Armor

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• fellowniusmonk · Jun 14, 2021 · Recommends

  I will second these recommendations and add Armor by John Steakley. It's a sci-fi book that made sense of PTSD for me.

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• sophe · Feb 26, 2014 · Recommends

  Armor by John Steakley

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• chunkles · Apr 23, 2019 · Recommends

  Armor - John Steakley (Sci-Fi)

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• fellowniusmonk · Dec 18, 2021 · Recommends

  …personhood, some I read at a young age. Thinking Fast and Slow. After you read it take a course on statistics & probability. The Art of Strategy The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance Armor by John Steakley Great book of fiction, helped me understand PTSD. Read a lot of Asimov, robot series, foundation and short stories starting with The Last Question. Jules Verne Mark Twain, various…

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• douche · Sep 5, 2016 · Recommends

  …trajectory, from pre-military life to boot camp to the first brush with combat, to the climactic battle. The philosophy is somewhat different, but the spiritual and thematic successor to Starship Troopers, Armor by John Steakley[1], which I think is an underappreciated classic. [1] http://amzn.to/2bNDHMB

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• rstuart4133 · Jul 18, 2020 · Mentions

  > His battalion had 250% turnover during the war, Ye gods. That reminds of Felix, a character from the book Armor, by John Steakley. > It turned out the Japanese had stuffed the hill with explosives Well, there you go. Nothing is new under the sun. Beneath Hill 60 [0] is a movie about the Allies doing the same…

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