What Are You Reading?

You could try his ghost written autobiography To Hell and Back. I have never read t myself, but understand it goes out of the way to not over glorify his service period.

 

At the minute I'm reading Parachute Infantry By David Kenyon Webster. Second time reading it I must confess

 

Any pictures in the book or is it all words?

 

We'll send you a supply of those 'wakey wakey' pills being discussed on another thread..........................................

( Just kidding ! Or am I................. )

 

A "classic" book is an alternative to a sleep aid.

 

Next: Chris Goss: Brothers in Arms , The story of a British (609 Squadron) and a German (1. Staffel/JG 53) fighter unit, August to December 1940.
Crécy Books Ltd 1994

And

Mark C. Yerger: Otto Weidinger , J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing 1987

 

Everything I can get on Simon De Montfort and the Battle of Evesham...Second only to battle of Hatings in my view to the turning of corners in Britains history. The 2nd Barons War is currently in front of me and off to walk the battlefield when I can get up.

I've had sheep on the land before and never knew it.

 

Currently reading the 'Gangster Squad' by Paul Lieberman. It's a really good book. I can't wait for the movie, and I've always loved period movies so I thought I might as well read the book the movie's based on.

 

Dunkirk....Fight to the last man Hugh Sebag Montefiore..

As big and as good as Horne's to lose a battle.

Takes all the books on Dunkirk, and expands on the oft written of incidents spoken of in most other books on the battle.

Average read time...about 24 hours...because like me you'll just want to get to the next chapter...who needs food anyway...

 

I have Montefiore's Dunkirk book and enjoyed reading it very much.

Currently I'm reading Hayward's 'Stopped At Stalingrad' for the second time. Wolfram von Richthofen was one of those complete and utter b******s who I just can't help admiring somehow.......

 

Just finished a book called "Drood", not really sure what genre to put it...historical fiction (it does revolve heavily around Charles Dickens' last years), horror, mystery...not sure. Its a mammoth, huge, plodding book, though, so be forewarned. I was actually looking forward to the end, not to find out what the deal with Drood was, but because...well...it was the end.

Currently reading "American Patriot: The Life And Wars of Colonel Bud Day" by Robert Coram, and I gotta say............DAMN! Started out enlisting in the Marines in WW2 at age 17, but a series of setbacks landed him a rear-eschelon job on a backwater island in the Pacific...joined the Army Reserves, couldn't get an active commission, so went to the newly-formed Air Force. His career started off rocky (typical in an organization that doesn't really value straight talk and someone who doesn't butt-kiss), but took off like a rocket. By the time he got to Vietnam.....well....you'll have to read the book. I'll simply say that he did spend quite some time in the Hanoi Hilton (back cover tells you this, so there's no spoiler), and already, just reading about some of the stuff he went through prior to getting sent there...its like reading "Baby of Bataan" to find out exactly what folks mean when they say "Hanoi Hilton was hell". Read the book. You won't be disappointed.

 

Easier to read than it was to write though ;-)

 

Defiant, Blenheim and Havoc Aces
Osprey 2012

The Stalin and Molotov Lines
Osprey 2008

Flak Abteilung (mot.) F/88 in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39
Schiffer Publishing 2009