"Can we have an actual thread about books and not porn, please? The other thread is just terrible." edition
Just finished (((listening))) to pic related. I would ask anyone to try to unseat Junger as my new hero. The man got shot in the chest at point blank range, and then was better in two weeks. He killed two people while crawling along the ground with a sucking chest would. If anyone has other good autobiographies (preferably WWI), please postem.
all I remember from this book is >the shelling >ripping a gas mask off an ally's face to save myself >more shelling >drinking tea >which is then interrupted by shelling >even more shelling >none of this even phased me
Isaac Wright
t. never even read the book
James Brooks
The gas mask thing was some an antedotal story from WW1 by someone else and Junger wasn't that fixated on shelling. I don't think you even read the book.
Austin Barnes
I quite liked it, but the best /k book for me is this. >that episode when they spent a whole day trying to remove a rice cache by throwing explosives, calling napalm strikes and even pissing on it and later gooks were reported to have burnt rice in their rations
Having finished it yesterday, there is a large amount of shelling mentioned, but not so much as to be annoying. Shit happened a lot. He either says "and then some shelling happened" if it happened but is unimportant or actually details an important barrage. It was *the* artillery war. Shelling happened a lot, especially against the Germans.
Nolan Sanchez
>The Art of War >Mein Kampf Half of these books are fucking jokes.
Ian White
I've read six of these books! Also, this list seems pretty terrible. A good amount is Jow Forums, not Jow Forums. Weirdly enough, Mein Kampf is Jow Forums because it details a war and soldiering. Also, a lot of shitty Amazon books are on there. I've also read 5 Tom Clancy books, and not one is on there! 6/10, redo your list.
Oliver Butler
>picks two books that are Jow Forums related oh, you sweet summer child. >inb4 stormfag get out fuck hitler and nazis, but the dude details WWI in good detail. it's 700 pages long, there's a lot of shit in there.
Samuel Stewart
Reading this right now and it’s really interesting
hell in a small place street without joy the centurions the praetorians
...I love the topic of French Indochina
Eli Hill
The Art of War is the groundwork for all geurrilla warfare and is in no way a "joke". Mein Kampf was for a book report and I thought it was meh, but it's still good to have.
While Tom Clancy is a good writer, he is on the bottom teir of those books and is written for a mainstream audience. If you are using him as a measuring stick, you probably don't read a lot of Jow Forums literature. But then again that's just my opinion because I MUCH rather prefer non-fiction to fiction. Also Clancy is verbose as fuck.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Camden Hughes
Read Storm of Steel for my 300-level college history class in the First World War. The writing has amazing clarity and he comes off a incredibly intelligent, as opposed to the British "muh mud, muh shelling, muh death"
If you read Art of War straight, its pretty lacking. Track down a 1910 version by a dude named Lionel Giles. He adds layers of commentary from both Chinese generals from its Imperial age and then analysis based on later applications like the American Civil War and Boer War
>muh mud, muh shelling, muh death That's not a strictly British view, that was very common and reflected in the other German classic on the war in All Quiet on the Western Front. Junger was very odd in that he truly enjoyed the war, and thrived in it.
Brandon Williams
Ive read all quiet probably 4 times and I don't recall that. Like the other user said, I think it's from another memoir.
Blake Thomas
If you go to infinity chan /pdfs there is a whole section on guerilla warfare
Jace Green
No not really, they are way over memed, but they are something you should read in your lifetime.
Julian White
>that's where I got a lot of them >>I'm also the guy that requested a lot of them too >>>I'm also the guy that's been posting the links to those Jow Forums and /pdf/ threads in the shtf threads here
Parker Davis
Well then, beside that, libgen and b-ok, that is where most of my stuff comes from. If you have any other sources I'm all ears.
Zachary Gray
Does libgen has a search function?
Austin Ward
Yes, a pretty decent one
Cooper Edwards
>Junger was very odd in that he truly enjoyed the war, and thrived in it. I think there are plenty of guys like this, I think the issue is that the public doesn't like anything that isn't anti war
Xavier Williams
>"muh mud, muh shelling, muh death" This was a huge amount of storm of steel as well. The author just took it as if it was a bother rather than horrific. It was straight to the point of what was going on though and not bogged down with, what I consider, pompous, descriptive, adjective heavy scenes.
Parker Walker
Theres clearly 3 Tom Clancy books on that image, unless you mean to say the 5 that you read
Christopher Cruz
Shut the fuck up zoomer.
Isaiah Jenkins
I wasn't rating the list for a lack of Clancy, just remarking that it was odd how I was 0 for 5 when there were three books by him on there. (Rainbow Six, Red October, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Patriot Games, and Special Forces for note)
Jace Cook
Ah.
Also, I should mention, this is (most of) my personal collection. I made it an image cause it's much easier to ask for recommendations this way. And I'm always adding stuff to it. >which is a lot easier nowadays when so many books can be found online for free However I am flattered that other people think it's a good collection.
As a personal "books I've read list" that's fucking great. I assumed it was from some Jow Forumsommision. Good on you. Read and add Storm of Steel by Junger, and Rainbow Six, as it's basically the only Clancy book worth anything.
