As the title says...anyone into Military Non Fiction books..?

For those that have thought of trying but doesnt know which one to get, i recommend either one of below. Coz if you dislike one, then u are gonna love the other due to their opposite writing style & personality...

i) Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior - ISBN:0-671-70390-0 (Founder of SEAL Team Six (Devgru) & Red Cell)
ii) Charles A. Beckwith's Delta Force:The Army Elite's Counterterrorist Unit - ISBN:0-380-80939-7 (Founder of DELTA Force)

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Added on September 9, 2009, 4:39 amWell, doesnt seem like alot, or even anyone's into Military Non-Fiction....

But what the heck, below are some that i have...apart from Echo Platoon which is a fiction, the rest are good read.. Some are a little slow while others are a true page turner..

There are a few more i didnt manage to take a picture yet, and if time permits, 2 of them will be my 3rd read this year alone... They are REALLY that good...!

Start with either Delta Force or Rogue Warrior and if you like any of them..yup, jst start getting one by one from the pic and you wont be disappointed...

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Added on September 29, 2009, 5:29 pmStill....no.....one....into...military...non...fiction..................... -__-"

This post has been edited by ArmorFiend: Sep 29 2009, 05:29 PM

ok i admit i'm not really into military non-fiction;) But i do like military fictions like andy mc nab, stephen leather etc.

i have read 'Generation Kill' by Evan Wright. [he is the Rolling Stone reporter who tagged along the Iraq war]
it was a great book. have watched the 7-episode series as well.great depiction and adaption of the book.
i'd recommend you to read it. i could't find the book in any of the major bookshops and ended up ordering it with KxxxKxya.

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Added on October 7, 2009, 2:34 pmbtw, i think nathaniel fick is the lieutenant in Generation Kill;)
it was mentioned somewhere in the prologue that he was gonna write a book.
been searching for it but no luck. where did you buy it?
tx

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Added on October 8, 2009, 2:26 pmok bought the only copy at Kino yesterday of Nathaniel Fick's one bullet away;)

This post has been edited by not9to5: Oct 8 2009, 02:26 PM

ArmorFiend!

just found this thread. when you say mil non-fic, u mean in novel form, or military history books (as in large size ones)? because i read both, especially military history books.

been looking for someone who reads books like these for ages; its tough having a passion i dare say that no one else finds interesting.

i have a pretty good sized collections of books on the subject. wont say extensive as 1) good ones are particularly hard to find 2) cost is always an issue

here are some i can name at the drop of a hat that i own:
World at Arms: Readers Digest Illustrated History of World War II (excellent all-round introduction book to ww2)
Modern Battlefield Warplanes - David Donald
Aces Against Japan: The American Aces Speak - Eric Hammel
The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's "Tunnel Rats" in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam - Tom Mangold
The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer
Samurai! - Saburo Sakai (engrossing read of the last remaining surviving Japanese ace post-ww2; now deceased RIP)
One Day in a Very Long War: Wednesday 25th October 1944 - John Ellis (absolutely depressing but absorbing read)
The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe - John Toland
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 - Max Hastings
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two - Peter Chamberlain & Hilary L. Doyle 1st ed (the mother lode of german armor - chock full of pics, one can spend the entire time just reading up the pix captions alone for a wealth of information)
The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-45 - George H. Stein
Waffen-SS Uniforms In Color Photographs: Europa Militaria Series #6 - Steven Amodio
Men-at-Arms 401: The Waffen-SS (1) 1. to 5. Divisions - Gordon Williamson and Stephen Andrew
The SS: Hitler's Instrument of Terror - Gordon Williamson
The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS - Heinz Zollin Höhne and Richard Barry (exhausting read but has terrifying parallels with todays politics)
When all our brothers are silent; the book of photographs of the Waffen-SS/Wenn alle Brüder schweigen; Grosser Bildband über die Waffen-SS. by Association of Soldiers of the Former Waffen-SS (the mother lode of waffen ss pixs)

these are one's i've read but dont have:
Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War - Ed Kugler (a interesting & often funny look at marine snipers in vietnam)
Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War - John Ellis

& these are ones i'm looking for:
The Blond Knight of Germany: A biography of Erich Hartmann - Raymond Toliver and Trevor Constable
In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front - Gottlob Herbert Bidermann, Derek S. Zumbro, and Dennis Showalter
retribution - max hastings