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[[Image:HillbillyArmor5tonCargo.jpg|right|thumb|275px|A U.S. Army 5-ton cargo truck with improvised armor on the doors, rear gunner's box, and an improved bumper.]]

List of books mentioned in Peter Boxall's ''[[1001 Books to Read Before You Die]]'' (2006).

'''Hillbilly armor''', also known as "farmer armor", is a [[List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions#Non-acronym slang and expressions|slang term]] used by [[United States|American]] [[Military of the United States|troops]] to describe improvised [[vehicle armor]], most notably in [[post-invasion Iraq]].

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Vehicle armor has occasionally been improvised by American armed forces in other conflicts. In [[World War II]], U.S. tank crews welded spare strips of tank track to the hulls of their [[M4 Sherman|Sherman]], [[M3 Lee|Grant]], and [[Stuart tank]]s.<ref name="Moran">Moran, Michael. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4731185/ "Frantically, the Army tries to armor Humvees: Soft-skinned workhorses turning into death traps,"] ''MSNBC'', [[April 15]] [[2004]].</ref> In the [[Vietnam War]], U.S. "[[gun truck]]s" were reinforced with [[sandbag]]s and locally fabricated [[steel]] armor plate.<ref name="Gardiner">Gardiner, Paul S. [http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/JulAug03/gun_trucks.htm "Gun Trucks: Genuine Examples of American Ingenuity,"] ''Army Logistician'', PB 700-03-4, Vol. 35, No. 4, July-August 2003, Army Combined Arms Support Command, Fort Lee, Virginia. ISSN 0004-2528</ref>

See also: [[user:Jahsonic/1001 Films]]

=="Hillbilly 1armor" - 100in Iraq==

[[Image:Marine humvee with bolt-on armor x2.jpg|thumb|Humvee with Marine Armor Kit.]]

When American troops first took [[Baghdad]], only the [[Military Police Corps|U.S. military police]] had fully armored vehicles.<ref name="nbcnews1">[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6694474/ "U.S. to boost armored Humvee output: Pentagon ups order after soldier's question causes stir,"] ''NBC News'', [[December 10]] [[2004]].</ref> During the occupation that followed the [[Invasion of Iraq|2003 invasion]] that toppled [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime, [[Iraqi insurgency|insurgent forces]] deployed [[roadside bomb]]s and [[snipers]] with [[small arms]] to attack [[military vehicle]]s on supply convoys and other known routes.

1. Never Let Me Go – [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]

2. Saturday – [[Ian McEwan]]

3. On Beauty – [[Zadie Smith]]

4. Slow Man – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

5. Adjunct: An Undigest – [[Peter Manson]]

6. The Sea – [[John Banville]]

7. The Red Queen – [[Margaret Drabble]]

8. The Plot Against America – [[Philip Roth]]

9. The Master – [[Colm Tóibín]]

10. Vanishing Point – [[David Markson]]

11. The Lambs of London – [[Peter Ackroyd]]

12. Dining on Stones – [[Iain Sinclair]]

13. Cloud Atlas – [[David Mitchell]]

14. Drop City – [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]]

15. The Colour – [[Rose Tremain]]

16. Thursbitch – [[Alan Garner]]

17. The Light of Day – [[Graham Swift]]

18. What I Loved – [[Siri Hustvedt]]

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – [[Mark Haddon]]

20. Islands – [[Dan Sleigh]]

21. Elizabeth Costello – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

22. London Orbital – [[Iain Sinclair]]

23. Family Matters – [[Rohinton Mistry]]

24. Fingersmith – [[Sarah Waters]]

25. The Double – [[José Saramago]]

26. Everything is Illuminated – [[Jonathan Safran Foer]]

27. Unless – [[Carol Shields]]

28. Kafka on the Shore – [[Haruki Murakami]]

29. The Story of Lucy Gault – [[William Trevor]]

30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – [[John McGahern]]

31. In the Forest – [[Edna O'Brien]]

32. Shroud – [[John Banville]]

33. Middlesex – [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]

34. Youth – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

35. Dead Air – [[Iain Banks]]

36. Nowhere Man – [[Aleksandar Hemon]]

37. The Book of Illusions – [[Paul Auster]]

38. Gabriel’s Gift – [[Hanif Kureishi]]

39. Austerlitz – [[W.G. Sebald]]

40. Platform – [[Michel Houellebecq]]

41. Schooling – [[Heather McGowan]]

42. Atonement – [[Ian McEwan]]

43. The Corrections – [[Jonathan Franzen]]

44. Don’t Move – [[Margaret Mazzantini]]

45. The Body Artist – [[Don DeLillo]]

46. Fury – [[Salman Rushdie]]

47. At Swim, Two Boys – [[Jamie O'Neill]]

48. Choke – [[Chuck Palahniuk]]

49. Life of Pi – [[Yann Martel]]

50. The Feast of the Goat – [[Mario Vargos Llosa]]

51. An Obedient Father – [[Akhil Sharma]]

52. The Devil and Miss Prym – [[Paulo Coelho]]

53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – [[Ismail Kadare]]

54. White Teeth – [[Zadie Smith]]

55. The Heart of Redness – [[Zakes Mda]]

56. Under the Skin – [[Michel Faber]]

57. Ignorance – [[Milan Kundera]]

58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – [[David Peace]]

59. Celestial Harmonies – [[Péter Esterházy]]

60. City of God – [[E.L. Doctorow]]

61. How the Dead Live – [[Will Self]]

62. The Human Stain – [[Philip Roth]]

63. The Blind Assassin – [[Margaret Atwood]]

64. After the Quake – [[Haruki Murakami]]

65. Small Remedies – [[Shashi Deshpande]]

66. Super-Cannes – [[J.G. Ballard]]

67. House of Leaves – [[Mark Z. Danielewski]]

68. Blonde – [[Joyce Carol Oates]]

69. Pastoralia – [[George Saunders]]

70. Timbuktu – [[Paul Auster]]

71. The Romantics – [[Pankaj Mishra]]

72. Cryptonomicon – [[Neal Stephenson]]

73. As If I Am Not There – [[Slavenka Drakuli?]]

74. Everything You Need – [[A.L. Kennedy]]

75. Fear and Trembling – [[Amélie Nothomb]]

76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – [[Salman Rushdie]]

77. Disgrace – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

78. Sputnik Sweetheart – [[Haruki Murakami]]

79. Elementary Particles – [[Michel Houellebecq]]

80. Intimacy – [[Hanif Kureishi]]

81. Amsterdam – [[Ian McEwan]]

82. Cloudsplitter – [[Russell Banks]]

83. All Souls Day – [[Cees Nooteboom]]

84. The Talk of the Town – [[Ardal O'Hanlon]]

85. Tipping the Velvet – [[Sarah Waters]]

86. The Poisonwood Bible – [[Barbara Kingsolver]]

87. Glamorama – [[Bret Easton Ellis]]

88. Another World – [[Pat Barker]]

89. The Hours – [[Michael Cunningham]]

90. Veronika Decides to Die – [[Paulo Coelho]]

91. Mason & Dixon – [[Thomas Pynchon]]

92. The God of Small Things – [[Arundhati Roy]]

93. Memoirs of a Geisha – [[Arthur Golden]]

94. Great Apes – [[Will Self]]

95. Enduring Love – [[Ian McEwan]]

96. Underworld – [[Don DeLillo]]

97. Jack Maggs – [[Peter Carey]]

98. The Life of Insects – [[Victor Pelevin]]

99. American Pastoral – [[Philip Roth]]

== 100 - 199 ==

100. The Untouchable – [[John Banville]]

101. Silk – [[Alessandro Baricco]]

102. Cocaine Nights – [[J.G. Ballard]]

103. Hallucinating Foucault – [[Patricia Duncker]]

104. Fugitive Pieces – [[Anne Michaels]]

105. The Ghost Road – [[Pat Barker]]

106. Forever a Stranger – [[Hella Haasse]]

107. Infinite Jest – [[David Foster Wallace]]

108. The Clay Machine-Gun – [[Victor Pelevin]]

109. Alias Grace – [[Margaret Atwood]]

110. The Unconsoled – [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]

111. Morvern Callar – [[Alan Warner]]

112. The Information – [[Martin Amis]]

113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – [[Salman Rushdie]]

114. Sabbath’s Theater – [[Philip Roth]]

115. The Rings of Saturn – [[W.G. Sebald]]

116. The Reader – [[Bernhard Schlink]]

117. A Fine Balance – [[Rohinton Mistry]]

118. Love’s Work – [[Gillian Rose]]

119. The End of the Story – [[Lydia Davis]]

120. Mr. Vertigo – [[Paul Auster]]

121. The Folding Star – [[Alan Hollinghurst]]

122. Whatever – [[Michel Houellebecq]]

123. Land – [[Park Kyong-ni]]

124. The Master of Petersburg – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – [[Haruki Murakami]]

126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – [[Antonio Tabucchi]]

