What Are You Reading?

Out of the pressure cooker (work) for a couple of weeks and my library made it safely across the house move, so going to catch up on my reading .
- To the gates of Stalingrad that's proving to be urprisingly readable for Glantz.
- Le operazioni in Africa Settentrionale a four volume official history of the battle for North Africa from the Italian army's Ufficio Storico.
- A history of the Medierranean air war 1940 1945 by C. Shores .
- Roskil's The war at Sea 3rd volume part 2 (finally gave up my search for an HMSO edition and bought a paperback of the missing volume)
- La difesa del traffico con l'Albania, la Grecia e l'Egeo from the Italian Navy's Ufficio Storico about some of the Italian's "other" convoy routes (still looking for something about traffic to Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica) .

All the above are heavyweights but I'm currently disappointed with Osprey's production values (there are still a few gems hidden in their huge production but they are rarer and rarer) and as I'm currently going to France quite often the wonderful French military history magazines have a much better price/content ratio for in flight reading.

 

A few on the table.

Maurader Man by Ken Brown. How many B-26 memoirs are there?
Resurrection by Dan Madsen. Story of salvaging the fleet at Pearl Harbor.
USN PBY Catalina Units of the Pacific War by Louis Dorny. Osprey Combat Aircraft #62

 

Currently reading:

Soldat- Siegfried Knappe

On deck:

Young Lions - Shaw

Evans Third Reich Trilogy

 

Germany and WWII (Tome V1)

 

Just finished Armageddon by Max Hastings. Started Rescuing Da Vinci by Robert Edsel.

 

Warrior by Max Hastings.

 

Coincidence - I was rearranging some of my books this afternoon and came across this : thumbed through it and thought that I should re-read it.....

 

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

 

Glorious comes to mind in that catagory as well. Gunfire contributed to the sinking of at least one other carrier as well.

 

Right now I'm reading "Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-45", by Robert Forczyk.

 

Be interested to hear your opinion when you've finished it - I have a number of Forczyk's books and haven't yet acquired this one.

 

I picked it up on a whim a week ago, I usually do more research into a book before I buy it, but it stood out to me (mainly because I had also recently watched Cross of Iron, and remembered the quote), and I like it so far. He provides some interesting background on the subject. I believe it's rather new, as he mentions the current conflict in the Crimea in the beginning.

 

At the moment I'm reading

Into the Lions' Den

It's pretty enthralling so far, the author has a good grasp of the history. It manages to weave in a personal drama, a high-stakes mission and the most critical events in Stalingrad 1942. The plot is about a British operative sent to Stalingrad to assassinate an innocent person, all because they hold the scientific knowledge that the Germans want for their Atom Bomb project.

Not finished yet but would definitely recommend it to WW2 military thriller fans.

 

are you the author ???

 

I am starting to read "Infantry Attacks" by Erwin Rommel. Have to wait for a little to continue reading since I have exams next week.

 

I forgot, but I remembered that I have to switch priorities on my books. I have to start reading a book on the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire that happened in Kentucky years ago for a documentary I'm working on.