/lit/ - Literature

Catch-22. Things they Carried... I know, "sure is high school in here" but the are good books.

Aircraft Carrier (Yorktown) - Bryan
B-24 Liberator
Barbarossa - AlanClark
Boulton-Paul Defiant (Profile Publication)
Bristol Blenheim I (Profile Publication)
Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea (The Marianas Turkey Shoot)
Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk I-IV (Profile Publication)
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
Death of the Battleship - Hough
Dornier DO-17 + 215 (Profile Publication)
Douglas SBD Dauntless
Flying Forts - Martin Caidin
German Secret Flight Test Centres to 1945
Ghost Army of WWII - Kneece
God Is My Co-Pilot - Scott
Grumman F4F Wildcat
Grumman F6F Hellcat
Grumman TBF Avenger
Hitler's Nemesis - The Red Army - Dunn
Holocaust At Sea (German battleship Scharnhort)- Busch
Hunters from the Sky (German Parachute Corp 1940-45)
I Flew For the Fuhrer - Knoke
I-Boat Captain (Japanese submarine) - Orita
Luftwaffe War Diaries - CajusBekker
Messerschmitt BF-110 (Profile Publication)
Messerschmitt ME-210 + 410 (Profile Publication)
North America P-51d Mustang (Profile Publication)
North American PBJ (B-25)
Panzer Armee Afrika Tripoli to Tunis
Rocket Fighter (Luftwaffe ME-163) - Ziegler
Secret Underground Cities (Briatins Undergound Defense in WWII) - McCamley
Secret Weapons of World War II - Pawle
Stuka Pilot - Rudel
The 85 Days (Victory in Europe in 1944) - Thompson
The Battle of France - Then and Now [After the Battle] - Cornwell
The Berlin Raids (RAF Bomber Command - Winter 1943-44) - Martin Middlebrook
The Fall of Berlin - Anthony Beevoir
The Manned Missile - The Story of the B-70 - Ed Reiss
U-Boat 977 - Schaeffer
U-Boat Commander - Prien
U-Boat Killer - MacIntyre
U-Boats At War (U-Boat Action 1939-45) - Busch
Vought F4U Corsair
Wildcat - The F4F in WWII - BARRETT TILLMAN
Zero Fighter -Yoshimura

>reading books "about" things

>>>/k/
/lit/ is full of socialist hippie liberals who've never even seen a gun.

If you're looking for WW2, pic related. But nothing beats War and Peace.

>>2305108
>hurr owning a gun makes me manly
/k/ is full of armchair commandos who've never fired a shot at another person.

>>2305108
he asked about war, not about guns, you mouthbreather

>thread doesn't recommend All Quiet On The Western Front in the first few poists

get your act together /lit/

>>2305132
that's because it's not a very good book. 10th grade level "hey guys did you hear? people die in war sometimes!" bullshit.

SSgt here,

The Forever War, Dexter Filkins

>>2305136
This is a fucking great book OP, don't be put off by the fact it's sci-fi, writer based it on his time in Vietnam.

>>2305149
That's a book by Haldemann

This book, By Filkins, is about his time in Afghanistan.

Both are great though.

>>2305135
I disagree with you, sir.

>>2305135

As if that message shouldn't be constantly vocalized, especially to high school aged children looking for some way to pay for college. Death is always suitable for literature to ponder over.

>>2305153
cool have fun bein' wrong

>>2305158
yeah but it does so in a way thats totally juvenile and simplistic and uninteresting. read wilfred owens instead or something, or any of the more mature and eomplex and better-written takes on death or war

like

man, fuck all quiet on the western front

The Thin Red Line by James Jones. Pretty heavy stuff, not much like the film (which is great by the way) and different from those war books with 'brothers' in. Very good though

>>2305152
My bad.

>>2305135
At the time it was written that was a pretty important and revolutionary message.

>>2305201
yes, literally no one had criticized war before 1928. certainly no veterans of world war I had written anything criticizing it, and it's definitely not at all the case that people were writing literature critical of the war while it was still going on

it's not as true in germany as it is in the allied countries but it's not at all the case that no one had criticized WWI before 1928

>>2305218
None of those criticisms entered popular culture.

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

French-German recruit on the eastern front WW2. It's based on the author's own experiences.

rumor or war - caputo (vietnam)
with the old breed - sledge (ww2 pacific)
generation kill - ? (iraq)
charlie wilson's war (afghanistan-soviets)

a story about an american dynamiter of the international brigades working behind nationalist lines with a band of guerrillas during the spanish civil war. hemmingway breaks down the spirit of the war in spain, and warfare itself quite masterfully .

crtl+f "norman mailer"

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always did want to read 'journey to the end of the night'

>>2305164
>someone has a differing opinion
>THEY'RE WRONG

Is this elementary school?

No World War Z? for shame, that's a fantastic book about war.

>>2305246
>none of those criticisms entered popular culture

>>2305136
staff sergeants do paperwork right?

Catch-22

>>2305246
this anon knows next to nothing about world war one and its contemporaneous culture. fucking google the trench poetry and read those, if you think that criticism of ww1 hadn't already entered public consciousness. or the shame of war on the return of the veterans in the immediate postwar years which manifested in, again, the poetry.