Great book. Bradley also wrote Flag of our Father's . The story of the raising of the American Flag on Iwo Jima and the men and their lives after.
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The Gold Warriors a great book about a special task force recovering gold the Japanese stole in WW11
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The Arsenal of Democracy. It is basically about arming the US and what Ford Motor Company did during WW2.
Highly recommend the Forgotten Highlander. It's. Better than Unbroken
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific https://a.co/d/8FFlvNM
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I have read both books and both are well worth reading. They are different; Remarque's is a novel while Graves' is a memoir he wrote at age 34. Graves covers not just the war, but also his awful experiences in school and his attempts to establish himself as poet after the war. Graves is probably best-known today for I, Claudius, one of a number of books he wrote to support himself as a poet.
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Makes me recall the conversation between Henry II and Matt Damon’s Caroll Shelby in “Ford vs. Ferrari”
There are many good books on the Vietnam War. Last year I read “Enduring Vietnam” by James Wright which was very good. It focused on the “Vietnam Generation” and the impact on them. It concentrated on how the lives of the soldiers who served were impacted and their families and also how civilians of that generation were impacted.
Lord's 1967 book is excellent. "Shattered Sword" by Parshall and Tully was published in 2005 with the use of three Japanese sources that Lord didn't have access to. It is a much more comprehensive book with new pictures and enlightening graphics. Best to read Lord's quicker book first.
On a more expansive note, Ian W. Toll's three volume history of the WW2 naval battles is excellent. If you have bandwidth for 2,888 pages, it is much better than Atkinson's three volumes on the land war.
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My favorite Vietnam book is Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest." I ran into him in Vineyard Haven 30 years ago and stammered out how much I enjoyed his books.
"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton G. Malkiel is the best personal finance book that I have read. I suggested it to a client and he declined with a laugh, telling me that Malkiel was one of his professors freshman year. Very readable in its 20th edition.
Dispatches by Michael Herr is a great book on Vietnam from the soldier’s perspective. John LeCarre called it the best book he read on men and war.
A couple of WW II books that you might find interesting: The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy. It is about three Jewish brothers in Belarus who organized resistance against the Germans and Japan at war by Haruko and Theodore Cook Its a collection of oral histories from Japanese soldiers and civilians from their experiences in China, the Pacific and civilian survivors of Tokyo fire bombing and atomic bombs.
One of my all time favorites is "The World Played Chess". 1/3 of it is a guys journal from his time in Vietnam, 1/3 of it is a kid working a summer with that same guy post Vietnam, and 1/3 of it is that kid as an adult.
Great great book. I am going to force my 17 year old son to read it.
Great great book. I am going to force my 17 year old son to read it.
Yeah, Mike is not perfect, but he was the best. The Pulitzer speaks for itself.
Highlander was a book?There's only one. . . . .
for many that's true, others might feel this is the oneThere's only one. . . . .
I know you're kidding, but the equivalent is what Jews call Tanachk, which includes not only the Five Books of Moses (ta), plus the prophets (e.g. Jeremiah) (ne), and "the writings." (e.g. Psalms) (kh); that is, the whole of what Christians call the Old Testament. Of course Christians add the New Testament, while Catholics also add several books of the Apocrypha (many of which, by the way, are well worth reading; consider this not-safe-for-work 16th century painting in the Art Institute of Chicago based on a work in the Apocrypha.)for many that's true, others might feel this is the one
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/4575/judith
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Thanks for this one, I was able to find this in the online Monmouth County Library .
Unbroken was a good read. It makes any challenges you may be going through in life seem pretty trivial in comparison.
This is probably one of the very few books that we may actually agree with. But I remember while listening to Jocko Willink’s Podcast he recommended a war book that he read and got him to go to the Navy: David Hackworth’s About Face.
TBH when I got it, I knew I wasn’t going to have time to read it since it was about 700 pages long. I gave it to a teacher I worked with who was also a Navy Seal. Two years later he told me that it was a great read. If that dude said it was a great read, it was a great read.
TBH when I got it, I knew I wasn’t going to have time to read it since it was about 700 pages long. I gave it to a teacher I worked with who was also a Navy Seal. Two years later he told me that it was a great read. If that dude said it was a great read, it was a great read.
Just finished this one and now reading his book " The Miracle of Dunkirk.
Thanks for the recommendation
After being stuck in the mud on some books I just couldn't get into I'm now on a pretty decent run.
The Round House. Really enjoyed it. Woman author who speaks through the voice of a teenage Native American boy.
Solito. Story of young kid who migrates up from El Salvador with a group of strangers.
The Slaughter House 5. Vonnegut. A bit dated perhaps in style, so I was a little slower to get into it, but I enjoyed it more the deeper I got.
The Round House. Really enjoyed it. Woman author who speaks through the voice of a teenage Native American boy.
Solito. Story of young kid who migrates up from El Salvador with a group of strangers.
The Slaughter House 5. Vonnegut. A bit dated perhaps in style, so I was a little slower to get into it, but I enjoyed it more the deeper I got.
Doing it backwards probably but enjoyed The Anxious Grnerstion by Jonathan Haidt. Great reading for anyone raising kids these days. Moving onto his previous book, Coddling of the American Mind next.
I’m currently reading “American Midnight” by the historian Adam Hochschild. It’s a fascinating account of the US during the 1st World War and just after during 1917 - 1921. The subtitle is The Great War, A Violent Peace and Democracy’s Forgotten Crises. A period of political and social violence, repression, censorship , nativism. A very dark period in our history. It’s illuminating and I recommend to those interested in understanding our past as well as the current period we are living through.
