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With The Old Breed by Eugene Sledge is a must read. The definitive WW2 Pacific Theatermemoir, IMO, and probably my favourite military memoir to date. I've yet to find someone who so humanly captures the horror as Sledge did in his writing.
if i am not mistaken that book was adapted into an epic miniseries called The Pacific I watched and have a DVD of it =)
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if i am not mistaken that book was adapted into an epic miniseries called The Pacific I watched and have a DVD of it =)
Sure was.
I went and read all the books the miniseries was based off after watching it. Robert Leckie's Helmet for my Pillow is also a great read.
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For large scale analysis Absolute War about soviet/axis war was fascinating focusing on the ideological nature of the eastern front battle and how the two powers handled it. I know Quinn Duffy drew on this heavily - it includes the account of a t34 ram destroying a tiger and has a lot of detail on the stuff that our Russian friends found so objectionable due to their referencing in game.
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Darby's Rangers: We Led the Way
Storming Eagles: German Airborne Forces in World War II
Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives
Band of Brothers
Beyond Band of Brothers-this one is by Dick Winters
Hitler's Fortress Cherbourg: The Conquest of a Bastion
That's all I can get off the top of my head that hasn't been mentioned yet.
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The liberator about a U.S. Officer in an infantry regiment which travelled further than any other and was the first into dachau. It's excellent as a soldiers account but also helped me flesh out details of Anzio and the campaign in southern France which broader accounts have failed to do for me. It's also an extraordinary story if survival and very readable and entertaining to boot. Written by Alex kershaw.
For large scale analysis Absolute War about soviet/axis war was fascinating focusing on the ideological nature of the eastern front battle and how the two powers handled it. I know Quinn Duffy drew on this heavily - it includes the account of a t34 ram destroying a tiger and has a lot of detail on the stuff that our Russian friends found so objectionable due to their referencing in game.
What the Russian population found objectionable (and with good reason) is that fact that the campaign focuses on all the negative aspects of the Red Army while calling itself Company of Heroes.
Contrast that with the campaigns in the original game and even Ardennes Assault. Not a singe mention of anything but heroism.
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What the Russian population found objectionable (and with good reason) is that fact that the campaign focuses on all the negative aspects of the Red Army while calling itself Company of Heroes.
Contrast that with the campaigns in the original game and even Ardennes Assault. Not a singe mention of anything but heroism.
IIRC the campaign showed the leadership being shit most of the time, not the ordinary soldiers, hence Company of Heroes still applies I think.
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It is not well written but it is a great look at the life of a US infantry company from Oct. '44 through. McDonald wrote it right after the war and this is why it is a valuable account. It is also his youth and inexperience as a writer that makes it a bit of a dry read.
He doesn't have axes to grind or a reputation he is trying to protect or redeem. He seems to just be trying to tell the story and do it with as much detail as possible. (required reading at West Point).
http://www.amazon.com/Company-Commander-Classic-Infantry-Memoir/dp/1580800386/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1438517469&sr=8-1&keywords=company+commander
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IIRC the campaign showed the leadership being shit most of the time, not the ordinary soldiers, hence Company of Heroes still applies I think.
Not really. It showed them as forced and unwilling, and thus as either suckers or victims. It was both ridiculous and spiteful.
I played the CoH1 campaign something like 5 times, but CoH2's was just too vile to get through even once.
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Not really. It showed them as forced and unwilling, and thus as either suckers or victims. It was both ridiculous and spiteful.
I played the CoH1 campaign something like 5 times, but CoH2's was just too vile to get through even once.
Ah right, fair enough.
I agree it got really ridiculous at some points (the cutscenes in the gulag rofl), I'm by no means saying it's very good.
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Ah right, fair enough.
I agree it got really ridiculous at some points (the cutscenes in the gulag rofl), I'm by no means saying it's very good.
The part where you burn down the village with the civilians still inside their homes had me rolling. It was so ludicrous.
The part in Stalingrad where the commissar executes a bunch of soldiers for rescuing their decorated war hero captain was a close second.
How anyone though these were "heroic" is beyond me.
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