127. City Sister Silver – [[Jàchym Topol]]

128. How Late It Was, How Late – [[James Kelman]]

129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – [[Louis de Bernieres]]

130. Felicia’s Journey – [[William Trevor]]

131. Disappearance – [[David Dabydeen]]

132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – [[Uwe Timm]]

133. The Shipping News – [[E. Annie Proulx]]

134. Trainspotting – [[Irvine Welsh]]

135. Birdsong – [[Sebastian Faulks]]

136. Looking for the Possible Dance – [[A.L. Kennedy]]

137. Operation Shylock – [[Philip Roth]]

138. Complicity – [[Iain Banks]]

139. On Love – [[Alain de Botton]]

140. What a Carve Up! – [[Jonathan Coe]]

141. A Suitable Boy – [[Vikram Seth]]

142. The Stone Diaries – [[Carol Shields]]

143. The Virgin Suicides – [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]

144. The House of Doctor Dee – [[Peter Ackroyd]]

145. The Robber Bride – [[Margaret Atwood]]

146. The Emigrants – [[W.G. Sebald]]

147. The Secret History – [[Donna Tartt]]

148. Life is a Caravanserai – [[Emine Özdamar]]

149. The Discovery of Heaven – [[Harry Mulisch]]

150. A Heart So White – [[Javier Marias]]

151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – [[Alice Walker]]

152. Indigo – [[Marina Warner]]

153. The Crow Road – [[Iain Banks]]

154. Written on the Body – [[Jeanette Winterson]]

155. Jazz – [[Toni Morrison]]

156. The English Patient – [[Michael Ondaatje]]

157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – [[Peter Høeg]]

158. The Butcher Boy – [[Patrick McCabe]]

159. Black Water – [[Joyce Carol Oates]]

160. The Heather Blazing – [[Colm Tóibín]]

161. Asphodel – [[H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)]]

162. Black Dogs – [[Ian McEwan]]

163. Hideous Kinky – [[Esther Freud]]

164. Arcadia – [[Jim Crace]]

165. Wild Swans – [[Jung Chang]]

166. American Psycho – [[Bret Easton Ellis]]

167. Time’s Arrow – [[Martin Amis]]

168. Mao II – [[Don DeLillo]]

169. Typical – [[Padgett Powell]]

170. Regeneration – [[Pat Barker]]

171. Downriver – [[Iain Sinclair]]

172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – [[Louis de Bernieres]]

173. Wise Children – [[Angela Carter]]

174. Get Shorty – [[Elmore Leonard]]

175. Amongst Women – [[John McGahern]]

176. Vineland – [[Thomas Pynchon]]

177. Vertigo – [[W.G. Sebald]]

178. Stone Junction – [[Jim Dodge]]

179. The Music of Chance – [[Paul Auster]]

180. The Things They Carried – [[Tim O’Brien]]

181. A Home at the End of the World – [[Michael Cunningham]]

182. Like Life – [[Lorrie Moore]]

183. Possession – [[A.S. Byatt]]

184. The Buddha of Suburbia – [[Hanif Kureishi]]

185. The Midnight Examiner – [[William Kotzwinkle]]

186. A Disaffection – [[James Kelman]]

187. Sexing the Cherry – [[Jeanette Winterson]]

188. Moon Palace – [[Paul Auster]]

189. Billy Bathgate – [[E.L. Doctorow]]

190. Remains of the Day – [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]

191. The Melancholy of Resistance – [[László Krasznahorkai]]

192. The Temple of My Familiar – [[Alice Walker]]

193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – [[Janice Galloway]]

194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – [[José Saramago]]

195. Like Water for Chocolate – [[Laura Esquivel]]

196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – [[John Irving]]

197. London Fields – [[Martin Amis]]

198. The Book of Evidence – [[John Banville]]

199. Cat’s Eye – [[Margaret Atwood]]

== 200 - 299 ==

200. Foucault’s Pendulum – [[Umberto Eco]]

201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – [[Edmund White]]

202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – [[David Markson]]

203. The Satanic Verses – [[Salman Rushdie]]

204. The Swimming-Pool Library – [[Alan Hollinghurst]]

205. Oscar and Lucinda – [[Peter Carey]]

206. Libra – [[Don DeLillo]]

207. The Player of Games – [[Iain M. Banks]]

208. Nervous Conditions – [[Tsitsi Dangarembga]]

209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – [[Douglas Adams]]

210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – [[Douglas Adams]]

211. The Radiant Way – [[Margaret Drabble]]

212. The Afternoon of a Writer – [[Peter Handke]]

213. The Black Dahlia – [[James Ellroy]]

214. The Passion – [[Jeanette Winterson]]

215. The Pigeon – [[Patrick Süskind]]

216. The Child in Time – [[Ian McEwan]]

217. Cigarettes – [[Harry Mathews]]

218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – [[Tom Wolfe]]

219. The New York Trilogy – [[Paul Auster]]

220. World’s End – [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]]

221. Enigma of Arrival – [[V.S. Naipaul]]

222. The Taebek Mountains – [[Jo Jung-rae]]

223. Beloved – [[Toni Morrison]]

224. Anagrams – [[Lorrie Moore]]

225. Matigari – [[Ngugi Wa Thiong’o]]

226. Marya – [[Joyce Carol Oates]]

227. Watchmen – [[Alan Moore & David Gibbons]]

228. The Old Devils – [[Kingsley Amis]]

229. Lost Language of Cranes – [[David Leavitt]]

230. An Artist of the Floating World – [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]

231. Extinction – [[Thomas Bernhard]]

232. Foe – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

233. The Drowned and the Saved – [[Primo Levi]]

234. Reasons to Live – [[Amy Hempel]]

235. The Parable of the Blind – [[Gert Hofmann]]

236. Love in the Time of Cholera – [[Gabriel García Márquez]]

237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – [[Jeanette Winterson]]

238. The Cider House Rules – [[John Irving]]

239. A Maggot – [[John Fowles]]

240. Less Than Zero – [[Bret Easton Ellis]]

241. Contact – [[Carl Sagan]]

242. The Handmaid’s Tale – [[Margaret Atwood]]

243. Perfume – [[Patrick Süskind]]

244. Old Masters – [[Thomas Bernhard]]

245. White Noise – [[Don DeLillo]]

246. Queer – [[William Burroughs]]

247. Hawksmoor – [[Peter Ackroyd]]

248. Legend – [[David Gemmell]]

249. Dictionary of the Khazars – [[Milorad Pavi?]]

250. The Bus Conductor Hines – [[James Kelman]]

251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – [[José Saramago]]

252. The Lover – [[Marguerite Duras]]

253. Empire of the Sun – [[J.G. Ballard]]

254. The Wasp Factory – [[Iain Banks]]

255. Nights at the Circus – [[Angela Carter]]

256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – [[Milan Kundera]]

257. Blood and Guts in High School – [[Kathy Acker]]

258. Neuromancer – [[William Gibson (novelist)|William Gibson]]

259. Flaubert’s Parrot – [[Julian Barnes]]

260. Money: A Suicide Note – [[Martin Amis]]

261. Shame – [[Salman Rushdie]]

262. Worstward Ho – [[Samuel Beckett]]

263. Fools of Fortune – [[William Trevor]]

264. La Brava – [[Elmore Leonard]]

265. Waterland – [[Graham Swift]]

266. The Life and Times of Michael K – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

267. The Diary of Jane Somers – [[Doris Lessing]]

268. The Piano Teacher – [[Elfriede Jelinek]]

269. The Sorrow of Belgium – [[Hugo Claus]]

270. If Not Now, When? – [[Primo Levi]]

271. A Boy’s Own Story – [[Edmund White]]

272. The Color Purple – [[Alice Walker]]

273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – [[Thomas Bernhard]]

274. A Pale View of Hills – [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]

275. Schindler’s Ark – [[Thomas Keneally]]

276. The House of the Spirits – [[Isabel Allende]]

277. The Newton Letter – [[John Banville]]

278. On the Black Hill – [[Bruce Chatwin]]

279. Concrete – [[Thomas Bernhard]]

280. The Names – [[Don DeLillo]]

281. Rabbit is Rich – [[John Updike]]

282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – [[Alasdair Gray]]

283. The Comfort of Strangers – [[Ian McEwan]]

284. July’s People – [[Nadine Gordimer]]

285. Summer in Baden-Baden – [[Leonid Tsypkin]]

286. Broken April – [[Ismail Kadare]]

287. Waiting for the Barbarians – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

288. Midnight’s Children – [[Salman Rushdie]]

289. Rites of Passage – [[William Golding]]

290. Rituals – [[Cees Nooteboom]]

291. Confederacy of Dunces – [[John Kennedy Toole]]

292. City Primeval – [[Elmore Leonard]]

293. The Name of the Rose – [[Umberto Eco]]

294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – [[Milan Kundera]]

