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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 12:12:21 AM   
Greco, Thomas A


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Status: offline 		How about "The Corps" series by WEB Griffin. Half Navy and half Marines. Long on fiction, but damn entertaining.  Romance Novels for men. Eat some steak and eggs, bed a virgin, then go fight the Japs for the Cactus air force. Or, "Winds of War" and "War and Rememberance" by Herman Wouk. Solid history of the global war from an American naval officers perspective. I can't help looking for Cpt Pug Henry's picture when I see old photo groupings of l officers at Casablanca or Yalta. But, at three volumes and 2000 pages, it takes a commitment,

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 12:19:19 AM   
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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 12:30:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lorei - "Sea With" a Jap Fiction War movie... its so funny to watch as this sub surfaces right off the Island from with B-29 with A bomb on board takes off... and then it is shoot down by the sub... so what that there are ten's of destroyers around

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 12:32:03 AM   
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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 12:48:36 AM   
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How about "The Corps" series by WEB Griffin. Half Navy and half Marines. Long on fiction, but damn entertaining. Romance Novels for men. Eat some steak and eggs, bed a virgin, then go fight the Japs for the Cactus air force.


LOL - great read. Great description, too. However, you left out have a shot of Famous Grouse.

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 1:38:53 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Greco, Thomas A

How about "The Corps" series by WEB Griffin. Half Navy and half Marines. Long on fiction, but damn entertaining. Romance Novels for men. Eat some steak and eggs, bed a virgin, then go fight the Japs for the Cactus air force.


LOL - great read. Great description, too. However, you left out have a shot of Famous Grouse.


Yeah - if you like Soap Operas, this should be your cup of tea...

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 12:18:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think Douglas Reeman also wrote under the pseudonym Alexander Kent. Great books on Revolutionary/Napoleanic era sailing warfare.

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 2:11:20 PM   
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I have read all of the Hornblower series at least twice. I also read Captain from Conneticutt, the Good Shepherd, Sink the Bismark and one the title of which I can't recall. It was about a RN seaman who as a prisoner on a German cruiser escaped while they were making repairs and delayed them long enough as a sniper to let a RN squadron find them. Good books all.

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 4:10:07 PM   
joey


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Status: offline 		"torpedo run" and "Away all boats" are the best I have seen.

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 4:22:28 PM   
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My favorite naval fiction book is:

HMS Ulysses
by Alistair Maclean

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0449140830/qid=1149945515/sr=1-21/ref=sr_1_21/002-3669996-2872813?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

It is about fictitious RN light cruiser protecting fictitious convoy for Russia... outstanding book... I have read it many times since I was a child (I "discovered" it at age of 12 I think)...


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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 4:28:55 PM   
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And yes, of course, there is "wholly trinity" of German U-Boot books that no one should miss!

Das Boot
by Lothar Gunther Buchheim

Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
by Herbert A Werner

Sharks and Little Fish
by Wolfgang Ott


The third book is little known (i.e. at least 100x less than first two I mentioned above) but is truly a masterpiece and worth reading!


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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 5:02:01 PM   
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I read Bas Boot and Iron Coffins in college. I agree, very good books. I have not read the third one. I may try to find it. Thanks.

Bruce

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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 5:20:16 PM   
Apollo11


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I read Bas Boot and Iron Coffins in college. I agree, very good books. I have not read the third one. I may try to find it.


Bruce here is the Amazon link (just 10$ for paperback):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585748099/qid=1149945947/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-3669996-2872813?s=books&v=glance&n=283155


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RE: Favorite WWII naval historical fiction - 6/10/2006 8:29:30 PM   
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Apollo 11;

Thank you. Will place order

Bruce

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