John D MacDonald was OSS in the east during WWII (though not really a gun guy, and it kind of shows).
Fredrick Forsyth spent a bit of time in the RAF, then as a correspondent covering little wars in 60's Africa.
CS Lewis of course.
John D MacDonald was OSS in the east during WWII (though not really a gun guy, and it kind of shows).
Fredrick Forsyth spent a bit of time in the RAF, then as a correspondent covering little wars in 60's Africa.
CS Lewis of course.
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Funny you mention this today. I was out walking our dog in the neighborhood earlier today and came across a home with an suv parked in the drive with graphics on the windows concerning this novel In the back window of the suv was a small Vietnam vet sticker. I’ll have a look at the book. A number of older retired military live in my neighborhood so I guess it could be him, or who knows.Originally Posted by SIRTainly
Duncan Falconer was SBS and has written a slew of fiction. I have read any, but his non-fiction First Into Action was fairly good (as a far as the usual "troubled childhood - > military -> selection -> training -> combat" memoirs go.)
https://www.amazon.com/Duncan-Falcon...rwt_scns_share
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He was present in World War I, and he was even wounded in world war one but he did not actually “fight” in World War I.
He was an ambulance driver in Italy for the American Red Cross which at the time was a neutral NGO. He was wounded by mortar fire while operating a red cross canteen feeding Italian soldiers.
He covered the Spanish Civil War as a reporter but again was not a combatant.
You know who was a combatant in the Spanish Civil War though? George Orwell. He also spent five years in Burma as a British colonial policeman. I think it would be impossible to write books like 1980 for an animal farm if you had never spent any time in government service.
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Check out James Salter. He was a Korean War F86 pilot. His book The Hunters is fantastic.
I’m just finishing my second listen of Dan Carlin’s WWI series Blueprint for Armageddon. Because Tolkien served in WWI I also just watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy and will restart the books shortly. Having some of the history so fresh in my mind has added a whole new layer to those stories.
A slightly different genre, but Barry Eisler was a covert CIA operator for a few years and is an exceptional writer. I suggest starting at the beginning of his John Rain (Junichi Fujiwara) series with A Clean Kill in Tokyo (confusingly originally named Rain Fall if you find an older copy.) He also blogs on personal security and protection.
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