[frankenMonkey]

Thank you for your assistance. And Happy Birthday Marines!!! (one day early)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My life on the Plains by Geo A Custer.

The Indian War of 1864 by Lt Ware

Massacres of the Mountains by J R Dunn Jr.

[Kevmo]

The Ultra Secret by Winterbotham
We read their codes, they didn’t read ours. Amazing advantage in WWII.

NAM by Mark Baker
http://www.amazon.com/Nam-Vietnam-words-women-fought/dp/068800086X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384043429&sr=1-2&keywords=nam

The Codebreakers by David Kahn

The Spymasters of Israel by Stewart Steven

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

German Secret Weapons of WWII by Hans Luger
(contains a section on the circular planform VTOL aircraft project). Along those lines, “Intercettali Senza Sparare” by Renato Vesco, later titled “Intercept UFO”

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FIntercept-UFO-Renato-Vesco%2Fdp%2FB0006WI572&ei=CNV-Upb5OKrgiALlwoDIDQ&usg=AFQjCNGoW1oN-Licmx6EMac0gFNwZTs75Q&sig2=ZYzHRXEcn-jQ0Shk3BB6jA

and then the rights were picked up by David Childress and it was something like “Nazi UFOs, 50 years of suppression”.

Finally, I can’t find the name of the book I read on the P51 Mustang design effort by North American Aviation.

[Third Person]

Don’t forget Grenada.

[jmacusa]

For Operation Desert Storm I highly recommend “Warriors Rage’’ by Colonel, USA,(retired) Douglas Macgregor
who commanded 2nd. Squadron/2nd.Armored Cavalry Regiment which annihilated the Iraqi "Talwakana'' Division of the Republican Guard in the battle of 73 Easting. For Operation Iraqi Freedom I highly recommend two works, "Thunder Run'' The Armored Strike To Capture Baghdad'', by David Zucchino. This is a factual, bias-free account of the "Spartan Brigade of the 3rd.Infantry Division/Mechanized. It's a pretty much right-from-the-get-go ride in an M1 Abrams up Iraqi Highway 8 into Baghdad in what one officer called ''the biggest drive-by shooting in history''. It's just an amazing account of combat unlike anything before it. About two dozen M1 Abrams tanks M2 Bradlys and dozens of Humvess shooting the crap out of Iraqis who ran straight at them with nothing more than AK-47s and RPGs or piled into buses and head straight toward the M1's and were blasted to bits. Pretty graphic too. Another is "New Dawn'' The Fight For Fallujah''. by Rich Lowy. This is about THE most graphic account of close-quarter, house to house room to room combat I have ever read.It was the final showdown in what was called "The meanest town in Iraq'' Fallujah was where a lot of Saddams power base was and it was either going to be the US military or Al-Qeada who were going to win for control of Iraq. This fight was primarily waged by the Marines and is one of the toughest, most awe-inspiring tales of the baddest, most lethal fighting force in history along with US Army units, Delta commandos, Air Force air-liasion teams who were also fighting as infantry and just about every swinging dick who could carry a weapon backed up by Air Force, Navy and Marine fixed wing aircraft and attack helicopters in what was called ''the biggest gang fight in history. You really should read this one.

[SAJ]

Apols if posted elsewhere in this thread, but THE finest biography of Patton is: “Patton: Ordeal and Triumph”, by Ladislas Farago. The film drew generously from this book.

[PoloSec]

Enough here to keep anyone busy for awhile...PING!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I find myself interested in home-front issues during wars; the fighting doesn’t occur in a vacuum.

The New Dealers' War:

FDR and the War Within World War II
by Thomas Fleming

Fire and Fury

The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
Randall Hansen

Freedom's Forge:

How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Arthur Herman

[garryowenartillery]

The Forgotten Soldier, by Guy Sajer. This book recounts World War II on the Eastern Front, by a teenaged German soldier.

Dispatches, by Micheal Herr. This is the real life from where all the memorable scenes came for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, he co wrote the scripts I believe.

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer winning Civil War Novel (Gettysburg)

The Good War, Studs Terkle, the underside of WWII.

Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Anthony Sutton, the history of what some have suspected.

[mad_as_he$$]

http://www.amazon.com/In-The-Company-Of-Heroes/dp/0451219937

http://www.amazon.com/Iraq-Inferno-2005-2008-Michael-Yon/dp/0982716354/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384051087&sr=1-3&keywords=michael+yon

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Zone-Life-Vietnam-War-ebook/dp/B0046RF8V4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384051154&sr=1-1&keywords=vietnam+war+books

http://www.amazon.com/Shaping-World-Shadows-Secret-History-ebook/dp/B007YLWXEY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384051200&sr=1-1&keywords=secret+war+delta

[OKSooner]

"To Save Bastogne", Robert G. Phillips. Used copies available on Amazon.

The story of the delaying action fought by a few US army divisions against the German offensive of the winter of 1944-45, commonly known as The Battle of the Bulge.

This delaying action, involving the 4th Division, 28th Division, 9th Division, and 687th FABN, among others, is what bought time for the 101st Division and elements of the 10th Armored division to make it to Bastogne to hold the crossroads there.

If I recall correctly the 28th Division, which was the Pennsylvania National Guard, was "destroyed in action" in this action. Survivors would have been assigned to whatever unit picked them up, I suppose.

(Also, more recently, "Alamo in the Ardennes", I don't recall the author, addresses the same delaying action, and further documents 687th FABN C battery, defending their position from an armored attack with direct fire against panther tanks.)

[robowombat]

The CivilWar/WBTS literature is so vast no one can ever survey it. However, for a look at a neglected and fascinating corner of the war the following are recommended (all are available for a few dollars on Amazon):

Richard Taylor ‘Destruction and Reconstruction’, also one of the most elegant memories ever penned by an American. Son of General and President Zach Taylor, Richard Taylor ended up commanding a large part of CSA forces in the Trans-Mississippi in 1864-65.

Dr. Wyeth's ‘Life of Forrest’ also re-issued as ‘That Devil Forrest’ gives a comprehensive picture of that formidable characters military operations. Jourdan and Pryor's ‘Campaign's of Lt. General Nathan B. Forrest is virtually Forrest's own account fleshed out by the very able staff officer Thomas Pryor.
Andrew Nelson Lytle”s ‘Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company’ represents a personal meditation on Forrest as the defender of Confederate west Tennessee and north Mississippi. Forrest's command in those areas in 1862-63 and even more in 1864 addresses how with limited resources a commander can confront often successfully much greater forces. To save a lot of confusion, also get a copy of Mark Boatner’s ‘Civil War Dictionary’. Boatner was a professional soldier from a military family who summarized an enormous amount of information and distilled it into one 1000 page volume. Get the hardback version if you can as you will use this book a lot in any study of the ‘American Conflict’.

[Abakumov]

This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive — gets the story right.

[Intolerant in NJ]

“A Better War” - Lewis Sorley

[JerseyHighlander]

Old thread on this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080103055324/http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b6dc7786a95.htm

[JerseyHighlander]

http://www.amazon.com/This-Kind-War-Fiftieth-Anniversary/dp/1574883348

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1574881612

This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Paperback
by T.R. Fehrenbach

[iowamark]

Whittaker Chambers’ 1952 autobiography “Witness” deals with the WWII - Cold War era and should be read by all Americans.

[X Fretensis]

The Supreme Commander by Stephen Ambrose. About Ike during the war.
Also Samuel Eliot Morrison’s multi volume history of US Naval Operations during WWII

[Conflict]

7 Roads to Hell - My favorites are first person accounts and this one is riveting. Of course Audie Murphy’s book is required.

Deathtraps - A tank mechanic’s take on the consequences on armored tactics and on the psyches of the tankers, of the decision to field many light tanks to fight the German behemoths.

A Fine Night for Tanks - An interesting account of Operation Totalize I. The Brits couldn’t get past the German A/T guns and decided to just drive past them at night and hope for the best.

[Pelham]

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

the first full narrative account of the Battle off Samar, which author James D. Hornfischer calls the greatest upset in the history of naval warfare.