Starting my new WW2 Library!

I know! It is a bit overwhelming....

I just added my WW2 books to Library Thing. I have 15 already! lol. I enjoy reading multiple books at one time though. Keeps my interest strong.

I do want to really batten down and read Keegan's book. I think its a good starting point for someone who's only read like 5 WW2 books....and most of those being over 5-10 years ago!

 

I really enjoyed Samurai by Saburo Sakai

 

MPCook

 

You have a pretty good list to start with!

I would avoid anything from Leo Kessler-Charles Whiting, same guy who tends to be a Nazi fanboi who never lets facts get in the way of a good story.

Eagle Against the Sun is a very readable single volume on the Pacific War.

Memoirs from the leading lights, Eisenhower, Churchill, Speer etc, are useful once you have read other more balanced accounts. By themselves they are somewhat self serving.

 

I did too but found out afterwards that Caiden took some liberties with the info that Sakai supplied him with. Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots by Sakaida is suppose to be better but unfortunatly he and Sakai had a falling out so the book won't be seeing a new edition and as you can see at:
http://www.amazon.com/Winged-Samurai-Saburo-Fighter-Pilots/dp/091217305X/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413295885&sr=1-11&keywords=saburo+sakai
It's gotten quite pricey.

 

Soldat by Siegfried Knappe. Memoir

 

Decided to clean up the den and redo the bookshelves. Thanks for the heads up on Librabry Thing. Started cataloging today and it's pretty easy once you get started. Had an issue figuring out how to sort my books in different collections, but once I did it was smooth going. Thanks again!

 

I just recently finished reading that book, I really liked that book.

 

I too have a large assortment of World War II books. One of which is called Eyewitness Auschwitz by Filip Muller. Its his memoirs of his time as a sonderkommando at Auschwitz. His job was to deal with the bodies that had been gassed and he worked in the crematorium. He is one of the few to still be living, so his memoir is very unique and by far one of the best memoirs about the Holocaust i have ever read. I would highly reccomend it to you for your library.

 

I enjoy LibraryThing too, add lots of reviews, wish others would do more reviewing though, even if only a sentence or two

 

If you ever want to increase the size of your World War Two library Mikey858, one thing to do is if your library or a library near you has a used book sale, definitely take the opportunity to go to it. My local library is currently having a used book sale, and I kid you not yesterday and today I walked out with 8 books on each day, 16 total. (I'm kind of a binge book buyer, I like to read). Now what's so great about it is that the 16 books' price combined altogether cost $7. The prices at used book sales are really cheap. They aren't always in the 'best' condition sometimes, but it is definitely worth it if you want to continue increasing your World War Two library.