Just got done with Beevor's Battle of Berlin. A much better and detailed read than Ryan's book.

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Youve sold me...Ive been wandering for ages whether to buy Beevors, thought Ryans was terrific so if as good even better than that one I'll part with my money then. Tks

Read Beevor's book last year, an excellent account of the Battle of Berlin it is Ike. Haven't read Ryan's book so can't comment on that one, but find it hard to imagine that there's a more thorough and detailed book than Anthony Beevor's. A must have.

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When I finally get to Heaven, to St. Peter I will tell, "Another Marine reporting sir, I've served my time in Hell".

Urqh,have you read Stalingrad or Crete? im in the middle of Stalingrad as well as four or so other books and Beevor as i have said before is a very good read and I keep meaing to pick up his Crete book.

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WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM OF US AND SAY, FOR YOUR TOMORROW,WE GAVE OUR TODAY. Epitaph on the Kohima memorial .

I've read his Stalingrad and yep an epic. His Crete is on my bookcase waiting for hospital bed to read it in...Saving that one. But will get the Berlin one to, the problem is with Beevor, that you cant put him down when you pick him up.

One other he did which is brilliant too. Is his British army book. He was amrour himself at one time and wrote this after going back to his old regiment on a visit. Gave a good history and present status of army in 90's. A good read for anyone interested in British army traditions and why it does what it does.

Finished "Beyond Band of Brothers" by Major Richard Winters today...great book , adds a lot to Stephen Ambrose's "Band of Brothers"

I'm finishing "Citizen Soldier" , also by Ambrose, tommorow.

Anyone have any reccomendations for a new book? Anything I could get at Barnes and Nobles...I was thinking "All is Quiet on the Western Front".

I am currently reading Touched With Fire by Eric Bergerud. I find it an interesting treatment of the technical, tactical and environmental issues regarding the war in the South Pacific during 1941-43. Does anyone know about any other books like this for other theatres. I like the non-narrative technique that deals with specific topics, I find it rather refreshing. Armageddon and Nemesis by Max Hastings were also excellent works in the same vein.

First this:

Amazon.com: Messerschmitt Me 262: Arrow to the Future (Schiffer Military/Aviation History): Walter J. Boyne: Books

and then this

Amazon.com: Eagle's Wings: The Autobiography of a Luftwaffe Pilot: Hajo Herrmann, Peter Hinchiffe: Books

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I'm reading "Visions From A Foxhole" by W.A. Foley jr. It's not that common that you read a book when a man sees combat his first day on the frontline! He'd already taken place in a deadly attack before page 30! Very intense reading, great stuff!

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Took a short break from my book to read this one from the Osprey Fortress series No.77

The Stalin and Molotov Lines
Soviet Western Defences 1928-41

Some good photos of the remaining bunkers and pillboxes, the Germans had some little difficulties in the south with them but nothing major during there invasion. According to the book the Soviets were the first to use turrets on some of there installations that of a T26 turret.

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I am English and proud of it...Europe dose not need a another State, nuts to the EU.

Doctor Danger Forward By Allen N. Towne

I'm still reading the usuals during the bathroom visits, Civil War Times, Military History, and Playboy Special Editions (pictures only, no words).

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On the Plains of Hesitation
lies the blackend bones of countless millions
who, at the dawn of victory sat down to rest,
and resting died....
(author unknown-I wish it was me)

Looking forward to the post man bring me:

Glanz "After Stalingrad"

Kevin Fish "Panzer Regiment 8"

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Some back issues of National Geographic that I picked up at a used book riot over the past three days. Currently on the October 1999 issue which contains an article about an expedition to the wreck of the Japanese sub I-52.

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Ah! The postman hath already brought to me this past week Out Of The Clouds, history of 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, The First Battalion Of The 28th Marines On Iwo Jima, The Banzai Hunters, and War Bush, 81 West African Divison In Burma 1943-1945.

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WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM OF US AND SAY, FOR YOUR TOMORROW,WE GAVE OUR TODAY. Epitaph on the Kohima memorial .

if anyone is interested in long OOP titles in German. some classics are listed on this link

Actuell und Antique - Antiquarische Bücher

enjoy a long look through

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Clash of the Carriers by Barrett Tillman. It's the story of the Marianas carrier battle. Well written, not like a text book, and detailed.

