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>>65254166Fuck yeah, love me a book thread. I’ve finally gotten back into reading on a regular basis. Honestly it brought me out of a major brain fog.
You could say I have a type
>>65254166>read memoirs for a few years>try to read Bridge Too Far>much more fact, record, and archive based>feels dryI think I gave myself brain rot.
Airwolf comics, MREs, and my protective reading helmet.
>>65254190This one for fun ass vietnam craziness
>>65254172>what the fuck does accounting principals have to do with fucking-Huh, odd, I cannot financially afford nice guns.And some never connect these things.
Really funny thing about Jake Tapper is that his books are good and you can pretty easily filter the libshit commentary.At least in the one about the Afghan FOB it feels more like "and here I'm supposed to say WAR IS BAD".Jake Tapper on TV is an insufferable faggot. Then again I can't stand Bill O'Reilly but deeply respect his "Killing" books.
>>65254227I strive to one day work as a plain dry and unassuming accountant with a closet stacked to the ceiling with guns and ammo. Being an incognito gun nut is one of life’s few pleasures.
>>65254166Hell yeaj, book thread!Have one of my all-time favs, /k/. Found on my father's bookshelf (OA-10 pilot) as an elementary age bookworm among other professional literature, few of which rivaled this writer in skillcraft or observational acuity.
>>65254264Medically retired, and aside from the constant shooting pain, my income is comp and SS I was being taxed for for the last 30 years anyway.I feel like I can convert that to Vader Autism mode and apply it to the study of blowing motherfuckers up tactically and strategically.
>>65254321So is he a forward radio reports, SIGINT, and traffic cop? Or does he bomb gooks too?I'd bring a bag full of grenades anyhow.
From previous threads and other anons I picked up:Dancing in the Glory of Monsters and Tank Combat in Spain, in the mail I have The Storm of Steel: Original 1929 Translation.
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>>65254365 I second the recommendation.
>>65254190I will recommend A Rifleman Went To War. Still memoir but he talks a LOT about the processes he used which breaks up the "action adventure" bits. He also has a Jünger tier bloodlust. >sniping during day>trench raiding and running MG crews at night>would rather stay at the front than rotate because moving ammo and MGs sucks worse than being shelled
>>65254166Are there any depictions of modern warfare written by actual veterans? As in besides *The White Donkey* (which is unavailable in yurop - thank you based Trump)
>>65254372It was the first military book I ever read and was outstanding. Fortunately I didn’t see the movie first so it didn’t taint my experience. But what a story, never been more inspired by a book.
>>65254384ever heard of a Navy SEAL?
>>65254335>traffic copNope, there in the thick of it, often in small-arms range with the UH-1s and occasionally doing emergency CAS. Even an unwilling participant in some action on the ground (FACs operated from airstrips at the Army battalion HQs, bases which weren't always so safe).Also seems some kind soul added it Libgen: https://libgen.vg/edition.php?id=4074974
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>>65254448fuckin replay shits, fuckin analyze every toe for thought crime.
>>65254166I know I've recommended this before but I re-read 'em recently and it's still good, Six Frigates on the founding of the US Navy is a great read. The main revolutionary war and land stuff gets covered a lot but the pretty humble origins of the Navy, figuring that out from scratch, never seems to get quite the same yet it's quite the tale, plus what they pulled off completely against expectations vs the army. Also good old American innovation happened there too, even just with wood."Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed" by Ben Rich, who took over from Kelly, is also a fucking awesome more modern history covering the U-2/SR-71/F117. Lot of funny and very interesting inside baseball on the post WW2 progression of the MIC from one of the neatest places to be.
>>65254475My brother is a design engineer kinda/sorta project floating with GM but also defense UGV and utility vehicles too. I bought him the Lockheed book you mentioned and he loved it.
>>65254166Monster Hunter International series is written by a gun nut, competitive shooter, and firearm instructor. Great depictions of firearms and shooting. I had to buy the physical version since at once point the character is gifted a .45 2011 similar enough to the one I built.
I read a couple books in this series, because the synopsis of “What if the US had connected the dots and figured out the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened?” and I figured that surely it would be more interesting than “the US shits all over everything and everyone forever”I was wrong.-2/10, would not recommend. Gains two points for fellating a fighter other than the P-51. Loses a point for using single seat fighters as ghetto AWACS for some reason. Loses three for the author turning his own grandfather into a Mary sue.
The show was so stupid, the book was so good.
>>65254166black hawk downI recently read the first hundreds years of nino cochise.
>>65254798I own a copy of this but never got around to reading it. I've heard his new project. American Paladin, is pretty good. I'll give it a read. Thanks, anon.
The shelf just keeps getting more crowded.Picked up another 6 years of Double Gun journal. Now have to start culling the dups.Started reading Taylor's African Rifles and Cartridges.
Frederick Forsyth is pretty awesome when he gets it right. The Dogs of War is an autistic work of infodumping love, but it's so cool.
>>65255944Actually god's work, I'd hate for the edition differences to get lost on shit like that.Catch-22 was a lifelong favorite I kinda liked the movie and series of.
>>65255950Hell yes, I have a few. Eye of the Needle and Triple stand out.I also contentend Ken Follet writes exceptional material.
>>65255935The depictions of firearms is great. It even mentions that the F2000 ejects forward
>>65254166Finally got around to reading the old classic "Long Range Shooting Handbook" by ryan cleckner, and I think it's still got a lot of decent stuff for getting into precision shooting. There's some dumb fuddisms and places where I don't agree with how he gets to a decision, but I agree with the decision itself so it's fine and frankly you SHOULD be thinking about shit anyway, disagreeing with an author isn't bad. On the actual fundamentals he knows his shit.
>>65254166I'd love to shill my book but I still haven't translated it.T.pyhä luvattu sota -fag
>>65255935I just finished American Paladin. Loosely the same kind of story line, but the Paladin is more like the Punisher.My favorite books of MHI are the ones he wrote with John Ringo that take place in the 1980s. They don't have to be read as part of the main story but is the backstory on some of the plot elements.
>>65255950>Frederick ForsythGood shit
