It's been a long time since I've read a military book...and if you believe that you're fucken bonkers.
- galenkp -
I have a room dedicated to books, I call it my library because that's exactly what it is; a room full of books that are mine. It makes sense right?
Anyway, the books on the shelves cover many genres and topics from modern and ancient history, biographies, sci-fi and fantasy, historical fiction and non-fiction, crime, adventure and outdoors, the classics, instructional texts and so much more - it's incredibly diverse. War and military books feature prominently and I have books on weapons from sticks and stones through to the latest and greatest, battle tactics, Empires and their rise and fall, land, sea and air related, villains and heroes, wars humanity has fought and the tactics and politics behind them, the great commanders and those (sometimes nameless) men and women who operated in the mud and blood on the front lines of wars and battles across the world, war nurses and support staff and everything else military related. I have a lot of them, many hundreds, and I add to them all the time.
The latest is what I'm reading now, a book by Damien Lewis, a celebrated non-fiction author of many war books based around World War Two, elite branches of the military, military dogs, top covert units and other such related subjects.
Damien Lewis, (not to be confused with the actor Damian Lewis), is known for his meticulous research and relies on documents, diaries, letters, after action reports (AAR's), interviews and testimonies which make his books read like one is right there on the mission; they have a certain reality, sometimes brutally so, and often I'm left wanting more which leads to additional research taking me down the rabbit hole on occasions. I love his books.
Great Escapes is a compilation of incredible escapes affected by the British SAS (Special Air Service) during World War Two. Its pages tell true stories of tremendous feats of human endurance, the application of skill, intelligence, training and daring and the way it's told pulls the reader into the moment whether it's being harried by the enemy across the Sahara Desert or escaping the clutches of the Gestapo and their torture chambers - one is drawn into the moment.
This book is another example of the skill in writing and research Damien Lewis possesses and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. You'll probably not like it I guess but that's ok, I'm reading it not you.
What are you currently reading, if anything?
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