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  1. Otto

    Otto GröFaZ Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    It took a while to get around to it, but I just finished The Foresight War by WWII Forums member Tony Williams. It's really quite good, with a good amount of suspense throughout. I took notes, and I might posts a review if I get a chance.
     
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  2. Martin Bull

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    I have the book too, CBRent, and feel much the same about it.

    On the one hand, it is undoubtedly the 'definitive' work about Peiper with many rare illustrations. On the other hand, you certainly cannot say that the author is 'impartial'......:(
     
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  3. Kai-Petri

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    The SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "LSSAH"
    and the Battle of Kharkov January-March 1943
    By Nipe and Spezzano

    Tirpitz - the floating fortress
    By David Brown
    Arms and Armour Press 1977
     
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  4. Stevin

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    I hope to get "De oorlog die te lang duurde" (the war that lasted to long) by Rudi Maas. He was a German, living in Berlin, drafted in 1944 and send to an artillery unit in Czechoslovakia in 1945, where he fought for 15 days, before taken PoW by the Russians and spending 4,5 years in Russian captivity. He is the dad of a good friend of mine. The book got quite a bit of media-attention here...
     
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  5. Col. Hessler

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    I'm taking a little break from WWII at the moment, working on both Gettysburg by Stephen Sears and Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege by Keith Nolan. When I'm done with these two, I'll get back into some WWII reading with Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters. I also have With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge sitting here waiting to be read. Really looking forward to that one.
     
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    When you finish Dick Winter's book, be sure and give us your opinion of it.
     
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    Will do Slipdigit.
     
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  8. Carl G. E. von Mannerheim

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    Just finished reading Harry Crocker III's 'Dont Tread on Me: the 400 year history of US Military from Indian Fighting to the War on Terror' its by no means a scholarly book, but that is whats great about it. Its an excellent, entertaining read


    I am also about 400 pages into William Goldblatt's 'The Ball Is round : A global history of football (soccer)
     
    Carl G. E. von Mannerheim, Jun 13, 2007
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    Does anyone have this book???
    [​IMG]

    If so, does it contain many good pictures of the Fw-189 Nightfighter???
     
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    Almost done with At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. It has been great. Very insightful.

    I have also started two others, Saddams Bomb Maker and American Technology. Both seem good so far.

    Dick Winters did not write Band of Brothers it was Stephen Ambrose, Winters did write his own book called Beyond the Band of Brothers. I enjoyed both. There are contradiction between the two wich made it more interesting.
     
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  11. Carl G. E. von Mannerheim

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    what are some of the contradictions between the two?
     
    Carl G. E. von Mannerheim, Jun 14, 2007
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    Hessler, you should really enjoy With the Old Breed. I read it a couple months ago and it is easily one of the best personal accounts of the war that exists. Some of the stories you will read you will never forget. The things that happened on Peleilu and Okinawa were truely horrifying.
     
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    Just started the "Crusaders" ( a struggle with the Teutonic Knights ) by Genrik Senkevich.

    I has been a while since I have last read this book and look forward to refreshing my memory.
     
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  14. Slipdigit

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    I'm about to start How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove. Anyone out there read it and the follow-on books?
     
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    One was probably a good, first hand account of a hero while the other was probably mostly plagarized. I do not read Ambrose at all. Everything I've read that was "written" by him (which ain't much) could have been easily read in other books. Citizen Soldier is a good example. He borrowed heavily from three other books, all previously read by me, with the best being The Men of Company K, by Leinbaugh and Campbell. I highly recommend that book if you want to get the feel of a US rifle company in Europe duing the 1944-45 campaign. It was very well written.

    Ambrose apparently got a lot of his story for Band of Brothers from the book Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster. In the miniseries, Webster was the Screaming Eagle who was shot in the butt along Hell's Highway and did not return to E Company until after Bastogne. In the book, Webster made no mention of being ostracised by the rest of the company after being WIA and missing Bastogne. Don't know where they got that one from.
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    Contradictions: Situations vary, like what was going on before taking the guns on D-Day, opinions of the men on certain things, Rumers in the company and details like these.

    I dont think that the strong point of Ambrose is his new thoguhts or insights but that his work brings new people to the study of World War 2. How many more peolpe know something about the war because of what he did (True or Not.) I dont love his books, but they are good general reference books that take you to better source material like those you listed.
     
    tikilal, Jun 15, 2007
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  17. Carl G. E. von Mannerheim

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    I met Stephen Ambrose once, on a book tour for "Wild Blue"

    totally underwhelmed, he did not strike me as a worthwhile historian or as a man of any real intelligence.
     
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    This is not a WW2 book but if you like controversial books this one is one of the best. Where Troy Once Stood by Iman Wilkens.
     
    tikilal, Jun 15, 2007
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    Images of War: British Motorcycles at War

    nice book about motorcycles used by the British Army in WOII, also part about Germans and Us bikes
     
    Philip ABRG, Jun 15, 2007
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    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Sorta like Wikipedia?:D Read him to find out what you really need to read if you don't already know what you really need to read?
    I'll buy that as a plus in his column.
    10,000 out of work comedians and here I am live on WWIIF.
     
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