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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > War Literature Megathread: slightly above the eighth grade level
 
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Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

elite_garbage_man posted:

Stephen Pressfield has some cool rear end books that take place in Ancient Greece and Rome. I've read a couple of his fictional works, and they're sick as gently caress. He's done some non-fictional books about war as well.
Gates of Fire is an excellent read. Thermopylae stuff had been done to death a few years ago when the 300 movie came out, but this is a legit good read. It takes the perspective of both a dying Greek survivor and the Persian scribe who records his tale.

Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels covers the day-by-day Battle of Gettysburg from the perspective of the two sides' commanders. It includes some good maps of troop movements to help visualize how the battle unfolds.

I've already plugged George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman a few times because it's funny as hell, but it's also a historically accurate representation of the 19th century British Army and East India Company in and around the First Anglo-Afghan War.

e: These are all historical fiction.

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Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
 Good point, I should have noted that.

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