Latest, Best Gun Book You've Read

Probably veering off course, but I just finished Breakout:The Chosin Reservoir Campaign by Martin Russ. Think of Blackhawk Down with -40 windchill. BAR's frozen solid.
Marines outnumbered 40 to 1. Incredible.
 
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Travis McGee, Very![/quote]CHADINTEX: If it's as good as Point of Impact, i'm getting it! Thanks.
 
Just re-read Ted Nugent's, 'God, Guns, and Rock and Roll'...

Now I'm re-reading VanDyke's, 'The Still Hunter'...

If you can find a copy, 'The Still Hunter' is a must read.

Darryl
 
I've read all of the above, and they are great books.

In the last month I've re-read two classic autobiographies: "Hell,I Was There" by Elmer Keith and "Unrepentant Sinner" by Charles Askins.

Keith knew a lot about guns, and his story is truly amazing. Worldwide big game hunts,
cowboys, long shots with a sixgun, adventures, development of the .44 magnum and much more are told in Keiths unique style.

Askins was another one of a kind. He was a champion pistol shooter, gunwriter, soldier, border patrolman, gunfighter and big game hunter. He is one of the few gunwriters that has ever been in a gunfight, and I believe he accounted for 27 men over his lifetime. He tells all these stories in his book. It reads like fiction, but it is real.
 
I finished Breakout several months ago. Excellent read!

The two latest are One Shot - One Kill - American Combat Snipers, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Beirut and War of the Rats.

Both are great reads.

Cliff
 
Well (to stay on topic), I'm about to start reading Ted Nugent's book.

However, at the moment I'm reading two books. "Al Gore: A User's Manual" by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, and "The World According to Gore" by Debra J. Saunders.

I wouldn't say that either book is excellently written, but they both provide really good information on Al Gore and show him to be about as two-faced as his current boss (no, not Tipper--I mean Bill!). Saunders is a conservative reporter and columnist, and the other two are radical leftists who are ticked off at Gore.

I've made it a point to read both books in public (coffee shops and the like) this weekend so people can see the titles. Maybe one undecided saw them and got curious. After reading either one, I don't see how they could vote for Gore....


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"People who say guns are bad are lucky enough never to have been in a situation where someone has kicked down your door and threatened the life of your son and your sixty-five-year-old mother."
-- Memphis, Tennessee resident Gina Cushon, quoted in Laura Ingraham's book "The Hillary Trap"
 
Well, I have two books going right now. They are More Guns Less Crime, by John Lott Jr.(I have already read this but it's a good read still), and The Wastelands, by Stephen King. After I read The Gunslinger, I had to go shoot my dad's .45 Long Colt!!!!!!

Mike
 
Don't get me wrong, Stephen Hunter is my favorite author, but I don't think he'll ever top "Point Of Impact".
 
John D. Mcdonald's Travis Mcgee books are very good, I've read every one of them several times. However, Mcdonald was anti gun, and even one of the Mcgee books has Travis going off on a anti-handgun spiel.
Although Mcgee always has a few handguns around, his slant is that it's good for me, bad for the general public.

Even one of the Travis Mcgee fan "netsites"
is very antgun, with several gun control links on the page.
 
Books....Anything by Jeff Cooper and/or Jack O'Connor.
Bob
p.s. Just finished Fireworks by Cooper; it's been re-printed!
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BigMike, after you read The Wastelands, pick up Wizard and Glass. I think it's the best book in the series so far. A look into Rolands past that explains why he's the way he is. Last gun book I read was the Farnam Method of Defensive Handgunning.
 
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