Your favorite book/s
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Brother_Jonah
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They took evasive maneuvers when they shouldn't have due to the anti-aircraft fire on their final runs into the designated DZs, and ended up scattering the whole drop all over the place. I don't know if you call that cowardly or not, but that is what happened. I am a military history nut, and my favorite MH author is S.L.A. Marshall. That makes me a sucker for military SF as well, putting David Drake at the top of the combat sci-fi heap, followed by Rick Shelley, Keith Laumer (Bolo series), Timothy Zahn, Dan Abnet, and John Ringo.kramph said:As for Ambrose, he got into a lot of trouble with the way that he portrayed the pilots of the Dakotas for the paratroop drop. He protrayed them as cowardly and that they were primarily responsible for the scattering of men and material all over Normandy.
My best book vote must go to Eric Frank Russell and his "Next of Kin". Not the most serious book, but man that guy did a great job!!!
WhiskeyJack
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Oh- one more author- Michael Moorcock (or however the last name is spelled). The elric saga was just fantastic, and one of the best fantasy/tradgedies i've read. Some of his other work in the 'champion eternal' series got longwinded or overly convoluted, but the writing in the original elric saga was superb. I wish i could remember the titles (have the books at home- it apparently started in a serial magazine in britain a few decades ago though).
@Cauthon- when you say library- do you mean 'place to check out and return books' or 'bookstore'- i've had to ask before because i know some french/french canadians, and got confused as library/librarie was different from bibliotheque, and sometimes they lost it in the translation (that, and I can't remember what part of canada you're from). it would be nice if public libraries carried the books here, but they don't. hmmm...i might check out robert jordan though- that would be a less expensive way to get into the 'wheel of time' since I know so many that like it.
@Cauthon- when you say library- do you mean 'place to check out and return books' or 'bookstore'- i've had to ask before because i know some french/french canadians, and got confused as library/librarie was different from bibliotheque, and sometimes they lost it in the translation (that, and I can't remember what part of canada you're from). it would be nice if public libraries carried the books here, but they don't. hmmm...i might check out robert jordan though- that would be a less expensive way to get into the 'wheel of time' since I know so many that like it.