What is everyone reading on WW2?

[steve248]

Metropol Verlag has published its list of new publications
https://metropol-verlag.de/

[OpanaPointer]

JAPANESE MONOGRAPH NO, 84
Philippines Area Naval Operations, Part II
Oct. - Dec. 1944

The icon of target inflation.

[guder]

Death of the Leaping Horseman by Jason Mark. An in depth history of the 24th Pz Div from July 42 until the start of the Soviet encirclement.

Paul

[Kernowgaz]

Fire and Ice: The Nazis' scorched earth campaign in Norway by Vincent Hunt.

Some harrowing stories in there.

[Attrition]

War with Japan: The South-East Asia Operations and Central Pacific Advance. Vol. IV. London: HMSO (Ministry of Defence Naval Historical Branch). 1995. ISBN 0-11-772820-9.

[Max Sinister]

"Convoy! : drama in arctic waters" by Paul Kemp.

[Sheldrake]

Richard Overy- Blood and Ruins - The great imperial War 1931-1945
and to review for ARRSE https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/forum ... views.252/
Osprey Combat series US Marine v Japanese Infantryman

[JeroenPollentier]

Max Hastings - Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
(My copy has the original title, All Hell Let Loose)

It's surprisingly good, much more readable than his other books I've read (Falklands, Finest Years)

Also, after more than a year I'm still struggling with William Manchester's "Krupp".
Just like his "American Caesar" and "The Glory And The Dream", this book started off well but is much, much too long-winded.

[Sheldrake]

No Place To Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two) (12 June 2023)
by Anthony Richardson (Author) I was offered this on Kindle unlimitedhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Place-Lay-Head ... rgQAvD_BwE

It is an unusual memoir, dating from 1957. The protagonist Sasha is a sixteen-year old from Byelorussia. In 1943 his farm is raided by partisans and his brother is taken as a recruit. A neighbour threatens to inform on them to the German police. To save the farm and his father Sasha decides to volunteer as a member of the German auxiliary police.

What follows is an account through the eyes of a German auxiliary in the horrific partisan war on the eastern front, the collapse of the German front in 1944 and his experiences on the Western Front leading to his capture by the US Army in Alsace. He ends the war as a British soldier; a member of the Polish Army in Italy and eventually settles in Brighton, marries. An unusual tale and tells something of the motivation of some of the Ost truppen. I wonder what might have been left out of his story. The word "Jew" does not appear once.

[Attrition]

I'm busy with Sumption's last volume on the 100 Year' War. It's a bit of a slog at the mo' because Joan of Arc is a boring bastard.

[A7Vburger]

Currently reading ‘A better comrade you you will never find ‘ - Helmut Schebel
Just complete reading ‘D’Day Tank Hunter’ Hans Hoeller &
‘Ace Eagle - Hasse Wind ‘ Seppo Porvali &
‘Memories of an eventful life’ Gunther Tlotzek

[JeroenPollentier]

Eric L. Haney: Inside Delta Force - The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (not exactly WW2, I know)