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u/InquisitorCOC · 59 pointsr/HPfanfiction

>but do you really want 11 to 16-year-olds to act like real people their age?

My answer is NO. I don't want to read about average teens.

People should realize the Trio was anything but average. Average teens would have long collapsed under the pressure they were in. Ron, the most average of the three, also gets the most hate.

On the other hand, teenagers are perfectly capable of becoming vicious killers. Read this book and you will find out.

u/VA_Network_Nerd · 45 pointsr/USMCboot

The meme response is to advise you to apply judicious quantities of alcohol until the feelings subside.

Your feelings sound perfectly rational to me.

Many Commandants as well as Gen Mattis have advocated for learning from those who have gone before us from their teachings recorded in books & stories.

You might find some comfort in the stories of those who have already walked this path.

https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Brother-Major-Winters-Brothers/dp/0451218396

https://www.amazon.com/One-Bullet-Away-Making-Officer/dp/0618773436/

https://www.amazon.com/Helmet-My-Pillow-Parris-Pacific/dp/1977052304/

https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419063/

https://www.amazon.com/Im-Staying-My-Boys-Basilone/dp/0312611447/

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Before you engage your chain of command, I encourage you to seek out a more junior combat veteran in your unit and discuss your unease.

I'm not saying "Don't engage your CoC." I'm suggesting you try getting guidance from a pseudo-peer first.

u/Rocky-Rocks · 9 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

Many did, and they were called "The Old Breed"

Read me

u/zamander · 4 pointsr/AskHistorians

In addition to Leckie, who got injured by a blast during the landings(if I recall correctly), a good autobiography is also Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, which has a significan portion of it about the fighting in Peleliu, which was his first battle as a marine.

Of course, the series The Pacific, has many episodes on Peleliu, as the series is partially adapted from Leckie's and Sledge's memoirs and both are central characters in it. Of course, it is a tv series, so not perhaps as precise as one would want. The tie-in book by Hugh Ambrose, The Pacific, is quite detailed and would at least be a stepping stone. Leckie's book might be more detailed with the information you're after.

u/mrmojorisingi · 3 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

Album, including abandoned artillery and tanks

This building was where the generals planned much of the Japanese operation in the Pacific. The Japanese kept what was thought to be a highly strategic airstrip on Peleliu. This led to one of the bloodiest battles of WWII, and one that has sadly escaped much public recognition. Even more tragically, it eventually became clear that the battle for the runway was mostly for nothing because the runway was not as important as the Americans had thought.

My wife and I traveled there for our honeymoon after reading the excellent and grisly account of the battle, With the Old Breed.

u/Numena · 2 pointsr/AskMen

War memoirs are extremely interesting to read, you should read the two books that the TV show "The Pacific" is based on! I totally loved reading the memoir of Dick Winters and Eugene Sledge, going to work through Robert Leckies book soon!

A helmet for my pillow

With the old Breed

u/landfc · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge. The author was there and the book is said to be one of the best accounts by an enlisted soldier (non-officer) of the war.

“In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns (from the amazon page)

u/drantic · 2 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

His book is - http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410533275&sr=8-1&keywords=with+old+breed

Its a great book. The book was used for HBO's "The Pacific". All of these guys that went and fought are heroes.

u/Russell_Jimmy · 1 pointr/gifs

The 101st was no secret.

They were badass as fuck and the Krauts knew it.

Your comment still kicks ass, though!

If you haven't read Donald R. Burgett's series of first-person accounts, YOU MUST!

Curahee! A Screaming Eagle at Normandy is the first one.

It's the With The Old Breed by E.B. Sledge of the ETO.

u/LOWANDLAZY57 · 1 pointr/Military
u/Dynascape · 1 pointr/TotalReddit

Starship Troopers is good stuff.

I've been on a WW2 history kick. Three different books I've been reading a few chapters of each night:

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge.

Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds by Christina Olds.