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April 16th, 2004, 08:38 PM
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Yes, it is. It is called "Burning Hitler's Black Gold". I have sent you a PM.
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Just started reading Peter Padfield´s Himmler yesterday, already read the first 100 pages so I guess it´s kinda interesting although he´s dealing alot of psychological factors etc which in my view belong to psychiatric books better.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...559983-6008737
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just finished "day of infamy" by walter lord. i was really suprised about the casual attitude lord potrays in this book. there's a lot of joking around and laughing while japanese bombs are being dropped and ships are being destroyed. anybody else have an opinion on this?
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Half way through "Ploesti;the Great Air-Ground Battle". Excellent book so far. And some brave pilots. 
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We've had a warm, sunny Saturday ( ! ) so spent the afternoon in the garden reading 'The Greatest Squadron Of Them All - 603 Squadron Volume 1 ' by Ross/Blanche/Simpson. This was the squadron immortalised in Richard Hillary's classic book 'The Last Enemy' and reading the - literally - blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Britain is totally absorbing.
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At least you got to see the sun Martin i was stood behind a grill cooking, 400 degree, I was hot!! I'm reading a few bits by John Terraine, most notably 'The Right of the Line' and 'The Smoke and the Fire'
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April 29th, 2004, 12:11 PM
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April 29th, 2004, 04:58 PM
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Agree with you there, OTF. Jackson has written books on otherwise neglected areas of WW2 ( ie aerial fighting in the Battle of France, early Bomber Command campaign, etc ) but to me, they lack something. Just not very satisfying to read, for some reason.
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April 29th, 2004, 07:17 PM
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Unless I am totally whacked out which would not be surprising..............
are there any decent tales of RAF bomber command vs German night fighters written by RAF personell ? We have covered other books in the past but true personal acct's are pretty rare.
Martin go check out a direct question for you in the British forums on the MC forums if you would please....
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April 30th, 2004, 07:49 AM
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Just finished again.... the Collins and Lapierre book " Is Paris burning?".
Very nice details on military action on both sides+ the resistance action in Paris+ normal citizens´ reaction.
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April 30th, 2004, 10:54 AM
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I would definetly agree with you Martin that his books lack something of the intensity displayed in Bridge Too Far, Flyboys or even D-day. It is information but seems jumbled and just put together quickly. 
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The Long Range Desert Group, by WB Kennedy-Shaw.
Originally published in the '50s, this is a first-hand account of the group's formation and activities.
Always said the real-life derring-do was more interesting than the fictional stuff.
Would also recommend The Filibusters, a record of the commando operations (forget the author), and These Men are Dangerous by ? Harrison, an account of the SAS in Normandy after D-Day.I need valium handy just reading the latter!
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April 30th, 2004, 08:20 PM
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Finished "Ploesti:The Great Ground-Air Battle". It's an excellent read even if you're not into air warfare. B-24s flying at tree top level dueling with flak gunners,flak-trains and Me-109s. Not to mention "haystacks"opening up to revel disguised flak-guns.Good book!
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Replying a little late to Erich's query - one of the best accounts of bomber gunner-vs- Nachtjagd action is a very long chapter in Tom Bennett's book '617 Squadron - The Dambusters At War' detailing in dramatic fashion the actions of Tom McLean DFM, one of the wars' highest-scoring Lancaster gunners.
Bennett was himself a veteran of 617 ; the book, published by PSL in 1986, is something of a misnomer as it deals with 617's post-Dams operations.
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I am currently reading a book about the Warshaw uprising in 1944. What a brutal fight! The Dirlewanger and Kaminske guys were extremely bad. It's a small book, badly translated but packed with photographs.
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A YANK IN BOMBER COMMAND - By Robert S. Raymond, after he volunteered for the Ambulance Corps, he spent some weeks in France during the Blitzkrieg. Made his way to Lisbon together with about 200 other US volunteers. Most went back to the States. Raymond went to England and joined the RAF.
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"The world crisis 1911-1918" Volume I by Sir Winston S. Churchill. Magnificent read!
"In Stahlgewittern" (Iron Tempests) by Ernst Jünger. Good, detailed WWI reading, but "All quiet in the Western front" is much, much better.
Just finished "La Dame aux Camélias" by Alexandre Dumas, fils. What a tragic book! It's depressing!
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'The World Crisis' is one of my favourite books ever, Friedrich !
Obviously, it's a very biased account written purely from his point of view, but at all times you feel as if you're in the presence of the 'real' Churchill. No ghost-writers or word-processors...
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I would say All quiet on the Western Front is the best war novel by far. The way Remarque depicts war and the sounds and feelings is just something relatable and that brings you into the picture. Amazing read, I agree with you Friedrich
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Still reading the "enormous" Himmler biography...
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Indeed, Martin! It's awesome. Even if it's one of the most British-biased books I've read...  But as you say, you're listening to the real Churchill speaking, his words and rethoric!  Not to mention that his writing is indeed, a Nobel-prize-level writing. That helps a lot.
But even if it's biased. His particular points of view are quite realistic and what he writes is accurate to a some extent —and he says it in the preface, "it will not in the essentials be overturned by the historians of the future".
Also, it was impressive to get to know how deep Winston was involved in the Dreadnought competition and in the development of naval design!
But there's one problem... I've got the first volume only... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img] Does any one have an extra-copy? [img]tongue.gif[/img] I refuse to read it in Spanish! [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
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I forgot...
OTF, I completely agree with you. It might be the greatest novel about war of the XX century. Not of History, because where would you leave Lev Tolstói's "War and Peace"?
Did you know that Erich Maria Remarque was very, very near to winning the Nobel Prize of Literature in 192... something —I don't remember the year right now— after the releasing of "All Quiet in the Western Front"?
But Nobel Prizes are not awarded by just one book, but for a whole outstanding literary career...
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And Winston Churchill receievd one in the early fifties for his contribution to historical literature.
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