Thread 24868461

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Anonymous 11/9/2025, 11:47:31 PM No.24868461 [Report] >>24868574 >>24868588 >>24868917 >>24869122 >>24869267 >>24869498 >>24869603 >>24871538 >>24873823

War Kino

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What are some other must-read war memoirs?

Anonymous 11/9/2025, 11:50:56 PM No.24868465 [Report] >>24869600 >>24874741

Imagine paying 39 bucks to read some old queers fantasy about how they massacred civilians for Uncle Sam and shared their body heat with their platoon in the the cold rainy Cambodian jungle nights

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 12:56:46 AM No.24868574 [Report] >>24869043

>>24868461 (OP)
Helmet for My Pillow

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 1:01:02 AM No.24868588 [Report]

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>>24868461 (OP)
The Things They Carried

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 1:18:44 AM No.24868613 [Report]

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loved jakob walter's "diary of a napoleonic footsoldier". at one points he kodnaps a jew and forces him to act as his guide, but then abandons him because he kvetches too much.

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 1:25:19 AM No.24868624 [Report] >>24868744 >>24874744

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I don't often see this one mentioned in these types of threads. Homie fought through all 4 years of the war and was at Verdun and I believe the Somme iirc (it's been a very long time since I read this).

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 2:07:59 AM No.24868697 [Report]

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I enjoyed this, but there is apparently controversy as to whether it's legit or not. The only people I've seen arguing against it seems to be Rusophiles though, so take that as you will.

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 2:37:34 AM No.24868744 [Report]

>>24868624
That looks dope, I just added it to my list

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 3:50:32 AM No.24868917 [Report]

>>24868461 (OP)
"Dear mom... A sniper's vietnam."
starts before basic, and continues through until he gets out. Graphic and realistic. No hero violence, just... the straight dope.

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 4:39:19 AM No.24869043 [Report]

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>>24868574
>Robert Leckie
One of the best writers about wars involving the United States.

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 5:26:43 AM No.24869122 [Report]

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Anonymous 11/10/2025, 6:58:16 AM No.24869267 [Report] >>24869598 >>24871395

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>>24868461 (OP)
A classic you must read.

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 10:12:04 AM No.24869498 [Report]

>>24868461 (OP)
>What are some other must-read war memoirs?
Browning. _Ordinary Men._

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 11:45:14 AM No.24869598 [Report]

>>24869267
This is the best one ever written and I have only read half of the books in this thread in a vain attempt to try and find the sheer greatness found in Junger's account. It is truly transcendent.

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 11:47:05 AM No.24869600 [Report]

>>24868465
In what world does this book cost more than £10 to buy anywhere new? I can order this book right now for £4.93 second hand. Also it's a pacific WWII memoir so there's no Civillian massacring, or anything about Cambodia.

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 11:48:53 AM No.24869603 [Report]

>>24868461 (OP)
Storm of Steel -Ernst Junger (As two anons have pointed out, this is the pinnacle of war-memoir literature, it is the absolute best of the bunch.
My War Gone By I miss it So - Anthony Loyd (Is about a journo in the Yugoslav wars)
Dispatches - Michael Herr (Is also about a journo but in Vietnam)

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 11:45:20 PM No.24871004 [Report]

Homage to Catalonia

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 11:53:23 PM No.24871029 [Report]

Mine Were of Trouble, Peter Kemp

Anonymous 11/10/2025, 11:58:24 PM No.24871047 [Report]

Peter Kemp - Mine Were of Trouble
Robert Crisp - Brazen Chariots
The Flashman Papers

Anonymous 11/11/2025, 2:26:36 AM No.24871395 [Report]

>>24869267
Yeah, this is the one.

There are many examples, are plenty of good ones, but this one is the best and it's not close.

Anonymous 11/11/2025, 2:31:56 AM No.24871409 [Report]

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