"Late War Tank Battles" Topic

You won't find a better read than Spearhead by Adam Makos. It follows a tank gunner through France, Belgium and Germany, first in Shermans and later in one of the first Pershings. Also follows a couple of infantrymen and German tankers as well.

It's a novel?

Nope true story.

I'm very fond of Ken Tout's books which follow a similar trajectory in 21st Army Group.

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It isn't fiction hence not a novel.

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It does not have to be fiction to be a novel. A true story of actual events and actual people is considered a non-fiction novel.

Google "non-fiction novel".

Just because Truman Capote once said that, Virtualscratchbuilder, there's no reason for people to take it seriously. It's like calling your fantasy novel "magical realism."

Bad enough grown men and women go around calling comic books "graphic novels."

Sounds interesting.

Sure call it a non fiction novel.

Webster disagrees but whatever.

Read the book!

Let's get Webster and Britannica together an let them duke it out.

In the 1950s it was somewhat in vogue to thinly disguise military memoirs by not mentioning specific units or individuals.

John Foleys excellent 'Mailed Fist' being one such example, George MacDonald Frasers McAuslen trilogy being another as well as 'Warriors for the Working Day'.

Both are memoirs as novels, both feature real people and events, albeit slightly jumbled up. As Frasers exasperated Colonel noted, it was my battalion, you were in it and I commanded it. Non-fiction novel? Maybe.

Arguably the whole of Rudels 'Stuka Pilot is a deranged fantasy, as is Kurt Mayers 'Grenadiers'. The is what National Socialist writing style does to prose.

A true story of actual events and actual people is considered a non-fiction novel.

Not by me.

Novels are works of narrative fiction, as per any english dictionary you can find.