Recomend a good book

[Crumz]

Hi, im new in the forums but ive been readig them for a while now.
I was wondering if any one could recommend a good book on special forces, Ive read "The One That Got Away" and now i wanna try 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War", I figured most of you guys know alot from what ive read, the past month or so, in here.

[mocking_loudly]

Ghost Force (secret history of the sas) - Ken Connor 22 year vet of UK SAS.

Pretty much every page debunks 90% of the topics on SF that plague most forums.

Covers the history and all the lovely methods that the regiment used to subvert nations for Britains financial / diplomatic gain.

Covert rather than overt emphasis and most controversial of all his suggestion that the SAS should be disbanded.

Out of the vast number of UK / US military books that haunt my shelves this is the most intelligent and thought provoking of the lot and it's 100% free of national chest beating.

[Apogee]

Ya might want to check out an old thread for some good ideas.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2799&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=books

[OzMan]

I am finishing up Black Hawk Down, and I'm loving every page of it.

Though it's loaded with BS, I liked reading Rogue Warrior by **** Marcinko.

I will soon be buying Cold Zero, an FBI special agent's story, during his time on the Hostage Rescue Team. I've heard it's an awesome book, and a good way to find out what really happened at places like Ruby Ridge and Waco (please, no further discussion about these two places).

[mocking_loudly]

I have read Cold Zero by former HRT member Christopher Whitcomb.

Very interesting book, both of those events you mentioned are covered in large amounts.

[SOG]

schtuff ive read for spec ops:

black hawk down - errr

inside delta force - one of delta founding members wrote book

immediate action - sas vet, good read, foreign humour

rogue warrior 1-8 or 9 - 1non fiction, 2 and on fiction, beats anything hollywood will ever make and is littered with great bits of info.

rainbow six, sum of all fears - clancy, lots of character, less action

case studies in special operations warfare - mcraven

navy seals, green solitare - mike murray, fiction, fun series

sas in action - peter mcdonald - hard to find in states

memoires of a navy seal - robert gormly

couple i cant remember, gave em away, seals in action-kevin dockery or something, its basically a seal history to nam and he came out with a 2nd one i havnt read that covers seals history past nam i think.

an death in the jungle - cant remember who it was by but it was insightfull as to how they fought in nam mission after mission, decent.

my favourites are as follows:

rogue warrior: the 1st one was okay being non fiction though boring at times, the rest were at the best action anything ive come across in movies, books, comics, whatever, just pure fun with such a semi annoying, semi funny as hell, semi bad to the bone **** marcinko. you see the formula as you go into book four and you think , yah, yah i know whats coming, but there still great reads.

immediate action is british sas so it has the language barrier going for it and a different culture so its naturally more interesting and out of all the non fiction books had the best humour.

for best insight and hinting at things which happened id give to inside delta force. a good look at foreign ops and the making of the team was good as well.

[bloodzy]

have you guys seen the book by Mike durant, its his own story of what happend up to and after he was shot down and captured by the "skinnies", i saw it in the book shop today but didnt have $30 spare to buy it

[Crumz]

I am finishing up Black Hawk Down, and I'm loving every page of it.

I was thinking of getting it. Im goin to now.
The old post actually had some pretty good ones.

Thanx guys, I appreciate it.