>>65398021Currently reading pic related, I'm fascinated by the modern yet still pre-WW1 era, Edwardian/Belle Epoch
Really nice for reference and general reading, I'm still looking for a paper back copy of the MG42 book from the same publisher
>>65398021So useful there was a propaganda campaign against it's use in policing.
Getting recruited to kill the Alabama volunteers with a sword because they're getting too rapey with the locals and MPs don't exist yet, warcrimes, marrying your child bride, going AWOL to avenge your child bride, taking on a suicide mission to get out of being executed for going AWOL to avenge your child bride, the heroic exploits of Jefferson Davis, maybe meeting the devil. This book has it all.
Married mother of four, Becky, fights a losing battle against her romantic feelings for the only man she truly wants; her brother.
>>65398294Lol
Perfect summer reading
>>65398021A classic.
>>65398021Anything on the various post–Chinese Civil War insurgencies? I assume there were quite a few, with the Tibetans, Uyghurs and probably other groups. I also know there was a Muslim insurgency that remained loyal to the KMT.
>>65398021>the NSA/CIA is entirely operated by and for mossad the bookI mean we already knew it but its strange to see it in text
>>65399478All I've managed to find are these "Campaigns to Suppress Bandits" in the "X" part of China.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Suppress_Bandits_in_Central_and_Southern_Chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Suppress_Bandits_in_Southwestern_Chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Suppress_Bandits_in_Northern_Chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Campaigns_to_Suppress_Bandits
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what makes a book a /k/ book?In other words, how military or weapon adjacent does it have to be for me to post suggestions?t. Mesoamerican history anon wanting to post suggestions around that
>>65405047You got anything about the conquistadors first army with the anti triple alliance tribes, and then the subsequent march on tenochtitlan? That would be pretty /k/.
>>65399478Not the original anon however the entire Chinese Civil War is interesting and wacky af.I'm looking for some books on it, would you guys have any reccomendations?
>>65398021I highly recommend Dead Hand and Command and Control. Annie Jacobsen's books are okay, but "On Nuclear War" is like the cliffnotes version of Command and Control. I probably won't read anymore, maybe "On Biological War". It's not really a /k/ book per se, but anyone interested in viruses should read the Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Will make you never want to hear the word "sloughing" again. His brother writes Crichton-esque technothrillers that I liked growing up (Relic).>>65399650Are these good? I've only read Bamford's fiction
>>65398021Just ordered a two volume set from a British army doctor on Ceylon who hates all the locals and wishes brown people begone. Should be peak racism reading.
Can anyone give me some good late Cold War stuff? Reading 'When The World Seemed New' right now about 1989-1993.
>>65405649Read one on the Soviet-Afghan war pretty recently. Decent overview. You'll want to bang your head against the desk when you read how incompetent the soviets were. Just maddening.
>>65406418Lol. I read that last year. The extended section on the drunk Spetsnaz attacking the presidential palace was hilarious. Someone else recommend "The Bear Went Over the Mountain". In my backlog.
>>65406459There's a sequel to "Bear Went Over the Mountain" as well by the same guy. I think he also did a book about the first Chechen war that I found super interesting.
To Lose A Battle - Alastair Horne The Washing of the Spears - Donald Morris Spitfire - Jonathon Glancey A Most Dangerous Enemy - Stephen Bungay1453 - The Last Great Siege - Roger Crowley An Army at Dawn - Rick Atkinson The Battle For The Falklands - Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins
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I'm currently getting into the Korean War. Really underrated conflict
>>65405172>>65399478Bandits in Republican China is probably what your both looking for.
Road of Bones by Fergal Keane - incredible account of the Battle of KohimaWith The Old Breed - y’all know already Matterhorn - edgy but good Stalingrad - Beevor at his best But in all seriousness if you aren’t familiar with Roger Crowley then you need to correct that. 1453 is staggeringly good.
>>65408751>"Old"... we're not even out of our twenties.
