What Are You Reading?

Just finished old The Brotherhood of War novels by W.E.B. Griffin. Now I'll have to dig up my old WWII history books to review the Eastern Front. I've never really looked it up. Thanks to this forum, I learned that I have a lot more to learn about the Eastern Front.

The one book I like to read over and over again is the autobiography of Saburo Sakai.

 

..read this a few times myself ! here's one of the five star reviews from amazon..

"....This book is of the highest quality, from its hard cover, to its glossy pages, to the photographs and historical records. This is the most detailed account of urban warfare in Stalingrad I have ever read. The book is fast-paced, easy to follow, thoroughly researched, and extremely informative. I could not put this book down and learned more about the streetfighting in Stalingrad than from all the other books I have read combined. If you want to learn about the horrific fighting in Stalingrad from a first-person perspective, this is the highest quality work I have encountered. I recommend it to anyone with an interest on the subject and can assure you that you will not be disappointed. A first class historical work all the way. Impressive! .."

 

Reading "Tigers in Combat I". Ordered " 'Ruckmarsch - The German Retreat From Normandy : Then & Now' by Jean-Paul Pallud" and '"Sledgehammers" yesterday from Amazon.

 

much of the data used in 'Sledgehammers' is drawn directly from the Schneider work..'Sledgehammers' is a useful work of synthesis I guess..

 

Not a bad trio of books, FramerT - especially 'Ruckmarsch'. I quite enjoyed reading 'Sledgehammers' ; nothing startling, but a good round-up of 'Tiger' research with some useful pointers to further reading....

The Stalingrad book does indeed sound interesting - there's something familiar about the translators.....I'll have to go away and think about it !

 

Moved on from WW2 but directly caused by it.

Twelve Days Revolution 1956 how the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters. Victor Sebestyen.

 

Thanks. "Tigers in Combat I" has some great pictures and some things I never knew about Tigers. Never knew or read about barbed wire being strung around the tank to keep Russian
sappers from climbing on.

 

just finished this

now reading this......
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For the... *counts fingers... counts toes... counts sheep...*

Who knows, but I'm reading it again...

 

.. being a modest sort of chap I'm not saying anything ......but this one I'm quite proud of...

 

'Germany and the Second World War' Vol vii, The strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943-1944/5; Boog, Krebs and Vogel.

Although translated by people not unduly worried by aesthetics the narrative and analysis is top notch. I was led to this by Adam Tooze's footnotes and bibliography in 'The Wages of Destruction'. Only 200 pages of 700 odd to go then it's Vol iv.

 

Anyone familiar with "The Greatest Battle" by Andrew Nagorski?

 

Hoping to learn more of two different armies:

John Sweet
Iron arm
Mechanization of Mussolini´s army 1920-1940

Nikolai Litvin
800 days on the eastern front
A Russian soldier remembers WW2

 

"Sledgehammers, strength and flaws of Tiger battalions" arrived this morning.......yea!

 

I enjoyed reading that one, FramerT.....

 

Currently Adam Tooze's Wages of Destruction which is quite simply working a miracle by making economics interesting, and S/Sgt David Bellavia's House to House, a frankly wrenching account of urban fighting in Fallujah.

 

I just started The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara. I've heard it's good.

Also recently finished The Winds of War by Herman Wouk. Great novel.

Incidentally, after reading this post for about 10 minutes, I've added 5-10 books to my wishlist already!

 

Just started "Before Stalingrad"

by David Glantz