Just started "Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Pelieu".

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was lucky enough to recieve this as a gift for Christmas along with an author signed copy of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Looking forward to reading both in the very near future.

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Bill Murray
Why do we press harder on the remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

Long Reach 8th Fighter command

Ok, Osprey, but this includes 24 first-hand accounts how to survive during the missions and the original booklet was given to new pilots.

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In the detailed document entitled 'The Long Reach, ' 24 pilots who had seen extensive action escorting B-17s and B-24s on daylight raids deep into Germany candidly discussed their secrets to success -- and survival -- in the deadly skies over occupied Europe. The report was used as a text on combat flying for fighter pilots in training.

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/titl...=P9077~ser=ACE

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Civil Defence by TH O'Brien, one of the UK Official History of the Second World War Civil Series. He relates the story of ARP etc from WW1 stumblings to the highly-organised force it had become by 1940. On the way he relates the many problems in manpower, equipment and civil service apathy etc that had to be overcome.
As well as a wealth of information on the Blitz generally, the book goes into great detail on the organisational charts of the ARP, National Fire Service and Police. Superb reading, but an incredibly rare book.

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Gordon
History Vault Bookshop
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Paul Lawrence Rose
Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8006.html

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The latest couple on my desk are:

Harris J P Men, Ideas and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903 - 1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995)

House J Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century (Lawrence, Kansas: Kansas University Press, 2001)

Both really good books.

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Thoughts on Military History
Cornish Scale Modellers
Ross' Military Modelling and Art

I read a lot of ospreys campaign series a bit costly but the lay out is great gives you a good over view of the subject matter I am looking forward to the release of Iraq 1941 sounds interesting. At the moment I am reading-

THE WINTER WAR
The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40
By William R. Trotter


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Just read "soldat" by Siefried Knapp. Pretty good book on an officer as he rose through the officer corps ending as a major on the general staff of General Weidling. Describe's his ordeal in prison. Good reading and interesting format. More like a movie.

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American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

Just Finished reading one got nine more on the go anyway this one deals with the out right evil side of the Nazis

Masters of Death
The SS Einsatzgruppen and the
Invention of The Holocaust
By Richard Rhodes

Granted this not light reading and the content is going to be graphic a very interesting account from 1939-1943 one thing stood out for me was on the eve of Operation Barbarossa the army was only one third motorised unlike the Einsatzgruppen who were fully motorised just goes to show the real war was against the Jews.

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Also it seems the Einsatzgruppen men were given rather high ranks to start with in order to be able to do their jobs.

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David Williams Nachtjäger volume 2 1943-45. Actually a fine softback book produced through Classic Pubs classic-colour series. Profiles are beautifully done but I do not necessairly agree with the colour schemes 100 %. Actually this is pushing me to get my own work on the Ju 88G-6 and crews done up this summer...........time for another half dozen pilot/crew interviews then presto !

Show us the kwan, Erich!

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Two new additions on their way to me...

Cornwell, Peter, D. and Vasco, John, J.
Zerstorer, The Messerschmitt 110 and its Units in 1940

Wolfgang Späte: Top Secret Bird - the Luftwaffe Me-163 Comet

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/bibli...7-1125980656-0

Ultimately, the Me 163 claimed nine enemy aircraft destroyed and actually killed more Germans due to accidents. Nevertheless, the Me 163 remains one of the most famous aircraft of the war due to the sheer audacity of the design and the bravery of the pilots who dared to fly it.

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THE U-BOAT OFFENSIVE 1914-1945 by V.E. Tarrant

Just finished very interesting full of tables, charts and statistical information a good read. [img]graemlins/sub.gif[/img]

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Kai, JG 400 scored 12 kills confirmed. I knew several of the pilots, one of them was Rudi Opitz

what a waste of an a/c ~ Me 163; no wonder many of the rocket kids went to JG 7

OK, thanx for the correction Erich!

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Just finished "Rubicon" by Tom Holland, which turned out to be fantastic read on the slow decay and downfall of the Roman republic. Goes great with the TV show "Rome", to flesh out several persons there.

Have now started a Swedish book, roughly translated as Wolves of the Sea (rather lame title), by Michael Tamelander. Each chapter goes into detail about one particular aspect of submarine and/or anti-submarine warfare during the war years.

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Rush of blood and over we go..."
- Iron Maiden, "Paschendale"

THE VILLA THE LAKE THE MEETING
WANNSEE AND THE FINAL SOLUTION
By Mark Roseman

Not bad a good read just wished it had more information on the background of those who attended and bit more in depth information.

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Went to pick up a spanish phrase book tonight for the honeymoon, and had to check the WW2 section at Barnes&Noble. First time I've hit that section in many moons...
Noticed some new (?) softcover copies-
It Never Snows in September (Robert J. Kershaw), a must on Market Garden. Not sure if the softcover is new, but if so, a nice way to save a couple bucks on a superb title- another one I need to get back to and finish.
Both volumes of Tigers in Combat by Wolfgang Schneider. Must for Tiger buffs... heh, kinda funny to see those softcovers in a Barnes&Noble. They lack the color illustrations, but otherwise look superb- better typesetting than the JJF originals.

But the ones I picked up-
Also new (?) softcover of one I saw many tomes before but never picked up- With Our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier. Interesting history on the last months of the war in Europe.

And the real prize-
Blood and Iron, The German Conquest of Sevastopol, by C.G Sweeting, copyright 2005, original 2004.
NICE looking small-ish volume on the Sevastopol campaign. Tons of footnotes, looks pretty well researched. Also very nice- nearly half the book is Appendixes, and some good ones- ranks and organization of the german forces, equipment used by both sides.
And the part that made it an especially easy purchase- A full appendix on the Karl-Gereat Mortars, and a Full appendix on the 80cm Dora gun!

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Seriously, all today is missing is free cotton candy and the annual Bay State Hooker Parade to make it any better.

Well starting to fulfill New Year promises:

Hinchliffe
- the Other Battle.

Hinchliffe - the Lent Papers

Reschke -
Jagdgeschwader 301/303 Wilde Sau

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Just finished one today

THE SCOURGE OF THE SWASTIKA
A SHORT HISTORY OF NAZI WAR CRIMES

BY LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL

A very good read prisoners of war, slave labour, and the concentration camps and other atrocities committed by the Nazis.

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