What Are You Reading?

Finished reading one from the campaign series The Doolittle Raid 1942, a very good read I didn’t realise how successful this raid was I knew it was a morale booster for the U.S folks.


Well Done Jimmy Doolittle.

 

"Soldiers of Destruction" It is about the formation of the 3 Waffen SS "totenkopf" Division. Mostly about the exploits of SS Gruppenfuhrer Eicke and how he formed the division and all of his problems with other SS leaders. Sheds alot about the division and the waffen ss as a whole.

 

Just finishing "The downfall of Berlin".
I find this book very interesting about Hitler very bad decision on the last moment of the eastern front and about the russians final advance to Berlin.

 

Just started reading another one from the campaign series Iraq 1941 looks good.

 

Just out of interest anyone else picked up the odd one of the Osprey campaign series?

 

I just got a book by William Larkins on Surplus WWII US Aircraft. A C-47 sold for $35,000 but a P-39 only went for $700.
Tons of aircraft were just bulldozed in the Pacific. A DeHavilland Mosquito, N9909F is shown at Whitman Air Park In Los Angeles. Parked in the weeds.

 

Currently reading "Speaking for England".

Fascinating story of Leo Amery a minister in Churchill's wartime cabinet. His wayward son Jack broadcasts from Berlin anti-british propaganda and attempts to set up the British Free Corps to fight alongside the Germans.

Julian his other son serves in both the RAF and the Army and latterly served as Liaison Officer to the Albanian Resistance Movement in 1944.

 

I finished a book called Tank Rider Into the Reich with the Red Army. It was a very refreshing book because it was a first-hand account of a young infantry officer who rode with his platoon on tanks. His active time was from late 1943 to the end of the war. He was darn lucky too. I enjoyed it after reading some other books that were very by-the-book histories.

I am currently reading Out of Nowhere A History of the Military Sniper. I am in the section dealing with World War II. It is very interesting and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the subject. The German and Russian use of snipers was much more pervasive and agressive then I had understood them to be.

 

Just started The U-Boat offensive 1914-1945.I find it very interesting so far.I also picked up at the local seconhand bookshop D-day to Berlin
by Andrew Williams.Hope to start that shortly.

 

Figured I'd just take a quick look in the Military history section at the Barnes and Noble in the mall by work... talk about a LUCKY score-


Softcover Stackpole edition of Munch's history of 653rd Heavy Panzerjager battalion. For those of us like me who balk at the cost of the JJF hardcover- this one's a must have. Typesetting is superior to the JJF books, but unfortunately photo reproduction is noticeably sub-par. Very grainy and dark in quite a few cases.
But for the cost- I'd highly recommend this one.

 

Excellent buy, Crazy! You got me biting my nails...

I spent a few bob on my first WW2 books in a LONG time....The Green Beret by Hilary St George Saunders and Coastal Command at War by S/L Tom Dudley-Gordon...

Then I have a few self-published books coming my way....

 

Hamburger Hill - Samuel Zaffiri

 

Burma, James Lunt, a re-read again, fascinating tale about Burma retreat.

 

Just starded ''The strategic error of th III Reich''

sound really good with a good intro about the mathematical aspect of military strategies and a really nice section about moscow.

Thank you

 

Just finished this one from the campaign series Iraq 1941 interesting one if the Germans were not so busy with Crete and the planning of Barbarossa. They could have backed up the Iraq army and may have done some big damage.

 

Just arrived from Amazon - 'Ghost Fields Of Norfolk' , an essential guidebook for my forthcoming Easter holiday, with many photos of derelict old buildings and strips of cracked concrete...wonderful !

 

Just finishing Renegades-Hitler´s Englishmen by Adrian Weale. Also reading on Dutch volunteers in "From Leningrad to Berlin" by Perry Pierik.

 

Good read that one Kai, I read it last year.

 

Just finished KNIGHTS OF THE REICH
By Gunther Fraschka

A bio of the twenty seven holders of the Diamonds to the Knight's Cross, interesting reading.

26 Holders of the Knight's Cross Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds.

1 Holder of the Knight's Cross Golden Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds.

 

Tank Killing by Ian Hogg

Essentially how tanks have been killed from the beginning until now.

Then on a similar thread;

The Tank Killers by Harry Yeide

How the US Army deployed and used tank destroyer battalions during the War.

Also recently finished The Battle for Antwerp by Moulton.

Somebody wrote somewhere (was it Chester Wilmot?)that the British tankers arrived in Antwerp after a long hard drive and promptly fell asleep in their tanks. Brian Horrocks, in his "Corps Commander" refutes this. Moulton details the battle.

Then spurred for more knowledge, I started "Tug of War" by Whitaker and Whitaker. This book tells the story of the Canadian struggle to open the Antwerp port.