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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation ... 154 reviews
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks, 2003
US Army and its WWII baptism
+ Good Read
+ It's a Page Turner
+ A terrific book.
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Street Without Joy28 reviews
Bernard B. Fall
Stackpole Books, 1994
A suprising book
+ A worthwhile read
+ Inside view of fall of North Vietnam
+ An early version of the Vietnam War
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The Things They Carried705 reviews
Tim O'Brien
Broadway, 1998
"Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can't ever forget it..."
+ O'Brien Cuts To the Core Of Our Fragile Lives
+ Perfection
+ Great read - Not what I expected
+ The ThingsThey Carried
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A Rumor of War 105 reviews
Philip Caputo
Holt Paperbacks, 1996
Viet nam account
+ Excellent look into front line Vietnam
+ Well written and engrossing
+ Real life account
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Dispatches106 reviews
Michael Herr
Vintage, 1991
I love this book
+ Excellent depiction of how it must have really been
It made it right to my top ten. It is smart and humble and I want to read it over and over.
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The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad 27 reviews
Harrison Salisbury
Da Capo Press, 2003
Superb example of how history should be written
+ Informative, Readable, Superb
+ Surviving the Deadliest Battle in Human History
Salisbury gave us a monumental work of history: not just in scope, but in depth. This is a book which entwines the epic story with the human story, basing both on the kind of scholarship too few writers are dedicated enough to accomplish. I wrote a well-received history on the early satellites ...
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme69 reviews
John Keegan
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1983
An outstanding military history by a master historian
+ Insightful
+ Excellent early work
_The Face of Battle_ closely examines three pivitol battles: Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815) and the Somme (1916). In his examination, Keegan outlines the overall strategic objectives and how the battlefields were chosen (typical fare for military history), but also seeks to understand the ...
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Norton Book of Modern War3 reviews
W. W. Norton & Company, 1990
this book is excellent, and i generally hate anthologies
+ "DULCE ET DECORUM EST, PRO PATRIA MORI'
+ A cornucopia of horror
what a book! its one down side was the poems interspersed throughout the prose, so basically i just skipped or skimmed them, but the prose included - WOW! from World War I to the Spanish Civil War to WWII to Korea to Vietnam, just an amazing selection of writings of people's experiences in war. ...
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Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 (Library of America)9 reviews
Library of America, 2000
Semi-definitive 'Nam reportage is contemporary must read!
+ Amazing Vietnam War Resource from Beginning to End
+ The Best and The Brightest
+ A Good One!!
+ Terrific Articles - but don't stop here!
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu38 reviews
Bernard B. Fall
Da Capo Press, 2002
Absolutely Riveting - Tactical/operational level study of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu from the French perspective
+ An empire sacrifices its non-commissioned officers...
+ A book legend among my Vietnam Vet friends
+ The Indochina War
+ Absorbing and comprehensive
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam13 reviews
W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
First hand account of the Vietnam War
+ great condition
+ Indispensable
+ 5 star book
+ Heartfelt story of men at war
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We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam250 reviews
Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
Random House, 1992
A MOVING TRIBUTE.
+ This is the real deal
+ Clear, concise and not judgemental
+ Many years prior to this work was another:
+ An excellent historical account of this battle with commentary included
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A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath18 reviews
Truong Nhu Tang
Vintage, 1986
Extremely enlightening.
+ A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War & Its aftermath
+ Poignant personal account of optimism, revolution, and political disillusionment
+ HEAVY ON POLITICS, NOT ON GUERILLA WARFARE
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Gallipoli (Perennial Classics)17 reviews
Alan Moorehead
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
A riveting account of possibly the greatest "what might have been" battle of World War I
+ The story of That Place You Never Heard Of
+ War Book for A Pacifist
In every war between two coalitions of nations the military people are faced with a decision. Do they marshal all of their resources against the most powerful of the enemy coalition, knowing that if they can defeat that nation, the others will quickly fall as well? Or do they adopt a holding ...
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The Mask of Command30 reviews
John Keegan
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988
Leadership Profiles: Separate but Close.
+ Excellent Work by the World's Best Military Historian
+ A Fascinating Study of Military Command
"The Mask of Command" is a very commendable reading for different audiences: those interested in specific military topics, those interested in history (as myself), those who research on leadership and more, much more, because John Keegan writes with a dynamic and fluent style and expose his ideas ...
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The Great War and Modern Memory28 reviews
Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
An important book in a time of war
+ Tolkien: MIA.
+ 10 Stars, Not 5
+ Clearly one of the best books written on WWI
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation ...154 reviews
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks, 2003
US Army and its WWII baptism
+ Good Read
+ It's a Page Turner
+ A terrific book.
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu38 reviews
Bernard B. Fall
Da Capo Press, 2002
Absolutely Riveting - Tactical/operational level study of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu from the French perspective
+ An empire sacrifices its non-commissioned officers...
+ A book legend among my Vietnam Vet friends
+ The Indochina War
+ Absorbing and comprehensive
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The Things They Carried705 reviews
Tim O'Brien
Broadway, 1998
"Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can't ever forget it..."
+ O'Brien Cuts To the Core Of Our Fragile Lives
+ Perfection
+ Great read - Not what I expected
+ The ThingsThey Carried
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme69 reviews
John Keegan
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1983
An outstanding military history by a master historian
+ Insightful
+ Excellent early work
_The Face of Battle_ closely examines three pivitol battles: Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815) and the Somme (1916). In his examination, Keegan outlines the overall strategic objectives and how the battlefields were chosen (typical fare for military history), but also seeks to understand the ...
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