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vyelkin posted:And Stalingrad by Antony Beevor has a very good reputation, though I've personally never read it so I can't in good conscience recommend it. I can recommend Stalingrad, it's a good book to start reading about Eastern Front. It covers both German and Soviet sides. I can also recommend Ordinary Men, but like was said it's not military history but more of a study of Holocaust and psychology of men.
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I can also recommend his Vietnam book, it seemed to be objective and cover many viewpoints, at least from European readers perspective. I just finished his "Nemesis", which is about Pacific theater 1944-1945. It really enforced how screwed Japan was during the last 12 months of the war.
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I liked People's tragedy on audible as a casual listener, but I don't know anything about the author. Aparrently he had some Amazon review controversy that was mentioned in Wikipedia, but is he discredited somehow? The book has won many awards, which is why I picked it up.
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Hammerstein posted:I gifted myself the huge, illustrated version of McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom and wanted to *humblebrag* some pics here: That looks great! I got the paperback last week and while the book is great, the pictures are poor quality, many of the maps are practically unreadable
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It's not US Navy exactly, but Destroyer captain by Hara is pretty great read
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