What Are You Reading?

old missions reports for the US 414th, 422nd and 425th night fighter squadrons, soon the 415th nfs next week, dang I need to start writing another book...........

 

Hi Erich:

I enjoy reading the old reports, but have difficulty finding them. Is there a website were these are posted or are they part of a book? I would like to know if you don't mind sharing.

Thanks

 

Alan suggest you find your national archiv's and give them a go. my ase for the night fighter reports I was once a member of the US NF association before their demise, am also a friend of several US fighter groups as well besides having a couple relatives serve in the war under the Luftwaffe was able also to make connections overseas sine the 1960's.

currently in the US NARA houses mission reports for many of the US bomber and fighter groups and squadrons.

if interested this Mustang reports might be worth a look, Mike has done a fantastic job of gathering information personally as well several close associates having ties on a more personal level with the groups :

Mustang Encounter Reports

 

I am at the moment working my way through David Halberstam's; The Coldest Winter: America and The Korean War. I am tempted to purchase the bugger, at the moment I have it on library loan.

I don't think I have ever read a more objective set of verdicts on the personalities of the time-frame. It is an amazingly detailed expose of how personalities and geopolitical concepts came into play during the time when America went from thinking "we can't be beat", to we can keep the "peace on the cheap", and think we could do both at the same time. Amazing story so far.

 

Just finished reading the bargain Osprey Campaign series books I picked up.

Moscow 1941
Sevastopol 1942
Stalingrad 1942
Leningrad 1941–44

Tobruk 1941
Operation Crusader 1941
Gazala 1942
El Alamein 1942
Kasserine Pass 1943


Back to the normal books now...

Reading...

Bomber Command
By Max Hastings

 

Downfall by Richard Frank. Tons of great info

 

Next:
Perry Moore: Panzerschlacht
Helion & Company 2008

Armoured operations on the Hungarian plains September to November 1944

 

re-reading for the countless time the 1st // 2nd volume of NJWD's and making corrections-additions for the new revised editions for Theo and Rod.

 

Deathride: Hitler VS. Stalin, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945, by John Mosier. I have sort of laughed at this author in the past, but this book is most intriguing and I have to admit I'm going along with his premise....

 

Just bought from the net auction site:

Boiten, Bowman: Battles with the Luftwaffe

Short Stirling in action
Squadron/Signal 1989

Bristol Blenheim in action
Squadron/Signal 1988

Anthony Preston: Warship - Volume 1
German destroyer design 1936-1945. British destroyer appearance in Worl War II. The first Town Class 1908-1931. Italian Littorio class. Inter-war Japanese warship design. USS Nevada. HMS Ark Royal. The Kiev - cruiser or carrier? Lexington and Saratoga. The Polish destroyers Blyskawica and Grom. The protection of German World War I battleships. The US submarine designs of 1944-45. The Japanese balloon-bomb attacks on the US.
Conway Maritime Press 1980

Kleine Kriegshefte Nr.4 - Sturm vor Englands Toren
Zentralverlag der NSDAP 1940

 

Well after reading the Campaign trilogy on Operation Barbarossa June-Dec 1941 and as next year will mark the 70th anniversary I'm reading the following books in this order...

Reading now...

Operation Barbarossa - Strategy and Tactics on the Eastern Front 1941
By Bryan I. Fugate

Followed by

Barbarossa - Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941
By David M. Glatz

then

War Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942
By Robert Kershaw


Those keep me going for a while. lol

 

Ray & Josephine Cowdery:

Papers Please! - Identity documents, Permits and Authorizations of the Third Reich

- Fully indexed, huge Appendix
- 144 pages, large 8-1/2 x 11 inch format
- 199 full color photos, 225 illustrations in all
- Fake and underground dokuments examined
- Dictionary of terms and abbreviations included
- Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, SS, SA, NSFK, RKK, HJ, POlice and many other types of dokuments covered in detail

USM, USA, 1996

 

Just re-(re-)reading Reynold's 'The Devil's Adjutant - Jochen Peiper' ( revised and expanded edition ). Despite the misleading title, still the best step-by-step analysis of KG Peiper during the Bulge.....

 

I've just read Dropped In It by Colin Hall. he was a private in the 1st airborne division at arnhem and tells it as it is, plus there's his time at Stalag. Recommended reading. http:///www.amazon.co.uk/DROPPED-veteran-Operation-Airborne-Division/dp/B0047O2F0S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1287847904&sr=8-2

 

I'm reading AJP Taylor's

"Origins of the Second World War"

 

Just purchased some books:

"Once I Had a Comrade" by R.W. Byrd
Karl Roth and the combat history of the 36th Panzer Regiment 1939-45
Helion & Company 2006


KV-2 Soviet Heavy Breakthrough Tank of WW II by Jochen Vollert
Tankograd 2001

In the Fire of the Eastern Front by Hendrik Verton
The Experiences of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer on the Eastern Front 1941-45
Helion & Company 2007

 

Just finishing Richard Breitman´s " The architect of Genocide".

Next:

Kriegsmarine in der Adria 1941-45 , Podzun-Pallas-Verlag 1998
H.M.S. Hood , Podzun-Pallas-Verlag 1999
Messerschmitt Me 264 - Amerikabomber , Ian Allan Publishing 2006
Schoenfeld: Stalking the U-Boat , Smithsonian Institution Press 1995

 

Well into Harold R Winton's 'Corps Commanders Of The Bulge'. Very good indeed - in fact, I'm trying to slow down to make the 'read' last as long as possible.....

 

"Delivered From Evil" by Robert Leckie.

Next in line is "Male Fantasies, Vol. 1:Women, Floods, Bodies, History" by Klaus Thewelit, Chris Turner, Stephen Conway, and Erica Carter.