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I'm trying to like Johnny Rico's Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green but, being about two fifths in, the pacing is starting to get really grating  House to House by David Bellavia was a big eye opener for me btw, I think it got mentioned in the earlier thread.
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Eh, I guess it's only decently written fiction then 
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Mustang posted:The Soviets were definitely a much more interesting and terrifying adversary for the West than the jihadists and terrorists of modern times. Maybe because the Soviet Union was part-based on a legit-looking alternative to the modern capitalist system (albeit very heavily mismanaged). A way scarier adversary (or enemy within) than islamofascism or whatever the bogeyman du jour is.
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That was a good recommendation.
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CISNAZI WEEDHITLER posted:You all need this book: 15 Minutes: General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation. I'm getting this, thanks! Just finished Four Ball, One Tracer: Commanding Executive Outcomes in Angola and Sierra Leone by Roelf van Heerden. Really nice if you want to know more about ex-SADF soldiers doing contract work in Africa, up to and including a company-sized combined arms push towards a strategically located Angolan town against UNITA insurgents - South Africa's former allies in the Bush War. He's not overly analytic about the nature of fighting for money, but there's lots of good stuff about how to handle the realities of fighting in Africa. Especially when they to Sierra Leone in the second part of the book and silly things start to happen.
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The thing I've heard about Kershaw's work is that he has been coasting on his 'working towards the Führer' theory for a long time now. Not that it's much of a problem, Hubris and Nemesis are fantastic, and there's only so much new stuff you can do in Nazi historiography, but I've been holding off on his newer titles since getting those Hitler biographies as a present in 2003 (thanks mom & dad!).
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Finished Relentless Strike. It's... okay I guess?
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