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Re: AH book club
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2015, 04:24:01 AM »
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« Reply #31 on: March 21, 2015, 08:27:25 PM »
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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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Re: AH book club
« Reply #32 on: March 22, 2015, 12:53:03 AM »
When i get home from work I will post the titles and aurthors of my books there are several good reads! <S> yall and keep the books coming
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #33 on: March 22, 2015, 07:28:38 AM »
A few new-ish ones I can recommend, the first two being surveys of recently-discovered source material, the third a valuable 'alternate narrative,' as the kids say:

The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II by Charles Glass; Penguin, 2013.  "A survey of the 150,000 American and British known to have deserted in the European Theater."

Soldiers: German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Sonke Neitzel and Harald Weltzer; Knopf, 2012.  "...a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general."

The Second World War: A Marxist History by Chris Bambery; Pluto Press, 2014.  "A comprehensive and detailed alternate history of the origins, cause and aftermath of World War II."

Cheerful stuff.
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #34 on: March 22, 2015, 09:12:38 AM »
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #36 on: March 22, 2015, 07:02:49 PM »
The Face of Battle:  The Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and The Somme by John Keegan

The Rockets' Red Glare:  When America Goes to War, the Presidents and the People by Richard J. Barnet

The Buzzard Brigade:  Torpedo Squadron Ten at war by Stephen L. Moore

The Winning Edge: An in depth study of the Oklahoma Sooners 1974-75 National Championship runs by  Jack and Jim Fried

One Perfect Op by CMC Dennis Chalker
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #37 on: March 22, 2015, 07:58:22 PM »
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The Face of Battle:  The Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and The Somme by John Keegan

John Keegan is one of my favorite authors. Some books of his that I have read:
The Face of Battle
Six Armies in Normandy
Soldiers, A History of Men in Battle
The Mask of Command
The Second World War
A History of Warfare
Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
The Iraq War
The American Civil War

Cornelius Ryan has a pretty good set of books:
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
The Last Battle

Stephen Ambrose also has an impressive list:
Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 – May 7, 1945
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #38 on: March 23, 2015, 06:30:48 AM »
Yes, John Keegan is both prolific and extremely talented.  All of those books are worth reading.
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« Reply #39 on: March 23, 2015, 06:45:03 AM »
Duel of Eagles - Peter Townsend.  Excellent read.

For a ground based account of D-Day - read Two Sides of the Beach.  Not an easy read due to its diary style format but well worth it.  Some very interesting insights to how young men think and fight.  That is why we send them to war - us older guys see more danger, they see more adventure.
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Re: AH book club
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« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2015, 01:35:52 PM »
Quote from: RufusLeaking on March 22, 2015, 07:58:22 PM

The Last Battle



The issue that I had with the Last Battle was that it was terribly short and not really much on details of the actual battle that took place.  It seemed like the actual fight for Castle Itter was just glossed over in the book.
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« Reply #42 on: March 23, 2015, 02:29:18 PM »
Not a biography, but Blitzkrieg No Longer by Samuel W. Mitchem was a fascinating read, detailing the logistics situation for the Wehrmacht, and how our affected their campaigns.
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #43 on: March 25, 2015, 01:16:32 PM »
Some of my all-time favorites, in no particular order:

"The Hardest Day, 18 August 1940: Battle of Britain" by Alfred Price
One day examined from a number of different angles, both big-picture and intensely personal

"When I was a German" by Christabel Bielenberg
An English woman who married into German aristocracy, and who knew several of those involved in the 1944 plot to assassinate the guy with the bad haircut

"The Battle Of Britain: Myth and Reality" by Richard Overy
Excellent view of the Battle and its history

"The Air War: 1939-45" by Richard Overy
Superb big-picture overview of all the major air forces in WWII

"Berlin Diaries, 1940 - 1945" by Marie Vassilchikov
Brings to life the operatic Gotterdämerrung that played out in late-war Berlin, from the perspective of a multi-lingual White Russian princess stranded in Germany by the War, and working in the Foreign Office.  She know von Seyn-Wittgenstein from the Berlin nightlife scene.
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Re: AH book club
« Reply #44 on: March 25, 2015, 02:17:23 PM »
Lieutenant Ramsey's War is a book I highly recommend if one wants to read about the US/Filipino guerrilla war in in the Philippines.  Also, "An America Guerrilla in the Philippines" is a memoir by Iliff Richardson about his time as a guerrilla fighting the Japanese and an excellent book as well.
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