The top 3 miltary or war books you own?

The Diamond

Once an Eagle-Anton Myrer (Historical Fiction WWI-Vietnam)
Black Hearts (Non-Fiction Iraq 2006-2007)
Outlaw Platoon-Sean Parnell (Non-Fiction Afghanistan 2006-2007)

Clancy's Jack Ryan Series & his Armored Cav, Airborne, Marines, & Special Forces
W.E.B. Griffin - The Brotherhood of War Seriers and The Corps Series
Herman Wouk - The Winds of War & War of Remembrance (also made into an awesome mini-series)
Rick Atkinson - Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, The Day of Battle
Stephen Ambrose - Band of Brothers (best mini series ever) and his other writings as well

I could go on....but that's enough for now.

We are soldiers still - follow on by Gen Moore & Joe Galloway, In Harms Way...The story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, American Soldier-The Tommy Franks story, and several others, including Colditz, Ghost Soldier and The Greatest Generation.

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, this was the book that got me into Tom Clancy and military fiction

Rifles for Waite by Harold Keith, Civil War historical fiction. Made me realize the history was fun. I read this one so much the book literally disintegrated.

The Ten Thousand By Harold Coyle, mechanized modern warfare at it's best.

I realize that these are all fiction and I do have quite of non-fiction military books on the shelf. But those tend to be a little dry. These are the ones I would finish the book and flip back to page one.

The Gunner Asch trilogy by Hans Hellmut Kirst. I first read them when I was in 6th grade when I took them out of the Tempelhof AFB library. It is a poignant series about the exploits of a young private recruited for the Wehrmacht during peace, becomes battle-hardened during the Russian conflict, eventually becomes an officer, and how he survives. The author was an NCO on the Command Staff on the Eastern Front, and is is merciless in his satire about the different levels in the military-poking fun all the way through. It was wildly popular in Germany in the 1950's when first published, and turned into films. "Kirst is best remembered as the creator of the "Gunner Asch" series which detailed the ongoing struggle of an honest individual to maintain his identity and humanity amidst the criminality and corruption of Nazi Germany." (Wikipedia). The series was entitled "08-15" which essentially was that era version of SNAFU, FUBAR, CF, etc.
They are out of print but available through Amazon. It is great reading.

A bit biased, but Sand Pebbles, 1812:The Navy's War, and recently read Lone Survivor before seeing the movie. The last one was a good read, but the two mentioned before are full of interesting facts and history that really struck a chord with me and my service.

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We were soldiers once... And Young

Lone Survivor