Books on war

[Keith Webb]

Good call Cliff

I interviewed Alan at Corowa in 2004 and you can watch it on the Year of the Studebaker DVD. He is quite an interesting gentleman.

Originally Posted by cliff

Convoys Up the Track by Alan Smith is a good read. Alan was an Officer with one of the Transport Companys delivering supplys to Darwin during the early stages of the war when the Japanese were bombing Darwin. He also has another book as well but I don't have it.

[Ganmain Tony]

You are about to enter a world that you may never return from. There are literally millions of books ( no pun intended ).

One I am in the middle of reading is called the Autobiography of the British Soldier by John Lewis-Stempel. Re-telling actual accounts by soldiers who were there from the battle of Agincourt to Basra.

If youre into the History, using fictional characters, but put into real events. Buy everything by Bernard Cornwall. He has written many books, one of his best series are the Sharpe books which follow Sir Arthur Wellesley (The Duke of Wellington) from his Indian Campaign through Spain, Portugal and then finally to Waterloo. You'll feel like you donned the Scarlet Jacket and then the legendary Green Jacket of the 95th Rifles Regiment and walked across two continents. Not mention enduring the hardships & terrifying battles.

The other series of his I liked was the one on the Danish invasion of England during the reign of Alfred the Great.

Another book is "Warlords" concerning Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Hitler its a cracker & will open your eyes as to who orchestrated major events that shaped the next 60 years of how people lived in the world after WW2.

There are just so many - Two Centuries of Warfare is brilliant.

Con Iggulden wrote a great series on Julius Ceaser called 'Emperor'. An Italian Professor by the name of Manfredi wrote some great novels on Alexander the Great. The list goes on............

[cliff]

Ah Tony you have similar reading traits to me as I have read most of the books you mention as well as Alexander Kents books on all the naval battles of the 1700-1800's which are fasinating as well.

[Willanthry]

As everyone above has said, there's too many books to count; as far as the Great War is concerned, if you want another point of view, try "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Sadly it's not a particularly long book, but it is a fascinating account of the Great War from the point of view of a group of German soldiers.

Also definetly read the Sharpe novels, they are a great books!

[hrpearce]

Thank you for all the sugestions so far.
I have now finished Harry Hartnett's book and in my opinion it is a good insight into the horrors of war and what our soldures went through to protect our way of life.
I will now start on Howard's sugestion "Voices of War."
Has anyone else read the two I have read so far?