So I'm going to go re-pick up All Quiet on the Western Front and will probably pick up this othe novel I've been eyeing for a while called War of the Rats tommorrow. And I was just wondering what are some good war novels you all have read? Fantasy, Sci-Fi, historical, doesn't matter just list some stuff for the rest of us to get acquainted with. Maybe some reasons or a synapse (wait wrong word....) or something
Good old war literature.
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War of the Rats is a pretty enjoyable book. I must have read it about ten times by now. Some other novels I've liked are To Hell and Back (WWII), On To Berlin (WWII), and Retreat, Hell! (Korean War)
Armaggedon : The Battle for germany 44-45 by Max Hastings
Waffen SS : An unpulished History by Christopher Ailsby.
SS : Hell on the Eastern Front by Christopher Ailsby.
Das Reich : The military role of the 2nd SS division.
Citadel : The battle of kursk by Robin Cross.
and by the same Author Stalingrad and Berlin : The Downfall by Anthony Beevor.
hope you find these usefull
Waffen SS : An unpulished History by Christopher Ailsby.
SS : Hell on the Eastern Front by Christopher Ailsby.
Das Reich : The military role of the 2nd SS division.
Citadel : The battle of kursk by Robin Cross.
and by the same Author Stalingrad and Berlin : The Downfall by Anthony Beevor.
hope you find these usefull
The Fighting First: The Untold Story of the Big Red One on D-Day by Flint Whitlock
Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E. Ambrose
Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
For Your Freedom and Ours or A Question of Honor by Lynn Olsen and Stanley Cloud
The Forgotten Few by Adam Zamoyski
The Simple Sounds of Freedom Thomas H. Taylor
Secret Soldier by Phil Gerard
Brother’s in Arms by Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS by Johann Voss
The First and the Last by Adolf Galland
Fighter General: The Life of Adolf Galland, the Official Biography by Raymond Toliver and Trevor Constable (Better than Galland's autobiography.)
The Blond Knight of Germany by Raymond Toliver and Trevor Constable (Erich Hartmann's biography)
The Black Cross/Red Star series is turning out to be an excellent resource for the air war on the Eastern Front by Christer Bergstrom
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Siegfried Knappe
Blood Red Snow by Gunter K. Koschorrek
Notes of a Sniper by Vassili Zaitsev
How Hitler could have won WWII, the fatal errors that lead to Nazi defeat by Bevin Alexander
Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan by Clair Blair Jr.
Wahoo by Richard O'Kane
Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman's War in Europe by Roscoe Blunt
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War IIby Belton Y. Cooper
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Eye’s of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Bridge Too Far, Longest Day, Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson
Flyboys by James Bradley
Eastfront - The memories" written by Leon Degrelle
Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E. Ambrose
Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
For Your Freedom and Ours or A Question of Honor by Lynn Olsen and Stanley Cloud
The Forgotten Few by Adam Zamoyski
The Simple Sounds of Freedom Thomas H. Taylor
Secret Soldier by Phil Gerard
Brother’s in Arms by Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS by Johann Voss
The First and the Last by Adolf Galland
Fighter General: The Life of Adolf Galland, the Official Biography by Raymond Toliver and Trevor Constable (Better than Galland's autobiography.)
The Blond Knight of Germany by Raymond Toliver and Trevor Constable (Erich Hartmann's biography)
The Black Cross/Red Star series is turning out to be an excellent resource for the air war on the Eastern Front by Christer Bergstrom
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Siegfried Knappe
Blood Red Snow by Gunter K. Koschorrek
Notes of a Sniper by Vassili Zaitsev
How Hitler could have won WWII, the fatal errors that lead to Nazi defeat by Bevin Alexander
Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan by Clair Blair Jr.
Wahoo by Richard O'Kane
Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman's War in Europe by Roscoe Blunt
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War IIby Belton Y. Cooper
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Eye’s of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Bridge Too Far, Longest Day, Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson
Flyboys by James Bradley
Eastfront - The memories" written by Leon Degrelle
Edit: Whoops, I think most of us missed the bit about novels. And one purported novel (To Hell and Back) is actually true. So I'm going to leave the rest of my original post here:
Flyboys was incredibly good. The first book by the author, not nearly so good.
Vasili Chuikov's memoirs from Stalingrad are a must-read, as are Mao's On Guerrilla War (Samuel B. Griffith translation).
I was actually coming into these forums to talk about a book called "Dr. Seuss Goes to War." The text is pretty good, and gives you more of an understanding. Some of just the artwork is here:
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/
Flyboys was incredibly good. The first book by the author, not nearly so good.
Vasili Chuikov's memoirs from Stalingrad are a must-read, as are Mao's On Guerrilla War (Samuel B. Griffith translation).
I was actually coming into these forums to talk about a book called "Dr. Seuss Goes to War." The text is pretty good, and gives you more of an understanding. Some of just the artwork is here:
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/
For fun i would say all the Flashman books,also the Sharpe series.
The Flashman author Gerge McDonald Fraser's war memoirs in 'Quatered Safe out Here' about his experience at the sharp end in Burma is an enthralling read and will have you crying with laughter and shacking in a cold sweat in equal measures.
Also the Spike Milligan war memoir series are fantastic reads.
Any Charles Whiting book,his historical works-not any of the stuff under his pen name Leo Kessler.
The Flashman author Gerge McDonald Fraser's war memoirs in 'Quatered Safe out Here' about his experience at the sharp end in Burma is an enthralling read and will have you crying with laughter and shacking in a cold sweat in equal measures.
Also the Spike Milligan war memoir series are fantastic reads.
Any Charles Whiting book,his historical works-not any of the stuff under his pen name Leo Kessler.
Archeoptrix said:
If you enjoyed "All Quiet [...]", I would highly recommend the sequel to it, translated in English under The Way Back. It is an excellent novel, I read it first in my teens and still haunts me to this day. Not about the war per se, but rather adapting to civilian life after returning from war.
I recommend my all-time favorite Sven Hassel. While partly fictious, Sven's stories give a ruthless insight into fighting along Nazi-Germany, constantly spotted with black humour. See Porta's Kitchen for more information.
You should read A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Anthony Beevorand Luba Vinogradova Based on Grossman's notebooks, war diaries, personal correspondence and articles.One of the best books about the entire war on the Eastern Front from Barbarossa to Berlin.
