What Are You Reading?

Yep I know what you mean. But this came from an aisle marked for magazines and greeting cards. A great variety of magazines.

 

Yes I have, but the vast majority of publications on display at the supermarkets I frequent are gossip types, cookbooks, celebrity watchers and otherwise generally female oriented. If I saw something that looked like what you came across I'd snap it up in a heartbeat just for the cover alone. The only place I go to that might have something similar to what you found would be Costco. Even their selection of books are dwindling in these days of Amazon and online shopping I hate to say (and see). I'm always on the lookout though, just in case. I am a firm believer that impulse purchases are good for morale.

Occasionally I stroll through the Barns & Noble, mainly to go see what they have out on the local interest racks.

 

After a couple of false starts, I am about to tackle the condensed version of Winston Churchill's Memoirs of the Second World War. It's going to be one of those long-term reads I believe.

 

Stories From the Pacific by Kirby.

 

I like to read about the same incident in WW2 by several authors or veterans. Often you learn new views about what happened.





Especially I am obsessed with the Eastern front after Stalingrad and Kharkov area battles. Was it the "Manstein backhand"?

 

Yes, I sometimes buy one from the railway station for the trip to read.

I also like Osprey books got some 50 of those,too.

Heavier books I have some 400-500 pieces.

 

Finished Countdown 1945 by Wallace. Nice easy summer read. Quick and interesting enough.

At present reading The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

 

Something new to wait for reading...



No fuel... I only got these canisters for fun....

 

Just arrived by the post man....in Finnish though.....

 

By Professor Sir Richard Evans, he eviscerates the Hitler Escaped and Hess Flight conspiracies just started the Reichstag Fire chapter.
What do you get, first-class evidence-based history answering the likes of "Hunting Hitler" and "Harry Coopers "Sharkhunters" nonsense .

 

"The end of the Third Reich" by V.I. Chuikov published in English 1967 ( because there is no mention of a later print I think this is the first version ).

I have read some 20 years ago the Pt I " The begininning of the road- The story of the battle of Stalingrad ) by the same man.