What is everyone reading?

"Hell's Highway: A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne in the Holland Campaign, September-November 1944" by George Koskimaki and "Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich" by David Kenyon Webster.

 

we have 2 of these threads? oh well!

I'm reading "The Jedburghs" it's a great story of Allied soldiers arming and training the Maquis! Almost finished, great book!

 

I happen to be reading at this moment Six Armies in Normandy by Sir John Keegan. I had bought this book years ago and picked it up randomly. It is quite supperb, literary worth every phrase. And... it has gotten me very interested in the Normandy campaign...

 

Six Armies is indeed an excellent book - the first one of Keegan's that I ever read and still one of my favourites. It's above all very readable. It was the first time I'd ever heard of 'The Mace' and the actions of the Poles.....

 

..Terry Brighton's "Masters of Battle" - a comparative study of the careers of Patton, Rommel, & Montgomery.

I have no idea who Brighton is but he writes a very competent narrative...

 

I'll agree with Martin Fried, the 6 Armies is a good read, have done so several times to give myself a refresh from time to time.

finishing an old title from 1978, Ken Poolman's: "Scourge of the Atlantic", a blow by blow covering I./KG 40's mission to take out Allied shipping and the Allied response(s) to the unit. A few mix-ups in the text by datum but the book flows well.

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Is that book any good? I've been looking at it with the intention of buying it, but i don't have that much information on it.

 

I thought it a rather good book and worth buying it. It does reveal a lot of behind the scenes info that would surprise you about Sepp Dietrich.

 

Currently reading "End Game - 1945" by David Strafford. It is interesting but I think he goes a wee too much on the details of the people he is writing about. This extends the length of reading. I just started so maybe a little early to critique.

 

War Stories: Pacific Heroes, Oliver North.

 

Doctor Danger Forward : A World War II Memoir of a Combat Medical Aidman, First Infantry Division by Allen N. Towne

 

Kursk: Hitler's Gamble, 1943 from the Stockpile Military History Series

 

Great, when you finish please tell what you though of it.

Cheers!

 

Almost finished with Tim O'Briens The Things They Carried, I know its not WWII but its good. After that I plan on finally reading Tolstoy's War and Peace or Craig Nelson's First Heros

 

at the moment i'm reading
stalingrad

 

Flyboys(by the guy who wrote Flags of are Fathers)

I don't really like it so far as the first 70 pages or so were just about Japanese History and the last 20 or so have just introduced the characters and why they enlisted.

 

I just finished The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24 by Stephen Ambrose. Very fine book, focusing on George McGovern’s service, but including many other missions by other pilots as well.

Very informative and humbling.

 

I'm reading Toward the Flame by Hervey Allen, a narrative of his experiences in WWI.