Sunday, May 28, 2006

A former Marine's favorite books on the military

OpinionJournal - Five Best

1. "Once an Eagle" by Anton Myrer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968).

2. "Hell In a Very Small Place" by Bernard Fall (Lippincott, 1966).

3. "History of the Second World War" by B.H. Liddell Hart (Putnam, 1970).

4. "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer (Harper & Row, 1971).

5. "The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan, 1962).

Mr. Webb, former secretary of the Navy, is the author of eight books, including "Fields of Fire," a novel about the Vietnam War. He is now a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia.

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