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The Tiger's Way: A U.S. Private's Best Chance for Survival

19 reviews
H. John Poole

Posterity Press, 2003

A fantastic implementation of Tokakure Ryu for the modern day
I have not finished this book, you should know. However, you should also know that this book made enough of an impression of me that I am writing a review before I have finished in violation of my own rules. I am an author myself and I value these reviews greatly - I wouldn't write if I didn't mean what I say. This is a great book. In short, it takes the premises - as best we know - of ...

Up Front

37 reviews
Bill Mauldin

W. W. Norton, 2000

In Memory of Our Fallen and Our Gold Star Mothers
It's a gift, the ability to draw, to have perspective, to create, to be able to portray human misery as humor, for a reader to see the image and words and turn to laughter. Bill Mauldin had this gift that gained prominence in a time of war where talents rise to their greatest heights or sink to their lowest depths. Truth is portrayed in humor or the humor isn't funny. Sergeant Bill Mauldin, an ...

House to House

130 reviews
David Bellavia

Free Press, 2007

Amazing, I couldn't put it down.
I already had a high view of infintry soldiers as I have a former Army warrior who is my partner and manages the business. My appreciaion of the training, commitment and sacrifice of the FEMF,to modify an acronym from the book, increased ten fold. Thanks David, thank you Deanna, Evan and Aiden. Exodus 15:3

Echoes from the Infantry: A Novel

29 reviews
Frank Nappi

St. Martin's Press, 2005

...'Echoes From the Infantry' will leave a lasting impression upon you...
James McCleary has been attempting to put the horrors of the battlefield behind him for years. Unfortunately, his sordid tries have fallen flat, and the days of battle are still ingrained in his mind, rearing their evil heads at the worst possible times. All John McCleary wants, on the other hand, is to know his father. The father who has cast him aside. Who has refused to learn more about him. ...

Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge

20 reviews
George W. Neill

University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

View from a fox hole
George Neill presents a front line soldier's view of what it was like to be part of the WWII American infantry. While reading the book, I almost felt the cold and fear that were the soldier's constant companions. while the rear echelon soldiers got the winter boots, and the generals got heated quarters, Neill and his fellow soldiers tried to survive the cold, boredom and attacks. I felt like I ...

Phantom Soldier: The Enemy's Answer to U.S. Firepower

20 reviews
H. John Poole

Posterity Press, 2001

DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON
Danger, danger, is very much the message put forth in this book and it should be heeded before it is too late. Some reviewers have mentioned Sun Tzu and his rules of warfare. Sun Tzu puts forth a very reasoned and systematic set of rules that define a nations path to victory or defeat. By definition, our present leadership has us solidly on the path of defeat. Our people in the field have to ...

Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad

59 reviews
David Zucchino, Mark Bowden

Grove/Atlantic, 2004

You won't be able to put it down
This is hands-down the most compelling book I've read so far on the war in Iraq. It made me late going back to work during several lunch hours because I just couldn't put it down until I finished another chapter. I think too many people have this image of the invasion being an absolute cakewalk -- this book will put that notion to rest in a big hurry. The soldiers faced some ferocious ...

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

22 reviews
Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Vintage, 1992

Following the footsteps
It isn't easy to find quality diaries written so well from the Civil War sometimes; although this book will rank with in the top 10. Popularized and quoted often in Ken Burn's Civil War series on PBS, Rhodes' book about his life as a soldier come to life. Rhodes brings the excitement and patriotic fervor of being a new recruit in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry early in the war. This patriotic ...

Attacks

28 reviews
Erwin Rommel

Athena Pr, 1979

Aggressive Maneuver and Taking the Initiative
Company level actions in WWI. Written by Rommel after WWI, there is nothing about tanks in this book but plenty about taking the initiative and aggressive maneuver. The core of Rommel's later style of warfare is on display here. The English translation is very readable.

Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington

139 reviews
Paul Rieckhoff

NAL Hardcover, 2006

CHASING GHOSTS by Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff's new book CHASING GHOSTS is a must read for every citizen of the United States--and for those who cannot read, a family member of friend should read it to them. It is not simply Rieckhoff's stunningly honest telling of his experience as a soldier in Iraq, it is among the finest reports yet written on that highly unnecessary conflict for which we Americans are ultimately ...

The defence of Duffer's Drift

14 reviews
Ernest Dunlop Swinton

U.S. Army Infantry School, 1992

What combat experience costs!
Hypothetical Lt Backsight Forethought has 50 men and a mission to hold a drift in South African territory during the Boer War of 1899-1902, and he starts his mission fresh from officer training and being totally unaware of the realities of combat. In the first trial he gets beaten really bad but he analyzes his faults and learn from them. He also gets beaten in his second, third, fourth and fifth ...