Alter Hase,
That's quite a listing of books you posted above. Quite a variety of subjects too. I even have half a dozen or so of the listed books, such as 08/15, "It snows in September", Plevier's Stalingrad, and others. (Some actually are (translated) in(to) Dutch and/or English.)
Thanks for the link!

National Geographic, April 1999 issue about the discovery of the USS Yorktown.

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Today I purchased:

"The Last 100 Days" by John Toland

"We Who Are Alive And Remain" by Marcus Brotherton

My aunt passed away recently. Just before she died she passed on to me two books my Grandfather: Thomas Wilson Lawlor owned.
"In Flanders Fields The 1917 Campaign" by Leon Wolff; and
"No Mans Land" by John Toland.

They are filled throughout with highlighted passages and heartbreaking little comments like "I was there."

None of my relatives and family friends who took part in WW1 and 2 ever spoke a word about their experience. It was not until weeks before my aunt passed away that I learned for the first time that my grandfather had fought through most of WW1 with the 196th University Battalion in the Canadian Machine Gun Corps in France. I knew life with my grandmother had been turbulent. I never knew why. Night after night he would wake up screaming and would, at times, find himself strangling her, thinking it was the enemy tumbling into the trenches.

So far I have been able to trace that he fought in the Somme 1916;
then in 1917:
Lens - circa June 1917
The Third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele, also known as the 1917 Flanders Offensive); (The Slough of Despond) based out of St Julien;
the November 5th final attack on Passchendaele;
1918:
the Messines and Cambrai offensive;
the March 23d 1918 German Marne offensive;
the last great German offensive in July; and the
Aug 8th Somme Offensive

Unbelievable. I never knew.

As a young law student at the University of Alberta, he and his entire class were volunteered by the Dean without any consultation. His entire class fought as one group under the command of their law professor. Towards the end of his ground war service, he was sent as a message carrier back to the command center. Just after leaving the trenches a large bomb landed in their trenches and pretty much wiped out his entire class. He stopped in the trenches to convey a last message home for one of his best friends who had suffered a massive abdominal wound, for which he could have been court marshaled.

Shortly thereafter he was transferred to flight school and was sent to the Egypt for further flight training. His most pleasant memory of the war was weekend duty as guardsman for Lawrence of Arabia, who he thought very highly of.

After the war he took up law practice in Grande Prairie Alberta and during WW2 in addition to duties throughout as Mayor of the city, was in charge of legal affairs regarding international transport of American goods to Russia through Alberta and the Yukon. (One of his unpleasant duties was dealing with looters who would raid sidelined rail cars.) I am now also in possession of a pair of cuff links with the Russian Coat of Arms, given to him and all those like him by the Russian Government to who thus served the war effort. (If I can figure out how to scan it, I'll post a photo.)

Finding Aid

Salute Grandpa Lawlor. I never knew.
- I have to tell you old boy, this is one tough, tough read - page after page after page, one horrifying passage after another... only now comprehending all you went through,

Posted by: Frederick Thomas Lawlor Wilson
- named after my two grandfathers Fred Wilson and Thomas Lawlor,
and unbenownst to them, also for Fred Sutherland of the Dambusters (another wonderful man who will not, because he can not, talk about his experience in the war. It just brings back too many nightmares.
- Though you can share a few moments with him on History Channel's episodes focusing on Bomber Command. Watch for it. Its worth every moment.)

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Stepson of Arthur Ellison Sovereign:
RCAF Navigator: Lancasters and Wellingtons,
Bomber Command, WW2

Named after Fred Sutherland of the Dambusters.

Almost forgot. Also just finished Glantz´s Kharkov 1942. Excellent book! ( and only 280 pages... )

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'Masters of Battle' by Terry Brighton, a comparative study of Patton/Monty & Rommel. Was quite enjoying it, but then went back to Irving's 'Trail of the Fox' and spotted the bits that had been 'lifted' (shall we say)...

This:
http://http://www.amazon.com/Secret-.../dp/1585742864
Before reading this book, I thought the fake rat David Niven planted in The Guns of Navarone was typical hollywood nonsense. Well, I was wrong.

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