What is everyone reading on WW2?

[panzerhan]

Just finished "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore. In future I hope I can find enough time to read the other Stalin book by him.

Now I started to read "Northern Star: The Last Korean War Veterans" by Cem Fakir (In Turkish). It's about the Turkish veterans of the Korean War. Lots of pictures and first-hand accounts.

[Dutto1]

Finished Manstein by Mungo Melvin,i am getting through a lot of reading while i look for a new job ! I am now going to re read Robert Kershaw's War Without Garlands then onto Mike Jones -The Retreat !

[Andy H]

The excellent HyperWar has now added the official British history The Mediterranean and Middle East Volume I to its online readable content

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/U ... tents.html

Bravo HyperWar

Regards

Andy H

[fletchemall]

I've just started reading "In Hitler's Bunker" by Armin D. Lehmann.

It outlines the author's experience during the last days of the Third Reich as a member of the Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm.

So far it's a great read!

[nebelwerferXXX]

German Tanks & Fighting Vehicles of World War II

Authors: Peter Chamberlain and Chris Ellis
Color Artworks and Line Drawings: John Batchelor

Contents

Armoured Cars
Six-Wheelers
Four-Wheelers
Eight-Wheelers
Armoured Half-Tracks
Light Half-Tracks
The First Panzers
Trial by Combat
The Czech Tanks
Early Heavy Tanks
The Time of Victory
Command Vehicles
Amphibious Tanks
Light Tanks
The Defensive Period
The Tiger
The Panther
Tiger II
Super Heavy Tanks
Self-Propelled Guns
Sturmgeschutz
Panzerjager
Jagdpanzer
Panzerartillerie
Sturmpanzer
Flakpanzer
The Giant Guns

I am reading this book again for the fourth time...Do this series of books were no longer published and for sale ? It's my pipe dream to have all the companion series in this publication...

[kamehouse]

I am having a blast reading "Normandy 1944 ,German military Organization,Combat power and Organizational Effectiveness." by Niklas Zetterling.I especially love the way he points fingers at other authors for laziness during research.

[CaptNimmo]

I am now going to re read Robert Kershaw's War Without Garlands then onto Mike Jones -The Retreat !

Both are excellent, especially for Eastern Front buffs.

[JeroenPollentier]

Still reading in the second volume of Kershaw's Hitler biography, and I have started readin in Antony Beevor's Stalingrad.

[Adam Carr]

I'm halfway through Gordon Prange's monumental "At Dawn We Slept," by the end of which I will know everything there is to know about Pearl Harbor. And I've just taken delivery of "Hitler's First War."

[ReinhardH]

"Im Auge des Jägers", by Albrecht Wacker (English version "Sniper on the Eastern Front")

[FAH3]

Just wrapped up Thacker's book on Goebbels and ready to start Lucas Delattre's "A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich".

[Pips]

phylo, just an update on "Darwin Spirfires".

Only 150 pages or so into it but it is proving to be an excellent read.

Meticulous detail on each raid, and how No.1 Wing reacted to each of them eg which units took-off at what time and from what base, the 'form up' (or not as often is the case), who attacked and how etc.
Also delves into the skill level and composition of the units as they were when formed, political background, leadership of the Wing, effectiveness of the support units (radar etc), effects of the attack, claims and (as best can be ascertained) actual losses. Problems with the unsuitability of the Spitfire eg cannon stoppages and prop problems, are evident almost from the very start. Very detailed footnotes and references.

One thing that stands out to date is that Clive Caldwell, as good a combat pilot (ace) as he is, is a rather poor combat leader. Shows little care for his pilots in the air, flies too fast to allow proper form-up and consolidation of forces, tends to fight as an individual. No doubting his courage and skill, but definitely lacking in Wing leadership. Interestingly this was often said of him in the Desert too. Bobby Gibbs being particulary critical of him for this aspect.

Easily the most comprehensive book I've read on the subject to date. A must read for anyone interested in this aspect of the Pacific War.

[PATRICK CHARRON]

I recommend warmly the books of Charles TRANG Leibstandarte and Totenkopf.
Many unpublished photos as well as archival copies.
The text gives an objective view on these Waffen SS units and personality of some officers;
The series Dictionnaire de la Waffen SS, the first two volumes are already published is the same quality and will to my knowledge the most complete collection about all Waffen SS units.

Patrick

[fletchemall]

Could anyone recommend me some books on the Normandy landings from a German perspective?

Thanks.

[Dutto1]

Hi,

There is a couple of books,one is The Germans in Normandy, by Richard Hargreaves,it covers the whole Normandy Campaign and is packed with first-hand accounts.The second one is Invasion They're Coming ! by Paul Carell.This one is somewhat dated but still worth a look.

Regards,

Ron