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Offline Guppy35

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Re: AH book club
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2015, 10:17:49 PM »
Great book, and thanks again Dan... how's the little one doing?

He's six now.  Growing like a weed.  And he's an uncle as my daughter had our first grandchild.  He's another cartoon pilot in waiting :)

I trust yours are doing well also?  Scared to ask how old now?
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2015, 03:48:29 PM »
He's six now.  Growing like a weed.  And he's an uncle as my daughter had our first grandchild.  He's another cartoon pilot in waiting :)

I trust yours are doing well also?  Scared to ask how old now?
they are doing awesome... my daughter turned 17 yesterday(that's where my first ingame name came from 03/15/98, or as you used to know me 031598), and my son will be 13 April 16th...  I am so greatful to have the relationship I have with them considering what we all went through... glad to hear yours is doing well... 6 yo... wow, he's growing up also..

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Re: AH book club
« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2015, 04:25:13 PM »
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2015, 05:03:08 PM »
If You Survive

This a book title or just some random thought?
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2015, 07:34:40 PM »
This a book title or just some random thought?

Book title. Rather well known one actually. Story of a US lieutenant from Normandy to The Bulge.
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2015, 07:39:44 PM »
I'll 2nd the recommendation of "Nanette", my favorite WW2 book by far.

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« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2015, 07:40:53 PM »
This a book title or just some random thought?

 :rofl
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2015, 10:05:37 PM »
Book title. Rather well known one actually. Story of a US lieutenant from Normandy to The Bulge.

Good to know, it wasn't clear from what you wrote.  Authors name is helpful for folks tracking it down.

It's one I hadn't heard of
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2015, 10:28:01 AM »
1. A higher call
2. Panzer Leader. "Heinz Guderians" memoirs.
3. Forgot the name, but "Hans Von Lucks" memoirs.
4. I flew for the Fuhrer
5. Fighter pilot by Robin Olds
6. Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad.
7. Bevin Alexanders "How Hitler could have won WW2"
8. Siege: A Novel of the Eastern Front, 1942. Russ Schneider


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Re: AH book club
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2015, 11:25:45 AM »
Just finished "The Wrong Stuff" by Truman Smith.  Covers his time (and more) as a B-17 bomber co/pilot.  Not the best ever read but kept me interested.  Kindle ed. 
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #25 on: March 17, 2015, 12:23:45 PM »
The semi-biographical novels of Joseph Heller ("Catch-22") and Kurt Vonnegut ("Slaughterhouse Five") are pretty great.
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2015, 05:54:02 PM »
Just the ones currently visible on the bookshelf:

The Jolly Rogers - Tom Blackburn
Top Guns - Joe Foss and Matthew Brennan
Dumb But Lucky - Richard K. Curtis
Thunderbolt! - Robert S. Johnson
Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal - Max Brand

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Thud Ridge - Jack Broughton
When Thunder Rolled - Ed Rasimus

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Re: AH book club
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2015, 08:35:47 PM »
This book is a newer release, but it attempts to give the reader a view into life for the average German civilian and soldier. It isn't light reading by any stretch of the imagination, but it is by far the largest in scope from any type of psychosocial exposé I've read previously.



This book is one of three, but the other two earlier in the series consist of the politics in Germany prior to the start of the war.



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« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2015, 10:59:37 PM »
Here's a copy of my book collection - I haven't updated it in over a year; I probably added two hundred to this list :)
http://www.filedropper.com/booklistforforum
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2015, 12:49:40 AM »
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II.

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