>>65406797>To Lose A Battle - Alastair HorneAyy you reminded me of one of my personal favorites. Great little collection of 2-10pg of vignettes on poor decisions and poor fortunes on and before the battlefield
>>65398021Damn it, OP>/k/lit
you retards dont read
- I highly recommend "One Soldier's War in Chechnya", by Arkady Babchenko.It narrates the experiences of the author in the Chechnyan war in deeply grim detail (eating dogs, surviving on dirty water, selling weapons that will be used against you the day after in exchange for drugs...), including how savage the hazing was in the army (beatings, rapes, suicide...). Also the Russian governemtn tries to assassinate the author from time to time nowadays. - In a similar vein, I also recommend "Zinky Boys", by Svetlana Alexievich. In this case, it's a shorter book and each "chapter" is just a few pages long. The book is assembled by short accounts of people that were involved in the soviet invasion of Afghanistan: soldiers, medics, and a worryingly amount of mothers whose sons never came home. >>65398235Thanks, the description reminds me a bit of "Blood Meridian".
Anybody else read this one?
>>65411047Looks like generic liberal anti-war drivel. Anything neat?
Picked this up after going through the Big Nigger threads but it will be stuck in backlog hell for a while.Anyone else have any good WW2 aviation books to recommend?
>>65411047>generic liberal anti-war drivelThere is a decent amount of that, but the dude was on the ground reporting in northern Afghanistan during the initial 01 invasion and has some neat reporting about the northern alliance, qala-i-jangi uprising, battles around mazar-i-sharif. Then he goes to baghdad and meets with various Iraqis running the gambit from credible to totally ridiculous, which he's fairly up front about. Dude embedded with marine grunts during second battle of fallujah most interestingly, he and some Aussie photographer were following an infantry platoon around during the worst of the fighting. It had some faults and preachy gwot era liberal musings but overall I enjoyed the book.
>>65411130>Anyone else have any good WW2 aviation books to recommend?Like a memoir or a history?
>>65411685Would vastly prefer memoir but I'll take what I can get.
>>65406833I recommend "This Kind of War" by T.R. Fehrenbach
>>65406833I read this too, very interesting
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>>65405047>what makes a book a /k/ book?>In other words, how military or weapon adjacent does it have to bememoirs and histories focused on war and conquest, or the use of a weapon throughout history would be fine>>65406797>A Most Dangerous Enemy - Stephen Bungayexcellent recseconded>>65411130see above
>>65398021Any other anons study WWI? Pic related was very good, it includes a lot of diary entries for soldiers that became unknowns. And then it details the process that each country went through for their memorials. Also recommend:The Sleepwalkers, The Great War (Hart), The Price of Glory Verdun 1916, The Somme (also Hart).
>>65411014Kino
>>65411014The dog part I saw it coming from a mile away>He resupplied the day afterLMAO
>>65398021For nuclear stuffEating Grass by Feroz KhanStrategic Command and Control by Bruce Blair
>>65411833>that part on Okinawa where sledge describes the battlefield as a sea of stinking slurry made of corpses, shit and mud Fuck this book man
>>65414148>Any other anons study WWI?"A History of the Blockade of Germany" is still worth a look.
>>65411047I would recommend Carter Malkasian's The American War In Afghanistan for a well-balanced history.
>>65411833I ended up liking this better.
Interesting thesis on military strategy, and the importance of indirect, nonobvious applications of force. The goal being to disrupt enemy morale/logistics/deployment as efficiently and asymmetrically as possible to setup a decisive engagement, as opposed to coming into direct “strength vs strength” engagements. He uses several interesting examples from ancient to modern history. Came out of the post World War I era of “holy fuck we can never have that happen again” military think-tanking.
