Could anyone recommend a good book about the horrors of war?
Could anyone recommend a good book about the horrors of war?
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The Thin Red Line.
It doesn't lay the horrors on thick, but its matter of factness about war can be sickening if you think about it a lot.
I read a book about the tunnel rats in Vietnam. It was alright but I can't remember the name.
Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Read excerpts of this in a history class and there's a lot of carnage described
Also, watch this
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This is based on Pulitzer Prize based reporting on the warcrimes committed by 1st Battalion (Airborne), 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade (Separate), 101st Airborne Division, who were assigned seek and destroy missions in highly populated areas. They are the ones from which the whole "string of ears" thing came from.
my diary tbqhwyf
Just read the Wiki's of subreddits which concern themselves with history/war, they usually have pretty good book suggestions.
This.
In Stahlgewittern
Catch 22
>Good
Nevermind
celine nigga
Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
This is about the Canadian Peacekeeping mission to Rwanda.
First hand accounts of the genocidal brutality that happened there. It was hard to read.
This has a happy ending.
Great book. Belgians a shit
>Canadians.
NO.
Came here to post this
hardly
All Quiet on the Western Front
Blood Meridian
And you might as well read The Road while you're at it
the little prince
Black Hawk Down
>that one poor guy having an undetonated rpg tube lodged in his torso, still alive, doctors refused to operate in feat of it exploding
With the Old Breed
Storm of Steel