Reddit reviews Das Boot: The Boat
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We found 5 Reddit comments about Das Boot: The Boat. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Definitely Generation Kill, to look into the dynamics of modern war. It's a seriously good, impartial, truthful and entertaining account of the first stages of the second Iraq war seen from the eyes of a battalion of first recon marines. Very well written, too.
War Nerd. Gary Brecher is a tongue-in-cheek military amateur analyst. His views on modern and past warfare are very lucid, albeit controversial and leftfield. His writing style is pretty original, kinda like the Hunter Thompson of war pundits. A backlog of his articles is also available online.
Making A Killing. It's the first person account of a British private security contractor in Iraq. I was expecting the worst when I read it, but it's actually very well written, informative and entertaining. Some of the lingo and drills described in the book actually helped me understand a lot of these videos.
Das Boot is my favourite war book, and it's an embedded reporter's account of a year in a german U-boat during the second world war.
There's always Das Boot, quite possibly the best submarine novel ever written (though Boomer, while neither WWII nor German nor based on fact, is a close second). Still, Das Boot is amazing.
If you want to know more about how ordinary German soldiers experienced the war, I recommend two books. Both are fictional, but strongly based on the personal memories of the veteran authors:
Then there is an autobiographical book called Die Brücke by Gregor Dorfmeister (aka Manfred Gregor) about six teenagers who were ordered to defend an insignificant bridge during the last days of the war.
Last but not least I recommend the movie Downfall if you want to know more about the difficulties of restructuring the Wehrmacht during the battle of Berlin. It is based on a nonfiction book by the renowned historian Joachim Fest.
I know these titles aren't exactly what you asked for, but I thought they might be helpful.
It's been a while but some that I remember:
I'm obsessed with the U-Boat war in the North Atlantic, so my vote goes to:
Das Boot: By Lothar Buchheim