WWI book help?
I read a post about it several years ago on Parallax's somewhere but I can not find it after much searching. Want to add this to my "need to read" pile.It was a memoir written by a German soldier in...
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Ugg! Went thru all 36 pages of posts of this forum and can find no trace of the German's name or the book. Might be somewhere else in Bill's site.Hoping for help!
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I'm not sure about the post but the diary of Ernst Junger is a very graphic description of his life in the trenches. He wrote: "Storm of Steel" and refined it for the literary world, but it has been...
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You might try looking though the book forum. Here's a link to it. http://milsurpshooter.net/forums/105/CR-related-books-magazines-and-periodicals
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I re-read the book - very graphic! I understand his diaries are to be published, but in German for the time being. Not sure if they will be translated or not. His are supposed to be the only diaries...
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Unexploded ordinance, from both World Wars, ia an occupationsl hazard for farmers or other dirt working/excavating personnel in France to this day. They are still pulling it out of and periodically...
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Nug & Trap: I should have been more specific, I went through the mil history forum and the book forum and could not find it. Maybe I saw it on another site and I have finally lost my marbles....
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Another good book is: "Sniping in the Great War". The author was able to interview some of the snipers from WWI before they passed. He goes into the equipment used and the different makers of sniper...
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Wow Trap! The sniping book looks even better, I am going to have to get that one too.
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Someday, if I get ambitious, I'll dig out my books on WWI and list them. Of course, the classic was "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Interesting that Adolf Hitler spent more...
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Somebody had to be the "op-for." Like as not, some of my Croatian relatives were most likely allied with, well, not the "Allies" in WWII.
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