>/k/litwhat do you recommend?
>>62123954The Spanish Civil War from the point of view of a British volunteer in the Nationalist campPeople always talk about the Republican side and the international brigade, so this book is a offers an original and interesting look on the war
>>62123980Homage to Catalonia is good
>>62123954very detailed early 1500s fencing
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>>62125323if you prefer on land operations
>>62123954Nice thread, OP. I always have trouble finding the /k/lit
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These are from a /k/lit thread from months ago, I can't be bothered to write a extensive description of each of them, the wikipedia resumes will fill you in enough to know the context if the title isn't a dead giveaway.The Forgotten Soldier, 1965. Guy SajerThe Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan, 1996. Lester W. GrauThe Adventures of Werner Holt, 1960. Dieter NollHard Tack and Coffee, 1887. John D. BillingsThe Camp of the Saints, 1973. Jean RaspailFry the Brain: The Art of Urban Sniping and it's role in Modern Guerrilla Warfare, 2008. John WestGates of Fire, 1998. Steven PressfieldMatterhorn, 2009. Karl MarlantesNo Man's Land, 1995. Kevin MajorAnabasis, 370 BC. XenophonBooks on Soviet T-34 Action, Barbarossa and Retreat to Moscow, 2008-2016. Artyom Drabkin(various interviews with soviet veterans from different branches)One Second After, 2009. William R. ForstchenWe Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam, 2005. Nick brockhausenOn Pain, 1934. Ernst JüngerLes Centurions, 1960. Jean Lartéguy>pic related also recommended
>>62124031I always get a laugh out of how the Republicans couldn't figure out loading gates/tube mags and thought all their Guardia Civil Winchester 92 clones were single shots. Between that and the backstabbing it's no wonder they fucking lost.
>>62129775Well, Franco had like 2/3 of the professional army while the republican side was mostly peasants with hand me down rifles and craft armored cars.
>>62129775having to oil rusty old rifles with bacon grease
>>62129793>>62130128I still think nobody on the Republican side figuring out where the extra bullets go and what that funny tube is on the rifle is a major indicator of the brain trust even their top echelons were working with. You'd think someone would ask a foreign advisor at some point, or just tinker with what they thought was a useless rifle until shit clicked.
Dumping some sauce, contribute if you want, enjoy :)https://www.mediafire.com/folder/uq7ekgz8l9wcz/Books#myfileshttps://archive.org/details/soldieroffortunemagazine/Soldier%20of%20Fortune%20%5B1975%20Summer%5D/https://web.archive.org/web/20170114070637/https://murdercube.com/files/https://archive.org/details/MEGA-Dokumenthttps://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Publishing/History-Division-Publications/Books-by-topic/https://history.army.mil/catalog/browse/title.htmlhttps://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Survival/https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/http://ugcsurvival.com/Fileshttps://www.mediafire.com/file/k178b49q7jzgjif/Ian_McCollum_-_French_Military_Rifles_1866-2016.pdf/filehttps://archive.org/details/pub_leatherneckhttps://archive.org/search?query=Yank+Magazinehttps://archive.org/details/cu31924012809897https://puolustusvoimat.fi/documents/1948673/2267766/SK2017_ENG_lr/07c5b6d8-041b-4370-aa60-3e7bbad19399/SK2017_ENG_lr.pdfhttps://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/MCWP%203-35.3.pdfhttps://maritime.org/doc/cookbook1945/index.phphttps://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-55-93/fm3-55-93_fdraft.pdf
>>62125323I really loved the Master and Commander series by Patrick O’Brian. Is this something similar?
>>62138014Yes, if you like Master & Commander you'll love the Hornblower series.
>>62138014How can you have read Aubrey Maturin and not read Hornblower lmaoHornblower is its predecessorMore adventurelike and slightly less technical, focused entirely on naval combat with very little in the way of relationshipsHornblower is a relic of pre-60s fiction which had essentially PG rating rules on what could be publishedHowever, Lieutenant Hornblower has some significant literary merit as it tells Hornblower's story from a unique perspectiveThe other ones are quite fun as wellI suggest reading in order of rank ie from Mr Midshipman Hornblower onwards rather than in publication orderReal classics
almost anything by Bernard Cornwell
>>62123980Based.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson has a lot of WWII action
>>62123954Friendly reminder Spain actually lost the 80 Years War.
>>62142179Alatriste was in the thick of it
>>62138014Sharpe or Flashman (if you want something more comedic)
>>62123980>>62124031It's especially interesting to read these back to back because Orwell was in a chickenshit unit with garbage equipment and funding while Camp (I could've sworn it was Kemp) was with the high speed people
>>62138656Not enough Melisandre sex
>>62138640>how can you have read M&C and not Hornblower?Not anglo so when I was a tiny little autist I read whatever my granparents had in their library in French or Italian translation
