Best books on war?

[Politically Incorrect]

I just finished reading The Last Ridge by McKay Jenkins.

My grandfather served in the 10th Mountain Division and after reading this, it answered the question I've had since my dad told me that my grandfather lost the use of his pitching hand when a mule kicked it. (He was being scouted by the Cleveland Indians while he was in high school.)

I've always wondered since I was a kid, What is a mule doing in the Army? Don't they have tanks and Jeeps?

Now I know.

 

[Croyance]

Detrius, I read Devil's Guard. You said

there are a great number of people who want that book dismissed as not only fiction but as very far fetched fiction.... they're platform for this, that Former Nazi Soldiers CAN"T have done anything GOOD!!

After reading this book, I can't say that they did much good, and neither do they admit to much good in the book.

 

[Detritus]

After reading this book, I can't say that they did much good, and neither do they admit to much good in the book.

i meant "good" in the overly subjective meaning of "fighting a guerilla group, that has since been labled as "communist", that was trying to overthrow an existing government" (in truth i beleive supporting the return of the french to indochina was one of the biggest blunders of the coldwar, and that many other things that are accepted as "truth" in regard to SE. Asia are only half true, but that's not a discussion for here)

maybe my choice of words was not well thought out. maybe i should have said that some see the book as being a glorification of "ex-nazi" soldiers. or that "many want it categorized as fiction b/c the concept of it being fact makes them uneasy"
and yes my original words to express that have been shaped somewhat by how others have seen fit to try adn explain why the book is/was a center of controversy in that particular way.

personally i don't give a damp flying rodent's rear end, who a soldier/person is, or where they came from. if the story is true then it should be put forth as such. not given a label of "fiction" b/c it doesn't fit someone's comfortable and, how to put this???..... ah, "white is white and black is black and there shall be no gray" world veiw.

shoot, if i ever saw OUTSIDE proof of what richard Marcinco claims he and "his team" did, (i know at least a few here know my feelings on THAT. so i will not rehash) i might reconsider things a bit on that score.

 

[Benton]

Pamwe Chete by Ron Reid-Daly is a very interesting history written by the founder of the Selous Scouts. It covers the counter-insurgency war in Rhodesia. It may well have lessons in it for developing tactics for some of the problems facing the US military in Afganistan and elsewhere. Anyone with an interest in some history involving the FAL should enjoy this book.