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What's the most brutal book about WWI?

Already read All Quite.
Thinking of reading Storm of Steel.

Is there any nonfiction that puts forth the absolute futile nature of human waves?

>> No.6910477

Storm of steel immediatly comes to mind. It's nonfiction, btw.

>> No.6910495

Storm of Steel is a fantastic book and I couldn't recommend it enough, Junger just calls the events as he sees them. However there is no way it's a brutal book.

>> No.6910776

WW1 wasn't that bad.

>> No.6910884

It's not really "brutal" in an All Quiet sense, it doesn't want you to hate war or even this war in particular.

>> No.6911014

>>6910776
WW1 was excellent. WW2 was an uninspired sequel. Cartoonish villains.

>> No.6911565

>>6910468
The Lord of the Rings

>> No.6911570

>>6910468
>all quite
All Quite on the Western Front.
>yfw it's a cheeky British novel.

>> No.6911599

>>6911570
>tfw you go on a lads trip to france and you get stuck in a trench
>tfw adam takes one for the bant and gets his legs blown off by artillery
>tfw france doesn't even have cheeky nandos anywhere

Fuck france but adam is a bantersaurus rex, got to push him down a hill in his new wheelchair what a DisabledLAD

>> No.6911603

>>6910468
Fear by Gabriel Chevalier is god tier

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>>6911599
>>6911570

>> No.6911631

If you want to read a really brutal book about war, read Plievier's Stalingrad.

>> No.6911653

storm of steel is a great precisely because it isn't all 'a bloo bloo bloo war is so futile oh the horror' like every fucking other war book, and is clear-headed and unsentimental and doesn't shy away from the fact that a lot of people kinda like war, despite all the death and discomfort and what have you.

>> No.6911708

>that description of the man who had a bullet carve away a strip of his skull and reveal his pulsating brain inside
Goddamn dude

>> No.6911751
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6911751

Fear: A novel of world war I

Pretty sick book. After reading this one I would absolutely flee the country ilegally before ever getting drafted.

>> No.6912662

Fear by gabriel chevalier

>> No.6912767

>>6911751
Pussy

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>> No.6913102

The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell.

>> No.6914892

>>6910776
The gas was pretty bad.

>> No.6914904

>>6914892
My grandfather got gassed on the last day of the war, shit's rough

>> No.6914907

>>6912767
Dumb-ass.

>> No.6914929

>>6910776

World War I was the death of the old world
World War II was the messy birth of the modern one

>> No.6914934

>>6910776
You mean you enjoyed it ?

>> No.6914955

>>6914904
>1919
>Grandfather
>Assuming he died from the gas your father must have already been born

How old are you?

>> No.6914960

>>6914955
>making an ass out of u and me

>> No.6914962

>>6914955
Nope, he didn't die, got his lungs messed up bad though

I'm older than I should be for posting on 4chan

>> No.6914967

>>6914904
>grandfather fought in WW1

Shit, how old are you?

>> No.6914986

>>6914967
42
Gramps born march 1900, father born 1940 (grams was like 25 when she got married to my thirty something grandfather), me born in good old 1973

Don't look at me

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>>6914986

>> No.6915002

>>6914986
r u a kv?

>> No.6915013

>>6915002
My daughter is in middle school
Where does the time go?

>> No.6915026

>>6915013
is she a kv?

>> No.6915037

>>6915013
dibs

>> No.6915503

>>6911603
that one caught my eye on one of my Amazon strolls, I'll have to acquire it

>> No.6915511

>>6910468
not sure why no one said it yet, I MAY HAVE MISSED IT

Journey to the End of the Night

>> No.6915873

>>6914986
>>6915013

You are literally my father's age

>> No.6915913

>>6915873
Get off your Dad's website

>> No.6915929

Now that you mention it, A Farewell To Arms is the only real WWI book I've read. I'm sure there are some novels out there that have more shock value, but when I read it I felt drained after, the narrative just spirals down into a bleakness that that only accelerates at the end of the novel, all set against and within the war.

>> No.6915950

Mud, Blood & Poppycock is s good read.

Needs an open mind though.