Recommend me some good WWII books, Vietname too!

[BCPVP]

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Marine Sniper...simply put Carlos Hathcock = bad ass...this book is where they got the "shoot the other sniper through the scope" idea for the movie Sniper

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If you think Hathcock is bad ass, read up on Simo Häyhä

[spartaninpr]

A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan.He was a Pulitzer Prize winning Vietnam reporter.Arguably,the definitive book on the Vietnam debacle.

[ChipWrecked]

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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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David Hackworth. RIP

His site


"A Rumor of War" by Philip Caputo.

Marine LT. who allowed his platoon to massacre a Vietnamese village.

[Buckyinsc]

When I was at my officer basic course we used "The Killing Zone" by Frederick Downs to study and discuss several moral and ethical dilemmas that the platoon leader faced and tried to evaluate how we would deal with them. Very good read.

[MikeSmith]

I took a world war 2 class in college which was so great, one of the readings was the best war ever, it was a quick read and gave some insight into something aspects i never knew.

[scotchnrocks]

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If you think Hathcock is bad ass, read up on Simo Häyhä

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wtf...iron sights? What's the farthest out you could possibly pick off a soldier with iron sites reliably? 150 yards??

[BCPVP]

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If you think Hathcock is bad ass, read up on Simo Häyhä

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wtf...iron sights? What's the farthest out you could possibly pick off a soldier with iron sites reliably? 150 yards??

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I'm sure after the first hundred he got to be pretty good at it. Still, I'd think your sight post would be bigger than your whole target at 400 yds.

[juschuma]

Winds of War
War and Remembrance

Both by Herman Wouk. Fantastica historical fiction taking place during WWII.

[Nonfiction]

If anyone is into alternative "what if" history, I would suggest the great war series by Harry Turtledove. It basically imagines ww1-ww2 if the south had won the civil war, with the point of diversion from our timeline making a lot of sense. Basically the south wins @ antiem, gets recognized by england/france, wins war. WW1 comes, CSA is allied with france england and russia in the quadruple Entente, USA is allied with Germany Italy and Austria Hungary in Quadruple Alliance. And seeing how Canada = UK, the US has to fight a 2 front war much like Germany did in Europe. Pretty [censored] awesome, and a great read if you are a ww1/ww2 buff since he takes many of the events which occured in europe and puts them realistically happening in the Americas (such as the spanish civil war happening in mexico, for example).

[TheRover]

the oster conspiracy of 1938-parssinen
inside the third reich-speer
nuremburg diary-gilbert
ribbentrop-bloch
the labyrinth-schellenburg