>>65398021>Grunts the Grug story
>>65416729Nuclear War at Sea by Desmond Ball too
Anybody got any good ww3 books? I think I must've read every Red storm rising clone there is and I'm running dry.So far I've read:Iron crucible series Soviet endgame series Red Army Team YankeeChieftains The Big One(not ww3 but alternate WW2)Harvey Black's WW3 series Red phoenix Turtledove's the Hot War series
>>65417555General Sir John Hackett
>>65417613Yeah yeah I've been meaning to get to WW3.IIRC both team Yankee and chieftains take place in the same universe
>“Oh well,” said the colonel, puffing at his Gauloise, “they believe they’re doing the right thing and that’s the way it’s got to be. If they knew they were dying uselessly here, it would be like shooting them in the belly and kicking them in the behind at the same time. And when my aide eventually fries in his tank, I want him to believe that he’s frying for the good of the Country. That’s the least thing I can do for him.”
>>65417692>t. Colonel Sawyer calling in a nuke on Cascade Falls
>>65405047>>65405072>>65413069Well, as it fits what >>65405072 asked for and it's what I wanted to post anyways, I'll suggest When Montezuma Met Cortes by Matthew RestallIt's a fascinating historiography and comparison of different accounts of the Cortes expedition/the fall of the Aztec, examining what the biases of each account is and how different tellings contradict one another, and how they have been retold over time to push different ideological/national interestsPlus, it gets into a lot of the personal and political background of various Spanish and Aztec historical figures: It's one of thefew and best books I've seen that tackle the political dynamics and motives of other Mesoamerican kings and officials like like Xicomecoatl, Ixtlilxochitl II, Xicotencatl II, etc, which few other books do despite them playing a huge role in how events played out. This is something I get into myself (including some observations even restall doesn't make) here: pastebin.com/h18M28BR and arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/640670498/#640679139 and desuarchive.org/his/thread/16781148/#16781964 and desuarchive.org/int/thread/220614413/#220624574 and desuarchive.org/k/thread/64935126/#64961571 and desuarchive.org/k/thread/64434397/#64469714 + the other posts I link to within that last /k/ post and the two posts of mine directly preceding itI don't agree with every conclusion Restall makes but it and his prior work "7 Myths of the Spanish Conquest", are mandatory reading for a decent understanding of the fall of the Aztec/Cortes, IMOI was unsure if I should post about it, because it's not very focused on the specifics of battles and the use of weaponry or equipment and their logistics and stuff like that, though obviously those aspects do come up, and is much more focused on dissecting Cortes and Montezuma, other major figures involved, and the events around the expedition, in terms of their personal and political motive and how they have been viewed and reinterpreted over time1/?
>>65411014>Thanks, the description reminds me a bit of "Blood Meridian".well, yeah
>>65411047what kind of name is filkins
>>65411033just bought, thanks... $2 lol
>>65417015Better than sleeping on the coral.
Best books on Vietnam ive found so far. Highly entertaining.
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>>65424693>>65424696Gee Nick. Two books?!!
>>65414148Dreadnought and Castles of Steel
Matterhorn
>>65411014>>65411033Have both of those books, both good reads
Don't judge, just try it
South african hyper apartied coup leads to chemical and nuclear weapons usage
>>65427251The cod wars were neat little geo politics and a fun little tidbit in Britains ongoing Century of Humiliation
>>65427406>Century of Humiliationyeah that doesn't work. trying to apply something like China's to the UK's is retarded. unless the bongs get their shit stomped in by fucking, I dunno, argentina, nothing comes close to th at>b-b-but they dii don't give a shit about /pol/ stuff. you start saying that and people will start saying 'usa ongoing century of humiliation' because of iraq, afghanistan, iran etc.
>>65406833You should check this one out if you haven't already. It's not just about the battle of Chosin Reservoir, a large part of it is all the build up to the war, why things turned out the way they did, and a bit of the aftermath.
>>65410160I read your mother's posts on Skipthegames.
Any good, accessible books about the Falklands War? Bonus points for naval aviation.
>>65427429> i don't give a shit about /pol/ stuff. you start saying that and people will start saying 'usa ongoing century of humiliation' because of iraq, afghanistan, iran etc.For both anglophoners nations I would start and end purely on internal humiliations imposed on them by their hateful rulers. Not even touching foreign martial prowess (consecutive nonwins).
