which WW2 books are you reading?

[wicked]

just wondering which ww2 books is everybody reading at the moment?(if any)
iam reading a bridge too far and just picked up battles with panzers for £4,99 from the works. great buy

[mkr8683]

I was revisiting the old Time-Life WW2 series that my mother bought for me many years ago, for maybe a dime apiece at a yard sale. Was reading the volumes on the Battle of the Atlantic, CBI, North Africa, and Italy. I've gotten on a kick to learn Darwinian evolution, so I've put my WW2 and American Civil War reading on hold for a while.

[Dion]

Mostly been reading magazines. Don't read books very much anymore, the magazines are so good nowadays.Though, there is one book I'm interested in, "The Perfect Wreck". It's about the USS Constitution. I believe it's the onle sailing ship still commissioned by the US Navy.

[Dion]

:you:WW2 books, magazines, and even movies make me want to play this game pretty much more than any other game. Can't finish a WWII VHS or DVD movie that I've seen already without having a tremendous desire to play this game. WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT does this best. You can pretty much use any country that you can think of, old stuff (since 1930) and modern stuff too (if you have WinSPMBT). You can get right into it! Simple to play. Video games based on WWII just doesn't do it. Long live the hex!

[wicked]

VHS? Haha. Showing your age now. I had to replace all mine for dvds and keeping away from blueray else ill have to do it all again ;( iam just getting saints and soldiers 2 from lovefilm. Hopefully be as good as the first.
Which books do have you read? Looking at getting my next buy.

[wicked]

For the record. Saints and soldiers 2 is awfull.

[mkr8683]

So was the first one. Any movie whose title sounds like a video game (Airborne Creed, WTH?) is bound to suck.

[Oche]

So was the first one. Any movie whose title sounds like a video game (Airborne Creed, WTH?) is bound to suck.

So true :D

[wicked]

So was the first one. Any movie whose title sounds like a video game (Airborne Creed, WTH?) is bound to suck.


your right but i did have hope it would be good. iam sure the first one was good?? i have not seen it in a few years though and may have it confused with another film.

[mkr8683]

The first one sucked, too. There was a pretty good opening scene showing the Malmedy Massacre, I don't know how accurate it was, though.

[georgesedlak]

"Retribution", the last year in the Pacific war, by Max Hastings. This book was a pleasant surprise, I figured just more of the same, but Hastings has some good insights and the chapters on Manchuria and Burma covered ground not often covered.

[Palle]

Jörg Muth, "Command Culture", comparing the culture and education of officers in Germany and USA up to and during WWII.

It is quite good and as I know Jörg he is not in fact one of those "we were better than you really"- German historians.

[georgesedlak]

Try "Retribution" by Max Hastings. The last year in the Pacific war, redone again, but with different insights and a focus on not well known events like Manchuria, worth the money.

[Aeraaa]

I'm just reading "Tigers at War", by Michael Green and James Brown. Intersting book, that focuses more on the technical part (though there are memoirs and anecdotal stories inside).

[georgesedlak]

James Hornfischer's "Neptune's Inferno", though it's a naval book, it's probably the best one on the naval battles around Guadalcanal, a good read.

[mkr8683]

Reading 'Frontsoldaten', a book about the German infantryman in WW2. If you ever wondered what the war was really like, especially on the Russian front, read this book. It's very depressing, frightening, and is putting me in a bad mood.. maybe because, in a much less intense way, I can relate to the terror of combat portrayed in the book. I certainly can't relate to the darker actions of both German and Soviet in that war, thankfully. But, a great read, certainly makes you appreciate simply being alive. I highly recommend this book. It's told mainly through the letters and diary entries of the landsers.

[Rodwonder]

The Devils Adjutant about KG Peiper in the Ardennes at the moment,very good read. Neptunes Inferno is a great book!

[StuFL]

I keep trying to read Arnhem 1944 by Middlebrook, but it's a bit of a struggle; the author's style is not to my taste. I keep drifting back to re-read my favorites, either Morison's Two-Ocean War or Lockwood's Sink 'Em All.

[mkr8683]

I've been switching back and forth between 'Frontsoldaten' and 'Exit the Colonel', a brand-new book about the downfall of Gaddafi, but my mother-in-law got me one called 'Operation Drumbeat', about Doenitz's U-Boat campaign. Skimming through it, it looks to be a very nice read. Again, I have a very small connection, as I live just outside Port Arthur, Texas, which is mentioned several times in the book and where many ships and sailors embarked on their last voyage before falling prey to the Wolf Packs.

[Wyke]

Just started reading Dog Boats at War. I very informative account of the MTB/E-Boat war in the North and Med Seas.

This appears to be a badly neglected part of the war on all front, be it MTB/E-boats in European/Russian waters or the US PT boats in the Pacific and which I am just starting to learn about