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Your Sci-Fi/Military/Adventure Book Must Read List

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  1. May 15, 2018 at 4:00 PM
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    This is a good thread. Not a lot to add to it, but when I'm in between heavy reading I'll find myself running though a WEB Griffin series. Half done with book 3 of his most recent series, with his son. The books are a bit goofy and a bit predictable. But they're fast to read and reasonably entertaining.
     
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    Honestly, reading WEB Griffin's books as a teenager probably had a lot to do with me going into the Army. I really enjoy them. Now that I'm on audible I ended up rebuying all his books on audible and I end up running through the series at least once a year.
     
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    Also, most of you have probably never heard of Steven Brust but I love his Vlad Taltos series so much that Jhereg ended up on my license plate.

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    Finished John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series. Incredibly good.
     
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  5. Aug 26, 2018 at 2:42 PM
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    Love Brust and have read almost everything that he's written from Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille to The Good Guys and of course the entire Taltos series. Nice pick for a license plate. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
     
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    Do these military books have to be fiction?
     
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  7. Aug 27, 2018 at 3:25 AM
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    I just started reading the Four Horsemen series. First book is Cartwright's Cavaliers and they are all free with Kindle unlimited. Pretty good, light hearted series with aliens that are usually an analogue to some Earth creature. Lots of mecha type warfare and clever humans defeating superior alien tech.
     
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    Don't think so. Many military books I've read have been autobiographies.

    My favorite is Carlos Hathcock, Marine Sniper. He downplays everything in his own book, but others in other books tell the whole story and, holy shit, the man could shoot.
     
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    EDIT
    Yeah, I read enough fiction about the military on CNN's website. As for recent reading...

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    The Killer Angels (Gettysburg - Pulitzer Prize Fiction 1975)
    War and Peace (Napoleonic Wars Russia)
    Sharps Rifles series (Napoleonic Wars British)
     
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    If anyone is interested in the golden age of sail, the Hornblower series is fantastic. Just great writing, epic, and with some outstanding leadership lessons.
     
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    The Alan Lewrie novels are really good as well. Of course the Aubrey/Maturin series is the gold standard.
     
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    Blind Man's Bluff -- Non-fiction account of American Submarine espionage during the Cold war. This will amaze you with some of the things the USN has done!
    Chicken Hawk -- Account of the "helicopter's role during the war in Viet Nam. Great read -- I was told by an actual pilot who flew the Hueys in Nam, that this was the most accurate account of that part of Viet Nam.
    One Day Too Long -- account of the overrun and destruction of a Top secret Nav-aid site in Laos during Viet Nam. Good read of a battle site manned by USAF Security Service people (who I can tell you from experience -were vastly UNDER-Trained for combat. Sad but true story!
    There is one more on Aircraft RECON during the cold war --but I will have to look that one up
    Good reading!!

    Edit: The name of the other book: "The Price of Vigilance".
    This is a recount and tell all of the airborne intelligence gathering during the cold war. I can attest to the reality and truthfulness of this one as I was a Crew member (AMT) on the RC135's in 1970-71 in SEA.
     
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  14. Sep 14, 2018 at 7:36 AM
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    Read The Brotherhood of War. That's about it. I liked it. Would read others. I concur with your description.
     
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    A great book about what was/is? done on the USAF RC135s. "Hognose Silent Warrior" by G.F. Schreader . Great read for folks wanting to know anything about the airwar and airborne intelligence gathering above Viet Nam in the closing years
     
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    No shit? My dad was in-flight avionics maintenance on those for several years. I lived it years later in my own career (cyber and operational intel).

    I stilll hate all the years we lived in Nebraska.

    Gonna have to find that for my dad.
     
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