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ITT: Military History Anonymous Sun Oct 8 20:08:54 2017 No.10124600 [Reply] [Original]

What are some top tier military history books?

Anonymous Sun Oct 8 20:13:51 2017 No.10124617
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>>10124600
Probably the best pure work of military history that I know of that isnt either a narrative history or a biography. Richard Evan's third volume of his Third Reich Trilogy is also very good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 20:14:54 2017 No.10124619 File: 14 KB, 250x400, images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSqbYar0cTRgC6oX40hz-Aikd-sTIegh6qTY_d9rExuNiK21Ko3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] caesar's gallic wars too

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 20:29:07 2017 No.10124662 File: 120 KB, 788x1200, we-were-soldiers-once-and-young.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] We Were Soldiers Once

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 20:38:14 2017 No.10124690 >>10124662 Together with this: Dispatches by Michael Herr, although that is more journalism

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 20:59:21 2017 No.10124744 File: 261 KB, 1400x2136, band-of-brothers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The TV miniseries based on this book is fantastic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 21:05:42 2017 No.10124760 File: 345 KB, 1359x2120, 81w21Q8IsiL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10124600 Anything by Antony Beevor

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 22:48:14 2017 No.10125073 Anyone have any recommendations of military memoirs of post-vietnam conflicts from non-Americans?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 23:02:28 2017 No.10125123 >>10125073 I mean post-Vietnam just as a reference point to more modern conflicts, not to focus on an American conflict.

Anonymous Sun Oct 8 23:07:42 2017 No.10125135
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>>10124600
Chester G Hearn has a good coverage of all US Branches except the Coast Guard. It's far reaching and generalized, but to brush up on each branch his books are great.

Also, if you like military shit in general, /k/ has some great stories and experiences between the board. Pic related, a /k/ommando acting as a medic in the YPG.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 23:29:17 2017 No.10125188 File: 626 KB, 1825x2761, EMBERS-OF-WAR.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10125073 >>10125123 Check out Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13155847-embers-of-war

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 23:50:03 2017 No.10125253 File: 508 KB, 1400x2100, 1495685448.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10124600 Rick Atkinson is the man. I highly recommend The Long Gray Line.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 00:09:58 2017 No.10125301 >>10124600 C L A U S E W I T Z

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 00:13:08 2017 No.10125309 Supplying War by Martin van Creveld. Good book on military logistics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 01:09:14 2017 No.10125448 File: 29 KB, 255x400, diarydesu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10124600 Guadalcanal Diary

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 03:21:35 2017 No.10125816 >>10125073 The Bear Went Over The Mountain/The Other Side of the Mountain (Soviets in Afghanistan from both perspectives, rather technical) Arkady Babchenko's One Soldier's War in Chechnya

>>	Indian Navy Lt. Commander !!dAj5WUfRw9Q Mon Oct 9 07:43:21 2017 No.10126298 Most books by Antony Beevor and Max Hastings. If you want the best by both then Stalingrad and The Korean War respectively are their best works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 08:22:36 2017 No.10126373 >>10124600 People need to get off military history's dick. I don't care how many times the NYT puts it on its best seller list, your perspective on WWII and Caesar is not new. Least innovative genre of history right now baka

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 08:25:30 2017 No.10126382 >>10124662 Im reading this now. Moore was one legit badass motherfucker.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 08:38:09 2017 No.10126397 File: 50 KB, 308x475, 55196.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mostly because he poops on Clausewitz

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 08:43:26 2017 No.10126405 Chickenhawk is the only war book that matters besides Johnny got his Gun.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 08:49:12 2017 No.10126414 File: 24 KB, 368x499, 41xOoUVEIoL._SX366_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 08:58:29 2017 No.10126430 File: 9 KB, 400x400, 157059._UY400_SS400_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One of my all time favorite, because I knew nothing about it, and it turned into an all time great shitshow with very few comparable episodes in history.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 09:09:06 2017 No.10126449 >>10126405 Why is that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 10:49:51 2017 No.10126657 >>10126373 The amount of butthurt that military history's continuing unenforced popularity generates among "academic" (i r r e l e v a n t) historians is part of the appeal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 10:58:59 2017 No.10126684 File: 38 KB, 303x499, 25B380DC-6A48-41B4-9A32-A3A1CB4E18E8-1256-000000C9F5B13D2D.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Guns of August is well researched, vibrant, and really pulls the curtain back on the clown show that was the start of WWI