295. Smiley’s People – [[John Le Carré]]

296. Shikasta – [[Doris Lessing]]

297. A Bend in the River – [[V.S. Naipaul]]

298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer]]

299. The Safety Net – [[Heinrich Böll]]

== 300 - 399 ==

300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – [[Italo Calvino]]

301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – [[Douglas Adams]]

302. The Cement Garden – [[Ian McEwan]]

303. The World According to Garp – [[John Irving]]

304. Life: A User’s Manual – [[Georges Perec]]

305. The Sea, The Sea – [[Iris Murdoch]]

306. The Singapore Grip – [[J.G. Farrell]]

307. Yes – [[Thomas Bernhard]]

308. The Virgin in the Garden – [[A.S. Byatt]]

309. In the Heart of the Country – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

310. The Passion of New Eve – [[Angela Carter]]

311. Delta of Venus – [[Anaïs Nin]]

312. The Shining – [[Stephen King]]

313. Dispatches – [[Michael Herr]]

314. Petals of Blood – [[Ngugi Wa Thiong’o]]

315. Song of Solomon – [[Toni Morrison]]

316. The Hour of the Star – [[Clarice Lispector]]

317. The Left-Handed Woman – [[Peter Handke]]

318. Ratner’s Star – [[Don DeLillo]]

319. The Public Burning – [[Robert Coover]]

320. Interview With the Vampire – [[Anne Rice]]

321. Cutter and Bone – [[Newton Thornburg]]

322. Amateurs – [[Donald Barthelme]]

323. Patterns of Childhood – [[Christa Wolf]]

324. Autumn of the Patriarch – [[Gabriel García Márquez]]

325. W, or the Memory of childhood – [[Georges Perec]]

326. A Dance to the Music of Time – [[Anthony Powell]]

327. Grimus – [[Salman Rushdie]]

328. The Dead Father – [[Donald Barthelme]]

329. Fateless – [[Imre Kertész]]

330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – [[Richard Brautigan]]

331. High Rise – [[J.G. Ballard]]

332. Humboldt’s Gift – [[Saul Bellow]]

333. Dead Babies – [[Martin Amis]]

334. Correction – [[Thomas Bernhard]]

335. Ragtime – [[E.L. Doctorow]]

336. The Fan Man – [[William Kotzwinkle]]

337. Dusklands – [[J.M. Coetzee]]

338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – [[Heinrich Böll]]

339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – [[John Le Carré]]

340. Breakfast of Champions – [[Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]]

341. Fear of Flying – [[Erica Jong]]

342. A Question of Power – [[Bessie Head]]

343. The Siege of Krishnapur – [[J.G. Farrell]]

344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – [[Italo Calvino]]

345. Crash – [[J.G. Ballard]]

346. The Honorary Consul – [[Graham Greene]]

347. Gravity’s Rainbow – [[Thomas Pynchon]]

348. The Black Prince – [[Iris Murdoch]]

349. Sula – [[Toni Morrison]]

350. Invisible Cities – [[Italo Calvino]]

351. The Breast – [[Philip Roth]]

352. The Summer Book – [[Tove Jansson]]

353. G – [[John Berger]]

354. Surfacing – [[Margaret Atwood]]

355. House Mother Normal – [[B.S. Johnson]]

356. In A Free State – [[V.S. Naipaul]]

357. The Book of Daniel – [[E.L. Doctorow]]

358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – [[Hunter S. Thompson]]

359. Group Portrait With Lady – [[Heinrich Böll]]

360. The Wild Boys – [[William Burroughs]]

361. Rabbit Redux – [[John Updike]]

362. The Sea of Fertility – [[Yukio Mishima]]

363. The Driver’s Seat – [[Muriel Spark]]

364. The Ogre – [[Michael Tournier]]

365. The Bluest Eye – [[Toni Morrison]]

366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – [[Peter Handke]]

367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – [[Maya Angelou]]

368. Mercier et Camier – [[Samuel Beckett]]

369. Troubles – [[J.G. Farrell]]

370. Jahrestage – [[Uwe Johnson]]

371. The Atrocity Exhibition – [[J.G. Ballard]]

372. Tent of Miracles – [[Jorge Amado]]

373. Pricksongs and Descants – [[Robert Coover]]

374. Blind Man With a Pistol – [[Chester Hines]]

375. Slaughterhouse Five – [[Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]]

376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – [[John Fowles]]

377. The Green Man – [[Kingsley Amis]]

378. Portnoy’s Complaint – [[Philip Roth]]

379. The Godfather – [[Mario Puzo]]

380. Ada – [[Vladimir Nabokov]]

381. Them – [[Joyce Carol Oates]]

382. A Void/Avoid – [[Georges Perec]]

383. Eva Trout – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

384. Myra Breckinridge – [[Gore Vidal]]

385. The Nice and the Good – [[Iris Murdoch]]

386. Belle du Seigneur – [[Albert Cohen]]

387. Cancer Ward – [[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn]]

388. The First Circle – [[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn]]

389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – [[Arthur C. Clarke]]

390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – [[Philip K. Dick]]

391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – [[Malcolm Lowry]]

392. The German Lesson – [[Siegfried Lenz]]

393. In Watermelon Sugar – [[Richard Brautigan]]

394. A Kestrel for a Knave – [[Barry Hines]]

395. The Quest for Christa T. – [[Christa Wolf]]

396. Chocky – [[John Wyndham]]

397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – [[Tom Wolfe]]

398. The Cubs and Other Stories – [[Mario Vargas Llosa]]

399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez]]

== 400 - 499 ==

400. The Master and Margarita – [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]

401. Pilgrimage – [[Dorothy Richardson]]

402. The Joke – [[Milan Kundera]]

403. No Laughing Matter – [[Angus Wilson]]

404. The Third Policeman – [[Flann O'Brien]]

405. A Man Asleep – [[Georges Perec]]

406. The Birds Fall Down – [[Rebecca West]]

407. Trawl – [[B.S. Johnson]]

408. In Cold Blood – [[Truman Capote]]

409. The Magus – [[John Fowles]]

410. The Vice-Consul – [[Marguerite Duras]]

411. Wide Sargasso Sea – [[Jean Rhys]]

412. Giles Goat-Boy – [[John Barth]]

413. The Crying of Lot 49 – [[Thomas Pynchon]]

414. Things – [[Georges Perec]]

415. The River Between – [[Ngugi wa Thiong'o]]

416. August is a Wicked Month – [[Edna O'Brien]]

417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – [[Kurt Vonnegut]]

418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – [[Flannery O'Connor]]

419. The Passion According to G.H. – [[Clarice Lispector]]

420. Sometimes a Great Notion – [[Ken Kesey]]

421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – [[Donald Barthelme]]

422. Albert Angelo – [[B.S. Johnson]]

423. Arrow of God – [[Chinua Achebe]]

424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – [[Marguerite Duras]]

425. Herzog – [[Saul Bellow]]

426. V. – [[Thomas Pynchon]]

427. Cat’s Cradle – [[Kurt Vonnegut]]

428. The Graduate – [[Charles Webb]]

429. Manon des Sources – [[Marcel Pagnol]]

430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – [[John Le Carré]]

431. The Girls of Slender Means – [[Muriel Spark]]

432. Inside Mr. Enderby – [[Anthony Burgess]]

433. The Bell Jar – [[Sylvia Plath]]

434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – [[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn]]

435. The Collector – [[John Fowles]]

436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – [[Ken Kesey]]

437. A Clockwork Orange – [[Anthony Burgess]]

438. Pale Fire – [[Vladimir Nabokov]]

439. The Drowned World – [[J.G. Ballard]]

440. The Golden Notebook – [[Doris Lessing]]

441. Labyrinths – [[Jorge Luis Borges]]

442. Girl With Green Eyes – [[Edna O'Brien]]

443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – [[Giorgio Bassani]]

444. Stranger in a Strange Land – [[Robert A. Heinlein]]

445. Franny and Zooey – [[J.D. Salinger]]

446. A Severed Head – [[Iris Murdoch]]

447. Faces in the Water – [[Janet Frame]]

448. Solaris – [[Stanislaw Lem]]

449. Cat and Mouse – [[Günter Grass]]

450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – [[Muriel Spark]]

451. Catch-22 – [[Joseph Heller]]

452. The Violent Bear it Away – [[Flannery O'Connor]]

453. How It Is – [[Samuel Beckett]]

454. Our Ancestors – [[Italo Calvino]]

455. The Country Girls – [[Edna O'Brien]]

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – [[Harper Lee]]

