"The Unknown Battle of Midway"
Kernan

Interesting though more than a little shocking so far and only on p55.
Written by a veteran USN carrier crew support(not pilot) fellow in regards to equipment and weapons etc.

There are some new American revisionist authors now claiming we weren't lucky at Midway at all, nor was it a miracle and the Japanese didn't really have a chance at almost anything.

But this fellow's book seems to indicate that the USN was in more danger and covering up more things than I realized before, and I've been a ww2 fan for decades. Some interesting facts about ships, planes and their 'achilles heel's I've never read in other naval history books. So far so good.

I am currently reading "The Copper Scroll" by Joel C Rosenburg. Fiction based on biblical prophecies coming true. Almost mirroring what is happening today in the middle east.

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I am currently reading Jochen Peiper: Commander Panzerregiment Leibstandarte by Patrick Agte.

I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand I find it repulsive that the author defends Germany's attack on Russia. Also, he works very hard to distance Peiper from the Nazi party. That's rather hard to do considering his close association with Himmler. There are so many photos of Peiper with Himmler, Hitler and Borman it's difficult to conceive that he wasn't involved in some of the highest political circles.

On the other hand it is a great wartime journal with many firsthand accounts. The photos give a feel of a personal photo journal.

I haven't gotten to the end of the war yet. I'm sure there will be more disappointing political claptrap when I get into the war-crimes portion of the book. We'll see.

So far I give it a B-

Later!

Just started Panzer General, the Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck. Enjoying it so far...

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Over the weekend I picked up a copy (first edition and signed no less...although I didn't know it when I bought it in the shop!) of The Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies 1941- 1942 by Tom Womack.
One thing I found interesting right off was that the Doriner 24 seaplane was largely developed for Dutch use, not German, and that Germany's use was largely based on examples that were originally intended to go to the Dutch.

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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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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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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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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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.

When you finish Dick Winter's book, be sure and give us your opinion of it.

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Will do Slipdigit.

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)

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Does anyone have this book???


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.

what are some of the contradictions between the two?

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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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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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