I really do not read often but I am reading 2 books.... slowly
1. Above and Beyond. Really good, about Canadian air war, many stories.
2. Battalion of Heroes. About Calgary Highlanders, ive wanted to read it for a while, its got info on my Grandpa in it.

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Waldheim:The Missing Years
This book explains Kurt Waldheim's life and duties during World War 2, in charge of executions, and then his rise to the chair of Secretary-General of the UN, despite his Nazi past.

Fallschirmjager-History of German paratroopers in WW2.

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I am not reading any books lately but I came across this list of WWII German subjects that somebody put out and it might interest the forum. http://members.cox.net/maulkin1/bibliography.html

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Tom Clancy's "Red Rabbit". Just finished "History of the German General Staff" not too long ago.

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Ok,

now I got the books with me.

The Lapland reconnaissance is by Konrad Knabe, the first version in 1978 as " Das Auge Dietls " or "Eye of Dietl". I got the Finnish version 1983.

I just read it and it includes nice stories of the parties they had with Dietl and high ranking officers. Dietl was a very humorous guy I must admit, I´ll get back to some details later on. And I didn´t know until know that the famous Jodl at Hitler´s HQ had a younger brother who served as a General in the north...

The other book was by Cajus Bekker: originally as Ostsee, Deutsches Schicksal 1944/45 (1959) and I got the Finnish version (1960). I intend to read it next.

As well I just finished the memoirs of Swedish ambassador to Moscow ( Vilhelm Assarsson ) during the period 1940-1944. It´s called " In the shadows of Stalin" ( 1963). Very interesting and I´ll be back on some details as well later on.

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Good list TA, but I would have to add these to the "To Read" list from the not to read list.

Panzer Commander by von Luck--was excellent.
Blond Knight of Germany by Tolliver was excellent.
Panzer Battles by Mellinthin was not great but very readable.
Allgemeine SS by Yerger is a good book.
All ww2 Osprey titles (Various authors) are worth reading.
Achtung Panzer by Guderian is an excellent read.
The Leibstandarte All Volumns are worth reading.
Afrika Korps by Macksey and Panzer Division also by him are good.
Drvzhina SS Bde and Iron Fist by Antonio Munoz are EXCELLENT reads.
To Hell and Back is an excellent read.
A Bridge Too Far is an excellent read.
The Forgotton Soldier by Sajer is an excellent read---but controversial on whether anything in ie was true or not--but then--who cares?
The McKenzie Break by Shelley was a good read.
Inside the Third Reich and both Spandau books by Speer were excellent reads.
Comrades To The End by Weidinger was a great read.
Both Das Reich volumes are excellent reads.

Whoever read these books and made this list did a pretty good job of it but--was sadly mistaken about the titles I listed.

[ 19. April 2003, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: C.Evans ]

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side note Carl. Get Mark Yergers two volumes on Das Reich.......most excellent companions to the OOP Munin-Verlag Das Reich volumes that are being translated through JJF pubs.....

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ALLLLLLLL RRIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for letting me know. Let me know when they are coming out--im DEFINATELY looking forward to these.

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Mark's two volums so far have been published. I think JJF have released the volumes covering 1940-early 1943. Not sure if the Kursk battle and beyond has been covered yet. I am waiting for the last volume , late 43-45 which maybe will be out next year ?

also concerning Russian front activites. some one on another forum mentioned that the translated and long awaited book of Maier's "Btween Budapest and Vienna will be released this summer. It has been almost 10 years of waiting. maybe 100 pics but the text will be huge with some wonderful late war maps and finally something on this area of battle.

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Actually, as I read a little bit too fast I have just finished this week the following books:

"The rise and fall of nazi Germany" by T.L. Jarman, which is just EXCELLENT! It isn't focused much into the war affairs, but it includes the historical, political, cultural and phylosophical analysis of the Third Reich.

"Hitler 1889-1936" by professor Ian Kershaw. An exhaustive biography of Adolf Hitler. It has so many sources and details that it is beyond excellence.

"The perfume" by Patrick Süskind.

