What Are You Reading?

So, the movies pretty much follow the book, eh?

 

The Wages of Destruction
The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
By Adam Tooze

Found this one a little hard going for my taste but that said a interesting book.


Re-read
The Rocket and the Reich
Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era.

Damn good read.

At the moment I'm half way in to Antony Beevor's D-Day, The Battle of Normandy. So far a good read and looks like it will be right to the end.

 

Currently, im going back-n-fourth between the Armies of the Bear volumes I have-as well as Fellgiebels RKT book, Dorrs CCCiGT book, Patzwall & Scherzers DKiGT/DKiST books and vol 3 of a series dealing with every PlMT since it's inception circe around 1779? up through WWI.

 

There was some talk on here recently about "The Forgotten Soldier" which prompted me to dig out my 'dog-eared' copy ... Got that in my locker at work for when things slow down, I can get through a few pages.

At home, I've just started John Parker's "Royal Marines Commandos." bought for me recently by the wife

 

ahhh that american irishman english geezer.. Just fill us in on his origins please wtid.. Treason to who?

 

Yes, didn't he renounce English and receive German citizenship?

 

Im pretty sure his link with uk was tenuous.. Admin more than physical?

 

I just read up on William Joyce. He was American born and raised in Ireland. Boy, he sure got the Royal treatment....

 

We aim to please.. Its good to let the world know any one can be considered treasonous to us brits...

 

Ive been away from this website for almost 1 and a half months! Ive been in canada for most of the summer so I read 4 books , 3 world war 2 books and 1 other book.

Stalingrad , Anthony Beevor
Dirty Little Secrets of WW2 , James Dunningan
The Fall of Berlin 1945 , Anthony Beevor

And then I bought this book for 3$ at some discount store..

25 Years of USA Today , Stories that Shaped the country


I liked all the books except the book by James Dunningan.


I plan on buying more books now that I am back in Florida! Im glad to be back on WW2F too!

 

I agree with your analysis. I got sucked in by the catchy title, but there's more interesting information in one evenings perusal of this forum than in that entire book.

Unless you absolutely HAVE to have every book with 'World War II' in the title, I'd give it a miss. (... and even then, I'd make it the LAST book in the collection!)

-whatever

-Lou

 

last thing I read was some Janes book on WWII ships, WWI ships and WWII planes I recently brought.......and I truly regret it, never have I seen a more inaccurate series of books in my life, what a waste of £20.

 

Hear hear, cheerio and all that stuff.

God save the Queen, just in case I ever come over for a visit....and I wasn't in on that Revolutionary War thing....

 

Joyce was charged with 3 counts of treason. 1 being from 1940 a German citizen and having a expired British passport. 2 taking German citenship during wartime, this was a treasonable act. 3 Joyce had broadcast for the enemy whole still holding a British passport between 19 September 1939 and 2 July 1940.Joyce was born an American, grew up in the west of Ireland and yet was hanged for treason bythe British crown on 3 January 1946,mainly due to the 3rd count of holding a British passport whilst broadcasting for the enemy despite thie passport being falsely aquired!

 

Currently reading Brootherhood Of The Cauldron, Irishmen in the 1st Airborne Divison from North Africa to Arnhem.

 

I've just finished reading 'Leading The Way To Arnhem' which David Truesdale also had a hand in writing.

It tells the story of 21st Independent Parachute Company and I found it literally un-putdownable ; the description of fighting in Oosterbeek is extraordinarily good.

 

Two books concurrently:

Double Strike by Edward Jablonski (Schweinfurt/Regensburg raids)

TBF Units of WWII by Barret Tillman.

 

I have just finished these books No cloak, No dagger: Allied spycraft in Occupied France by Ben Cowburn and Inside North Pole: A Secret Agent's story by Pieter Dourlein.

I have to start Voices from Stalingrad: Nemesis on the Volga by Jonathon Bastable.


cruachan

 

I just finished "Day of Deciet" by Stinnet. Awesome book. I couldn't put it down. I finished up about the same time "Flags of our Fathers", which as is usually the case, the book is way better than the movie.

My two favorite books are, "The black sheep squadron, A definitive history of VMF-214", by Bruce Gamble. And, "The Jolly Rogers" of VF-17", by Blackburn.

I'm currently reading "The Battle of Leyte Gulf", by Thomas Cutler. second time around for this one.