Just starting Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945 by James Holland. I recently finished The Remains of Company D by James Carl Nelson. It's an account of his grandfather's service in WW1 and that of many others in the 28th Infantry Regiment of the First Division. It is a harrowing look at life and war in the trenches.
I just finished the unabridged audio of Beevor's D-Day and enjoyed it thoroughly, although the reader's sometimes odd (to these American ears) pronunciations were occasionally distracting. Otherwise, though, it was great.
Just about finished A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Horrifying first person account of a journalist's last 2 months in Berlin before and after Russian occupation. Eye opening to say the least.
I've just started on The War of a Hundred Days. It's about the campaign in Somalia and Ethiopia in 1941.
Read Enemy at the Gates. A bit late, I know, but it gave me a whole new perspective on the Eastern Front. Stalingrad was the epitome of wrong-headedess of Hitler and the horror of the average soldier.
Just started Lost Victories by General Erich von Manstein. Anybody know of a good book on the battles of Voronezh and the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket? One of my German uncles was in those two places.
I just finished listening to 'Tiger Tank' on Audible. I figured since it takes me 30 mins to walk to work in the morning, why not listen to a book while I do so? Pretty vivid descriptions of Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front (mainly in retreat for the author, a Tiger Tank driver). Pretty easy to listen to so I imagine it would also be pretty easy to read. Actual reading, I am still finishing up 'Tears in the Darkness" about the Bataan Death March, things that proceeded it, and its aftermath. Quite an interesting read. I also received in the mail my copies of: Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce and The Rise and Fall of the British Empire I am not sure which one I want to read first, or if I read Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill before either of them!
Now reading Ryan's The Longest Day and D-Day Juno Beach: Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny by Lance Goddard.