Recommend me some good WWII books, Vietname too!

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A World at Arms is THE WWII book. It's pretty technical, and even though I'm not a big book guy, I loved this book even though it is something like 1200 pages.

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I love this book. I tried to get all the way through it a couple years ago but stalled about 600 pages in. Now I just dip in randomly, still great stuff.

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Anything by Ambrose, especially, "D-Day" and "Citizen Soldiers"


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These are both good. I just finished Eisenhower 1890-1952 also by Ambrose. Good read spends most of its time on his role in World War II.

[hobbes9324]

The six volume Churchill history of WWII is very good....it is a bit of "How England Won the War - with some other guys"
but still a good read. Should get you thru the whole winter.

MM MD

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Anything by Ambrose, especially, "D-Day" and "Citizen Soldiers"


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Also for Vietnam, the book that "We Were Soldiers" was based on. I can't remember the specific title right now, something like "When we were young and soldiers" or something.

[Terry Tidy]

I liked: Berlin + Stalingrad both by Anthony Beevor and Auschwitz by Laurence Rees

[CanIPlayII]

An Army at dawn- About the Invasion of North Africa. excellent.
We were Soldiers Once and Young is the Vietnam book.
http://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Soldiers-O...TF8&s=books

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich... 1100 pages but so money if you are fascinated by the subject.

[Miamipuck]

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An absolute standout book that references WW2, Korea & Vietnam & beyond is "About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior" by Douglas Hackworth

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It is Colonel David H. Hackworth. Yes, I am being a nit here, the guy was a true hero. I did not realize he passed away recently.

I have read maybe 100+ books on Vietnam. Carlos Hathcock's is excellent as is the one mentioned above. Most of the ones I enjoyed were by SOG/SF soldiers and my list is representative of that fact. The others are:

<u>Reflections of a Warrior</u>- by Franklin D. Miller
This guy was one badass dude. He won the Medal of Honor in amazing fashion. I would not do it justice to describe it. He was about the sickest soldier I ever read about.

<u>Rogue Warrior</u> by Richard Marcinko- This covers Vietnam through Grenada so it is not solely based on Vietnam however it is covered in great detail. It is an entertaining read.

<u>Point Man</u>- James "Patches" Watson- This is an entertaining book on the covert ops of the US Seals during Vietnam.

<u> Death in the Jungle</u>- Gary Smith Alan Maki. Another good Navy Seal book.

<u>Gone Native: An NCO's Story</u>- Alan Cornett. A Green Beret's and project Delta soldier POV.

<u>SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam</u>- John Plaster A great book on Special Forces and their role in Vietnam.

There is an awesome book on the Montagnards (the mountain people of Vietnam) that I can not place even via Google. I will post it later if I could only remember the damn thing.



I know you asked for Non-Fiction books but one of the best books I ever read on Vietnam was fiction:

<u>The Expendables</u> by Leonard B. Scott (Col. USA ret.)- It is an amazing book IMHO.



However the best war book (US) ever written is without a shadow of doubt:

<u>The Civil War: A Narrative </u> - Shelby Foote. It is 3000 pages. If you have any interest in the Civil War or any war for that matter read this. I can not express to you the quality here, it is simply amazing.

[Dan R]

The Forgotten Solider by Guy Sajer

[Cornell Fiji]

<u>The things they carried</u> by Tim O'Brian is a classic book of short stories on Nam. If I recall correctly believe they are short stories with the same central characters as they go through the war.

Very good.

<u>Night</u> by Elie Wiesel is a good/depressing holocaust book.