457. Rabbit, Run – [[John Updike]]

458. Promise at Dawn – [[Romain Gary]]

459. Cider With Rosie – [[Laurie Lee]]

460. Billy Liar – [[Keith Waterhouse]]

461. Naked Lunch – [[William Burroughs]]

462. The Tin Drum – [[Günter Grass]]

463. Absolute Beginners – [[Colin MacInnes]]

464. Henderson the Rain King – [[Saul Bellow]]

465. Memento Mori – [[Muriel Spark]]

466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – [[Heinrich Böll]]

467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – [[Truman Capote]]

468. The Leopard – [[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]]

469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – [[Kenzaburo Oe]]

470. A Town Like Alice – [[Nevil Shute]]

471. The Bitter Glass – [[Eilís Dillon ]]

472. Things Fall Apart – [[Chinua Achebe]]

473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – [[Alan Sillitoe]]

474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – [[Paul Gallico]]

475. Borstal Boy – [[Brendan Behan]]

476. The End of the Road – [[John Barth]]

477. The Once and Future King – [[T.H. White]]

478. The Bell – [[Iris Murdoch]]

479. Jealousy – [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]]

480. Voss – [[Patrick White]]

481. The Midwich Cuckoos – [[John Wyndham]]

482. Blue Noon – [[Georges Bataille]]

483. Homo Faber – [[Max Frisch]]

484. On the Road – [[Jack Kerouac]]

485. Pnin – [[Vladimir Nabokov]]

486. Doctor Zhivago – [[Boris Pasternak]]

487. The Wonderful “O” – [[James Thurber]]

488. Justine – [[Lawrence Durrell]]

489. Giovanni’s Room – [[James Baldwin]]

490. The Lonely Londoners – [[Sam Selvon]]

491. The Roots of Heaven – [[Romain Gary]]

492. Seize the Day – [[Saul Bellow]]

493. The Floating Opera – [[John Barth]]

494. The Lord of the Rings – [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]

495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – [[Patricia Highsmith]]

496. Lolita – [[Vladimir Nabokov]]

497. A World of Love – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

498. The Trusting and the Maimed – [[James Plunkett]]

499. The Quiet American – [[Graham Greene]]

To protect themselves from these threats, American troops began reinforcing their [[Humvee]]s, [[Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles|LMTV]]s and MTVs with whatever was available, including [[scrap metal]], [[kevlar]] blankets and vests, compromised [[bulletproof glass|ballistic glass]] and [[plywood]]. In some cases they relied on Iraqis to assist them in these efforts, and referred to the result as "haji" armor.<ref name="Moran" /> They were also officially advised<ref name="msnbc1">[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6676765/ "Bush: Soldiers' equipment gripes heard: To colleagues' cheers, soldier complained about armor to Rumsfeld,"] ''MSNBC'', [[December 9]] [[2004]].</ref> to line the floors of their Humvees with sandbags to deaden the impact of [[land mine]] explosions.

== 500 - 599 ==

500. The Last Temptation of Christ – [[Nikos Kazantzakis]]

501. The Recognitions – [[William Gaddis]]

502. The Ragazzi – [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]

503. Bonjour Tristesse – [[Françoise Sagan]]

504. I’m Not Stiller – [[Max Frisch]]

505. Self Condemned – [[Wyndham Lewis]]

506. The Story of O – [[Pauline Réage]]

507. A Ghost at Noon – [[Alberto Moravia]]

508. Lord of the Flies – [[William Golding]]

509. Under the Net – [[Iris Murdoch]]

510. The Go-Between – [[L.P. Hartley]]

511. The Long Goodbye – [[Raymond Chandler]]

512. The Unnamable – [[Samuel Beckett]]

513. Watt – [[Samuel Beckett]]

514. Lucky Jim – [[Kingsley Amis]]

515. Junkie – [[William Burroughs]]

516. The Adventures of Augie March – [[Saul Bellow]]

517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – [[James Baldwin]]

518. Casino Royale – [[Ian Fleming]]

519. The Judge and His Hangman – [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]]

520. Invisible Man – [[Ralph Ellison]]

521. The Old Man and the Sea – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

522. Wise Blood – [[Flannery O'Connor]]

523. The Killer Inside Me – [[Jim Thompson]]

524. Memoirs of Hadrian – [[Marguerite Yourcenar]]

525. Malone Dies – [[Samuel Beckett]]

526. Day of the Triffids – [[John Wyndham]]

527. Foundation – [[Isaac Asimov]]

528. The Opposing Shore – [[Julien Gracq]]

529. The Catcher in the Rye – [[J.D. Salinger]]

530. The Rebel – [[Albert Camus]]

531. Molloy – [[Samuel Beckett]]

532. The End of the Affair – [[Graham Greene]]

533. The Abbot C – [[Georges Bataille]]

534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – [[Octavio Paz]]

535. The Third Man – [[Graham Greene]]

536. The 13 Clocks – [[James Thurber]]

537. Gormenghast – [[Mervyn Peake]]

538. The Grass is Singing – [[Doris Lessing]]

539. I, Robot – [[Isaac Asimov]]

540. The Moon and the Bonfires – [[Cesare Pavese]]

541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – [[Simon Vestdijk]]

542. Love in a Cold Climate – [[Nancy Mitford]]

543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – [[Victor Serge]]

544. The Heat of the Day – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

545. Kingdom of This World – [[Alejo Carpentier]]

546. The Man With the Golden Arm – [[Nelson Algren]]

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – [[George Orwell]]

548. All About H. Hatterr – [[G.V. Desani]]

549. Disobedience – [[Alberto Moravia]]

550. Death Sentence – [[Maurice Blanchot]]

551. The Heart of the Matter – [[Graham Greene]]

552. Cry, the Beloved Country – [[Alan Paton]]

553. Doctor Faustus – [[Thomas Mann]]

554. The Victim – [[Saul Bellow]]

555. Exercises in Style – [[Raymond Queneau]]

556. If This Is a Man – [[Primo Levi]]

557. Under the Volcano – [[Malcolm Lowry]]

558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – [[Italo Calvino]]

559. The Plague – [[Albert Camus]]

560. Back – [[Henry Green]]

561. Titus Groan – [[Mervyn Peake]]

562. The Bridge on the Drina – [[Ivo Andrić]]

563. Brideshead Revisited – [[Evelyn Waugh]]

564. Animal Farm – [[George Orwell]]

565. Cannery Row – [[John Steinbeck]]

566. The Pursuit of Love – [[Nancy Mitford]]

567. Loving – [[Henry Green]]

568. Arcanum 17 – [[André Breton]]

569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – [[Carlo Levi]]

570. The Razor’s Edge – [[William Somerset Maugham]]

571. Transit – [[Anna Seghers]]

572. Ficciones – [[Jorge Luis Borges]]

573. Dangling Man – [[Saul Bellow]]

574. The Little Prince – [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]

575. Caught – [[Henry Green]]

576. The Glass Bead Game – [[Herman Hesse]]

577. Embers – [[Sandor Marai]]

578. Go Down, Moses – [[William Faulkner]]

579. The Outsider – [[Albert Camus]]

580. In Sicily – [[Elio Vittorini]]

581. The Poor Mouth – [[Flann O’Brien]]

582. The Living and the Dead – [[Patrick White]]

583. Hangover Square – [[Patrick Hamilton]]

584. Between the Acts – [[Virginia Woolf]]

585. The Hamlet – [[William Faulkner]]

586. Farewell My Lovely – [[Raymond Chandler]]

587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

588. Native Son – [[Richard Wright]]

589. The Power and the Glory – [[Graham Greene]]

590. The Tartar Steppe – [[Dino Buzzati]]

591. Party Going – [[Henry Green]]

592. The Grapes of Wrath – [[John Steinbeck]]

593. Finnegans Wake – [[James Joyce]]

594. At Swim-Two-Birds – [[Flann O’Brien]]

595. Coming Up for Air – [[George Orwell]]

596. Goodbye to Berlin – [[Christopher Isherwood]]

597. Tropic of Capricorn – [[Henry Miller]]

598. Good Morning, Midnight – [[Jean Rhys]]

599. The Big Sleep – [[Raymond Chandler]]

Some officers in Iraq were disciplined over their refusal to carry out missions in what they considered improperly armored vehicles.<ref name="Currey">Currey, Richard. [http://www.vva.org/TheVeteran/2005_03/feature_goodrum.htm "Waiting For Justice: The Saga of Army Lt. Julian Goodrum, PTSD, Hillbilly Armor, and Whistle-Blowing,"] ''The VVA Veteran'', March, 2006.</ref>

== 600 - 699 ==

600. [[After the Death of Don Juan]] – [[Sylvie Townsend Warner]]

601. [[Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day]] – [[Winifred Watson]]

602. [[Nausea]] – [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]

603. [[Rebecca]] – [[Daphne du Maurier]]

604. [[Cause for Alarm]] – [[Eric Ambler]]

605. [[Brighton Rock]] – [[Graham Greene]]

606. [[U.S.A. [[– [[John Dos Passos]]

607. [[Murphy]] – [[Samuel Beckett]]

