thread: 2005-09-21 : The Red Sky A.M. Fishbowl
On 2005-09-22, Vincent wrote:
Here's my have-read list:
Jarhead, Anthony Swofford.
Marine, Tom Clancy.
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien.
Several articles by Sydney Freedberg.
Here's my to-read and keep-reading list:
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, Jonathan Shay.
Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein.
Red Army, Ralph Peters.
...And now Armor by John Steakley.
Because I really just don't want to be punched in the head.
This makes Sben go "The Forever War?"
Does Haldeman's The Forever War fit here?
This makes BL go "Standing offer"
My offer to provide you with PTSD resources, clinical and personal, still stands.
yrs--
--Ben
This makes VB go "awesome, Ben."
Thanks!
This makes SF go "The Face of Battle"
by John Keagan; old, but classic - get you some Agincourt & Waterloo & Somme to go with all your 20th & 21st-century Americans.
This makes KSB go "What movies?"
You want to dive into some vietnam classics. Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now. Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and When Trumpttes Fade? are ww2 movies I'd check out.
Oh and if you can get the german movie Stalingrad.
This makes Tobias go "Rogue Warrior?"
Might be a read too. Autobio of Seal Team Six's founder.
This makes SLB go "Dave Grossman"
On Killing and On Combat are both must-reads.
This makes CJ go "The Pugilist at Rest"
"HEY BABY got caught writing a letter to his girl when he was supposed to be taking notes on the specs of the M-14 rifle..."