>>65427429> unless the bongs get their shit stomped in by fucking, I dunno, argentina, nothing comes close to thatWorse. Egypt 1956. it was only 11 years into it. or perhaps 42. Either way Britain is now a broken nation, divied up by foreign economic powers, with special laws in place that apply only to them and not their invaders. They’re not even allowed to own air conditioning. Pigs in China have air conditioning. The humiliation is well and truly reversed.
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>>65427444LOL
>>65427823I did picrel on audiobook a few years ago and really enjoyed it. It's a compilation of stories from Royal Navy helicopter pilots throughout the war. Interesting stories that still gave a good view of the big picture of the war.
>>65411014For the opposite side of the conflict, Fangs of the Lone Wolf is a must-read. It basically outlines many of the things the Chechens did right. Dzhokhar Dudayev the first president of the Chechen Republic had been a General in the Soviet Air Force. When Dudayev took control of Chechnya in 1991, he seized former Soviet armories and military bases, taking equipment and using it to arm and train a national guard. He also brought in former Afghan War combat veterans and armored personnel to help develop tactics for dealing with a potential Russian invasion. Hell some of the defensive strategies they developed were literally based on Soviet doctrine for defending against a possible Western invasion.
>>65432603Who was the Wessex pilot who overloaded his chopper so that the jarheads could go take out a random Argentine OP somewhere?
>>65427823>naval aviationJerry Pook wrote in detail about his experience as the Harrier pilot who took out a battery of Argie artillery. Be warned however that his is an extremely biased account, as typical of fighter pilots, in which his RAF Harriers did everything right and everyone else did everything wrong. He doesn't give a damn for naval (ship to ship) considerations or the ground ops at all.Another good easy read is Sharkey Ward's memoirBut the best Falklands book hands down is Kenneth Privratsky's Logistics In The Falklands War. Despite the title, it actually does describe a lot of the battles as well as the logistics aspect, so you get a decent overview of the entire campaign, and you also get an in-depth operational discussion of the logistics considerations unlike any other I've read.
Anything good on military engineering?
>>65439196The private sector
Any recommends about ww1 mountain warfare? I wanna learn about the wops but ill take what i can get
>>65405047>what makes a book a /k/ book?Gun
>>65398021"The Art of War in the Western World" by Archer Jones. Runs from antiquity to the late Cold War. Focuses on tactical formations, technology, logistics, and the unique-yet-similar situations faced by commanders across time and space.
>>65442189Well there is Rommel's book
>>65439196Engineering for the Soldier is pretty good.
>>65433749>Kenneth Privratsky's Logistics In The Falklands WarSaved. Thanks for the rec.
The drone that turned presidents and generals into livestream addicts. Book made me realize I don't know shit about Bosnia. Just visited Udvar-Hazy to see tail number 3034 in person but they moved it to the national mall.
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>>65449033Continuing my drone knowledge. Pretty hyped from the first chapter. Delta man gonna hunt the baddies. I also got Hunter Killer by LtCol T. Mark McCurley and Kill Chain by Christian Brose Any recommendations in this niche let me know, I'm studying up. Also would be open to any doctrine or white papers.
>>65398021Might be an odd request, but I’m looking for books or memoirs about the everyday, more casual side of life for US/UK forces stationed overseas. Nothing too serious, just something that gives a feel for their day-to-day experiences.
>>65429377This uhh been updated since 1967?
>>65452703About Face by Colonel David Hackworth has a lot of his garrison duty in Europe.
>>65455066https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-war-on-warriors_pete-hegseth/51248067/item/74036884/
I'm almost clicking buy because of the name of the author...