608. [[Of Mice and Men]] – [[John Steinbeck]]

609. [[Their Eyes Were Watching God]] – [[Zora Neale Hurston]]

610. [[The Hobbit]] – [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]

611. [[The Years]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

612. [[In Parenthesis]] – [[David Jones]]

613. [[The Revenge for Love]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]]

614. [[Out of Africa]] – [[Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)]]

615. [[To Have and Have Not]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

616. [[Summer Will Show]] – [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]]

617. [[Eyeless in Gaza]] – [[Aldous Huxley]]

618. [[The Thinking Reed]] – [[Rebecca West]]

619. [[Gone With the Wind]] – [[Margaret Mitchell]]

620. [[Keep the Aspidistra Flying]] – [[George Orwell]]

621. [[Wild Harbour]] – [[Ian MacPherson]]

622. [[Absalom, Absalom!]] – [[William Faulkner]]

623. [[At the Mountains of Madness]] – [[H.P. Lovecraft]]

624. [[Nightwood]] – [[Djuna Barnes]]

625. [[Independent People]] – [[Halldór Laxness]]

626. [[Auto-da-Fé]] – [[Elias Canetti]]

627. [[The Last of Mr. [[Norris]] – [[Christopher Isherwood]]

628. [[They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?]] – [[Horace McCoy]]

629. [[The House in Paris]] – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

630. [[England Made Me]] – [[Graham Greene]]

631. [[Burmese Days]] – [[George Orwell]]

632. [[The Nine Tailors]] – [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]

633. [[Threepenny Novel]] – [[Bertolt Brecht]]

634. [[Novel With Cocaine]] – [[M. [[Ageyev]]

635. [[The Postman Always Rings Twice]] – [[James M. Cain]]

636. [[Tropic of Cancer]] – [[Henry Miller]]

637. [[A Handful of Dust]] – [[Evelyn Waugh]]

638. [[Tender is the Night]] – [[F. [[Scott Fitzgerald]]

639. [[Thank You, Jeeves]] – [[P.G. Wodehouse]]

640. [[Call it Sleep]] – [[Henry Roth]]

641. [[Miss Lonelyhearts]] – [[Nathanael West]]

642. [[Murder Must Advertise]] – [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]

643. [[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]] – [[Gertrude Stein]]

644. [[Testament of Youth]] – [[Vera Brittain]]

645. [[A Day Off]] – [[Storm Jameson]]

646. [[The Man Without Qualities]] – [[Robert Musil]]

647. [[A Scots Quair (Sunset Song)]] – [[Lewis Grassic Gibbon]]

648. [[Journey to the End of the Night]] – [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]

649. [[Brave New World]] – [[Aldous Huxley]]

650. [[Cold Comfort Farm]] – [[Stella Gibbons]]

651. [[To the North]] – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

652. [[The Thin Man]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

653. [[The Radetzky March]] – [[Joseph Roth]]

654. [[The Waves]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

655. [[The Glass Key]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

656. [[Cakes and Ale]] – [[W. [[Somerset Maugham]]

657. [[The Apes of God]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]]

658. [[Her Privates We]] – [[Frederic Manning]]

659. [[Vile Bodies]] – [[Evelyn Waugh]]

660. [[The Maltese Falcon]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

661. [[Hebdomeros]] – [[Giorgio de Chirico]]

662. [[Passing]] – [[Nella Larsen]]

663. [[A Farewell to Arms]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

664. [[Red Harvest]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

665. [[Living]] – [[Henry Green]]

666. [[The Time of Indifference]] – [[Alberto Moravia]]

667. [[All Quiet on the Western Front]] – [[Erich Maria Remarque]]

668. [[Berlin Alexanderplatz]] – [[Alfred Döblin]]

669. [[The Last September]] – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

670. [[Harriet Hume]] – [[Rebecca West]]

671. [[The Sound and the Fury]] – [[William Faulkner]]

672. [[Les Enfants Terribles]] – [[Jean Cocteau]]

673. [[Look Homeward, Angel]] – [[Thomas Wolfe]]

674. [[Story of the Eye]] – [[Georges Bataille]]

675. [[Orlando]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

676. [[Lady Chatterley’s Lover]] – [[D.H. [[Lawrence]]

677. [[The Well of Loneliness]] – [[Radclyffe Hall]]

678. [[The Childermass]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]]

679. [[Quartet]] – [[Jean Rhys]]

680. [[Decline and Fall]] – [[Evelyn Waugh]]

681. [[Quicksand]] – [[Nella Larsen]]

682. [[Parade’s End]] – [[Ford Madox Ford]]

683. [[Nadja]] – [[André Breton]]

684. [[Steppenwolf]] – [[Herman Hesse]]

685. [[Remembrance of Things Past]] – [[Marcel Proust]]

686. [[To The Lighthouse]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

687. [[Tarka the Otter]] – [[Henry Williamson]]

688. [[Amerika]] – [[Franz Kafka]]

689. [[The Sun Also Rises]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

690. [[Blindness]] – [[Henry Green]]

691. [[The Castle]] – [[Franz Kafka]]

692. [[The Good Soldier Švejk]] – [[Jaroslav Hašek]]

693. [[The Plumed Serpent]] – [[D.H. [[Lawrence]]

694. [[One, None and a Hundred Thousand]] – [[Luigi Pirandello]]

695. [[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]] – [[Agatha Christie]]

696. [[The Making of Americans]] – [[Gertrude Stein]]

697. [[Manhattan Transfer]] – [[John Dos Passos]]

698. [[Mrs. [[Dalloway]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

699. [[The Great Gatsby]] – [[F. [[Scott Fitzgerald]]

===Military-supplied "up-armor"===

== 600 - 699 ==

[[Image:Hillbilly armor.jpg|thumb|A reinforced door on an Army truck at a base at [[Ar-Ramadi]], [[Iraq]].]]

600. [[After the Death of Don Juan]] – [[Sylvie Townsend Warner]]

The Army began deploying 'up-armor' kits to better protect military vehicles in [[August 2003]], two years before the Marine Corps would. Three levels of up-armor were implemented:

601. [[Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day]] – [[Winifred Watson]]

602. [[Nausea]] – [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]

603. [[Rebecca]] – [[Daphne du Maurier]]

604. [[Cause for Alarm]] – [[Eric Ambler]]

605. [[Brighton Rock]] – [[Graham Greene]]

606. [[U.S.A. [[– [[John Dos Passos]]

607. [[Murphy]] – [[Samuel Beckett]]

608. [[Of Mice and Men]] – [[John Steinbeck]]

609. [[Their Eyes Were Watching God]] – [[Zora Neale Hurston]]

610. [[The Hobbit]] – [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]

611. [[The Years]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

612. [[In Parenthesis]] – [[David Jones]]

613. [[The Revenge for Love]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]]

614. [[Out of Africa]] – [[Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)]]

615. [[To Have and Have Not]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

616. [[Summer Will Show]] – [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]]

617. [[Eyeless in Gaza]] – [[Aldous Huxley]]

618. [[The Thinking Reed]] – [[Rebecca West]]

619. [[Gone With the Wind]] – [[Margaret Mitchell]]

620. [[Keep the Aspidistra Flying]] – [[George Orwell]]

621. [[Wild Harbour]] – [[Ian MacPherson]]

622. [[Absalom, Absalom!]] – [[William Faulkner]]

623. [[At the Mountains of Madness]] – [[H.P. Lovecraft]]

624. [[Nightwood]] – [[Djuna Barnes]]

625. [[Independent People]] – [[Halldór Laxness]]

626. [[Auto-da-Fé]] – [[Elias Canetti]]

627. [[The Last of Mr. [[Norris]] – [[Christopher Isherwood]]

628. [[They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?]] – [[Horace McCoy]]

629. [[The House in Paris]] – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

630. [[England Made Me]] – [[Graham Greene]]

631. [[Burmese Days]] – [[George Orwell]]

632. [[The Nine Tailors]] – [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]

633. [[Threepenny Novel]] – [[Bertolt Brecht]]

634. [[Novel With Cocaine]] – [[M. [[Ageyev]]

635. [[The Postman Always Rings Twice]] – [[James M. Cain]]

636. [[Tropic of Cancer]] – [[Henry Miller]]

637. [[A Handful of Dust]] – [[Evelyn Waugh]]

638. [[Tender is the Night]] – [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]

639. [[Thank You, Jeeves]] – [[P.G. Wodehouse]]

640. [[Call it Sleep]] – [[Henry Roth]]

641. [[Miss Lonelyhearts]] – [[Nathanael West]]

642. [[Murder Must Advertise]] – [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]

643. [[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]] – [[Gertrude Stein]]

644. [[Testament of Youth]] – [[Vera Brittain]]

645. [[A Day Off]] – [[Storm Jameson]]

646. [[The Man Without Qualities]] – [[Robert Musil]]

