What is everyone reading on WW2?

[FAH3]

Just started Hitler's Berlin: Abused City by Thomas Friedrich.

[Annelie]

Traces of My Father by Sigfrid Gauch

An well written book by son about his relationship and his Father.
Not quite an WWII book but it does go into some details on
the man and his beliefs and personal history.

Quite interesting.

[panzerplatten]

Exorcising Hitler, the occupation and DeNazification of Germany, by Frederick Taylor, Bloomsbury books
Only just started, also got a present of, The second world war by Antony Beevor, so like a child in a sweet shop at the moment.!
Regards Mark.

[ninoo]

Read some books:
Perry Biddiscombe's "The SS Hunter Battalions". Good reports about this SS special units. Weakness: too small letters. But probably it was choose because the huge informations that the writer provide.

Phillip W. Blood's "Hitler's Bandit Hunters". Interesting story about the SS-Polizei anti-partisan methods. Profile of von dem Bach-Zelewski, as the main character in this story, is very interesting: a Nazi hero who became a traitor for his former comrade-in-crimes after the war.

[Annelie]

Betrayed

Memoirs of A Luftwaffe Fighter Ace

Ideals

Hans-Ekkehard Bob

[CaptNimmo]

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Two Soldiers - Two Lost fronts.

Two diaries, one by a member of the 23rd Panzer Division which served under Manstein in Russia, and the other by a member of Rommel’s AfrikaKorps. The Eastern Front diary is more an account of the Division while the Africa Corps is a person account and therefore more interesting I believe. "Luckily" the writer of the latter was ill a lot which helped him survive I think. He cried like a baby when news of Hitler's death reached him and he does mention destroying a village when he returned to Europe from Africa in retaliation for a partisan attack so it is authentic no doubt. Whenever I read an Eastern Front diary I am always amazed that any German came out alive from that inferno.

Not a bad read but a fair bit of historical padding is included to bulk it up and there are a few typos.

[panzerplatten]

Interesting interview with Antony Beevor on his new book the second word war.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Beev

Regards Mark.

[panzerplatten]

Reviews for Exorcising Hitler, Dresden, the Berlin wall, Frederick Taylor history,
http://www.fredericktaylorhistory.com/EH_Page.htm
Mark

[Ken S.]

Opa's Tales: An Odyssey from War Torn East Prussia to the American Midwest
by Fred S. Losch

* First few chapters deal with war, remainder of Part I chronicles his 2.5 years as a POW in the Soviet Union; Part II covers his life in the USA, where among other things, he served in the Air Force for close to 30 years.

Stille Jahre in Gertlauken: Erinnerungen an Ostpreußen
by Marianne Peyinghaus

* Young teacher from Cologne's letters from a small East Prussian town between 1941 and 1945. Last section is a journal of her experiences during the Flucht.

[Nicolai]

Norske Offiserer i Waffen-SS (Norwegian Officers in Waffen-SS) - came out a few days ago.

Covers the history of Bad Tölz and has short bios (1-3 pages w/photo) of the 141 Norwegians who graduated from there (out of 200+). Lots of interesting information on their wartime experiences as well (before the war, invasion of norway, volunteering, at the front, at bad tölz, being officers, post-war imprisonment etc). Worth a read if you speak the language.

[trespasser07]

"In the Name of the People: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Reflection of Their Post-War Prosecution in West Germany - 'Euthanasia' and Aktion Reinhard Trial Cases" by Dick de Mildt.


Regards

[Imad]

Colossus Reborn by David Glantz

[trespasser07]

The End by Ian Kershaw. As you would expect from him, FANTASTIC.

Next in line is Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts

[Attrition]

Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy (Joanne Goodman Lectures) by Terry Copp

Just re-read this, a very good counterbast against the "the Allies were rubbish" school of thought, makes the very good suggestion of looking at the ground, before pontificating about what they should have done and to remember the crushing victories as well as the abject defeats when presuming to judge. I thought he was somewhat unfair to Monty over Bluecoat and succumbed to hindsight, over the logic of attacking near Caumont, rather than between Caen and Falaise; it seems to me to have been a prudent measure to reinforce success rather than a mistake.

[Dutto1]

I've read quite a bit recently,First up is this one-

Hitler's Final Fortress-Breslau 1945 by Richard Hargreaves.

Fantastic book with lots of first-hand accounts,good maps and photos.Not much in English on the fighting in Breslau in 1945 this fills the gap fantastically.

Nuremberg-The Last Battle by David Irving.

I read this book as a contrast to Telford Taylor's excellent Anatomy of The Nuremberg Trials.

I can only think of Irving's book as poor in it's content.There is one or two nuggets in there but Irving shows his bias in the text.A plus point is the Photographs.

Anatomy of The Nuremberg Trials by Telford Taylor.

Excellent book with first rate content and a brilliant account of the Nuremberg Trials.Worth the 12 GBP i paid for it.