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[Viggen 643]

I've found myself reading to make this deployment go by faster. Unfortunately I only have a few books. Any of you guys know of any books with a feel similar to Red Storm Rising? I've read the majority of the other Clancy novels and want to branch out some.

 

 

[Fubar512 1,350]

Red Phoenix, by the same author who worked on RSS with Clancy, Larry Bond:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Phoenix-Larry-Bond-ebook/dp/B008LYZQ74/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1383800534&sr=8-2&keywords=Red+Phoenix+larry+bond

[+CrazyhorseB34 937]

Mentioned in another topic but, Blind Man's Bluff is an awesome book. True story I read it in Bosnia in 99.

[+pcpilot 181]

Tom Clancy? read "Sum of all fears". Other than that, try "Shattered sword" by Parshall and Tully. Its about the battle of Midway. Very cool book. Also try "With the Old Breed" by EB Sledge. True story of Marines on Peleliu and Okinawa.

[+daddyairplanes 10,146]

Goto the USO or there should still be a book shelf in the mwr center or phone center. Always something there if you expand the search parameters and msny of my favorites were first read across the water.

[MAKO69 186]

I've found myself reading to make this deployment go by faster. Unfortunately I only have a few books. Any of you guys know of any books with a feel similar to Red Storm Rising? I've read the majority of the other Clancy novels and want to branch out some.

Try this one, Its all true. If this guy was an American he may have received the CMO. A German ex-pat that came to America after WW2. After a short stint in the USAF and getting his 2 year degree he entered the NAVCAD program and went to war flying the A-1 Skyraider for the US Navy. The movie "Rescue Dawn" was based on this story.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Found-Greatest-Escape-Vietnam/dp/0061571377

[FalconC45 158]

The Wingman series by Mack Maloney, bit old so you might find it difficult to find it online. Warthog and The debate of Close Air Support is another good book, I'm reading it right now.

 

Falcon

[+Jug 99]

Read the "Donovan Creed" series by John Locke for action, adventure, and laugh-out-loud black humor.

[Fubar512 1,350]

I also recommend any of Mark Berent's "Rolling Thunder" series, which covers the Vietnam war from 1965 through 1972

 

http://www.markberent.com/

[+Dave 2,322]

First Air

 

The Ten Thousand - I cannot recommend this book enough.

 

Sword Point

[Wrench 9,801]

how about "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors"??

[PraetorH 166]

Harvey Black's triology:

- The Red Effect. The Day the Cold War Turned Hot

- The Black Effect. The Day the Cold War Turned Hot

- ?

 

Third one is not yet published. The story focusses on British soldiers on the eve and during WWIII in Germany. Black was a British Army Intelligence officer in Germany and definetly knows his stuff. While many WWIII-books set in Germany read like fictions when describing landscapes, this one is real. Also a great attention to technical details is paid, to a point when it even becomes exhausting. The battle scenes are very good though.

But be warned, the first book only deals with the first 20 minutes of war, the second is about three days into the war.

[+Jug 99]

Try "Thud Ridge" by Jim Broughton.

[Fubar512 1,350]

Here's a sample of Berent's work, a non-fiction short story about a Laotian Kharst Ridge that he christened  "Rho Magna", in PDF format.  It also includes an excerpt from one of his novels (Phantom Leader), into which he weaves his real-life experiences:  

 

rho-magna-the-laotian-war-dragon.pdf 

Edited November 16, 2013 by Fubar512

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Any of the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child are fun reads. (I have no idea why they picked Tom Cruise to play 6'5", 250 lbs. Jack Reacher in the first of these books turned into a movie. Got to give him credit though, he did a good job)