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I didn't start this one! I'm innocent I tell you. Innocent!GrundleStiltzkin said:Hey fucknuts @pawz , take the malarkey elsewheres.
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Really really good chit this one.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/about-face-david-h-hackworth/1114220872?ean=9781982144043
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Autographed copy on my bookshelf.pawz said:Back to Book Club for @GrundleStiltzkin
Really really good chit this one.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/about-face-david-h-hackworth/1114220872?ean=9781982144043 -
Zeihan reads my shit.YellowSnow said:Recently finished Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning
Definitely recommend. I think he presses at times with some of his predictions, but even if he's only half right, the next 10- 20 are going to be interesting either way.
@UW_Doog_Bot would like for the Long China is bull shit hot takes.
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@GrundleStiltzkin this is a book for you buddy… Samurai is a world war 2 book from the perspective of the Japanese pilots [written by Japan’s greatest world war 2 ace] that flew the zero’s, which at that time was the worlds greatest war machine in the air. The other book for you is Iron Coffins which was written by German’s greatest Uboat commander and the only surviving uBoat at the end of the war. Two A+ books, you can thank me later.
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I’ve read 2 of Junger’s books in the last 6 months, War and Tribe.
War follows a platoon in Afghanistan that Junger was embedded with and Tribe follows inspired conversations he had with members of the platoon after they came home.
Tribe only lightly touches on those conversations and it’s a rather short book at 135 pages.
If I could remember how to update the HH Book List, I’d add it.
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@TheRoarOfTheCrowd got an author's name for "Samurai"? There's a million books with that in title. Irregardless, mahalo.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:@GrundleStiltzkin this is a book for you buddy… Samurai is a world war 2 book from the perspective of the Japanese pilots [written by Japan’s greatest world war 2 ace] that flew the zero’s, which at that time was the worlds greatest war machine in the air. The other book for you is Iron Coffins which was written by German’s greatest Uboat commander and the only surviving uBoat at the end of the war. Two A+ books, you can thank me later.
Please give me one back that you know that I’ve never read after you read these. Thanks. -
Sorry, Ieft the exclamation point off of the end… details matter. Here is the book…
Also available in another edition which i think is cheaper, this is just what i have…
Here is the paperback..
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Thanks, I shall procure.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:Sorry, Ieft the exclamation point off of the end… details matter. Here is the book…
Also available in another edition which i think is cheaper, this is just what i have…
Here is the paperback..
As for suggestions for you...
If you're looking for military, I recently finished Generation Kill for the third time, outstanding. Earlier in the fall, Ireadlistened to GJ Meyer's Great War books, World Undone and The World Remade, there might be a third. Those are a little less battles and more big picture. I underappreciated WW1's impact on US politics, and what a fuckass Wilson was. The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club about Naval flyers (hai @swaye!!) in Vietnam but also about the fuckery. Masters of Air, about the 9th(?) Air Force Group in Europe, pretty damned harrowing at tims.
Overall best books I've read recently are Peter Zeihan's.
Misc: T by Carole Hooven, about testosterone. The accounts of women->transmen starting T are fascinating. Tough Luck, RD Rosen, about Sid Luckman and the evolution of football. Paradise, Lizzie Johson, about the Paradise, CA fire, terrifying. Zero Fail, Carol Leoning, a rather skeptical look at the history of the Secret Service (yeah, they fucksups too). Enemies, Tim Weiner, about the FBI's history of malarkey, actually paired well with Meyer's The World Remade.
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Here are 2 more while I’m at.. these are written with the first person opponents perspective which i like… books liked this are not all of what i like, but i do like this kind of perspective.
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There is a hardback of this with the same publishing date out there as well…
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@GrundleStiltzkin [see the above other 3 books] Ok, I know I’m going on and on with multiple shitposting but here is another great first person account… guys that lived to tell the story later that were key people…
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I could tell.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Zeihan reads my shit.YellowSnow said:Recently finished Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning
Definitely recommend. I think he presses at times with some of his predictions, but even if he's only half right, the next 10- 20 are going to be interesting either way.
