Your favorite Military reads

Chickenhawk

And while not military, Two years before the mast.

Ghost Soldiers
Band Of Brothers
The Things They Carried
With the Old Breed

Patton by O'Reilly.

Last Stand at Khe Sanh by Gregg Jones

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I know several of the Marines.

Sniper on the Eastern Front... This book will figuratively speaking keep you on the edge of your seat.

Overview

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Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured with the award of the Knight's Cross.An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while convalescing and so impressed his superiors with his proficiency that he was returned to the front on his regiment's only sniper specialist.In this sometimes harrowing memoir, Allerberger provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in fieldcraft, discipline and routine required of the sniper, a man apart. There was no place for chivalry on the Russian Front. Away from the film cameras, no prisoner survived long after surrendering. Russian snipers had used the illegal explosive bullet since 1941, and Hitler eventually authorised its issue in 1944. The result was a battlefield of horror.Allerberger was a cold-blooded killer, but few will find a place in their hearts for the soldiers of the Red Army against whom he fought.

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Where Men Win Glory

The Outpost by Jake Tapper

We were Soldiers....once and young by Hal Moore & Joe Galloway

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose

1776 by David McCoullough

House to House by David Bellavia

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OP, thanks for starting this thread - there are some good ideas for new reads in this thread. Some I've already read, many I have not but I am going to give a few of them a try.

I'd also recommend:

Gates of Fire ... it's about the battle at Thermopylae.

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo ... Creasy is the name of the author. You will be amazed by that book.

Company K by William March. Ten times better than All Quiet on the Western Front IMHO.

The Liberator by Alex Kershaw ... Ken Burns used it for the basis of his series "The War."

One that I just finished reading that really surprised me how good it is: The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL by Eric Greitens. It's not what you think. It's an amazing take on war and trying to do good while having to be strong.

Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization by John Robb ... this is the one I am reading now and all I can say is wow, just wow.