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Cycle adventure, overland journey , factual war books writen by people that were there, music autobiographies etc.
He wasn't there, but I cannot recommend the work of Ben Macintyre highly enough. Especially Operation Mincemeat.
War:
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
History of a WW1 sniper by the man himself.
Makes you glad you weren't there...
For music I heard the Bret Anderson one was a very good read
If you haven’t read ‘A Man Called Intrepid’ by William Stephenson, you really must.
The Allies’ master spy during WWII.
Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
Quite simply the best WW2 memoir ever written.
£2.99 for the Kindle edition is a no brainer.
Makes you glad you weren’t there…
Ernest was though. He enjoyed WW1.
Two good tips there!
Of course, for war stories from people who were there, GMF also transcribed the Flashman Papers. Quite the first hand account...
Not exactly what you're after but a factual war book
Churchills Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was a brilliant read, not my usual thing at all but really enjoyed it.
These are really fantastic books. ^
Chickenhawk, Robert Mason, memoirs of a chopper pilot in the Vietnam war.
Once There Was A War, John Steinbeck, memoirs of a journalist in WW2.
South, Ernest Shackleton, memoirs of double-hard bastards in Antarctica.
Bookmarking for the morning
Dispatches. William Herr. Vietnam from a correspondent's view. He did the voice over at the start of Apocalypse Now.
Oh, and if you like The Right Stuff dig out a copy of Hunter Thompson's 'Great Shark Hunt'. He goes out to the same places and meets astronauts and test pilots and has an interesting view on all that. Lots of political stuff too. God, he'd have loved Trump in the White House.
Some of my fave 1st person war books:
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell
(those are links, but the blue is quite dark innit
Spike Milligan's War Memoirs (first 3 anyway) - still the best books I've read about the war.
Paul Brickhill wasn't a Dambuster but his book about them is fantastic.
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Around Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawks.
Very funny read.
Some good recommendations here, Chickenhawk, The Right Stuff and Dispatches in particular. And GMF's "Quartered Safe Out Here" is one of the best war memoirs I've read, despite thinking his Flashman books are tripe!
"Bugle And A Tiger" and "The Road Past Mandalay" by John Masters are both excellent, they take him from joining the Gurkhas in the thirties through to the latter stages of WW2 in the Far East.
If you want something more modern there's "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright and "One Bullet Away" by Nathaniel Fick, both USMC centred but still very good. And of course "Sniper One", which is one of few books I've read about how much fun it is to go to war, until it isn't.
"The 13th Valley" is a good read but it's a novel.
Into Remote Places , Ian Hibell
Most Secret War R V Jones. Can be had for pennies.