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First /h/lit what are you reading thread

I'm beating the jannies to the punch for that sweet, sweet dramacoin

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I'm reading This Kind of War a history of the Korean War recommended by Mattis. It's an older book so has some very dated terminology, and an older way of thinking. But pretty solid so far, very play by play.

I've been on a huge non-fiction kick recently reading Rampage (about Japan in the Philippines.) A book about the fall of Japan whose name I don't remember

and before that The Franco Prussian War by Wawro. I've liked all of them with Rampage being the hardest to read due to crazy Japanese crimes. I think the last fiction book I read was Medicus a Roman murder mystery that was really enjoyable.

Dramatards what y'all reading?

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I’m not actually reading anything at the moment, though I hope to get some suggestions.

The last military books I read were Guns of August, which is about WWI, and something like One Soldier’s War, which is an autobiography about a Russian soldier in Chechnya. Guns of August was good, though I think it limited itself in scope by only talking about 1914. One Soldier’s War was interesting and shows just how poorly managed the Russian military was (and probably still is). I felt bad for the main character until he voluntarily re-enlisted for the second war, which I didn’t understand at all.

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>One Soldier’s War

This was a great book. Really interesting view into Russian military culture. Author is out of Russia and persona non-grata now.

If you liked those two you'd love Storm of Steel. One of the best war memoirs I've ever read. Written by Ernst Junger about his experiences in WWI

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I started One Soldier’s War because of a dramanaut recommendation a few months ago. Might have been from you actually.

I’ll look into Storm of Steel.

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My only suggestions are All Quiet on the Western Front and Slaughterhouse Five

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All Quiet on the Western Front is good. I watched the Netflix movie recently but they really botched the ending.

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The book is so bleak but that's what makes it good

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Really upset actually about what happened to the Netflix movie. I loved the original in black and white, I feel like Netflix stamped out the anti war message and went for an action movie instead. To me it looked shot for shot like a remake of 1917 which I liked much better

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Read Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger. It is the absolute best book you can read to get a “feel” for a soldier in the trench of WW1. You also get a good feel on Junger’s persona if you decide to read into his later years and philosophy. Here’s a wiki overview of it:

It was originally printed privately in 1920, making it one of the first personal accounts to be published. The book is a graphic account of trench warfare. It was largely devoid of editorialization when first published, but was heavily revised several times. The book established Jünger's fame as a writer in the 1920s. The judgment of contemporaries and later critics reflects the ambivalence of the work, which describes the war in all its brutality, but neither expressly condemns it nor goes into its political causes. It can be read affirmatively, neutrally or as an anti-war book.

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