Greatest War Novels

[Krilons Resa]

...besides The Illiad. I'm talking old-school war action. Not anything revolving around the time period of the last 200 years or so with guys firing rifles at each other and dropping bombs. I'm talking real war. Gimme.

 

[NAD]

some day i'll read Thucydides' Peloponnesian War books, several of my favorite professors were always discussing how important/good/whatever they were.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

anything about Hannibal/Caesar would own.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Google a book called "Lion of Ireland," it's fucking awesome. About the coming together of all the different Irish clans to fight off the invading viking hordes.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Just ordered.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Google a book called "Lion of Ireland," it's fucking awesome. About the coming together of all the different Irish clans to fight off the invading viking hordes.

That's a big 10.4

 

[Krilons Resa]

Anyone ever read SHOGUN?

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Meaning you'll check it out, or you already know about it and agree that it rules?

It's a lot like Braveheart in print, only less Hollywood-ish. The author, who's name I'm too lazy to go look up, is a famous Irish/Celtic battle history guy, from what I remember.

Also, I know you said to NOT recommend "modern" war books, but in all seriousness, a guy named Eric Harry wrote a book (his debut) called "Arc Light" which will RULE YOUR FUCKEN FACE OFF. It's a hypothetical WWIII scenario, and I swear on my CD collection that it's amazing, one of my favorite books of all time.

 

[Birkenau]

LORD OF THE RINGS

 

[NAD]

speaking of modern war books sucking but maybe some are still good, a fellow bookfag friend of mine always recommends Gates of Fire to anyone and everyone. i haven't read it yet.

on line i remember (i've read like, a page or two) is "it loved to happen." fuckin cool.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Meaning you'll check it out, or you already know about it and agree that it rules?

It's a lot like Braveheart in print, only less Hollywood-ish. The author, who's name I'm too lazy to go look up, is a famous Irish/Celtic battle history guy, from what I remember.

Also, I know you said to NOT recommend "modern" war books, but in all seriousness, a guy named Eric Harry wrote a book (his debut) called "Arc Light" which will RULE YOUR FUCKEN FACE OFF. It's a hypothetical WWIII scenario, and I swear on my CD collection that it's amazing, one of my favorite books of all time.

Wow. Sounds interesting.

I meant, I'll check it out. Seems good and has tons of great reviews and some people do actually bring up the Braveheart similarities. The author is a female, btw who seems to really research her shit.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

 

[Krilons Resa]

LORD OF THE RINGS

No Orcs, Warlocks, Wizards, Elfs, or Gnomes aloud.


Well, maybe David the Gnome.

 

[Krilons Resa]

speaking of modern war books sucking but maybe some are still good, a fellow bookfag friend of mine always recommends Gates of Fire to anyone and everyone. i haven't read it yet.

on line i remember (i've read like, a page or two) is "it loved to happen." fuckin cool.

Thats about Sparta, etc. No?

 

[Krilons Resa]

This book sounds amazing. SHOGUN

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...8972-6273646?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

 

[NAD]

Thats about Sparta, etc. No?

aye. it looks pretty cool, i'll read it some day.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I tried reading Shogun, albeit when I was considerably younger, and I thought it was the most boring piece of crap on earth (keep in mind, I read LOTR when I was 13, so challenging reading wasn't ever something I shied away from). It was just...blech

Maybe I should try again some day.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Shogun was pretty fucking excellent; the rest of the Asian Saga mostly considerably less so.

 

[neal]

Anyone ever read SHOGUN?

yes, and it fucking rules.

 

[spaffe]

Not that I've read it (though I've been meaning to for a long time), but I'd say go for Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel. After returning from the trenches of the first world war this decorated officer/philosopher/novelist did not write an account of the horrors of the war like that whimp loco: ) Erich Maria Remarque, but rather of it qualites as an extraordinary (almost spiritual) experience.