Grand unified books thread

[jimmy olsen]

I'm up to Book of 9 of Jordan's Wheel of Time.

You guys probably all hate it but I don't care, you are all snobs.

The ending of book 9 is fucking awesome.

Book 10 is slow and not much happens, but book 11-13 are some of the best in the series.

[The Brain]

Just started to read a book on medieval political history and turns out the author is openly gay!

[Darth Wagtaros]

I'm up to Book of 9 of Jordan's Wheel of Time.

You guys probably all hate it but I don't care, you are all snobs.

The ending of book 9 is fucking awesome.

Book 10 is slow and not much happens, but book 11-13 are some of the best in the series.

Once someone else took a stronger hand in it yes. 

[11B4V]

Looking for opinions on any of the following.
   
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren

The Crossing of the Suez, Revised Edition
by Saad Shazly

WAR OF ATONEMENT: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War
by Chaim Herzog

The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
by Abraham Rabinovich

Duel for the Golan: The 100-Hour Battle That Saved Israel
Ashner

I have read through the years that I remember;
Arab-Israeli Wars(Herzog)
On the Banks of the Suez
Tanks of Tammuz
Fire and Steel: Israel's 7th Armored Brigade
Heights of Courage
No Victor, No Vanquished.

[Malthus]

Looking for opinions on any of the following.
   
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren

The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
by Abraham Rabinovich

I've read these two and they were both very good. More focussed on the politics than on the military action, perhaps, but all the better for that.

[11B4V]

Looking for opinions on any of the following.
   
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren

The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
by Abraham Rabinovich

I've read these two and they were both very good. More focussed on the politics than on the military action, perhaps, but all the better for that.

Thank ya Sir

[CountDeMoney]

Looking for opinions on any of the following.
   
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

I think this one is the best I've read of the conflict.

[garbon]

I've been reading To End All Wars about WW1 with a lot of focus on the anti-war movement. Pretty interesting - though also its the first book I've read about WW1.

[CountDeMoney]

I've been reading To End All Wars about WW1 with a lot of focus on the anti-war movement. Pretty interesting - though also its the first book I've read about WW1.

What I found most fascinating about the anti-war movement in WW1 was the number of organized women's movements, and how so much of the suffrage movement spilled over into it.

Alas, a lot of good trade unionists and socialists took it on the chin back then.

[The Brain]

its the first book I've read about WW1.

Whaaaa...???!?

[11B4V]

its the first book I've read about WW1.

Whaaaa...???!?

Ya, know what interest me about WW1 is the Naval and Air shit. I find the land conflict...well boring. I find those parts of WW1 I like odd. Backwards to conflicts that followed.

[Syt]

Ya, know what interest me about WW1 is the Naval and Air shit. I find the land conflict...well boring. I find those parts of WW1 I like odd. Backwards to conflicts that followed.

Read about the more fluid Eastern Front, then, or "The White War" about the struggle between Italy and Austria-Hungary in absolutely horrendous terrain.

[Admiral Yi]

Looking for opinions on any of the following.
   
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren

Enjoyed this.

The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
by Abraham Rabinovich

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Did not enjoy this.  I don't need to know the name of every tank commander in the whole fucking IDF.

The author also had a tendency to overdramatize Israeli losses.  "The 6th battalion lost 29 of 32 tanks in their ill-planned attack.  The next morning the 6th battalion attacked again with 28 tanks."

[Darth Wagtaros]

I also recommend the Oren book.

[Ed Anger]

Keegan died.