what book do you like the most?

What book do you think is the most accurate and most exiting


I guess my other postings arnt going as well becouse Roel is mad
so if roels reading this im sorry i didn't know you would care.

 

I like Frank Harrisons 'Tobruk, the great siege reassessed'.

 

For a pretty brief and fairly easy to read overview try "The World at War" based on the TV series from the 1980s.

 

Do you mean this documentary series? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075/

My favourite book about WW2 (might not be the most accurate) is "Japanese Destroyer Captain" from Tameichi Hara.
It is memoirs from a man who wrote japanese torpedo attack manual and who commanded the luckiest ship of the war, destroyer Shiguri.

 

That be the one, guess I was wrong about it being from the 1980s!

It must have been repeated in the 80's at least though because I can remember watching some of it when I was younger, but I wasn't around for it the first time.

I think a good overview of the war as a whole is a good starting point, from that you can sort of decide which aspect or theatre if any interests you more to go on and read more specialist books, or just start looking at the whole war in a bit more depth.

 

I wasn't mad, I was trying to prevent a topic turning into a nationalist free-for-all. Just try to be a little more considerate of the consequences of your questions on an international forum, then I will not have to lock your topics again.

I care, by the way, because it is my duty as forum admin to prevent things from escalating.

And I wouldn't be able to point out one specific book that I liked... Then again, I can't say I've read an awfully great amount of books on World War II.

 

"Why the Allies Won" by Richard Overy.

May not be the best book ever written on the subject, but it is definently an awesome read.

"Stalingrad" is a very close second.

 

Wow im surprised no ones said band of brothers,
I would have to say wake island is my favriote its not that thick but wake is almost like a secound alamo i guess

 

'Band of Brothers' by Stephen Ambrose was excellant.Informative but also entertaining with a lot of input by the soldiers being written about.

 

stalingrad and the fall of berlin.

 

There are quite a few "Stalingrad" books, do you mean the Antony Beevor books? In which case as I have both, I second that.

Another quite good book is "The Battle for Moscow" by Colonel Albert Seaton, however, it is really quite scholarly in nature, is written like a military text-book (Which may have been Seaton's intention) and requires some dedication to get through from start to finish.

If you try this one, don't expect pages of entertaining narrative.

 

yes i do mean both books by anthony beevor..both and excellent read.

 

Have you read his book on the Spanish Civil war? I haven't yet but it's one I'm hoping to get.

 

i have no real interest in the spanish civil war so i wont be reading it..im mainly into reading sporting biographies..of which i have six to entertain me when i go into hospital to have my knee reconstructed on the 16th november ala the six million dollar man!