What Are You Reading?

There is one for October 42, Directive No.37 dealing with the reorganization of forces in the Artic theatre. I suspect that’s not the answer your after Nine.

 

Suspicion correct Richard. I have details of its content, secret distribution etc, what I continue to seek is some record or first person account of any dialogue (other than Nuremberg statements), which preceded its issue.

No.9

 

I'm picking up Heinz Guderian's Panzer Leader tomorrow. Anyone read this?

 

I read it many years ago and while we are on the subject don't forget to buy his other book as well ( Achtung-Panzer !) That is of course, if you have not got it already.

 

I read it many years ago and while we are on the subject don't forget to buy his other book as well ( Achtung-Panzer !) That is of course, if you have not got it already. </font>[/QUOTE]Thanks Richard, didn't know about the other book. Guderian has been my subject of interest lately.

 

Results of a book search for you. BookFinder

 

Thanks again, I'll have to remember that site as well.

 

The Great World war 1914-45 Lightning Strikes Twice
by John Bourne
Peter Liddle
Ian Whitehead
Have just started it is a very interesting book

 

THE SCOURGE OF THE SWASTIKA
A SHORT HISTORY OF NAZI WAR CRIMES

By LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL

War Crimes to ill-treatment of civilians’ in occupied territory, slave labour and the camps. Well written showing why the Nazi system failed in its bureaucratic and time wasting procedures in mountains of paper work. And of cause the backlash in their methods just more reasons why they had to be defeated.

 

Hello gentlemen,

Just got in:
- Ace Eagle Hasse Wind, The finnish Air Force at War, 1939-1944 by Seppo Porvali, 2004
- The Chianti Raiders, The Extraordinary Story of the Italian Air Force in The Battle of Britain, by Peter Haining, 2005
- In the Skies of Europe, Air forces allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945,by Hans Werner Neulen, 2000
- Doomed at the Start, American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942, by William Bartsch,1992
- December 8, 1941, MacArthur's Pearl Harbour, by William Bartsch, 2003

All 4 are magnificent books, and with some searching I got them for a nice price.

Regards,

Hollywood Fats

 

Some half-way through Maser´s Hitler book, a Finnish version though:

 

Seven Roads To Hell: A Screaming Eagle At Bastogne Byonald R. Burgett

 

hy boys
i havent bee at forum for a long long time i see things didnt change las few days i am reading a hans helmut kirst novel night of generalsn veri interesting book i recomend it to everybody

 

I was going through soem old threads and found a post by Martin about:

"Invasion - They're coming" by Paul Carell and my library was able to get it.

It is a german account of the landings at normandy and the following 80 days. As Martin had mentioned, he was in the SS so it is a little biased, but not bad.

I've read the frist three chapters and it's REALLY good, he's an exciting writer, it keeps you very interested.

 

Good book Greek. Did you read "Currahee" and "The Road to Arnhem?" Burgett's other two books. There is also "Beyond the Rhine" after "Seven Roads to Hell." That is good as well.

 

Chris Goss's Sea Eagles volume 1. some very interesting bits on convoy vs anti-shipping Luftw a/c, bios on some fo the leading Luftw personalities

good so far

 

No I haven't but I just checked this out from the library and saw his other books and I am planning to once I take this book back to pick them up.

 

The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan

 

I just bought and read Die Dag In September by Hendrika van der Vlist. I don't know if the book came out in English, but Battle of Arnhem enthousiast will recognize the name. The translated title would be somethinig like That Day In September. Hendrika's parents owned the Schoonoord Hotel which was turned into a field hospital during the battle. Hendrika was a nurse there and the book is about her experiences during and after the battle. It is a long time ago that I read a book of 182 pages in a couple of hours. It is a diary in which all her impressions are written down. It was very interesting to read about what is going on inside a field hospital during the battle. That is all the book is about. What happens outside is not talked about. What struck me was her description of how the Germans and British treated eachother...in general. It seems that between the walls of Schhonoord (and no doubt the other hospitals too) there was a compeletely different attitude than outside. Not surprising though....

Hebdrika's diary was, before being published in its own right in 1974, used by Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too far and Lt. Col. Boeree's book about Arnhem.

Now cross referencing with Red Berets and Red Crosses!

 

A while ago finished Fania Fenelon´s "the girl orchestra of Auschwitz". Excellent book. My "favourite" of all the concentration camp books so far.