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Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:13:18 2010 No.1213155 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good war books? Pic not really related.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:20:18 2010 No.1213163 File: 126 KB, 300x458, storm_of_steel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:23:18 2010 No.1213167 >>1213163 I HEARD THIS GLORIFIED WAR, NO?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:26:18 2010 No.1213171 Tim O'Brien

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:26:18 2010 No.1213172 I had to read The Things They Carried when I was in high school. I remember it being pretty decent.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:28:18 2010 No.1213178 >>1213167 It does, but not at the expense of describing its horrors.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:30:18 2010 No.1213179 All Quiet on the Western Front A Time to Love and a Time to Die

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:30:18 2010 No.1213184 Starship Troopers

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:35:18 2010 No.1213193 The History of the Peloponnesian War The Illiad The Anabasis Herotodus's Histories Caesar's comentarii de bello gallico

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:49:18 2010 No.1213217 War and Peace

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:56:18 2010 No.1213222 Homage to Catalonia

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 10:59:18 2010 No.1213226 Jarhead

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 11:24:18 2010 No.1213274 Slaughterhouse 5.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Sun Oct 17 11:35:18 2010 No.1213293 File: 22 KB, 260x400, homagetocatalonia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 11:41:18 2010 No.1213304 Catch 22

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 11:46:18 2010 No.1213311 A Long, Long Way - Sebastian Barry Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

>>	✡יעקוב✡ !068VhxJHLQ Sun Oct 17 11:53:18 2010 No.1213321 Storm of Steel-Ernst Junger

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 12:01:18 2010 No.1213334 >>1213304 This.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 12:01:18 2010 No.1213336 Birdsong

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 12:08:18 2010 No.1213350 The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh; Vietnam War from the Viet side.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 12:09:50 2010 No.1213353 The Thin Red Line, by James Jones.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 12:13:18 2010 No.1213358 Ender's Game

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 12:14:50 2010 No.1213359 >>1213167 It glorifies the resilience than veterans attain, which they take with them through the rest of their lives. If there's anything to be found offensive in the text, it's that it perhaps dismisses post-traumatic stress disorder.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 12:15:50 2010 No.1213362 >>1213359 Also, trivial fact: in German, "Shellshock" is called "die Kriegsneurose" - "War Neurosis"

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 13:43:18 2010 No.1213481 The Naked and the Dead - Mailer, 1948 Guadalcanal Diary Catch-22 Going after Cacciato

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 17 13:50:18 2010 No.1213487 Private Peaceful

>>	k3kp9 Sun Oct 17 13:57:28 2010 No.1213500 >>1213193 >Caesar's comentarii de bello gallico +1 A surprisingly easy and enjoyable work. The Roman style of REALLY SHORT CHAPTERS always struck me as pretty neat

>>	BrianHerbert !!wGkD+vOhZGf Sun Oct 17 14:11:18 2010 No.1213522 >>1213184 This if you want something that romanticizes war. The Forever War if you want something realist (so I've been told, I haven't read it yet =( )