What Are You Reading?

Put down Saga to read Alan Scott's Born to Survive. It's an autobiography of a RAF fighter pilot.

 

Four Hours of Fury by James Fennelon. Its about the 17th Airborne and Varsity.

There are endnotes and they're arranged by chapters and then pages. Instead of endnote #s, they start with page #s and then the first words of the relevant sentence.

 

Stephen Ambrose's D-Day. First time in decades I picked up a Stephen Ambrose book.

 

This one has good academic research on the subject and for that reason is worth getting. However, Mills' conclusions and historical analysis on the macro scale is absolute crap. He consistently finds Germans doing stuff where they did or contributed nothing. So, read it with that in mind.



O'Reagan's book is a solid academic source on the postwar exploitation of German technology, science, and engineering. If anything, it puts to rest that Germany was some paragon of these areas far beyond their opponents. What it shows is Germany had some contributions postwar in some areas, and in others the various Allies found they were far behind what they were already doing. In many cases, it was wash where Germany was doing something and the Allies were doing it a bit differently.

 

I put down Ambrose for Anthony Beevor's The Battle of Arnhem.

 

Alf Blackburn's War Memories.

 

Alf Blackburn's War Memories.

 

Now this……I have his other two books to make the trilogy. He is one of my favorite WWII authors.

 

Montgomery’s Memoirs.

 

I am reading Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five. I have always been interested in unsolved mysteries and have heard about this case and this book goes into more detail about this strange case.

 

Currently reading Shield of Empire; the Royal Navy in Scotland by Brian Lavery. Covers the Navy's presence from the Jacobite Wars onwards. Good stuff.

 

Unfortunately, or fortunately, however you may be inclined, I have strayed from the WAR for a while. Have to. So, I’m reading a book on the New York Yankees. Always a fan,………………….always.