Greatest War Novels

[lizard]

Conn Iggledun's Emperor series. About the turbulent times surrounding Augustus Ceasar.

Bernard Cornwell writes some great stories...The Sharpe series about the Napoleonic wars, his Arthur trilogy, and the Quest for the Grail trilogy.

 

[Krilons Resa]

thanks guys. you all rule immensely.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I know, but thanks for pointing it out again.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

WAR AND PEACE

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

gay

 

[Thanatopsis123]

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

Tai Pan > Shogun

 

[Krilons Resa]

bump

 

[spaffe]

Ops, seems I read your instructions too hastly; I reckon that book I wrote about has quite a lot of bombs and other stuff you were uninterested in. Oh well, I'm sure it's good read anyway

 

[cthulufhtagn]

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.

i read shogun when i was 13, enjoyed it a lot as i recall

i dunno if i can rec some old-school warfare shitz but i wanna mention Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of Port Arthur, about the russo-japanese war (1904-05). it was written by a japanese soldier and originally published right after the war, so it's basically all japanese propoganda but it's still gritty as hell and it's fucking wieeiesssrreds to read...definitely worth checking out, not your usual perspective at all.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I wrote a paper on the Russo-Japanese war once. Man those Russians are fuck-ups.

 

[lizard]

if they didn't keep suckering morons into invading them during the winter, they'd be dog food by now.

 

[Krilons Resa]

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

I got this in the mail yesterday and boy do I have my work cut out for me. This fucking thing deserves the status: TEXTBOOK.