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  1. Kai-Petri

    Kai-Petri Kenraali

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    Just finished reading "The Dead of Winter" by Bill Warnock, and "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Macintyre. Both were great books, real page turners. I am currently reading "The Monuments Men" by Robert M. Edsel which I am finding most enjoyable.
     
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  3. Gebirgsjaeger

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    I read the book "Die Geschichte der 58. Infanterie Division" written by Kurt von Zydowitz. Its a very interesting book written from the first days of this Division to their last days. Worth to read.
     
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    I've also just finished McIntyre's Operation Mincemeat. I agree that it was an enjoyable read, especially since I remember reading The Man Who Never Was back in the late 50s or early 60s.
     
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  5. Biak

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    I just finished "General Kenney Reports" on the web; gen_kenney_reports.pdf (application/pdf Object)
    An interesting account of his thoughts during the SWPA operations.
    Also up to volume 20 of "Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia". Not much is mentioned about the Army Air Corps in the Pacific hence the web search.
     
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    belasar Court Jester

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    I have a copy of that set, but have not started them yet. I flipped through them and was pleased to see photo's I had not seen before. Is the writing any good?
     
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  7. Biak

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    The writing has obvious bias in several areas and due to the great knowledge base I've tapped into here on WW2f, I've found it also appears to have a few misconceptions. I won't actually call them 'mistakes' :) But having said that, the amount of information and multitude of pictures is well worth the time. My one sore spot is the AAF in the Pacific coverage is poor at best.
     
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    That was a good one wasn't it Lou!

    Especially as it "updated" data that was still under the Official Secrets restriction when The Man Who Never Was came out. Right now I am working my way through the latest Max Hastings offering I have run across at my local library; Winston's War: 1940-1945, so far I am intrigued as the picture emerging make both he and FDR more human, and less "god-like".

    Stalin is even given a better (more even-handed) treatment than I have ever heard. This has memos, journal entries, diary sections, and minutes just released from both the British and Russian archives.

    Hastings dose give Churchill his due, but he also doesn't try to cover him in "stage makeup" if you know what I mean.
     
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    Reading several books concurrently: Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces Me-110 and Hurricane 1941-45, Northrop's Night Hunter: P-61 by Jeff Kolln, Northrop P-61 Complete History and Combat Record by John Campbell and Gerry Pape, and The German Invasion of Norway April 1940 by Geirr Haarr. All very scholarly works. Especially the last one, to be read like eating cheesecake: slowly and carfully, lol.
     
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    Just finished reading Raider. It's about GSgt. Galen Kittleson. He fought in WW2 with the Alamo Scouts in the Pacific, and with Special Forces in Viet Nam. Pretty good book.
     
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  11. Kai-Petri

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    Bought the following from a net auction site:

    William Buckingham: Tobruk - the Great Siege 1941-42

    Oberst Hans-Georg Eismann: Under Himmler's Command

    Hans-Georg Eismann, was the Operations Officer for Army Group Vistula, a German formation created in late January 1945 to which Heinrich Himmler was appointed as commander. Eismann's memoir of this period has remained unpublished for over fifty years, and its wider circulation is long overdue. Full of fascinating detail he recounts the disturbing and sometimes bizarre atmosphere that pervaded the German high command in the East during the final months of the war. Much light is thereby thrown on Himmler the military commander, and on the final climactic battles fought on the Eastern Front during 1945.
     
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    I'm midway on Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno. A great read so far. Having just finished A Dawn Like Thunder, it gives another perspective on Guadalcanal and Savo Island. I highly recommend it.
     
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    Finished Neptune's Inferno, and I just downloaded Beevor's D-Day for my Nook. Figured I would go back to the ETO for a bit. I'm enjoying it so far, but I've only just gotten into it.
     
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    I'm about half way through An Army at Dawn now. Disturbing to say the least. Good thing there was no cross Channel invasion attempted in 1942.
     
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    Yeah, I read both of Atkinson's books a while ago. I'm looking forward to the third, but it isn't scheduled to be out until next year.
     
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    Not a WW2 book but interesting from another angle on the Weimar. Looks at how they got them selfs in a finical mess and there attempts to sort it out. I found it an interesting read.

    When Money Dies
    The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation
    By Adam Fergusson

    From the back cover...

     
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    The Pacific. Nothing like the show.
     
    gst121, Feb 22, 2011
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    D-Day by Ambrose.
     
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    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    RAF Handbook 1939-1945, by David Wragg.
     
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