I have to admit I got hooked on a pulp series called the Rat Bastards, that followed the the battles to retake the South Pacific islands during WWII. Unfortunately, I sold all my books to Powells, and have not been able to find them again in the last 10 years.
I also love reading the Osprey series. I also enjoyed the Walking Drum, by Louis L'Amour, which chronicled the path of a merchant caravan over Europe. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sgt Sorge wrote: > > > > As a student studying military history, this is fascinating!. I am going > > to keep my eye on this and hopefully be able to use it in an essay or > > term paper. > > > > I'm a big fan of fictionalized history and have been reading Bernard > Cornwell's Saxon series which is awesome if you want to understand 9th > century english-viking life, culture, and combat (which WAS their > culture). > > I tried it out after reading his Agincourt about the titular (he he) > battle which was also fantastic. Now I'm going for Sword Song about > the Battle of London. > > Other greats I've read are the Horatio Hornblower series about the > British 19th century Navy, Fields of Fire ('nam) and The Emperor's > General (wwii) by (Senator) James Webb, and Behind The Lines by WEB > Griffin about the father of the Special Forces > http://www.webgriffin.com/books_BehindTheLines.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307382 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
