From homeland civilians/journalists - David Brinkley’s Washington at War.
Been away for a couple days which included a what’s next on the reading list and I remembered this one - Memoirs of Chaplain Life: 3 Years in the Irish Brigage with the Army of the Potomac by William Corby. It’s still on my too read list so I can’t speak to it on personal experience.
Somehow I didn’t think of one of the classics of non-standard role memoirs in my first post, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by T. E. Lawrence. :smack:
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E.Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia but the book is nothing like the terrible movie. Poet, warrior, terrorist, masochist, brilliant. Story of the Arab uprising against the Turks in WW1, also about the most beautiful desert on earth. Bit of an education for Americans chronically ignorant of any history of a part of the world we’ve been happily destroying since 2003.
Oh yeah, Low Level Hell was required reading for scouts. His helicopter Miss Clawd IV is in the aviation museum in Fort Rucker.
There are two versions. I would suggest to not get the abridged version. I found some of the most interesting parts were some of the non-combat interludes that didn’t make the cut down version.
Hackworth had a fascinating career and was a hell of a soldier. He was also a tool with a gigantic ego. He was the greatest military mind ever. Just ask him. Well you can’t he’s dead now but you know what I mean.