YOU CAN'T GET MUCH CLOSER THAN THIS: Combat With Company H, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division

15 reviews
A Adkins(Jr)

Casemate, 2005

Well done!
This is interesting first person account of World War Two from the perspective of a soldier from my area of Florida! That alone made the book a pleasant surprise. But besides that, I found this book a well written account of a young man taken from college to fight with the 80th Infantry division. The book reads like a great war story rather than a war-time biography or diary. It's a quick, ...

Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign

16 reviews
Thomas A. Desjardin

Thomas Pubns, 1996

Excellent Start
This is a well worked area of the ACW but Thomas A. Desjardin brings a fresh look to the subject. He is an excellent author and scholar, both show in his books. The book contains very good maps, photos and current status of Little Round Top, roster of the 20th Maine, 5 Appendix, notes and index. This is a very well done book that can be used as an introduction or reference.

The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War

16 reviews
Louise Steinman

North Atlantic Books, 2008

AN EXCELLENT READ AND A WORK VERY WELL DONE!
Like so many in my generation, the author, like the rest of us, really had no clue as to what made her father tick. These men, and women, of the "Greatest Generation" were a different breed. I had to blink twice when the author described her father, his attitudes, work ethic, treatment of his family and on and on. She could have well been describing my own father. The author, after her ...

Memoirs of an infantry officer

13 reviews
Siegfried Sassoon

Faber & Faber limited, 1949

Memoir in the tradition of Graves and Orwell
Siegfreid Sassoon's wonderful war memoir is thinly disguised as the story of George Sherston. Based solely on Sassoon's life in the trenches of WWI, it recounts the horror and scale of carnage that occurred. More importantly it shows the emotionally scars that the survivors carried with them as a result of exposure. Sherston (Sassoon) was a rather spoiled and pampered young upper class ...

Bootprints

13 reviews
Hobert Winebrenner, Michael McCoy

Camp Comamajo Press, 2005

A memoir worthy of the highest praise!!!
Without reservation, "Bootprints: An Infantryman's Walk Through World War II" is one of the best memoirs out there by a front-line soldier! Co-authored by Hobert Winebrenner [former Staff Sgt. in the 3rd Bat., 358th Inf., 90th Div.] and Michael McCoy [a much younger freelance writer and publisher], "Bootprints" takes the reader on a journey from the entrance of Winebrenner into the US Army as a ...

Absolution: Charlie Company 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry

18 reviews
Charles J. Boyle, Pia S. Seagrave

Sergeant Kirkland's Press, 1999

An Infantry Lieutenant in Combat
This book accurately shows what goes on in the mind of an infantry lieutenant. It focused on the human aspects of leadership and command. It showed how to deal with the loss of soldiers and friends in combat. Every leader has been too close to soldiers and this book shows why it is dangerous to do so. Having said that, it also shows what a soldier in the right place at the right time can ...

Rebel private, front and rear

15 reviews
W. A Fletcher

University of Texas Press, 1954

THIS ONE NEEDS TO BE IN YOUR COLLECTION
Excellent, first had observations made by a common private in during the Civil War. The author IS NOT a professional writer. This makes it all the more valuable. The author is not writing the book to entertain, or to pass along old, gory war stories. This is a story by a simple man trying to tell us his point of view, simple as that. This account is quite valuable to anyone interested in the ...

The Story of a Soldier 1940-1971: The Airborne Spirit and Recollections of Colonel Edward S. Mehosky (Ret.) ...

15 reviews
Ivan Paul Mehosky

Rutledge Books, 2001

Above and Beyond
The Story Of A Soldier, by Ivan Paul Mehosky is a wonderful first person account of a heroic officer who knew how to fight and get the better of the enemy, and knew how to prepare men for war so they could fight as a team with the proper attitude, inflict great damage on the enemy, and have a chance to survive the hell of combat. Mehosky's creed, "you fight like you train, and repetition of tasks ...

Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent

15 reviews
H. John Poole

Posterity Press, 2005

Understanding OEF/OIF True Enemies
This is the best book I have read so far on where and who the real enemy is and who is behind and against the U.S. supporting democracy and the liberation of the people of Iraq. Breaks down in detail who is Sunni and who is Shiite. How they work and how they are fighting U.S. Forces together. How the real enemy is Iran with many proxies to gain control of Iraq. How the U.S. must change to ...

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