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Man of the Year 1942

Regards, Richard

Thanks again, I'll have to remember that site as well.

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The Great World war 1914-45 Lightning Strikes Twice
by John Bourne
Peter Liddle
Ian Whitehead
Have just started it is a very interesting book

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

By LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL

War Crimes to ill-treatment of civilians’ in occupied territory, slave labour and the camps. Well written showing why the Nazi system failed in its bureaucratic and time wasting procedures in mountains of paper work. And of cause the backlash in their methods just more reasons why they had to be defeated.

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Man of the Year 1942

Regards, Richard

Hello gentlemen,

Just got in:
- Ace Eagle Hasse Wind, The finnish Air Force at War, 1939-1944 by Seppo Porvali, 2004
- The Chianti Raiders, The Extraordinary Story of the Italian Air Force in The Battle of Britain, by Peter Haining, 2005
- In the Skies of Europe, Air forces allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945,by Hans Werner Neulen, 2000
- Doomed at the Start, American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942, by William Bartsch,1992
- December 8, 1941, MacArthur's Pearl Harbour, by William Bartsch, 2003

All 4 are magnificent books, and with some searching I got them for a nice price.

Regards,

Hollywood Fats

Some half-way through Maser´s Hitler book, a Finnish version though:

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Seven Roads To Hell: A Screaming Eagle At Bastogne Byonald R. Burgett

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"Semper Fi"

hy boys
i havent bee at forum for a long long time i see things didnt change las few days i am reading a hans helmut kirst novel night of generalsn veri interesting book i recomend it to everybody

I was going through soem old threads and found a post by Martin about:

"Invasion - They're coming" by Paul Carell and my library was able to get it.

It is a german account of the landings at normandy and the following 80 days. As Martin had mentioned, he was in the SS so it is a little biased, but not bad.

I've read the frist three chapters and it's REALLY good, he's an exciting writer, it keeps you very interested.

Good book Greek. Did you read "Currahee" and "The Road to Arnhem?" Burgett's other two books. There is also "Beyond the Rhine" after "Seven Roads to Hell." That is good as well.

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Chris Goss's Sea Eagles volume 1. some very interesting bits on convoy vs anti-shipping Luftw a/c, bios on some fo the leading Luftw personalities

good so far

No I haven't but I just checked this out from the library and saw his other books and I am planning to once I take this book back to pick them up.

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"Semper Fi"

The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan

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I just bought and read Die Dag In September by Hendrika van der Vlist. I don't know if the book came out in English, but Battle of Arnhem enthousiast will recognize the name. The translated title would be somethinig like That Day In September. Hendrika's parents owned the Schoonoord Hotel which was turned into a field hospital during the battle. Hendrika was a nurse there and the book is about her experiences during and after the battle. It is a long time ago that I read a book of 182 pages in a couple of hours. It is a diary in which all her impressions are written down. It was very interesting to read about what is going on inside a field hospital during the battle. That is all the book is about. What happens outside is not talked about. What struck me was her description of how the Germans and British treated eachother...in general. It seems that between the walls of Schhonoord (and no doubt the other hospitals too) there was a compeletely different attitude than outside. Not surprising though....

Hebdrika's diary was, before being published in its own right in 1974, used by Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too far and Lt. Col. Boeree's book about Arnhem.

Now cross referencing with Red Berets and Red Crosses!

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"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

A while ago finished Fania Fenelon´s "the girl orchestra of Auschwitz". Excellent book. My "favourite" of all the concentration camp books so far.

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I'm enjoying The Last Battle thoroughly so far. How are the rest of Ryan's books?

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I enjoy reading Cornelius Ryan. Keep in mind that he's more journalist than 'serious' historian ( his books can be criticised for shallowness and focussing more on making a good story than good history.. ).

But he was early in the field and interviewed many veterans when their memories were fresh. You won't be disappointed either by 'The Longest Day' or 'A Bridge Too Far'.

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

Splendid

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Cornelius Ryan, did a good job with that trilogy of books well worth reading, I think he wrote those books back in the 1960's not bad for the time. I think they were the first books I read on the western front.

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Man of the Year 1942

Regards, Richard

Hello gentlemen,

I found his 'Bridge too far ' somewhat dissapointing. I don't want to take any credit from allied performance but I found his book very, very biassed. Kept asking myself while reading the book 'how the h.. did they manage to lose this battle ".

Regards,
Hollywood Fats

Himmler's Secret War: The Covert Peace Negotiations of Heinrich Himmler

Martin Allen

I suppose one must be rather careful with these kinds of books with "new evidence" but hopefully find something interesting and not all "ufo findings"...

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I'm reading two kind of different books.
One of them is "Hitler's U-Boat War" by Clay Blair, this is very big book (about 1.500 pages) but it gives you another point of view about this very long battle (Battle of the Atlantic), it's very interesting.
The other is "The Confessor" by Daniel Silva, this is about the paper of The Vatican during the Holocaust. I've just started it.

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