Best WWI/WWII memoirs? Beside Junger's of course
I didn't read the foid passage, but>In fact, soldiers had more opportunity and were threatened with much less societal disapproval if they slept around. this also reads like foidbabble. Perhaps it is the drivel of an ally predator. To answer the OP question, I never saw the appeal of such personal drama.
it's absolutely criminal that only the first volume of this is available in english
I'm at a point in life where I want to read about any war in existence OTHER THAN the two fucking world wars.
>>25293039the most honest thing I've ever known a woman say
>>25293518>>25293047honestly she isnt really in the wrong here>got tricked into thinking her fiancee/husband/boyfriend died by a guy who was somewhat charming>didnt even like the guy>immediatly ditches him the instant she learns her actual lover is alive and apologies to himhonestly not a bad woman
>>25293039Beginning of the Journey to the End of the Night and the unfinished novel that Celine wrote covering that period.
eisenhover's: boring except a few informative partsspeer's: various anecdotes on life around hitler. can't tell how genuine it all is.van der stok's: about life in the stalag luft III PoW camp and his escape (called "the great escape" in cinema, made into a movie)japan at war: an oral story. a collection of lots of war experiences by the japs. very recommended unless you don't care about the japs/pacific part of WW2
>>25293039genuinely surprised by the honesty, but she shifted every ounce of the blame
>>25293533?? Three weeks isn't even a crazy amount of time away for her to decide to cheat. Even if she didn't like the guy, she still slept with him. This is a GREAT woman, an outlier for anybody but still something we should strive for,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkesZUOGJAUThe woman in OP's pic did the BARE MINIMUM & failed at that.
>>25293518>>25293533>>25294029She had to be "honest" because she got pregnant lmao
>>25293533>believes the woman who needs your money and is now pregnant with another man's child Lol, a single mother is going to eat you alive one day.
>>25293533Is this bait? He didn't write for 3 weeks and in that time she was 'convinced' he was dead and fucked someone else and oh by the way she's pregnant (and knows it within 3 weeks, fat chance). Keep sending money you dumb retard.>>25293518Her "honesty" is that she's pregnant with someone else's kid and he's gonna hear about it sooner or later.
Poilu for WWI.
>>25293533good bait
>>25293039Vasily Grossman
isn't this pretty much the plot of casablanca? guy gets captured in ww2 and the woman just says "oh well lol" and moves on, only for the guy to come back?what a garbage film
>Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Almost certainly not what you’re looking for but Empire of the Sun.
>>25294627why yes I do automatically believe whatever unsourced text accompanies a random image
>>25294227>edited by that hack Beevordropped
>>25293039Spike Milligan, starting with Hitler: My Part in his Downfall
There's always Degrelle's memoir.There's The Forgotten Solider by Guy Sajer too but I've not read it.
>>25294627>>25294691>“I have changed drastically — forced into a situation where I finally had to grow up,” his wife of 18 years wrote. “Bob, I feel sure that in your heart you know we can’t make it together — and it doesn’t make sense to be unhappy when you can do something about it. Life is too short.”Although, I guess the marriage wasn't going well even before the war >“I love you — we all love you,” she continued, “but you must remember how very unhappy we were together.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/obituaries/robert-stirm-dead.html
>>25294819>The Forgotten Solider by Guy Sajer too but I've not read it.I have, its pretty neat due to the german pov in the eastern frontThis one is good too.
>>25294832Frankly I'd be more annoyed at her spending all his money.
>>25294819>There's The Forgotten Solider by Guy Sajer toocomfirmed to be a work of fiction
>>25294627>source: dude...
With the Old Breed and Helmet for my Pillow are both good accounts of the U.S. Marines fighting the Japanese in the Pacific.
>>25293039>"women's lives are so hard!">regular mf's life in 1910
>>25293039What a disgusting bitch.
>>25293533I mean yeah but honestly I hope he dumped her.
>>25294627This. She was the sole earner of his military pay for his five year imprisonment and got to keep every cent + half his pension. And women were going crazy in the 1970s (and today) because the laws apparently didn't favor them lol
>>25293074The Killing Zone by Frederick Downs
What's the best book of Junger?
>>25293074Based.
>>25296942EumeswilI'm joking. I couldn't get through it. and I haven't even tried any of the others
>>25293074what wars have you been reading on
>>25297177Currently it's the Imjin War. Previously it was the South African Border War.
Unbroken
>>25294890Is it? I don't know anything about it, other than that it's apparently the "All Quiet On the Western Front" of WWII.
>>25294849women are one of the biggest money waste machines on this planet, that's why everything is so retarded
>>25293074Are there any memoirs on the Crimean War?
>>25297131You're a retard.
