<font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Gents,
I always have at least one ACW book going at all times, usually is my lunch time read. Currently I am reading "War Along The Bayous - The 1864 Red River Campaign in Louisiana" by William Brooksher.
I have read all of the book that Jeff Shaara has written as I love his story telling ways, good read. I thought that Noah Trudeau' Gettysburg was a great read with very nice maps and good detail on units.
I also thought a great deal of Stephen Sears book 'To the Gates of Richmond - The Peninsula Campaign'. Again some nice maps and good detail on the OoB for both sides. Larry Daniel's book Shiloh is another very nice read.
Okay, I just can't stop here. My all time favorite author and I have read all of his books is W.E.B. Griffin, started with the Brotherhood of War (US Army after WWII) and then the Corps (US Marine Corps in China just prior to WWII and into Korea). What a story writer and now his son is joining him so the hits should just keep on coming!
If I was to select just one book to read it would be Anton Myrer's 'Once an Eagle' (1291 pages). I am still trying to find a copy of the mini series from back in the late 70's starring my main man Sam Elliott. Follows the career of an army Officer from WWI thru Vietnam.
Okay, my library also includes my other favorite authors such as Irishman Jack Higgins, with his Flight of the Eagles as my favorite. Stephen Coonts, Dale Brown and Tom Clancy all of them related to more modern warfare. Thank goodness for Costco and Ebay for expanding my reading materials.
<font color="orange">David, yeah Harold Coyle wrote some real good ones early on. He has also written (1995) a ACW novel called 'Look Away'. I have the book but haven't read it. In the back of the book is a pic of Harold in a CSA reinactment uniform.[:D]</font id="orange">
<font color="pink">Gents, just completed Coyle's Look away and am looking forward to the second part of the story picking up after the battle of Gettysburg.
Have started James McPherson's 'Tried by War'. Also just picked up last week from Costco Jeff Sharaa's final book in the WWII Trilogy which starts with the Battle of the Bulge. First couple of chapters are real interesting. The 1st one was a navigator on a B-17 flying daylight bombing, pretty terrifying. Next we pick up a squad from the 106th ID moving to replace the 2nd IN on line. New guys being subject to artillery fire, cold, wet, mudding, snowy conditions. Pretty powerful stuff.</font id="pink">
Regards,</font id="size4"></font id="Book Antiqua">
<font color="limegreen"><font size="4">Gen Nick Kunz
Commanding
3/4/II Corps
Army of Georgia</font id="limegreen"></font id="size4">