What Are You Reading?

I am currently reading Otto Carius' memoir Tigers In the Mud. I wanted to read it since he just recently passed away

 

Currently reading "British Appeasement in the 1930s" by William R. Rock. It explores all of the aspects of appeasement such aspolitical, economic and military aspect. Though it only has 111 pages the amount of text on each page is so overwhelming I can only read a small amount of pages at a time. It is an insightful read so far and paints a good picture of how stubborn Neville Chamberlain was in his attempts to make his policy of appeasement work and how he tried to rid of people who opposed it or felt the need to expand the rearmament of the British military.

 

That's one of the reasons why I like flea markets and used book sales. There a lot of gems that you can find such as that.

 

I'm reading Unbroken now and I love it so much. It's such an amazing book. It just holds you in a grip and I've only had it for a couple of days and already almost finished it. If I weren't so busy I would have read it in one day, it's that good.
I loved the movie as well, and I'll try to find your movie thread because I really wanna know what people thought about the movie.

 

Thought it might be fun to start an ongoing thread of what we're reading.

I'll go first.

Fiction: Tightrope by Simon Mawer, set in post-war 1945 England.

Nonfiction: Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War by Dale Maharidge. A son unearths his WW2 Marine vet father's war story.

 

My current read is War At Sea by Nathan Miller, a single volume account of naval conflict during WWII

 

Jane's U.S. Military Aircraft Recognition Guide - Tony Holmes.
Dusted it off and realized my eyesight is going south. The print is so small now. Maybe the book is shrinking with age.

 

Just started Insde The Third Reich: Memoirs by Albert Speer.

 

i feel ya Poppy. Have to use a magnifying glass for footnote's and had to increase my computer's font to 125%.

 

Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth by Gitta Sereny

 

For research purposes, I'm perusing U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939-1945 by Gordon L. Rottman.

 

Can't sleep huh

 

LOL! It makes my head spin reading all of this! I never knew how complicated the armed services were.

But I need to get at least a halfway decent sense of it since my main character for my current novel is a USMC veteran who fought on Peleliu and Okinawa.

 

The English Spy by Daniel Silva. The latest in the Gabriel Allon series. It never takes me long to read these books - they are so fast-paced and well-written. Wish he could write faster, but a book a year is pretty darn good!