1PatrickMurtha
I assume that many people who enjoy reading military history may enjoy reading war novels, too. Of course, there is a wide range of these, from paperback adventure series to the most literary type of novels. My lean is towards the latter, although “middlebrow” war novels also command my respect, and there were MANY of those that emanated from World War II in particular.
Two World War II novels that I think are exceptional are Harry Brown’s A Walk in the Sun, which was adapted into a well-known film, and Peter Bowman’s Beach Red, which is written in verse form, quite original in technique.
Two World War II novels that I think are exceptional are Harry Brown’s A Walk in the Sun, which was adapted into a well-known film, and Peter Bowman’s Beach Red, which is written in verse form, quite original in technique.
2abbottthomas
I have just finished Alan Furst's Dark Voyage. It is the story of a - nominally neutral - Dutch tramp steamer in the early years of WW2 that finds itself enlisted into Allied special ops.
I have read, and enjoyed, one or two of his before but this struck me as particularly good.
I have read, and enjoyed, one or two of his before but this struck me as particularly good.
3PatrickMurtha
>2 abbottthomas: This is not the first time I have seen Furst mentioned admiringly, so I must give his work a try sometime. I notice that Dark Shadow, which would appeal to me for its nautical aspect, is part of a 15-volume sequence!
4John5918
I've greatly enjoyed reading the fictional Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, a total of 22 novels set in the Napoleonic Wars. Cornwell also wrote a non-fiction account of the Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles, which is one of the clearest and most readable accounts of that battle that I have ever read. He is a historian, and his novels reflect a great deal of real history.