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 11:02:00 2017 No.10126691 File: 59 KB, 356x500, 51QIXDi6BnL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10126684 dont forget its less popular but superior brother

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 11:03:02 2017 No.10126692 File: 38 KB, 465x680, images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzcLlYMb7HXdQBZWVCqKBZ-FDUVGijsDpwh7nVMmqKWNW13eZW.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] In which things go badly. CV Wedgwoods history is good too

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 11:06:27 2017 No.10126700 >>10126691 Worth reading? Is it of a similar style to GoA? I assume it's much more generalized and sweeping, given its scope

Anonymous Mon Oct 9 11:10:28 2017 No.10126712

>>10126692
After reading this, I still have no idea what the 30 years war was about, or even really the basic facts of it.

This book absolutely drowns the reader in these irrelevant and monotonous details of the time, and completely disregards the big picture. Fuck this hope, i hope it gets a book stroke and gets put into a book old age home to be forgotten and die.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 16:28:14 2017 No.10127775 >>10126712 t. brainlet Couldn't look up all the cool characters on sparknotes, huh?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 17:02:53 2017 No.10127894 >>10126430 >£90 on Amazon I wanted to read this but fuck that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 17:10:43 2017 No.10127929 >>10127894 >"waaa I'm poor" >buys books on fucking amazon Give up on reading lad, reading and education are a past time reserved for the rich, and the only way you will get around that fact is by not being a fucking idiot

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 17:17:28 2017 No.10127957 File: 52 KB, 325x500, armageddonhastings.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Absolutely the best book I've read on WW2.

Anonymous Mon Oct 9 17:37:22 2017 No.10128022

"Stridens skönhet och sorg" by Peter Englund is a great portrait of WW1 but I think his prose loses a bit in translation. He is very much inspired by Barbara Tuchman and has his eye on the absurd logic of war and the cultural context through which it was seen.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 17:53:02 2017 No.10128072 >>10127894 filetea DOT me/n3wz3alMs2HRUuxLs5JsNK5vg pdf of said file, I have azw3 if you want too

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 17:53:03 2017 No.10128073 File: 77 KB, 331x500, Barry Strauss-The Trojan War A New History.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 18:00:02 2017 No.10128096 >>10128073 eh it's ok best bit was when i read his view on the chariot thing compared to what i heard Donald Keegan say in a lecture I saw on Youtube

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 18:16:04 2017 No.10128163 >>10128072 Give all formats

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 18:26:07 2017 No.10128196 >>10128072 Thank you!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 18:31:18 2017 No.10128209 >>10128163 filetea DOT me/n3wZsVRDoYXQnO2rCNF5uaxNA its my own conversion, sorry for any errors

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 18:59:10 2017 No.10128325 >>10127929 where do you buy books

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 20:25:56 2017 No.10128581 File: 516 KB, 1685x2560, 91aXtj54-2L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10124760 >>10126298 Gotta love the Beev

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 21:44:40 2017 No.10128848 >>10126414 >hemmed and hawed on picking this up on abe for ~$50 >now can't find a decent copy for less than $90 fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 21:46:12 2017 No.10128856 >>10126712 >completely disregards the big picture >he didn't spend years establishing a broad basis of historical knowledge from which he could comfortably zone in on any European nation or era

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 22:45:40 2017 No.10129022 >>10126712 >I want to know the big picture of a thing I should already know of as an educated adult >no details please >Where should I turn, wikipedia or this thousand page book? ok

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 23:14:18 2017 No.10129094 >>10129022 >>10128856 >>10127775 It isnt even that, the book basically a love letter to Tilly, Gustavus Adolphus, and Wallenstein. I have no idea what this anon is talking about.

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