a great book and a good read about the battle for ...
589334
a great book and a good read about the battle for fortress Breslau 1945, many rare photos etc,maps of the battle etc....
2287883
This was recommended to me and it was a really good book. An eye opener on some of the things our troops go through to fight for the USA. Great  reading for men or women.
3077467
Well written book on the war between the states and people involved.
3592981
This book brings to life the agonies of war and its complexities from the Supreme Commander to the soldier on the line.  I doubt if many considered war to be glorious except George Patton and perhaps a few others.  The number of participants and material need for the western campaign is staggering.  An excellent read and I highly recommend.
569792
This is a great read and yet sad.  The battle descriptions are realistic and makes it difficult to put it down. The positive integration of the Afgan army personnel into the team was fascinating and dispelled some media reports.  But what is sad is the blood, struggle and valor by the author and his team seems doomed to be wasted as countless others in Afghanistan and Iraq due to the policies of this administration to leave and abandon the war.  It is also sad that battles like that for Kandahar may well be going on now but we will not know it from our media or our President.  But the book is so well written it is well worth reading.  I would hope Rusty got an appropriate decoration and one wonders what he would say about the recent release of the Five Top Taliban back to the area.
1798705
what an amazing book...I had no idea what I bought. Just because I had read other books by Mr. Hampshire I bought this one. It is a really great subject on the British Navy and other Army units fighting the Nazi during WW2 with outclass out moded equipment. The book is full of fight and I read it quickly as well...Great buy and an easy read.
2876275
This is a great book that gives signinificant historical insight into the battles of 1776 and early 1777. It describes the attitudes and opinions of both sides that were unwilling to compromise in 1776. It gives a seemingly first hand account of the Battles of Boston, NY, Trenton, and Princeton. The book provides great details on the key figures of the Battles and how events unfolded. This book has a great flow to it and it had a lot of the details I was looking for.
416476
This book describes in great detail about the conflicts that ranged on even after Grant led his battered army south from the Wilderness in May, 1864, over 17,000 men less from where he started, and thus beginning a race to get to Spotsylvania, so Grant could get there first and force Lee to fight him with his Army of Northern Virginia in order to protect Richmond. But Lee's cavalry, with the infantry not far behind, managed to reach there first, dug in their trenches, and thus started another bloody battle that composed of some of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat struggles that lasted for days on end. Grant lost almost 10,000 men in this struggle, and General Lee lost close to that, many of them being captured during a Union breakthrough into Anderson's Confederate division, and the battle that rendered the famous "Stonewall" Brigade combat-ineffective, with barely 200 unhurt men remaining at the end. The book also gives great insight into the death of cavalry leader Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart at Yellow Tavern, just miles outside of Richmond, who insisted that his staff gather at his bedside and sing "Rock of Ages." Sadly, his wife arrived with her children shortly after his death, and the famous Southern cavalry would never be the same after that. But Grant could always afford to replace his losses, and Lee couldn't. But the Federal casualties here added up to the 50,000 losses from the Army of the Potomac before it settled into the siege at Petersburg, something that lowered morale from the people in the North and which could affect Lincoln's reelection campaign. This is a great, enjoyable book!
171266
I thought The Things They Carried was a good book about the Vietnam War.  It wasn't just about the war though.  It was more than just a war book.  I thought that there was more to the book than just a war story.  Tim O'Brien showed that some parts were true and some parts he made up, that was what you had to do in order to make the book good.  You always wondered through the whole book what parts were true and what parts weren't.  while he was doing this, you learned about the war and how the people fighting felt and what they went through.  This was one good war book!!
2821006
I like reading books on the subject of the Berlin War of 1945 when the Reds stormed across Eastern Europe and ready to plunge into Berlin, the  heart of the Reichstag. John Le Tissier knows very well of this War and he  researched thoroughly of the subject, like the blunders Zhukov committed at  Sellow Heights, and the endurance as well as the misery of the 9th Army  under General Busse, not to mention the decimated German Army and the  preparation for the showdown in Berlin. I believe this book is not just a  book of WWII, but rather a good book on Courage, Sacrifice, Endurance of  the German Army as well as the Germanic people, and also the madness of  Hitler and his cronies in the Highest Command of the OKW.
4042934
Good read that lays out the history of the attacks (war) the christian community has endured over the years, as it relates to our current evil culture, it has inspired me to go out in the full Armour of God's which he promises us to fight the spiritual battle between good and evil! Great Read
2845209
It is rare that a professional military officer shares this type of critical review of such an historical period in history.  This book analyzes what went right and what went wrong during the early phases of the Iraq war and occupation.  The author is honest in his review to include his own actions which he also brings in to question.  I found this a fascinating book and a good read.
183617
I found this to be a very wonderful book on the battle of stones river. I have read Cozzens other books. I found some them very dry and very hard to read but not this one. I read the book in three days and like I said it is a very good account of the battle.
4880012
I ordered this book hoping to learn more about my great-grandfather's regiment, which served under Averell in the Army of West Virginia.  The excellent Order of Battle appendix told me right away that the 8th Ohio  Volunteer Cavalry hadn't joined Averell's command by the time of this  December 1863 raid, but that was my only disappointment.  This is an easy  reading, well documented story of a little known episode that shocked the  Confederacy.  More important, it is a gripping tale of men succeeding  against the elements, and against overwhelming odds.  Averell and his small  brigade "marched, climbed, slid and swum" 355 miles through enemy  held territory in the dead of winter, going without food and sleep,  climbing mountains and crossing rivers, avoiding Confederates sent to  intercept them, and striking the depot at Salem (today a suburb of Roanoke,  Virginia) to threaten the lines of communication between Richmond and  Knoxville. The book documents the extraordinary leadership and tenacity of  Brigadier General William Averell, but it also highlights the streak of  hesitancy that eventually caused Phil Sheridan to sack him during the  Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864 (in which my great-grandfather's  regiment did take part).  Abundant photographs and simple, readable maps  complement the text and help bring the characters and the story to life.  A  truly good book, highly recommended for descendents of the Gray as well as  the Blue, and for anyone else interested in the Civil War.
739844
A great book. There's so much happening in it that it sometimes reads like a work of fiction. Id call it a must read for anyone interested in the history of the never ending conflict between India and Pakistan. A good read, that educates as well...a rare occurrence. Should warn a potential reader that it can occasionally get confusing, as there's so much going on
3498426
I really enjoyed this book.  It is well-written and well-researched.  The story of the battle in Hotton is a microcosm of the early to middle part of the Battle of the Bulge, when the German armor was penetrating into the Ardennes seeking the Meuse River crossings and small US units were either slowing them down or thwarting them by taking advantage of the difficult terrain.  In this story an amalgamation of US units suddenly find themselves in the frontlines and fighting for their lives as they try to prevent a vital crossroads from being captured by a German armored kampfgruppe.  To me the book does an excellent job of providing a "GI-level" look at the combat including the humor and sorrow of these brave men.  The book has good maps, although I would have liked a map in a "mid-range" scale between the two maps provided in the book.  This is a very good, accurate read of an often overlooked engagement.
3766782
A good telling through words and pictures. Not as detailed as some books but for an overview of the battle it is a good book to read