Almost finished with Musashi, and it has been well worth the investment.
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Almost finished with Musashi, and it has been well worth the investment.
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"Columbus Day," first in a series of military/sci-fi novels by Craig Alanson. There are a lot of typos, but otherwise very entertaining, funny at times, doesn't take itself too seriously, and the author gets enough of the military stuff right that I assumed he was prior service. I think it's a dollar for the kindle version, so I'll reimburse anyone who buys and doesn't like it.
"Customer is very particular" -- SIG Sauer
Agreed. I found it a little difficult at first as I am not used to Japanese names and trying to grasp cultural differences was challenging, but it is well worth the effort.Originally Posted by OnionsAndDragons
"You can't win a war with choirboys. " Mad Mike Hoare
Just finished Neptune's Inferno by James D. Hornfischer.
Published in 2011, it tells of the sea battles between the U.S. Navy
and the Japanese Imperial Navy early in the war in the Pacific in World
War II. I thought the main threat to our navy then was kamikaze attacks.
Turns out torpedoes from Japanese surface ships, and navel gunfire from them
did a lot of damage too.
I lived south of where the action took place for a while as a kid.
Spent some time north of it, later. It was interesting to read what
took place 20 or 25 years before I got to the Pacific. I don't think
I passed over any of the sunken ships involved, but my father may
have. He got around more than I did. He traveled for work and I had
that pesky thing called school to deal with.
Who not to read. Some anti-gun authors, illustrators, etc. Everytown Author Council
"You can't win a war with choirboys. " Mad Mike Hoare
Shoe Dog the memoir of Phil Knight the founder of Nike. It's an excellent read. My Dad got it from my uncle and passed it on to me. The last chapter? Outstanding!
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
Night Angel trilogy. A co-worker recommended them and I burned through pretty quickly. They were good enough I had to force myself to put the book down and go to sleep a few times.
You might also like "Bowerman and the Men of Oregon". Obviously it's more about Bill Bowerman and the building of the Oregon track program, but the latter part gets into the early days of Nike.
Thank you I'll look for that one. BBI got me started on Night Angels
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
It's really good, you'll probably burn through them in no time. At least 3 people in my office have read them so far, and everyone said the same thing. Tough books to put down.
Moving on, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NIUGG5M/
The World’s First SWAT Team: W. E. Fairbairn and the Shanghai Municipal Police Reserve Unit
The Kindle edition is just over $1. For $1, it's well worth it. I read it in less than 6 hours, so don't expect a lengthy treatise on the topic. There's also a lot of pictures, manning charts and other rather dry and tedious information, and the editing is poor with a lot of repetition and misspelled words (maybe the fault of text to Kindle, usually the last letter is left off). Despite that, it's pretty damn interesting and does give you a taste of what Shanghai and the SMP was like in the 20's and 30's. It's also a good read to get the background you need to shut up the idjits prattling on about point shooting and you can't use your sights. Maybe they couldn't, but we train to shoot on the move, carry with a loaded chamber, can use more than 32 rounds a year to train, etc.
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