Luke Richardson
Do you have any recs related to urban guerilla warfare? I've read Out of the Mountains and have about finished Fry the Brain and Blood and Concrete.
Elijah Bell
Well War of the Flea was very interesting. And there's a audiobook/reading of it on youtube. Ragnar Benson's Mantrapping and The Most Dangerous Game: Advanced Mantrapping were pretty good too. Plus any training manual for guerrilla groups are always interesting.
Justin Nguyen
Great book but is better
Eli Lewis
List of suggestions from what I’ve read
>with the old breed >helmet for my pillow >island of the damned >voices of the Pacific >ordinary men >the monkey wrench gang >rules for radicals (know your enemy) >days of rage >blood meridian or the evening redness in the West >cities of the plain >Suttree
Cooper Wood
Remarque's thing was that monologue Paul has about the dead French solder. I don't think he book even had any gas attacks other than the ending.
Adam Brown
>hunger games truly a based and Jow Forums pilled list
Leo Morris
>Tigers in the Mud I enjoyed it alot. A tiger Aces memoirs. Alot like storm of steel focusing mainly black and white recounting of what the author did in the war and less on feelings and philosophy. Pic related version comes with a heap of legit documents and after action reports he did during the war if thats your sort of thing.
Some highlights i remember >invasion of france in a pz38(t) as a radio operator. AP round goes through the front of the tank between him and the driver, between the gunner and loader and between the commanders leg. Shrapnel knocks his front two teeth out. >Later on eastern front as a Tiger commander, looking for soviet tank destroyer in the area. Bends down into tank to have loader light a cigarette in his mouth. Commander hatch blown clear off by said soviet tank destroyer. >One of the evaluation reports he filled when they first got the Tigers details engaging a soviet infantry position and having trouble with the hull mounted MG jamming but still successfully engaging the position by running them over
Survived the war and lived to 92 running his pharmacy "Tiger Apotheke"
Are there any good examples not yet listed of someone just fucking LOVING combat? Jünger seemed like a borderline psychopath, but in a good way. Any other accounts like that?
Ethan Thompson
The Art of Guerilla Warfare, by Gubbins (THE guerilla warfare guy, at least in britain).
I read “Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” about him and his department, and it’s absolutely insane what those guys did. It combines historical record and descriptions of action from memoirs; overall 8/10 because it lagged at times. Really cool in general though.
Joseph Miller
You should read blood on the risers. The author fought in three units, and my impression was that he liked fighting more and more. In his first unit he was frustrated, in the riverboat unit he wasn't realizing his potential, but when he became a ranger he really fucked up the nva/vc. Good read, but it's not constant killing.
Low Level Hell was good. It's about a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam war, but unlike the guy that wrote Rattler One Seven, he fought in Vietnam for years and saw a lot of action.
Some books i've read: Death in the jungle - pretty gudd The forgotten soldier - pretty sad Blood red snow - killing commies with german MG's, instant 10/10 With the old breed on Peleliu and Okinawa Helmet for my pillow Storm of steel Rattler one seven
Books i've bought but not read yet: Fangs of the lone wolf War, Sebastian Junger We were soldiers once, and young One soldiers war in checnya
I've ordered Death in the Delta and Merill's Marauders.
I'm looking for more books like the ones above. Any memoirs from Korea or from the first Gulf war?
>On Killing is recommended LARPer garbage, into the trash it goes.
Jacob Allen
>We were soldiers once, and young It will literally rip your guts out, especially the parts about the second battle. I had to put it down several times. There's also some really good archive footage of Xray out there that's absolutely worth watching.
Easton Wright
You've never read it nor talked to combat vets that have read it. The only thing in the trash is our opinion.
Zachary Carter
I read Generals Die in Bed and All Quiet back-to-back as my first WW1 novels. They're similar but the MC in Generals becomes more unhinged than depressed which makes for a better story.
>reading the fucked translation instead of the faithful 1928 translation The publisher fucked you user and you didn't even know it.
Jordan Hill
>One Soldiers War in Chechnya Aw man, thank you for reminding me about this one; I've wanted to start reading more and I hope my backlog doesn't turn into a >Oh yeah, I'll TOTALLY read that sort of situation
Josiah Myers
Reading another book about the Norman conquest. Basic gist is fuck all your Anglo-Saxon golden age bullshit, Godwins were faggots that only got into power by sucking up to vikings, William did nothing wrong.
Otto Carius is kind of like that. Not so much as junger but he was good at his job and hated commies. By the end of the war he knew germany was defeated but didnt want to just surrender he wanted the allies to earn his surrender.
Xavier Johnson
Napoleonic wars had some good war diaries Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne comes to mind, French old guard's diary on the invasion and retreat from Russia. Liked to fight Russians, but the retreat was sad.
Would strongly recommend pic related. It covers the life story of Finnlands autistic grandpa in great detail and seeing as Mannerheim was both a key person in the independence and shaping of Finnland as well as a really interesting person in general you get a good read as well as loads of historical details. I sadly think it is only in swedish and maybe finnish but if you find it in a language you know I'd say it is well worth it.
Charles Hughes
Forgot pic when posting "pic related", boy I feel dumb.