647. [[A Scots Quair (Sunset Song)]] – [[Lewis Grassic Gibbon]]

648. [[Journey to the End of the Night]] – [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]

649. [[Brave New World]] – [[Aldous Huxley]]

650. [[Cold Comfort Farm]] – [[Stella Gibbons]]

651. [[To the North]] – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

652. [[The Thin Man]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

653. [[The Radetzky March]] – [[Joseph Roth]]

654. [[The Waves]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

655. [[The Glass Key]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

656. [[Cakes and Ale]] – [[W. [[Somerset Maugham]]

657. [[The Apes of God]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]]

658. [[Her Privates We]] – [[Frederic Manning]]

659. [[Vile Bodies]] – [[Evelyn Waugh]]

660. [[The Maltese Falcon]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

661. [[Hebdomeros]] – [[Giorgio de Chirico]]

662. [[Passing]] – [[Nella Larsen]]

663. [[A Farewell to Arms]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

664. [[Red Harvest]] – [[Dashiell Hammett]]

665. [[Living]] – [[Henry Green]]

666. [[The Time of Indifference]] – [[Alberto Moravia]]

667. [[All Quiet on the Western Front]] – [[Erich Maria Remarque]]

668. [[Berlin Alexanderplatz]] – [[Alfred Döblin]]

669. [[The Last September]] – [[Elizabeth Bowen]]

670. [[Harriet Hume]] – [[Rebecca West]]

671. [[The Sound and the Fury]] – [[William Faulkner]]

672. [[Les Enfants Terribles]] – [[Jean Cocteau]]

673. [[Look Homeward, Angel]] – [[Thomas Wolfe]]

674. [[Story of the Eye]] – [[Georges Bataille]]

675. [[Orlando]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

676. [[Lady Chatterley’s Lover]] – [[D.H. Lawrence]]

677. [[The Well of Loneliness]] – [[Radclyffe Hall]]

678. [[The Childermass]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]]

679. [[Quartet]] – [[Jean Rhys]]

680. [[Decline and Fall]] – [[Evelyn Waugh]]

681. [[Quicksand]] – [[Nella Larsen]]

682. [[Parade’s End]] – [[Ford Madox Ford]]

683. [[Nadja]] – [[André Breton]]

684. [[Steppenwolf]] – [[Herman Hesse]]

685. [[Remembrance of Things Past]] – [[Marcel Proust]]

686. [[To The Lighthouse]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

687. [[Tarka the Otter]] – [[Henry Williamson]]

688. [[Amerika]] – [[Franz Kafka]]

689. [[The Sun Also Rises]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]]

690. [[Blindness]] – [[Henry Green]]

691. [[The Castle]] – [[Franz Kafka]]

692. [[The Good Soldier Švejk]] – [[Jaroslav Hašek]]

693. [[The Plumed Serpent]] – [[D.H. Lawrence]]

694. [[One, None and a Hundred Thousand]] – [[Luigi Pirandello]]

695. [[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]] – [[Agatha Christie]]

696. [[The Making of Americans]] – [[Gertrude Stein]]

697. [[Manhattan Transfer]] – [[John Dos Passos]]

698. [[Mrs. [[Dalloway]] – [[Virginia Woolf]]

699. [[The Great Gatsby]] – [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]

*Level I: fully integrated armor installed during vehicle production or retrofit (including ballistic windows)

== 800 - 899 ==

*Level II: add-on armor (including ballistic windows)

800. [[The Real Charlotte]] – [[Somerville and Ross]]

*Level III: locally fabricated armor (interim solution, lacking ballistic windows)

801. [[The Yellow Wallpaper]] – [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]

802. [[Born in Exile]] – [[George Gissing]]

803. [[Diary of a Nobody]] – [[George & Weedon Grossmith]]

804. [[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]] – [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]

805. [[News from Nowhere]] – [[William Morris]]

806. [[New Grub Street]] – [[George Gissing]]

807. [[Gösta Berling's Saga]] – [[Selma Lagerlöf]]

808. [[Tess of the D'Urbervilles]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]

809. [[The Picture of Dorian Gray]] – [[Oscar Wilde]]

810. [[The Kreutzer Sonata]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]]

811. [[La Bête Humaine]] – [[Émile Zola]]

812. [[By the Open Sea]] – [[August Strindberg]]

813. [[Hunger]] – [[Knut Hamsun]]

814. [[The Master of Ballantrae]] – [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]

815. [[Pierre and Jean]] – [[Guy de Maupassant]]

816. [[Fortunata and Jacinta]] – [[Benito Pérez Galdés]]

817. [[The People of Hemsö]] – [[August Strindberg]]

818. [[The Woodlanders]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]

819. [[She]] – [[H. Rider Haggard]]

820. [[The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]] – [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]

821. [[The Mayor of Casterbridge]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]

822. [[Kidnapped]] – [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]

823. [[King Solomon's Mines]] – [[H. Rider Haggard]]

824. [[Germinal]] – [[Émile Zola]]

825. [[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]] – [[Mark Twain]]

826. [[Bel-Ami]] – [[Guy de Maupassant]]

827. [[Marius the Epicurean]] – [[Walter Pater]]

828. [[Against the Grain]] – [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]]

829. [[The Death of Ivan Ilyich]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]]

830. [[A Woman's Life]] – [[Guy de Maupassant]]

831. [[Treasure Island]] – [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]

832. [[The House by the Medlar Tree]] – [[Giovanni Verga]]

833. [[The Portrait of a Lady]] – [[Henry James]]

834. [[Bouvard and Pécuchet]] – [[Gustave Flaubert]]

835. [[Ben-Hur]] – [[Lew Wallace]]

836. [[Nana]] – [[Émile Zola]]

837. [[The Brothers Karamazov]] – [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]

838. [[The Red Room]] – [[August Strindberg]]

839. [[Return of the Native]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]

840. [[Anna Karenina]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]]

841. [[Drunkard]] – [[Émile Zola]]

842. [[Virgin Soil]] – [[Ivan Turgenev]]

843. [[Daniel Deronda]] – [[George Eliot]]

844. [[The Hand of Ethelberta]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]

845. [[The Temptation of Saint Anthony]] – [[Gustave Flaubert]]

846. [[Far from the Madding Crowd]] – [[Thomas Hardy]]

847. [[The Enchanted Wanderer]] – [[Nicolai Leskov]]

848. [[Around the World in Eighty Days]] – [[Jules Verne]]

849. [[In a Glass Darkly]] – [[Sheridan Le Fanu]]

850. [[The Devils]] – [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]

851. [[Erewhon]] – [[Samuel Butler]]

852. [[Spring Torrents]] – [[Ivan Turgenev]]

853. [[Middlemarch]] – [[George Eliot]]

854. [[Through the Looking Glass|Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There]] – [[Lewis Carroll]]

855. [[King Lear of the Steppes]] – [[Ivan Turgenev]]

856. [[He Knew He Was Right]] – [[Anthony Trollope]]

857. [[War and Peace]] – [[Leo Tolstoy]]

858. [[Sentimental Education]] – [[Gustave Flaubert]]

859. [[Phineas Finn]] – [[Anthony Trollope]]

860. [[Maldoror]] – [[Comte de Lautréamont]]

861. [[The Idiot]] – [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]

862. [[The Moonstone]] – [[Wilkie Collins]]

863. [[Little Women]] – [[Louisa May Alcott]]

864. [[Thérèse Raquin]] – [[Émile Zola]]

865. [[The Last Chronicle of Barset]] – [[Anthony Trollope]]

866. [[Journey to the Centre of the Earth]] – [[Jules Verne]]

867. [[Crime and Punishment]] – [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]

868. [[Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland]] – [[Lewis Carroll]]

869. [[Our Mutual Friend]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

870. [[Uncle Silas]] – [[Sheridan Le Fanu]]

871. [[Notes from the Underground]] – [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]

872. [[The Water-Babies]] – [[Charles Kingsley]]

873. [[Les Misérables]] – [[Victor Hugo]]

874. [[Fathers and Sons]] – [[Ivan Turgenev]]

875. [[Silas Marner]] – [[George Eliot]]

876. [[Great Expectations]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

877. [[On the Eve]] – [[Ivan Turgenev]]

878. [[Castle Richmond]] – [[Anthony Trollope]]

879. [[The Mill on the Floss]] – [[George Eliot]]

880. [[The Woman in White]] – [[Wilkie Collins]]

881. [[The Marble Faun]] – [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]

882. [[Max Havelaar]] – [[Multatuli]]

883. [[A Tale of Two Cities]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

884. [[Oblomov]] – [[Ivan Goncharov]]

885. [[Adam Bede]] – [[George Eliot]]

886. [[Madame Bovary]] – [[Gustave Flaubert]]

887. [[North and South]] – [[Elizabeth Gaskell]]

