Thread: Favorite real-life adventure books

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O'Hanlon. "O'Hanlon's approach to travel borders on the lunatic" Publisher's Weekly.

O'Hanlon has a couple of other similar books -- one for Borneo and one for the Congo, both of which are also good. All are quite humorous. A more recent book of his (Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic about life on a fishing boat) I never finished.

A very interesting one, similar to the "Congo" book above was published in 1799 (!): Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park. Written in a more serious nature that O'Hanlon's books but still involving series of misadventures similar to O'Hanlon's with the exception that they were actually much more dangerous. I believe the author made a second trip but never made it back to write a second book.

There are a number of World War II true-life spy stories. One good example is The Double-Cross System: The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents by J.C. Masterman who was directly involved. It was first published contemporaneously (1945) as a confidential report for the British Intelligence higher-ups and has been publicly available for some time. There are other first-hand books about the various intelligence activities of WWII. This is a good one to start with.

Legionare-Simon Murray (the only non french legionare to be offered a commission)
As far as my feet will carry me-J.M.Bauer (escape from a siberian camp that took 3 years and 8,000 miles,on foot)
Reach for the sky-Douglas Bader

I'm going to have to look into some of the books on here, I like good non-fiction, and its hard (at least for me) to find recommendations for it.

The last non fiction I read was Generation Kill. It was a good book.

Ive been wanting to get some of those real life mobster books for a while, like the one that Goodfellas was based on, Sammy the Bull's book, and a few others.

If you can find a used copy or library "Kill the Dutchman! by Paul Sann is a great read. The story of Dutch Schultz. Another one is 'Legs' by William Kennedy. It is fiction but closely based on fact and the best book on Jack 'Legs' Diamond out there.

Not a book but certainly a true life adventure- Correspondence of William Barret Travis from The Alamo Feb. and Mar. 1836. His letter of Feb. 24, 1836 addressed to "The people of Texas and all Americans in the world" has been called by some the most heroic document in American history.

Do the Flashman books count?? They're real life aren't they???

Michael

Books? You don't need books you've got the Shaving Brainbuster right here. Its got everything; adventure, family life,travel,wildlife, violence,perversion,crime,comedy,intrigue,civil rights violations,revenge, and free mdse.

What more could you want?

it's been a while since i read this one, but it is a great one:
"to hell and back"....audie murphy

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

What more could you want?

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

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always a wise guy in every crowd-Har Har