Book Recommendations

[U8395279]

For anyone who enjoyed the movie "Sully" this year, the book that the movie was based on, has now been renamed "Sully", and is available in paperback now. The book goes into far greater detail about Sullenberger's personal life, which is quite a fascinating story.





Sully: My Search for What Really Matters: Chesley B., III Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow: 9780062564320: Amazon.com: Books

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[U8395279]

Well Ed Harris played him the movie...
But yeah I do wonder just who and what he really was in real life.
Andy

I think that the movie to see next year is going to be Dunkirk. The Buzz is that it is going to be the most awesome war movie made in a very long time.

 

[Slobray]

Another good WWII era read is : The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz.
Rawicz was a Polish officer who was sent to a Soviet Gulag in Siberia.
He and six others escape an make their way to British held India.
Quite a read showing just what a man will do to be free.
Andy

Great book.

It's kind of funny that I was given The Long Walk because at a cook out, a neighbor and I somehow got into a discussion on the topic of Sasquatch/Yeti's.


Right now I'm trying to read The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote. I couldn't help but to get it, I found the box set at a thrift store for like four or five dollars.


Ray

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Awesome read there Ray.
Shelby Foote's three volume set is in my opinion the cornerstone of any War of the Rebellion library.
His novel Shiloh is a great read as well.
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

If you can find a copy of East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt , you have one heck of a travel and hunting tale.
The brothers Roosevelt hunt and travel through India , Kashmir ,The Himalayan mountains and Turkestan.
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Yet another great read is :Five Years To Freedom By Nick Rowe
Rowe was a Special Forces advisor in VietNam who was captured in 1963.
He escaped captivity in 1968. ( one of only 34 officers to do so)
Rowe later ran the U.S. Army's S.E.R.E School.
Andy

 

[Baseacegoku]

Great reads. Another great book by Eric Blehm is 'Fearless' about the late Navy Seal Adam Brown.

I second Fearless. It was a really good book

 

[JackFrost]

Unintended Consequences by John Ross is one of the best reads I have had in a long time.
Very thorough and extremely intriguing, the author goes to great lengths to set the stage for the characters and engage the reader. I can almost guarantee everyone who reads that book will learn something about America's past and our government that they didn't know before!
Unintended Consequences (novel) - Wikipedia

 

[Bon Sauvage]

War On The Run

A good read about Robert Rogers and the French and Indian War.