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I have a book report due in 2 weeks, I have to choose one of the book below and read it. After that I have to type up a really long essay. This is for JROTC (Army class)/ Government.

Anyways, im asking this to those who have read these book or one of this book. I want to know which is the best book and which is the shortest. ;)

Catton, Bruce:

Gettysburg: The Final Fury
Grant Moves South
Grant Takes Command
Reflections on the Civic War
The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road
This Hallowed Ground- The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War
U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition
A Stillness at Appomatox Mr Lincoln's Army

Davis Burke:

American's First Army
Appomatox: Closing Struggle of the Civil War
The Cowpens- Guilford Courthouse Campaign
George Washinton and the American Revolution
Get Yamamoto
Black Heros of the American Revolution
The Campaign that Won America: The Story of Yorktown
Sherman's March
Jeb Stuart: The last Cavalier
Marine! The Story of LT. GEN Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller

Ambrose Stephan:

Band of Brothers
Citizen-Soldier
D-Day
Undaunted Courage
Pegasus Bridge
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

Shaara Michael:

Killer Angels

Sharra Jeef:

Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War

Swinton , Captain E. D. :

The Defense of Duffer's Drift

Brown Dee:

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (Young Readers Edition)

Canon Jill:

Civic War Heroines

Chang Ina:

A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War

Higginson Thomas W.:

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Mcpherson James M:

Marching Toward Freedom The Negro (no offense) In the Civic War

Remarque Erich:

All Quiet on the Western Front

Crane Stephen:

The Red Badge of Courage

Moore Harold J. LTG(USA-RET):

We Were Soldiers Once... And Young




Im thinking of Band Of Brother and/or We Were Soldier Once... And Young.

Anyone have any idea which book are good? I mean, most of these book sound boring.
 
I read All quiet on the Western front freshman year. It is boring. I don't remember any fighting... Why do you have an army class?
 
I heard All Quiet was supposed to be a brilliant book, since it effectively disspells the myth that war is glamarous and an adventure, while revealing the hell that it actually is. I haven't actually read the book, but I'm 99% sure Mike Rotch read it, so send him a PM if you want an opinion on it.

Unfortunately, I have not read any of the books listed (although I do have a copy of We Were Soldiers, but have never gotten around to reading it). But, I have seen We Were Soldiers and Band of Brothers on DVD/TV, and I was impressed by both. Very good commentary on the human side of war.

*edit* Pegasus Bridge might be good too.
 
xAkirax2004
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D Sallinger.

Best. Book. Ever.
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He needs to read a war book.

btw, To Kill a Mockingbird is the best book ever... ;) CITR is the 2nd best.
 
All quiet is an astounding book...Red Badge of Courage is a somewhat decent book, but amazingly easy to read. I think I had to read it in....8th grade I believe? That seems right. Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee sounds great just from the title :D

And just for the record, the best book ever is A Tale of Two Cities ya bishes.
 
Thanks you guys. I am going to read probably Band Of Brothers, We Were Soilder, or All Quiet on the Western Frontier.

Not sure which to read. I'll see which is avaliable at my local libary.
 
Listen to me!!! Read Band of Brothers!! That is the best book out of all of those

My Grandpa did all of that stuff they did. He just wasn't in E Company. In fact i showed the book to my grandmother (his wife) and she said she thinks he's in one of those pictures. It's kind of hard to see but she is pretty sure that's him.

I'll say it again. Read Band of Brothers!!!!!
 
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I read All quiet on the Western front freshman year. It is boring. I don't remember any fighting... Why do you have an army class?
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Then you dont remember very well. "All Quiet" is what you want it to be; a quick read or an examination of a single man's changing outlook of life as the war unfolds before him.

I heard All Quiet was supposed to be a brilliant book, since it effectively disspells the myth that war is glamarous and an adventure, while revealing the hell that it actually is. I haven't actually read the book, but I'm 99% sure Mike Rotch read it, so send him a PM if you want an opinion on it.
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If you want to complement "All Quiet", read Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen or some poems by Siegfried Sassoon...Suicide in the Trenches....names of other escape me at the moment. They are easy enough to find on google. But I suspect that wont happen.

As Band of Brothers has risen to popularity after the miniseries, I suspect it will be a bit of a let down - the miniseries was that well portrayed.
 
Oh and, one final thought. Reading a book written by someone who was NOT there and did NOT do it is asking for trouble.
 

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