Lookin for New Stuff to Read
I am always reading a military book if it be fiction or non-fiction. Any recommendations from the council? I'm always lookin for that obscure book nobody else knows about. I do not care so much for military theory - much more interested in battles, wars, personal experience.
I have read the following (to name a few that might be mentioned a member):
Fields of Fire
With the Old Breed
BHD
Team Yankee
Red Storm Rising
Bravo-Two-Zero
Thunder Run
A Road We Do Not Know
War
Ghost Brigades (SF)
Armor (SF)
Old Man's War (SF)
Starship Troopers (SF)
When the Poor Boys Dance
The Five Fingers
A Gift of Valor
Not A Good Day to Die
Robert's Ridge
Lone Survivor
Black Hearts
Gates of Fire
They Fought for Each Other
The Pacific
If you like Sci-fi (or SyFy!) and military works...
...then I can heartily recommend
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War / World War Z- (Wiki synopsis)
It's actually a lot better than the title, and the Zombie Survival Guide to which it is the sequel, would suggest. The author has really thought hard about what a "zombie" outbreak would do to the world political system and to the art of war; i.e., the return of infantry lines and squares:D; the need for new TTPs to deal with the undead (do not use land-mines because you want zombies standing upright to get the headshots needed for the HEI rounds to work:cool:); the development of the "lobo" a dual entrenching and lobotomisation hammer-thingy:eek:; the destruction of the three gorges dam in China as viewed from the international space station; the initial outbreak in China and its rapid spread throughout the world (think Stephen King's The Stand written as a global military history) et al. Although a work of fiction it is very plausibly done...I read it in a day and it gave me the heebeegeebees:o