>>65411130I recommend “the big show” by Pierre Clostermann It’s the personal first hand account of a spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain
I went on a Memoir kick starting when I borrowed a copy of Marine Sniper about Carlos Hathcock.Here are some of my faves:>Legionnaire by Simon MurrayBrit in the 60's FFL in Algeria. Pretty tumultous time. Still some SS dudes kicking around.>Warrior Soul by Chuck PfarrerIvy league type dude joins the SEALs and gets sent to Lebanon.>Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John CrawfordParatrooper goes into the National Guard and then gets activated for Iraq. He was not happy about it.>Generation Kill by Evan WrightGrabbed this in an airport before HBO came calling. It's good.>One Bullet Away by Nathaniel FickA good addendum to Generation Kill. Or even worth reading by itself. Especially for aspiring officers.>A Rumor of War by Philip CaputoMarine Officer in Vietnam. He did not have a good time.>This Man's Army by Andrew ExumArmy Infantry officer in Afghanistan. He had an okay time.>Killing Rage by Eamon CollinsProvisional IRA member in N. Ireland in the 70's.
>>65458601My own rec>No Parachute by Arthur LeeA middling Royal Flying Corp pilot in WW1 who wrote diary entries and lived through two shoot-downs, survived to end of the war
>casually mentioning you slammed some cunny
>>65458983Hawk Recon is certainly a book.
>>65458983That was one patriotic nigger and negress indeed
Found this obscure book at a yard sale a few years ago.It's about the UN intervention during the Congo crisis in the early 1960s, written by a Swedish UN officer that that grew up down there, knew the culture, and spoke a bunch of local languages.The author very clearly suffered from Main Character Syndrome and he dedicated quite a few pages to ego-jerking and idealistic fantasies of a future where the UN actually kept world peace and maintained order.But the book still offers a rare uncensored insight into that largely forgotten war.It also features a bunch of original photos taken by the author. The book doesn't shy away from uncomfortable truths and matter-of-factly discusses atrocities like slavery and cannibalism practiced by various Congolese tribes. It even features photos of such things.It's not a fantastic book, and I think it has been out of print for decades.But it's still worth reading if you can find a cheap copy, or if you just happen to be interested in this particular conflict.
>>65459153>ywn be a FAL-wielding mercenary with an excuse to shoot Simbafaggots>ywn lay down withering fire on commienigs as Free Cuban bros overhead lob rockets into whatever houses the Simbas are hiding inFeelsbad.
The author is a lefty and clearly sympathetic to the commiefags, but he does call out their retardation on many occasions.
>>65458601>Killing Rage by Eamon CollinsIs this good?>Legionnaire by Simon MurraySecondedFlashmanesque colonial adventurism in the 60s>A Rumor of War by Philip CaputoAn anti-war leftist icon, but still quite evocative
Just picked this up off ebay cant wait to read it. Everyone has heard of the Liberty ship but not the jap versionUgly Ducklings: Japan's Liberty Ship Equivalents of World War II is a 2003 book by S.C. Heal, published by the Naval Institute Press. The book details Japan's construction of Type-A Standard Ships
I liked Quartered Safe Out Here, an autobiographical account of the author’s time in Burma.From the introduction: “With all military histories it is necessary to remember that war is not a matter of maps with red and blue arrows and oblongs, but of weary, thirsty men with sore feet and aching shoulders wondering where they are, and when the historian writes:‘17th Division closed in on Pyawbwe from all directions’that this involved, inter alia, the advance of long green lines of bush-hatted men, ducking but not breaking stride as the low-angle shells burst among them, and Sergeant Hutton muttering: “Ah knew we'd git the shit—if we'd been lead platoon, or at back, we'd ha' bin reet, but we ’ad to be in't bloody middle! Keep spread oot!”, and a corporal with a bleeding furrow across his temple propped against a bank shouting: “Ga'n git ’em, marras!” and starting to sing “John Peel”, and little Nixon making his usual philosophic remark that we'd all git killed and he didn't want to die Tojo's way, and someone falling down a well and having to be pulled out, and it ended with a hectic charge to a wrecked railway line, and we caught them in the open on the other side, and I was kneeling, sodden and steaming, with little Nick beside me shooting and humming under his breath and remarking: “Ye're firin' low an' left, Jock—that's it…git that booger, he's nobbut wounded!”I can also highly recommend his three McAuslan books, a semi-fictionalized mostly comedic (but not farcical) account of his time as an officer in the immediate post-war period.