888. [[Hard Times]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

889. [[Walden]] – [[Henry David Thoreau]]

890. [[Bleak House]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

891. [[Villette]] – [[Charlotte Brontë]]

892. [[Cranford]] – [[Elizabeth Gaskell]]

893. [[Uncle Tom's Cabin]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]

894. [[The Blithedale Romance]] – [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]

895. [[The House of the Seven Gables]] – [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]

896. [[Moby-Dick]] – [[Herman Melville]]

897. [[The Scarlet Letter]] – [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]

898. [[David Copperfield]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

899. [[Shirley]] – [[Charlotte Brontë]]

The process of up-armoring all vehicles was to be complete by mid-[[2005]].<ref name="dod">[http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20041215-1801.html "Special Defense Department Briefing on Uparmoring HMMWV,"] U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), News Transcript, [[December 15]] [[2004]].</ref>

== 900 - 999 ==

900. [[Mary Barton]] – [[Elizabeth Gaskell]]

901. [[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]] – [[Anne Brontë]]

902. [[Wuthering Heights]] – [[Emily Brontë]]

903. [[Agnes Grey]] – [[Anne Brontë]]

904. [[Jane Eyre]] – [[Charlotte Brontë]]

905. [[Vanity Fair]] – [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]

906. [[The Count of Monte-Cristo]] – [[Alexandre Dumas]]

907. [[La Reine Margot]] – [[Alexandre Dumas]]

908. [[The Three Musketeers]] – [[Alexandre Dumas]]

909. [[The Purloined Letter]] – [[Edgar Allan Poe]]

910. [[Martin Chuzzlewit]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

911. [[The Pit and the Pendulum]] – [[Edgar Allan Poe]]

912. [[Lost Illusions]] – [[Honoré de Balzac]]

913. [[A Christmas Carol]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

914. [[Dead Souls]] – [[Nikolay Gogol]]

915. [[The Charterhouse of Parma]] – [[Stendhal]]

916. [[The Fall of the House of Usher]] – [[Edgar Allan Poe]]

917. [[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

918. [[Oliver Twist]] – [[Charles Dickens]]

919. [[The Nose]] – [[Nikolay Gogol]]

920. [[Le Père Goriot]] – [[Honoré de Balzac]]

921. [[Eugénie Grandet]] – [[Honoré de Balzac]]

922. [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]] – [[Victor Hugo]]

923. [[The Red and the Black]] – [[Stendhal]]

924. [[The Betrothed]] – [[Alessandro Manzoni]]

925. [[Last of the Mohicans]] – [[James Fenimore Cooper]]

926. [[The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner]] – [[James Hogg]]

927. [[The Albigenses]] – [[Charles Robert Maturin]]

928. [[Melmoth the Wanderer]] – [[Charles Robert Maturin]]

929. [[The Monastery]] – [[Sir Walter Scott]]

930. [[Ivanhoe]] – [[Sir Walter Scott]]

931. [[Frankenstein]] – [[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]]

932. [[Northanger Abbey]] – [[Jane Austen]]

933. [[Persuasion]] – [[Jane Austen]]

934. [[Ormond]] – [[Maria Edgeworth]]

935. [[Rob Roy]] – [[Sir Walter Scott]]

936. [[Emma]] – [[Jane Austen]]

937. [[Mansfield Park]] – [[Jane Austen]]

938. [[Pride and Prejudice]] – [[Jane Austen]]

939. [[The Absentee]] – [[Maria Edgeworth]]

940. [[Sense and Sensibility]] – [[Jane Austen]]

941. [[Elective Affinities]] – [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]

942. [[Castle Rackrent]] – [[Maria Edgeworth]]

1700s

943. [[Hyperion]] – [[Friedrich Hölderlin]]

944. [[The Nun]] – [[Denis Diderot]]

945. [[Camilla]] – [[Fanny Burney]]

946. [[The Monk]] – [[Matthew Gregory Lewis]]

947. [[Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship]] – [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]

948. [[The Mysteries of Udolpho]] – [[Ann Radcliffe]]

949. [[The Interesting Narrative]] – [[Olaudah Equiano]]

950. [[The Adventures of Caleb Williams]] – [[William Godwin]]

951. [[Justine]] – [[Marquis de Sade]]

952. [[Vathek]] – [[William Beckford]]

953. [[The 120 Days of Sodom]] – [[Marquis de Sade]]

954. [[Cecilia]] – [[Fanny Burney]]

955. [[Confessions]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]

956. [[Dangerous Liaisons]] – [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]]

957. [[Reveries of a Solitary Walker]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]

958. [[Evelina]] – [[Fanny Burney]]

959. [[The Sorrows of Young Werther]] – [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]

960. [[Humphrey Clinker]] – [[Tobias George Smollett]]

961. [[The Man of Feeling]] – [[Henry Mackenzie]]

962. [[A Sentimental Journey]] – [[Laurence Sterne]]

963. [[Tristram Shandy]] – [[Laurence Sterne]]

964. [[The Vicar of Wakefield]] – [[Oliver Goldsmith]]

965. [[The Castle of Otranto]] – [[Horace Walpole]]

966. [[Émile; or, On Education]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]

967. [[Rameau’s Nephew]] – [[Denis Diderot]]

968. [[Julie; or, the New Eloise]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]

969. [[Rasselas]] – [[Samuel Johnson]]

970. [[Candide]] – [[Voltaire]]

971. [[The Female Quixote]] – [[Charlotte Lennox]]

972. [[Amelia]] – [[Henry Fielding]]

973. [[Peregrine Pickle]] – [[Tobias George Smollett]]

974. [[Fanny Hill]] – [[John Cleland]]

975. [[Tom Jones]] – [[Henry Fielding]]

976. [[Roderick Random]] – [[Tobias George Smollett]]

977. [[Clarissa]] – [[Samuel Richardson]]

978. [[Pamela]] – [[Samuel Richardson]]

979. [[Jacques the Fatalist]] – [[Denis Diderot]]

980. [[Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus]] – [[John Arbuthnot|J. [[Arbuthnot, J. [[Gay, T. [[Parnell, A. [[Pope, J. [[Swift]]

981. [[Joseph Andrews]] – [[Henry Fielding]]

982. [[A Modest Proposal]] – [[Jonathan Swift]]

983. [[Gulliver’s Travels]] – [[Jonathan Swift]]

984. [[Roxana]] – [[Daniel Defoe]]

985. [[Moll Flanders]] – [[Daniel Defoe]]

986. [[Love in Excess]] – [[Eliza Haywood]]

987. [[Robinson Crusoe]] – [[Daniel Defoe]]

988. [[A Tale of a Tub]] – [[Jonathan Swift]]

As recently as [[February 2006]], the Army was welding additional armor onto the armored Humvee variant M1114 and 5-ton MTV in Iraq.<ref name="Hunter>Hunter, Duncan. [http://www.house.gov/hunter/iraq.oped.2006.html "Military is Functioning Well in Iraq,"] ''The San Diego Union Tribune'', [[February 17]] [[2006]].</ref>

Pre-1700

989. [[Oroonoko]] – [[Aphra Behn]]

The [[U.S. Marines]] developed their own Marine Armor Kit (MAK), consisting of bolt-on armor for the crew compartment, ballistic glass, suspension upgrades, and air conditioning. However, the kit was not fielded until early [[2005]], and even then only to certain specified units.<ref name="Crum">Crum, R. USMC Maj. [http://www.defenselink.mil/transformation/articles/2004-12/ta120204c.html "New Marine Armor Kit to Upgrade 'Hummers',"] ''Transformation'', [[December 2]] [[2004]].</ref> The armor was made available for [[MTVR]]'s, [[Logistics Vehicle System|LVS]]'s and [[HMMWV]]'s. Level I armor kits are now phasing out MAKs for MTVR's and M1114 HMMWV's.

990. [[[[La Princesse de Clèves]]]] – [[Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette]]

991. [[The Pilgrim’s Progress]] – [[John Bunyan]]

===Rumsfeld questioning incident===

992. [[Don Quixote]] – [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]]

[[Image:UpArmorLMTVAdder.jpg|thumb|A U.S. Army LMTV cargo truck with up-armored cab.]]

