a couple of weeks ago, which is a history of the AK-47. It offers a good history about the development of automatic guns and the effect of the AK on the world stage.If you run out of fuel, become a pillbox.
If you run out of ammo, become a bunker.
If you run out of time, become a hero.
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Here's a couple of more titles...
"The Last Hundred Yards", this one is a intro guide for USMC NCOs, useful since it breaks down a lot of the leadership tasks into easy to digest blocks. Very useful for non-military players to get a feel for how things work.
"The Myth of the Great War, How the Germans Won the Battles and How the Americans Saved the Allies." By John Mosier. Title says it all, its a well researched book by an author who took the time to research the German, French, and Italian military archives. His conclusions will certainly send any Anglophile into near-earth orbit. Everything from the Allied High Command lying to the civilian government, to mislabeling maps as to exactly where the front lines are. Take the time to set down and read it, then research his sources.....it certainly leaves you questioning some of the popular myths of WWI....The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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Originally posted by JHart View PostI finished reading The Gun by C. J. Chivers a couple of weeks ago, which is a history of the AK-47. It offers a good history about the development of automatic guns and the effect of the AK on the world stage.I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes
Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com
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There's been a glut of books on the AK over the past 5 years or so. I guess a bunch of authors realized that the 60th anniversary of the Kalashnikov assault rifle '47 was coming up and they all started working on books to hit stores at around that time.Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048
https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module
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For anyone who enjoyed Once a Warrior King, I can also recommend Chickenhawk, by Robert Mason. It is an excellent account of a novice helicopter pilot learning his trade with the 1st Cav in Vietnam, with some very revealing stuff later on about the effects of combat fatigue.I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.
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Just finished Dead Men Risen by Toby Harnden (ISBN 9781849164214),
There are a number of books now available about the British Army in Afghanistan and this one is, in my opinion, one of the best I've read. It covers the Welsh Guards 2009 tour, during which they lost their Commanding Officer and a Company Commander to IED's.
Highly, highly recommended.Author of the unofficial and strictly non canon Alternative Survivor’s Guide to the United Kingdom
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The wrong war: grit, strategy and the way out of Afghanistan by "Bing" West.
West is also the author of the classic The Village, about a Combined Action Platoon in Vietnam. This is his book about hanging around Marines and soldiers in 2009 and 2010, and his recommendations as well. I thought the patrol reporting was well done, and the suggestions clear.
He does not over-hype the "Well, when I was in Vietnam, we did this..." angle, but he does draw parallels when they can be seen. In fact, he spends a fair amount of time on the places where classic Counterinsurgency prescriptions won't work, such as where the locals are deeply hostile, and the local government is too corrupt or incompetent to deliver meaningful services.My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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Originally posted by Adm.Lee View PostThe wrong war: grit, strategy and the way out of Afghanistan by "Bing" West.
West is also the author of the classic The Village, about a Combined Action Platoon in Vietnam. This is his book about hanging around Marines and soldiers in 2009 and 2010, and his recommendations as well. I thought the patrol reporting was well done, and the suggestions clear.
He does not over-hype the "Well, when I was in Vietnam, we did this..." angle, but he does draw parallels when they can be seen. In fact, he spends a fair amount of time on the places where classic Counterinsurgency prescriptions won't work, such as where the locals are deeply hostile, and the local government is too corrupt or incompetent to deliver meaningful services.Last edited by Raellus; 07-21-2011, 08:42 PM.Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048
https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module
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Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048
https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module
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I just bought "Licensed to kill" by Robert Young Pelton. More Merc than T2K. I've only read the first 3 or 4 chapters, it has been a great read so far with subject material to come later in the book which i am more interested in.
"Beep me if the apocolypse comes" - Buffy Sommers
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One Second Later William R Forstchen. EMP attack on the US, and survival in a rather populated area of western North Carolina. Very interesting perspectives. The book, written a few years ago, was actually submitted to congress, or at least one of the committees.
Sorry if it was already mentioned.
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Sniping in France, by Herbert Hesketh-Prichard. The author was a big game hunter, who became involved in the training of snipers and scouts in WW1. It has a lot of interesting material about camouflage, and the use of hides for snipers. The fictional sniper in Gerald Seymour's Holding the Zero had a copy in his rucksack!I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.
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Originally posted by Graebarde View PostOne Second Later William R Forstchen. EMP attack on the US, and survival in a rather populated area of western North Carolina. Very interesting perspectives. The book, written a few years ago, was actually submitted to congress, or at least one of the committees.
Sorry if it was already mentioned.Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048
https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module
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