@UW_Doog_Bot would like for the Long China is bull shit hot takes. -
Thank you, appreciate the ideas…GrundleStiltzkin said:
Thanks, I shall procure.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:Sorry, Ieft the exclamation point off of the end… details matter. Here is the book…
Also available in another edition which i think is cheaper, this is just what i have…
Here is the paperback..
As for suggestions for you...
If you're looking for military, I recently finished Generation Kill for the third time, outstanding. Earlier in the fall, Ireadlistened to GJ Meyer's Great War books, World Undone and The World Remade, there might be a third. Those are a little less battles and more big picture. I underappreciated WW1's impact on US politics, and what a fuckass Wilson was. The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club about Naval flyers (hai @swaye!!) in Vietnam but also about the fuckery. Masters of Air, about the 9th(?) Air Force Group in Europe, pretty damned harrowing at tims.
Overall best books I've read recently are Peter Zeihan's.
Misc: T by Carole Hooven, about testosterone. The accounts of women->transmen starting T are fascinating. Tough Luck, RD Rosen, about Sid Luckman and the evolution of football. Paradise, Lizzie Johson, about the Paradise, CA fire, terrifying. Zero Fail, Carol Leoning, a rather skeptical look at the history of the Secret Service (yeah, they fucksups too). Enemies, Tim Weiner, about the FBI's history of malarkey, actually paired well with Meyer's The World Remade. -
Just saw a show on the American History Channel on this and will read this soon
National Guard battalion with stood Hitler's plan to cream Patton and drive the allies out of Normandy. 450 men held off 4 Panzer divisions and 12,000 German troops for 5 days. -
I won’t even try to describe the book other than saying it took 5-6 days to read, captured my attention and was like a roller coaster ride of emotions with the stories of people in survival mode.
Here’s the back cover description.
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Finally getting caught up on watching 💕My boyfriend💞 John Krasinski’s Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime, and it prompted me to start re-reading all the Tom Clancy books, beginning with Red Storm Rising.
Which has also sent me down some fun YouTube rabbit holes.
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The part you left out was that it was autographed by Ignacio AnayaCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Autographed copy on my bookshelf.pawz said:Back to Book Club for @GrundleStiltzkin
Really really good chit this one.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/about-face-david-h-hackworth/1114220872?ean=9781982144043 -
Way to ruin the surprise.DerekJohnson said:
The part you left out was that it was autographed by Ignacio AnayaCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Autographed copy on my bookshelf.pawz said:Back to Book Club for @GrundleStiltzkin
Really really good chit this one.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/about-face-david-h-hackworth/1114220872?ean=9781982144043 -
Great suggestion @GrundleStiltzkin, Masters of the Air is an epic tale of the newly formed origins and evolution of the 8th American Air core + the surprisingly relentless impact of the RAF [who knew] in the battle over Western Europe to achieve control of the air ~ love the book, generation kill is next.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Thanks, I shall procure.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:Sorry, Ieft the exclamation point off of the end… details matter. Here is the book…
Also available in another edition which i think is cheaper, this is just what i have…
Here is the paperback..
As for suggestions for you...
If you're looking for military, I recently finished Generation Kill for the third time, outstanding. Earlier in the fall, Ireadlistened to GJ Meyer's Great War books, World Undone and The World Remade, there might be a third. Those are a little less battles and more big picture. I underappreciated WW1's impact on US politics, and what a fuckass Wilson was. The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club about Naval flyers (hai @swaye!!) in Vietnam but also about the fuckery. Masters of Air, about the 9th(?) Air Force Group in Europe, pretty damned harrowing at tims.
Overall best books I've read recently are Peter Zeihan's.
