 Flashman14  | 18 Jul 2016 5:51 a.m. PST |
Short story collections count if in a single book. Whole series do not – pick the volume from among them. a. Catch 22
b. ? |
| Chalfant | 18 Jul 2016 6:25 a.m. PST |
The Glory Jumpers, maybe. Apparently its a collector's item…
link Chalfant |
| Chalfant | 18 Jul 2016 6:27 a.m. PST |
I bought mine for a quarter about 30 years ago, not sure I would drop $26 USD-$40 on a new copy. Chalfant |
| genew49 | 18 Jul 2016 6:30 a.m. PST |
A Walk in the Sun. Both book and movie were great. |
| Winston Smith | 18 Jul 2016 6:47 a.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 18 Jul 2016 7:16 a.m. PST |
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| Wargamer Blue | 18 Jul 2016 7:21 a.m. PST |
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 Jeff Ewing | 18 Jul 2016 7:36 a.m. PST |
_A Walk in the Sun_ is excellent, but a novella. No love for the PTO? _The Naked and the Dead_, _The Thin Red Line_, _From Here to Eternity_? |
| Random Die Roll | 18 Jul 2016 7:43 a.m. PST |
Where Eagles Dare
Force 10 from Navarone
Catch 22
The Guns of Navarone |
| robert piepenbrink | 18 Jul 2016 7:58 a.m. PST |
12 O'clock High, followed by A Piece of Cake and Run Silent, Run Deep. And the funny thing is, I don't do either air or naval wargames. |
| Major Mike | 18 Jul 2016 8:23 a.m. PST |
Cross of Iron, the book the movie was taken from. Whip by Martin Caiden and also his The Last Dogfight, both set in the Pacific the first deals with B-25's in and around New Guinea and the second deals with a bypassed Japanese occupied island and the US base near by that is suppose to keep an eye on them, mostly aerial combat. |
| boy wundyr x | 18 Jul 2016 9:09 a.m. PST |
Tramp In Armour by Colin Forbes – read and loved it as a kid, found it again as an adult and while it maybe didn't hold up as well as I'd hoped, it was still fun. The Sugar Sugar series had at least one good one, but I can't remember its name off the top of my head, though I was reading it as a wargaming material rather than a deep novel. Oh and John Harris had a few fun ones too. |
| Vintage Wargaming | 18 Jul 2016 9:21 a.m. PST |
John Masters Man of War. +1 for John Harris – Harkaway's sixth column probably the best |
| Bismarck | 18 Jul 2016 9:33 a.m. PST |
Battle Cry by Leon Uris. Covered the 1st Mar Div in the Pacific. Pretty well follows actual history as Uris served in the Corps during the war.
from my childhood and the old "we were there" history series,
both We Were There at Normandy and We Were There at Pearl Harbor.
these were "youth fiction" but followed the actual historical events. All of these are early-mid 1950s |
| Huscarle | 18 Jul 2016 10:02 a.m. PST |
"The Cauldron" by Zeno
"The Boat" by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
"Ice Cold in Alex" by Chris Langdon I seem to recollect from my teen years (a long, long, time ago) that Alistair Maclean's "HMS Ulysses" was a good read. |
| Just Jack | 18 Jul 2016 10:06 a.m. PST |
"The Right Kind of War," by John McCormick. Funny, heart-breaking, best book about Marines I've ever read. V/R,
Jack |
| Frederick | 18 Jul 2016 10:43 a.m. PST |
The Sands of Valor by Geoffrey Wagner – great book about a British armoured regiment in the Western Desert some time around the fall of Tobruk |
| dbander123 | 18 Jul 2016 10:50 a.m. PST |
Beardless Warriors. Richard Matheson. |
| Bob the Temple Builder | 18 Jul 2016 11:11 a.m. PST |
The Ship
Warriors for the working day |
 miniMo | 18 Jul 2016 11:29 a.m. PST |
Ooh, tough question.
Catch 22 is the best (and honorary mention to Slaughterhouse Five).
But favorite would have to go to Cross of Iron on the grounds of most re-reads.
And this reminds me there's one I've been meaning to read for a long time, having enjoyed the movie several times. Off to ABE….
So let's nominate: The Eagle Has Landed. By the time the poll runs I might have finally read it and might want to vote for it! |
| Jacques | 18 Jul 2016 11:36 a.m. PST |
I don't have a favourite WW2 novel, but the ones listed below are reread at least once 18months or so:
Cottons War – John Harris
Rendezvous South Atlantic – Douglas Reeman
Winged Escort – Douglas Reeman
Rommel, my part in his downfall – Spike Milligan
The Way Out – Uys Krige
Die Valskermbataljon aka They Fell from the Sky – Heinz Konzalik
Die Grys Wolf aka Hetzjagd im Atlantik. Nikolei von Michalewsky |
| Spudeus | 18 Jul 2016 12:46 p.m. PST |
I second Bucheim's Das Boot. It can be a bit repetitive and florid, but as the author was there it has the priceless element of authenticity. |
| Shagnasty | 18 Jul 2016 12:51 p.m. PST |
HMS Ulysses by Alastair McLean. |
| John Secker | 18 Jul 2016 12:55 p.m. PST |
Agreed – by far his best book. |
| JimSelzer | 18 Jul 2016 1:10 p.m. PST |
Slaughterhouse 5
and Baa Baa Black Sheep |
| Dave Jackson | 18 Jul 2016 1:53 p.m. PST |
OMG, boy wundyr x! "Tramp in Armour" was my favourite book as a boy! Read it quite a few times! |
| Bellbottom | 18 Jul 2016 2:21 p.m. PST |
Warriors for the Working Day and The Cruel Sea |
| zippyfusenet | 18 Jul 2016 2:39 p.m. PST |
+1 Slaughterhouse Five. Um, I thought Baa Baa Black Sheep was a memoir, not a novel. Patrick Ryan How I Won The War. Forget the movie, read the novel. |
| Warlord | 18 Jul 2016 5:18 p.m. PST |
I really enjoyed "Brothers in Arms" – gave me a new perspective.
Also liked "Five years, Four Fronts". Warlord |
| boy wundyr x | 19 Jul 2016 7:08 a.m. PST |
Adding to my earlier list, but on the serious novel front, besides some of the ones mentioned, Stalingrad by Theodor Plievier was pretty good/grim. |
| Old Contemptibles | 19 Jul 2016 8:01 a.m. PST |
"The Caine Mutiny" by Wouk
"The Winds of War" by Wouk
"War and Remembrance" by Wouk
The "Young Lions" by Shaw
"Catch 22" by Heller
"Slaughterhouse Five" by Vonnegut |
| Old Contemptibles | 19 Jul 2016 8:05 a.m. PST |
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" is not a novel. |
| Vintage Wargaming | 19 Jul 2016 4:34 p.m. PST |
Derek Robinson's Piece of Cake |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 19 Jul 2016 7:26 p.m. PST |
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead |
| spontoon | 20 Jul 2016 4:23 p.m. PST |
Quartered Safe Out Here by George Macdonald Fraser. Not a novel, but reads like one! Also Twenty Thousand Thieves. |
| Old Contemptibles | 21 Jul 2016 8:16 a.m. PST |
Me thinks this crowd is more into non-fiction than fiction. |
is back from Council of Five Nations.
