So in one of my other threads I posted I was looking for a isekai of a ww1 soldier if you babe any please go there and write a comment on it. But on this post it doesn’t have to be isekai. Something like a modern man going into Wild West (and that’s isekai...) or a story based in one of these time periods it would be nice if it wasn’t too dark but it’s fine if it is I mean all those are war.
Have you read Drifters? I don’t think there is light novel for it but there is a manga and anime for it. Both of which are pretty good
Destroyermen by Taylor Anderson - WWI The lost regiment by William R. Forstchen - Civil War Island by S.M. Stirling- Bronze Age Cross time engineer by Leo Frankowski - Bronze Age
I read quite a few books about this kind of subject and my favorite of these is "燃烧的莫斯科". It's super in-depth and super interesting and a lot of Nazis get killed in it. Sadly it's not translated and it's highly likely that it'll never be translated. Holy Roman Empire I've seen a lot of people recommend this book, but I haven't read it yet and I don't have a high opinion of the writer. However it's about Austria in the mid-19th century and that's a fascinating subject. Bear in mind that this is about the Pacific War so it's not necessarily the kind of thing you're looking for.
Yea but I do like the Pacific theater too right now the book I’m reading that’s not a novel is a book on wake island
That's pretty cool. I'm reading (off and on) "the Battle of Kursk" right now; unsurprisingly, it's about the Battle of Kursk! I also have a game about Operation Barbarossa on the table. And right now I'm reading a World War II novel that just feels so right. The only other novel that I've read that comes as close to the proper feel is the other book by the same writer. In the case of "Zipang", it's decent but I've never been able to fully buy it. I think there's just something about the way the writer constructed the book that rubbed me the wrong way.
- Senjou no Valkyria Anime and manga. WW 1 setting. Mc is female, ml is genius in tactic. - witch strike and sequels. Anime. WW2 setting against mysterious monsters. This is not have serious storyline, but still have good character development and big fanservice (not as much as dxd). If you can ignore fanservice this is good anime. - Alison to lilia Anime. WW1 setting. - The Ability to Make Town!? ~Let’s Make a Japanese Town in Different World Novel. Holy war/ crusade war setting. Main story from pope announced unification war to black death. Ending is modern days in that planet.
That's partly it, and I can expand on this. Zipang's greatest failing is that it fails to realize that Imperial Japan were the bad guys. And that they were the bad guys not only to the rest of the world but to Japan itself. Starting with such a shaky premise means that it just ends up doing all sorts of questionable things. One of the primary ones is that it tries to paint the antagonist's goal as semi-reasonable although it would lead to all sorts of self-inflicted problems - note that this goal is where the title for the manga/anime comes from. 红色莫斯科. The protagonist is Chinese and he transmigrates into the Red Army during the Battle of Moscow (right at the beginning of the December Counteroffensive) and he accidentally puts a Chinese expression (in Russian) into the middle of a sentence. The other characters are Russian and it's unusual enough that they catch on this. Outside of this everyone else in the story feels like they really are from 1941 Soviet Union. I've seen published Western writers who have tried to do the same thing and fail miserably. The writer of this book actually speaks Russian and he's very familiar with Russia which is why he does such a good job of pulling it off. His older book is "燃烧的莫斯科" which I mentioned earlier. They feel very similar so it's largely a matter if you prefer a male or female protagonist. This older book is finished and the new one is still ongoing (although it's already very long).