Misc: T by Carole Hooven, about testosterone. The accounts of women->transmen starting T are fascinating. Tough Luck, RD Rosen, about Sid Luckman and the evolution of football. Paradise, Lizzie Johson, about the Paradise, CA fire, terrifying. Zero Fail, Carol Leoning, a rather skeptical look at the history of the Secret Service (yeah, they fucksups too). Enemies, Tim Weiner, about the FBI's history of malarkey, actually paired well with Meyer's The World Remade. -
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
I am now seeing from my own shit above this is the same guym who wrote about the Epphh Bee Eye.
The author's view of the CIA is so dim that I feel like I need to find something else for balance.
Chort, reading the first review now on GoodReads:But any work of journalism, to be regarded as great, must be objective and here is the problem with this book: it is such a pervasivley negative account, it reports that the CIA is so off the charts bad, that a reader wonders if Weiner is just slamming them page after page. Surely in over 60 years of service the CIA has done something right.
I think some of the Tug denizens might cheer this grim assessment. But at the same tim, the CIA as depicted in the book can't rig a tinpot South American election.
There's some hilarious chincompetence depicted. I already can't remember what shithole country it was, but a female ambassador was doing things the CIA didn't care for. Agents bugged her office, taped the ambassador making lovey dovey sounds directed at a female name, and leaked it as the ambassador having a lesbian affair with her secretary. Nope, she was petting her dwag.
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Chincompetent government agencies capable of pulling off the most intricate of conspiracies and keeping secrets for 60 plus years always makes me chortle.GrundleStiltzkin said:Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
I am now seeing from my own shit above this is the same guym who wrote about the Epphh Bee Eye.
The author's view of the CIA is so dim that I feel like I need to find something else for balance.
Chort, reading the first review now on GoodReads:But any work of journalism, to be regarded as great, must be objective and here is the problem with this book: it is such a pervasivley negative account, it reports that the CIA is so off the charts bad, that a reader wonders if Weiner is just slamming them page after page. Surely in over 60 years of service the CIA has done something right.
I think some of the Tug denizens might cheer this grim assessment. But at the same tim, the CIA as depicted in the book can't rig a tinpot South American election.
There's some hilarious chincompetence depicted. I already can't remember what shithole country it was, but a female ambassador was doing things the CIA didn't care for. Agents bugged her office, taped the ambassador making lovey dovey sounds directed at a female name, and leaked it as the ambassador having a lesbian affair with her secretary. Nope, she was petting her dwag.
Anyhow, as far as technical writing gifts go, well-written book. And everything is attributed. I do wonder what was left out. -
Really been enjoying Pearlman's book about the Showtime era Lakers (HBO series "Winning Time" was based off this book).
I was a YUGE Lakers fan as a yoot in the mid - 80's and yet little Yella didn't know who the fuck Jack McKinney or how Dr. Buss got rich.
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Finally bought Heat 2. Have heard nothing but great things about it.
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@CFetters_Nacho_Lover in honor of the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on this Wednesday, I just finished Max Hasting's epic on Vietnam.
It's a little dense on spots and not for the feint of heart with ADHD, but I found it incredibly helpful in adding to my knowledge of that clusterfuck.
Hastings remains the finest military historian of our time.
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Read it a few years ago. Great job telling the entire story of American involvement.
If you’re not read it, I also recommend Bright Shining Lie.
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Waiting for the sequel: Victoria Nuland and America in Ukraine.
TITTT, I know.
But I'm right too.
Try also "How to Hide an Empire" by Daniel Immerwahr.
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Ukraine via-a-vis Vietnam is a poor analogy, however. TITTT.
16,000 American (mostly conscript) grunts didn't die in Ukraine last year (i.e., the 1968 body count for the US). The Ukrainians have mostly held off the Ruskies w/o US troops or deployment of US Air Power.
The ARVN relied heavily on both.
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The Vietnamese would have been far better offer staying as a French colony and getting independence down the road. Probably would have happened by the 70's or 80s.
Those guys who signed on with Uncle Ho ultimately made their country much worse off than otherwise would have been the case.
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Looks like Spotify can read How to Hide and Empire to me for story time!!
