What Are You Reading?

So far, Toll has been very good. I like the detail he uses to illustrate the events.

 

Older good book

The last ditch by David Lampe

Britain+s secret Resistance and the nazi invasion plan

British factories did not, as so many Britons today would like to believe, work at a frantic pace throughout the summer and autumn of 1940 in order to replenish the nation´s store of arms. Most people in Britain took advantage of the exceptionally fine weather that summer to loll at the seaside.

 

The Memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger
Sepp de Giampietro
Greenhill Books 2019

Luftwaffe Rudder Markings 1936-1945
Dieter Hoffmann 1970

 

I am reading this, “The Deadly Brotherhood,”. Very good....copyright 1998.

 

I'm reading "The Rommel Papers." I'm at page 304, with the Second Battle of El Alamein.

 

Omar Bradley (and Clay Blair)'s A General's Story.

 

Dauntless Helldivers by Harold L. Buell. He was in the Pacific flying the dive bombers. I'm early on with him in pilot training.

 

Just read Birth of an Army - a reflection on the Tunisia battles by AB Austin who was a war correspondent with the British Daily Herald.

Excellent. Sadly he was killed at Scafati outside Naples during the Allied advance after the Salerno landings. He was mad enough to volunteer for the Dieppe Landings in 1942.

Regards

Frank

 

"Last Voices of World War II". June issue of National Geographic. Stories from Allies and Axis, civilian and military, Pretty much all of them average people caught in the war.

 

Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad.

 

I read that as a kid and I loved it. He MIGHT have exagerated a bit.

 

Unknown Valor, the new book by Martha Maccallum. My next door neighbor loaned it to me. She wrote him an autographed note, he is a 25 year Marine veteran.

 

Just finished Semper Fi, Mac.