993. [[[[The Unfortunate Traveller]]]] – [[Thomas Nashe]]

The practice of U.S. troops reinforcing their vehicles with improvised armor became well known after a U.S. soldier questioned [[U.S. Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] about the need to salvage armor from scrap materials on [[December 8]], [[2004]] at [[Camp Buehring]], [[Kuwait]].<ref name="Burns">Burns, Robert. [http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20041209-122417-5119r.htm "Soldiers criticize lack of armor,"] ''Associated Press'', [[December 9]] [[2004]].</ref><ref name="abcnews1">[http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=314807&page=1 "Rumsfeld Responds to U.S. Soldier's Grilling: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Tries to Quell the Firestorm Over the 'Hillbilly Armor' Issue,"] ''ABC News'', [[December 9]] [[2004]].</ref>

994. [[Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit]] – [[John Lyly]]

995. [[Gargantua and Pantagruel]] – [[François Rabelais]]

<blockquote>

996. [[[[The Thousand and One Nights]]]] – [[Anonymous]]

Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles? We do not have proper vehicles to carry us north.<ref name="msnbc1" />

997. [[The Golden Ass]] – [[Lucius Apuleius]]

</blockquote>

998. [[Aithiopika]] – [[Heliodorus]]

999. [[Chaireas and Kallirhoe]] – [[Chariton]]

The question was met with cheers from fellow troops, and Rumsfeld's response:

1000. [[Metamorphoses]] – [[Ovid]]

1001. [[Aesop’s Fables]] – [[Aesopus]]

<blockquote>

I talked to the general coming out here about the pace at which the vehicles are being armored. They have been brought from all over the world, wherever they're not needed, to a place where they are needed. I'm told that they are being ... I think it's something like 400 a month are being done. And it's essentially a matter of physics. It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter, on the part of the Army, of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it.

<p>

As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate they believe ... it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.

<p>

I can assure you that Gen. Schoomaker and the leadership in the Army and certainly Gen. Whitcomb are sensitive to the fact that not every vehicle has the degree of armor that would be desirable for it to have, but that they're working at it at a good clip.<ref name="Sonnenfeldt">Sonnenfeldt, Helmut and Nessen, Rob. [http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/sonnenfeldt20041230.htm "You Go to War with the Press You Have,"] ''Washington Times'', [[December 30]] [[2004]].</ref>

</blockquote>

Rumsfeld was paying a visit to approximately 2,300 troops on the eve of their deployment across the border to Iraq. [[Specialist]] Thomas Wilson of the 278th Regimental Combat Team ([[Tennessee]] [[Army National Guard]]) asked the question, but it was later revealed that Lee Pitts, an [[embedded journalist|embedded reporter]] for the [[Chattanooga Times Free Press]], had asked<ref name="Griscom">It was widely reported that Wilson was "asked" to make the inquiry by Pitts or somehow "pressured" by him. Tom Griscom, executive editor of the Times Free Press, wrote the following in a [[December 10]] [[2004]] editor's note: "Questions have been raised as to whether Mr. Pitts used the soldier or put words in his mouth. While Mr. Pitts states that he discussed the armor question with the soldiers, Spc. Wilson chose to ask the question."</ref> Wilson to make the inquiry.<ref name="cnn1">[http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/09/rumsfeld.reporter/index.html "Reporter planted GI's question for Rumsfeld: Says issue of unarmored vehicles wasn't being covered,"] ''CNN'', [[December 10]] [[2004]].</ref> "I have been trying to get this story out for weeks—as soon as I found out I would be on an unarmored truck," said an email from Pitts to Times Free Press colleagues that was posted by [[Jim Romenesko]] on the [[Poynter Institute]] website.<ref name="msnbc1" /> "It felt good to hand it off to the national press. I believe lives are at stake with so many soldiers going across the border riding with scrap metal as protection."<ref name="Pitts">Pitts, Lee. [http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=8447 Email from Pitts to colleagues, [[December 8]] [[2004]],] posted on Poynter Institute website by Jim Romenesko, [[December 9]] [[2004]].</ref>

Several related questions were asked of Rumsfeld by other troops. Some of Wilson's fellow soldiers and commanders supported his inquiry in later interviews. Col. John Zimmerman, Staff Judge Advocate of Wilson's unit said that 95 percent of the unit's 300 vehicles lacked appropriate armor, and suggested that it was the result of a double standard used to equip the National Guard as compared with active-duty forces.<ref name="abcnews2">[http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=312959&page=1 "Soldiers Must Rely on 'Hillbilly Armor' for Protection: Troops Scavenge Scrap Metal to Protect Combat Vehicles,"] ''ABC News'', [[December 8]] [[2004]].</ref><ref name="Schmitt">Schmitt, Eric. "U.S. defense chief taken aback by pointed questions," ''New York Times'', [[December 9]] [[2004]].</ref>

On [[December 9]] [[2004]], [[George W. Bush|President George W. Bush]] responded to the incident:

<blockquote>

The concerns expressed are being addressed, and that is we expect our troops to have the best possible equipment. If I were a soldier overseas wanting to defend my country, I'd want to ask the secretary of defense the same question, and that is, 'Are we getting the best we can get us?<ref name="msnbc1" />

</blockquote>

On [[December 10]] [[2004]], it was reported that following the incident, [[Armor Holdings, Inc.]], the company producing armored Humvees for the Army, was asked to increase production from 450 to 550 per month – its maximum capacity.<ref name="nbcnews1" /> Also on [[December 10]], Congressman [[Marty Meehan]] (D-MA, [[House Armed Services Committee]]) issued a news release harshly critical of the Bush administration and [[The Pentagon]]:

<blockquote>

The Pentagon's excuses aren't even credible. It's been nearly two years since the war in Iraq began. It's been more than a year since the concerns about unarmored Humvees were raised. It's been more than two months since the company that provides the armor for the Humvees informed the Marine Corps that it could speed up production....

<p>

There is no excuse that the production of armored vehicles was not ramped up much earlier. No excuse.... Because of callous negligence on the part of the Pentagon's leadership, our soldiers have had to resort to dumpster diving to improve their chances of survival.

</blockquote>

[[Image:UpArmor.jpg|thumb|right|250px|An Airman works on a truck as part of an expanded program to improve the armored protection for U.S. troops. [[Balad Air Base]], Iraq (April 2005).]]

Meehan described the shortage of armored vehicles as "a dangerously exposed center of gravity" of America's military presence in Iraq, and the lack of preparedness for insurgent tactics such as deploying IEDs ([[improvised explosive device]]s) as "symptomatic of a headlong rush to war."<ref name="Meehan">[http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ma05_meehan/NR041210Armor.html "Meehan Calls for Ramped Up Armoring of Vehicles,"] Congressman Martin T. Meehan (MA05), news release, [[December 10]] [[2004]].</ref>

On [[December 15]] [[2004]], The [[Department of Defense]] held a special briefing on the issue of up-armoring. Officials stated that the process of up-armoring SPC Wilson's unit was nearly complete on [[December 8]] and was completed within 24 hours of the incident. Brig. Gen. Jeff Sorenson, Deputy for Acquisition Systems Management, stated during the briefing:

<blockquote>

You can go back to other particular operations with respect to even the Soviet Union in terms of some of their operations that they had in Afghanistan as well as Chechnya, where they came in in a vehicle configuration that was all buttoned up and all isolated, and in many cases that particular formation was destroyed....

<p>

There's an art and science to this.... the whole point of what we're doing there is to win the hearts and minds of that particular population in that country. You don't do that by sitting—staying in a vehicle, not getting out of the vehicle and not being exposed. So there is an art there from the standpoint of what is the balance in terms of protection that is required to that particular vulnerability where we're unprotected....

<p>

We're trying to win the hearts and minds of this population, and you can't do that sitting within a closed vehicle. You can't do that in isolation. You have to get out and essentially engage.... it just wasn't going to make sense to win the hearts and minds of a people by having tanks and Bradleys and so forth running up and down the streets. So they tried to put people into vehicles that were less obtrusive as well as an ability for them to engage. However, as a consequence of that, we began to find a threat that we had not anticipated, and we then had to respond to that threat with the protection levels and the capabilities that we have provided.<ref name="dod" />

</blockquote>

====Aftermath====

The way the incident was portrayed by some media outlets—particularly that Rumsfeld's answer to Wilson may have been quoted without sufficient context—and the revelation that an embedded reporter may have "planted" the question received critical reaction in the following days.<ref name="Sonnenfeldt" />

The incident sparked criticism of Rumsfeld,<ref name="Kristol">Kristol, William. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A132-2004Dec14.html "The Defense Secretary We Have,"] ''Washington Post'', [[December 15]] [[2004]].</ref> and led some to question the nation's commitment to its troops.<ref name="Costello">Costello, Tom. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6689062/ "Lack of armor sign of the times in Iraq,"] ''MSNBC'', [[December 9]] [[2004]].</ref>

==See also==

*[[Humvee#Usage in combat and political implications|Humvee usage in Iraq and political implications]]

*[[Gun Truck]]

*[[Armored fighting vehicle]]

*[[Armored car]]

*[[Stryker]]

*[[Technical (fighting vehicle)|Technical]]

==Notes and references==

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==External links==

*[http://www.antiwar.com/blog/comments.php?id=P1541_0_1_0 US Soldiers show off Hillbilly Armor] – Video clip from the film ''[[Gunner Palace]]'' (2005)

*[http://glocktalk.com/sitemap/topic/318587-1.html Hillbilly Armor] – Discussion thread at Glock Talk Forums

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