"The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli... Ha! That's politics!

"The French foreign legion" by Martin Windrow.

I have started reading:

"Rommel as military commander" by Ronald Lewin. Let's see if he was THAT good... [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

"Hitler 1936-1945" If it is like the first volume: And it focuses on the war a lot!

And also, I must read a war book collection I have recently purchase. Among its main titles it includes: "British tanks in North Africa", "Polish tanks 1939-1945", "The heavy tanks JS-II and JS-III", "Mechanised infantry", "The medium tank Panzer III", "The medium tank Panzer IV", "Panzer division", "The long range desert group", etc., etc.

The collection's name: TANKS

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"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

The best war book that I've read recently (in last six months) was Stalingrad: Enemy At The Gates. Felt very personal; not just empty history. Really related w/wehrmacht troops alot better than SS fanatics.

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At the moment im reading Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor. Its a great book

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Thanks Erich--ill look to buy from JJF in about 2 months or so--I have to wait for the finances to catch up a bit. I hope that 2 book set isnt as much as the last 2 book set I bought of Mark Yerger--at $130.00 plus taxes--great books but--a bit too expensive--unless one is rich. [img]smile.gif[/img] Maiers book is somthing that I have a great interest in as well.

Wilconqr--dont take Enemy At the Gates as a good book on Stalingrad--I highly recommend Beevors book Stalingrad. His book is much much more factual and was so good that once started--cannot be put down.

Dont get me wrong--I like EATG as a movie but--the book really reeked. Also--there was no "sniper duel" between Vasily Zaitsev and a "Maj Konigs"--the "Major" never existed. This is just that author trying to change history to suit his taste--like many authours used to call General Friedrich Paulus--General Friedrich von Paulus--he was not a von. This is also like that famous pic of Waffen SS at a crossroads sign that says Malmedy on it. For years and years--every author said that the German in the Crusher Peaked Visored Cap was Joachim Peiper--when that man was not Peiper. If you look at the collar of the man with the peaked visor--you can clearly see that he is clearly a Waffen SS Sergeant--ot an Officer. Finally in the recent past--finally authors are correcting that error

Berlin by Beevor is good and im almost finished with it.

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Carl, I have Mark's mail addy somewhere but the best bet is to write him direct through the fledgrau forum since he is the W-SS moderator there. The two volumes are softbound and privately published by him. Hopefully he still has some left ......for you ?

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Thanks my friend--please send and ill write him. Im shocked that Mark is even associated with that site instead of Wehrmacht

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I think you will have to log onto Jason's site after all as I cannot find his addy.......write him a pm unless you can access the directory and find his mail addy if it is listed at all ?

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No problem--ill try monday as the lib/ is scooting us out ze door.

See you then [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Band of Brothers is a very nicely done book by Stephen E. Ambrose. It's a very good read. I must have read it about 3 times through now.

The Zulu War...David Clammer...cant talk, cant read the boards....cant put this one down..

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I read Band of Brothers twice before the Mini Series was made.The TV version is so much better.
Has anyone read the Cage ? Ive just finished reading it, it's not about world war II but about an Englishman in Vietnam, cool book.

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[quote]Originally posted by Jet:

Has anyone read the Cage ? Ive just finished reading it, it's not about world war II but about an Englishman in Vietnam, cool book.


I read The Cage and quite enjoyed it but I'm not sure we should actually believe it all. A few months ago there was quite a bit of stuff in the newspapers about Vietnam Veterans disputing some of the 'facts' in this book. According to them the official POW records from the Vietnam War suggest that the author of The Cage was inventing the story...

'As yet there is no immediate prospect of the invasion' - Field Marshal von Rundstedt (Situation Report]5 June 1944

Really !!! That surprises me. Anyway thanks for the info Leo [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Best book on someone's personal account of Vietnam that I've read was Brave Men, about Colonel David Hackworth U.S. Army (Ret.).

C. Evans--- I have a documentary I recorded off the History Channel called "Suicide Missions-Sniper." Major Koenigs' can be s