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03-07-2009, 06:50 AM
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Re: Looking for book recommendations-war related
I skimmed though the posts here but didnt see "We where solders once and young" as with any book to movie rendition the book is alot better. I read it when I was deployed to Egypt for 6mts. Sorry if you have not seen the movie it is about Vietnam war.
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03-07-2009, 07:24 AM
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Re: Looking for book recommendations-war related
An excellent book on Vietnam I read in high school was "The Monk And The Marines". 1st hand account from a guy that was a medic over there. I couldn't put it down.
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03-07-2009, 08:14 AM
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Re: Looking for book recommendations-war related
A very different read is "Ivan's War: Life and Death In The Red Army, 1939-1945" by Catherine Merridale. Not only did they suffer to an incredible degree, at the hands of their own incompetent and cruel leaders as well as the Germans, but after the war they were repressed en masse and forced to conform to an impossibly heroic propaganda image.
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