These are books that are personal accounts of WW2...

Dennis Edwards - The Devils Own Luck
This is one of my favourite books and is Dennis personal account of joining the 6th Airborne Division and includes his Normandy Diary. He fought the entire campaign in France as a sniper and its a cracking read.

Martin Poppel - Heaven and Hell
This is the diary of a German Paratrooper who joined up before the war and fought all the way through.

Baron Von der Heydte - Deadalus Returned
A very different book from a German Para commander, very moving and philisophical, a complete contrast to most military memoirs, but it is solely concerned with the battle on Crete which deeply affected the author. Sadly out of print but Aberdeen books had a few copies.

Otto Carius - Tigers in the mud
Great book, about Tigers in Russia. Need I say more! Just been reprinted in soft back at half the price I paid for my copy!

Vladimir Pianikoff - Popski's Private Army
Not sure if its in print, I picked my copy up in a second hand book shop for a couple of quid. One mans war on the Germans in the desert full of intresting skirmishes and incidents.

There are lots of books around for personal exp. but also have a look at John Keegan - The Face of Battle, and if you are interested in the psycological side of war Ben Shepard's book - A war of nerves is worth a look.

One final book I would recommend, though not WW2, is David Hackworth's - About Face. Its the story of a young yank who joins the army just after WW2 and fights through Korea and Vietnam. Its a huge book but one of the greatest books I have ever read. His descriptions of firefights with the Chinese and Koreans and later the VC are outstanding, one of the few books to really bring combat to life. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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