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Old 02-16-2020, 12:13 PM
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An SF buddy of mine is deploying to Ukraine in about a month. I want to put together a good care package for him, already added some good contraband . I also wanted to get him some good military history books, not modern stuff that would bother him but an optic on why the Crimea is important etc. Any suggestions?
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"Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara is an amazing account of the personal lives of several Civil War heroes. Would highly recommend it.
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You might have a look at the Naval & Military Press site, they have a vast array of books covering all eras. Based in the UK but they ship around the world. Lots of close-outs at very good prices.

https://www.naval-military-press.com/
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Relevant to the Crimea situation and Russia/Ukraine conflicts would be more a subject of regular history, not so much military history.
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I haven't served, so that may flavor what I think is good...

I've read several Confederate brigade histories that
I thought were awesome. The good times and the bad...
reading about the men of the McGowan Brigade near
the end of the war surviving on rancid cubes of fatback
yet fighting on and then being faced with Lee's surrender...

The brigade histories I'm speaking of weren't written by
historians later, rather, by men who served in the brigades.

History of McGowan's Brigade by Caldwell is one...

History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert is another...

-Mike
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I got nothing on Crimea, but... WWII?

The First Heroes by Craig Nelson - Doolittle's attack and his team
Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang by Vice Admiral Richard O'Kane - the most exciting monograph of a submarine's actions in the war in the Pacific
A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II by Harry Crosby, lead navigator of the 100th Bomb Group - probably the best monograph I've read on the subject of the Bomber war
A Higher Call by Adam Makos - crippled B-17 bomber crew meets veteran fighter pilot in his Messerschmitt fighter. What happens next? Hint: They meet forty years later.
Never Call Me a Hero by N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss - a posthumous monograph by the last pilot remaining from the battle of Midway who scored bomb hits on three Japanese ships in the battle. "A rare and precious gift from a significant warrior to his posterity." - Barrett Tillman
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill. British POWs engineer the escape of seventy-six officers from Stalag Luft III in Silesia. The result caused havoc within the German state as the police and Gestapo attempted to round them up.

Most are monographs, which are easy to read in small bits while working.

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A Soldier Looks Back: Memories and Reflections of a Combat Veteran, from Normandy to Afghanistan Dec 6, 2015
by Col Keith M. Nightingale (Ret)

We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway

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I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. He has various series he has done. They are very detailed and entertaining. A nice mix of strategy and detailed accounts of the men in the trenches.
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For WW2 ETO, just about anything by Stephen Ambrose.

For WW2, The Crimea specifically, “Where the Iron Crosses Grow” by Robert Forczyk get good reviews (I haven’t read it).
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You might have a look at the Naval & Military Press site, they have a vast array of books covering all eras. Based in the UK but they ship around the world. Lots of close-outs at very good prices.

https://www.naval-military-press.com/
Great link thanks!
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I got nothing on Crimea, but... WWII?

The First Heroes by Craig Nelson - Doolittle's attack and his team
Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang by Vice Admiral Richard O'Kane - the most exciting monograph of a submarine's actions in the war in the Pacific
A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II by Harry Crosby, lead navigator of the 100th Bomb Group - probably the best monograph I've read on the subject of the Bomber war
A Higher Call by Adam Makos - crippled B-17 bomber crew meets veteran fighter pilot in his Messerschmitt fighter. What happens next? Hint: They meet forty years later.
Never Call Me a Hero by N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss - a posthumous monograph by the last pilot remaining from the battle of Midway who scored bomb hits on three Japanese ships in the battle. "A rare and precious gift from a significant warrior to his posterity." - Barrett Tillman
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill. British POWs engineer the escape of seventy-six officers from Stalag Luft III in Silesia. The result caused havoc within the German state as the police and Gestapo attempted to round them up.

Most are monographs, which are easy to read in small bits while working.

Bob
Great ones, thanks. I had already read the Brickhill book b/c, news flash based on my avatar, McQueen is my favorite.
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'Moi vospominanii' by Alexei Brusilov. Mostly World War I but a lot on the Crimea before the war.

Also, General Denikin's autobiograpy, a lot about the Russian Civil War in that area.

Erich von Manstein's memoirs, 'lost victories' --- He commanded a corps or army in the Crimea in WWII.

Memoirs of General Pyotr Wrangel (he was a White General in the Crimea during the civil war, the last one to flee what then became the Soviet Union.)
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