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Teufel Panzer MK4
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Re: Non-Fiction Recs
Posted: 10 Dec 06 11:16 AM
Hey, come off it. That was a genuine article of respect. I'll stop with the one-worders if you stop with the plasma-like cracks.
Finucane
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Re: Non-Fiction Recs
Posted: 10 Dec 06 4:09 PM
Yep, he's cracking under the pressure,poor boy.  That's why he keeps changing is handle, he's trying to escape from his other selves by finding his real self.
Teufel Panzer MK4
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Re: Non-Fiction Recs
Posted: 10 Dec 06 7:58 PM

Naw, I was just having fun. I'm stickin' with the Mark Four for a while.

Alisium
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Re: Non-Fiction Recs
Posted: 21 Oct 07 12:19 AM

One Bullet Away: The Making Of A Marine Corps Officer, by Nathanial Fick. Great book that takes a look at how a Dartmouth students ambels his way into a comission and ends up leading a batallion recon unit into initial invasion during OIF.

Generation Kill, by Evan Wright. He actually was imbeded with Nathanial Fick's platoon during the invasion. Desperate, touching and often humorous (especially for those of us in the know) centers on the enlisted man's war.

No True Glory, by Bing West. A superior account for the battle of Fallujah. It covers both the military and political aspects of the battle and exposes the bs that currently passes for "governing".

Mercenaries, by Michael Lee Lanning. A good history of the use and relavence of mercanaries and how they evolved into today's PMC's and their future on the world stage.

Six Frigates, by Ian W. Toll. Fun, descriptive and adventurous look at the first six frigates of the United States Navy that challanged the worlds greates naval power during the War of 1812 and how they sucessfully earned the USN international respect.

I have a crap load more to recomend but I'll do it in little bits.

 


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Re: Non-Fiction Recs
Posted: 21 Oct 07 6:43 AM Modified By Finucane  on 10/21/2007 6:44:23 AM)
Ali, I'll tell Lee Lanning you liked his book on mercenaries.  I've known him since his last active-duty assignment at the American Forces Information Service in Alexandria, VA, and we collaborated on INSIDE THE VC AND THE NVA.  That book, and his two books on his time in Vietnam, THE ONLY WAR WE HAD and A COMPANY COMMANDER'S JOURNAL, will be republished by Texas A&M University Press next year. Lee's struggling with cancer these days but like he's done in every crisis all his life, he's not giving up.
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