Thanks very much guys! Your remarks definately made me put the book on top of the To Read list...

However, the last few days were very exciting for me in terms of on-going research. After years of looking for information on S/Sgt Barker of the 8th Combat Camera Unit (thread about this was unfortunately KIA), in my January 11, 1944 research, and finding ZILCH on the man or his unit, the last few days I found my mailbox being avalanched with mails with information from (family of) veterans from the unit and those who knew S/Sgt Barker.

The Jan.11 reserach has taken a flight the last few months and I am going to concentrate on that for the time being.

WHOHOO!

An (over-)excited Stevin

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Bad news about Burleigh's book: he mentions colonel Thorwalt being sent into Stalingrad to fight Zaitsev…

But I didn't expect a lot of accurate military information…

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Finishing "Diplomacy" by H. Kissinger and "Panzer Lehr Division" by Jean Claude Perrigault

Best Regards
Clausewitz

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Retreat!...Hell,we just get here!

Just started, and almost finished, Von Luck's 'Panzer Commander' A very good read finding hard to put down. I would rate it up there with Baron de Marbot's Memoirs of the Napoleonic Wars which, IMHO, is one of the best war memoirs out there.

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Ross' Military Modelling and Art

Hmmmm...

I like Von Lucks memoir but dont you find him a little too 'perfect'???

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"Watch that Fu*ker, he'll 'ave someones eye out!" King Harold at Hastings 1066.

A little. But it is a good read. He has a very conservative view on everything though.

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

Reading through Flaubert's "Madame Bovary". Very enjoyable classic book and Max Aub's "Exemplary Crimes" —very, very funny reading.

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Moving away from Friedrich's highbrow stuff ( ) I'm quite enjoying Dilip Sarkar's 'Bader's Tangmere Spitfires - The Untold Story 1941' .

Although he does great research I can find Mr S a little self-aggrandizing ; but this book offers good insights into Fighter Command's 'Leaning Into France' period which is overshadowed by the BofB.

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Just picked up a very interesting book in my local book shop.

The sword and The Cross by Fergus Fleming about Colonial France and Algeria, its about two French explorers of the time 1890-1910 and how they conqured the Sahara, Henri Larerrine and Viscounte Charles de Foucauld, two very different men. Very intereting read can't put it down. Anyone else read this book. Its a cracker!

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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

Just finishing a book on "Red Orchestra" on the Russian spy network in Nazi Germany.

Finished a book on the peace negotiations between USSR and Finland in Sept 1944. Molotov was definitely a total ***hole.

At the moment reading a book called "The Gretchen Army" on women´s behaviour and the code Himmler gave them in nazi Germany.

Next going to read "Erich Hartmann; German Fighter Ace; Schiffer Military Histor". Has a great deal of pics from childhood to old age.

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Deffinatly not WW2, i'm currently reading Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome.

I did pick up a copy of Speer's Inside the Third Reich a few weeks back, anyone got any comments on that.

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Currently reading John Terraine's To Win a War; 1918 - The Year of Victory, having recently finished The Right of the Line by the same.

Having finished those two, I've now dashed through Heinz Knoke's I Flew for the Fuhrer and have nearly finished John Golley's Day of the Typhoon.

Have just finished reading the Osprey series for the Great War: "The Eastern Front 1914-1918" and "The Western Front 1914-1916". VERY, VERY good tittles. I like them much more detailed, but these two were great. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Now I'm looking forward to purchase all the Osprey tittles I can get my hands on, which I found in a comic shop around here.

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Osprey titles are generally good, but some of them strike me as being overpriced. I expect they would be a bargain if I could find them somewhere second hand.

I recently read a two-part alternate WWII history: Fox on the Rhine and Fox on the Front. The premise is that the July 20th conspiracy succeeds in killing Hitler, but is outmaneuvered by Himmler, who seizes power. The first book was very well-done, but the second was a disappointment.

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"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." - William Faulkner

I just finished 'Flags of Our Father' and loved it. I have, not very long ago, also read 'Flyboys' and couldn't put the book down after I started it. According to what I have read in different sources and reviews, Flyboys is a highly accurate account of the airmen.

Right now I am making my way through the 39 volume Time Life WWII series...currently on "The Air War in Europe" This is a great series. Very interesting reading and lots of great pics.

Wayne

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Just ordered SS Hitlerjugend by Rupert Butler. It is part of the hardcover series put out by MBI and Casemate. There are now 5 books in the SS series that I know of- Liebstandarte, Das Reich, Totenkopf, Wiking and now Hitlerjugend. Someone else in the Forum told me that they had some trouble putting Polezi together. Does anyone know if that one is out yet, any others? [img]graemlins/panzer.gif[/img]

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I'm about finished with The Forgotten Soldier (for school) thank Christ and have next to read Eye Deep In Hell and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young (also for school). I certainly hope that We Were Soldiers... is a lot better than the movie- it was so terrible that I walked out in the middle of it!

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Just reading 'victims of Yalta' by Nicholai Tolstoy, half heartedly because it isn't that good. I am only reading it until I get given something serious to read by university.

So, does anyone want Ian Kershaws phone number? I was given it yesterday!

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Now reading Richard Holmes' study of the men of the British Army 1914-1918; Tommy

am going to be reding the kagero booklet 421st nfs and see if they have followed the history of the unit closely. have a couple of vet friends that served in it. Received my copy from England this afternoon. Also their latest kagero magazine full of pics but alas in Polish...........sniff

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Just finished actually a book on WW1 Barrie Pitt´s "1918 the last act" which was quite good in my opinion.

Starting to read a book by Luftwaffe ace Julius Meimberg on his memoirs ( just released in Finnish ). Next a book on Russian front 1944 the German AGC collapse Paul Adair "Hitler´s greatest defeat".

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