Recommended movies and books -thread

[TheGrunt]

Ok, here it goes!

This is thread for movies and books which suit nicely with SOH themes and FSX/P3D. Practically, purpose is to enhance the experience with simulator and addon aircrafts by introducing other medias related to it. I'm sure you get the point after reading my suggestions.

Movie:
Fortress + A2A B-17 Accusim
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1558575/
This movie is made with very small budget and it is largely unknown, but it packs in 10 fold the soul of a big Hollywood blockbuster. Small budget is clear in the CGI which looks like... Hmm... a CGI, but story is well done and actors do really good job IMO, though movie of course lacks big names. This one Beats Memphis Belle from 90's by a good margin. Don't let the low IMDB rating to fool you. This is a really good movie in its genre and for the budget it does an outstanding job. I gave it a 9 in IMDB. Independent movies have surely potential.

Book:
A Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air Controller, Vietnam + Aerosoft OV-10 Bronco
http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Kind-Wa.../dp/0891416382
Kindle edition is a bargain. This is a well written and entertaining story about FAC duty in Vietnam in late 60's. Book shines in bringing up the absurdities and even humorous side of war but IMO the gratest achievement is to show up the professionalism of US forces in that war. Myth of War in Vietnam is pretty much the drafted and stoned Grunts in the bush, but reality is pretty much different. Sure, there are many books written by fighter and ground attack pilots during Vietnam war, but I only know a couple of books from the FAC point of view and Harrison is the only one flying Bronco that I know. He's also flying a part of his tour for MACV which bring up a nice view to SPECOPS operations in Vietnam from a supporting pilot view.

I have many suggestions, but I'll start with these :salute:

[mjahn]

Book: Gordon Forbes, Goodbye to Some. A Novel. London: Deutsch, 1961. B-24 ops against Japan.
Quote: "In VFB 400 the airplanes are Liberators, whose Navy designation is PB4Y-1, known as 4-Y's, B-24's, Libs, and occasionally as Flying Whales. In 420 they flew the newer and faster, now that we don't need them, more heavily armed Privateers or PB4Y-2." Verdict: Gripping. Amazon; Open Library.

[olderndirt]

A book I enjoyed about early Mustangs in England. "Goodbye Mickey Mouse" by Len Deighton.

[Mathias]

"Enemy In The Dark" (original somewhat blocky German title "Ich war Nachtjäger in Görings Luftwaffe") by Peter Spoden.
Excellent momeries and first hand account of a German WWII nightfighter ace.
Spoden describes very well his personal background and the climate in Germany at the time, and of course a lot about the nightwar.
http://www.nachtjaegerspoden.de/

[norab]

"Stranger to the Ground" Richard Bach + Section8 F-86

[norab]

"The High and The Mighty" by Earnest K. Gann + 1954 Movie + DC-4

[Daveroo]

non-fiction,"Chicken Hawk" by Robert Mason,its a well writen true account of his time as a UH-1 pilot in Vietnam,3rd cav...its gripping,cant put it down kind of book..

[falcon409]

"Low Level Hell" +Tim Conrad's OH-6 "little Bird"
Written by Hugh Mills who was an "AeroScout" in Vietnam and basically wrote the manual on tactics for all future Scouts. He served two Tours in Nam having been shot down a total of 16 times with numerous awards for valor, bravery under fire and so on. His Loach "Miss Clawd" is hanging in the museum at Ft Rucker, Ala. An amazing first person account of what it was like to fly at treetop level over heavily saturated Viet Cong positions trying to draw fire for the gunships.:salute: