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September 14th, 2004, 04:08 PM
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Welcome back, David!  Hope you don't abandon us again! [img]redface.gif[/img]
A soldier's story? From WWII? I could recommend you "Goodbye Darkness" by William Manchester, but it's a Pacific theatre USMC memoir… 
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Just finished GREEN EGGS AND HAM- but then who really gives a damn?!?!?!?!?! [img]graemlins/dr.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/dr.gif[/img]
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Forgot to mention:
I've been reading "Stupid White Men" and "Hey, dude, what have they done to my country?" in your honour, Wilconqr. 
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I just picked an older book (1979 copyright) in my favorite secondhand bookstore that I had never seen before. The name of the book is Yankee Samurai: The Secret Role of the Nisei in America's Pacific Victory by Joseph Harrington. I figure that I will get to this book within the next 2 weeks as I want to finish the one I'm currently reading first. I'll report back on the book upon my completion.
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September 15th, 2004, 03:01 AM
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I just picked an older book (1979 copyright) in my favorite secondhand bookstore that I had never seen before. The name of the book is Yankee Samurai: The Secret Role of the Nisei in America's Pacific Victory by Joseph Harrington. I figure that I will get to this book within the next 2 weeks as I want to finish the one I'm currently reading first. I'll report back on the book upon my completion.
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That sounds like an intriguing book Bill. I look forward to hearing what you think of it.
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Just finished Neillands 'Battle of Normandy. A good read but lots of editorial mistakes in it such as Hurricanes being used by the 2nd TAF!
Just started David Frasers 'And we Shall Shock Them'
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Herrmann, Hajo: Als die Jagd zu Ende war
..had to buy it as it also had Hajo´s signature on it....
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"The Hytler Myth" by Sir Ian Kershaw. Impressive and almost undebatable, as all the author's work…
"The Gethering Storm" by W. S. Churchill. I just love it, reading and re-reading it. The only History book with Nobel-Prize linguistic appeal and the only History book with Great-Statesman rethorics. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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September 27th, 2004, 10:14 PM
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Drug up an old copy of "Cross of Iron" - saw the movie but the book tops it - very well written and engaging - recommended.
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Just finishing "Moscow Tram Stop" Heinrich Haape 1957 copy.
Story of the Barbarossa campaign beginning and the first winter by a doctor. Most interesting especially from my view point.
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That is a very, very scarce book indeed, Kai ! Took me years to find a copy. A unique memoir of the Eastern Front.
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Thanx Martin! You do find some rather odd books every now and then at second hand book stores but not many are really worth while.
This book did change one of my carved-in-stone images of the Barbarossa offensive. I had always thought for some reason that the furthest the Germans got was the tram stop. Like they got there for a second and were pushed back. Nope. The tram stop was there to visit for the troops as the doctor did with his assistant thinking that soon they would be able to take a tram all the way to Kreml...
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"Moscow Tram Stop" Heinrich Haape 1957 copy:
A few tricks from the book to keep your MG´s prepared for fight in minus 40 degrees Celsius:
1. Keep the MG gun in the oven of the enarby house and once the attack starts get the gun. When you shoot with it it keeps itself warm.
2. Pour some gasoline over the moving parts and set it on fire. After a while the weapon is ready for firing.
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I've just got my reading lists for the first year of my university course (War Studies and History at King's College London), so I've currently got:
John Keegan - Face of Battle
Laurence Freedman (ed.) - War
Martin van Creveld - The Transformation of War
Knox and Murray (ed.) - The Dynamics of Military Revolution
Michael Howard - War in European History
And a handful of others, but I'm mostly reading those above.
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Same as Wolves Uni list almost!
I hated Freedman... It was boring...
Keegans book is ok.
What modules have you got Greenjacket?
I only have to teach once next year and thats the trip to Normandy... 6 months to go! Yippee!!!
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October 2nd, 2004, 08:27 PM
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I'm taking units on the Conduct of War, the Experience of War, and two compulsory half units entitled the Art of War Studies (seems to be basically an introductory unit) and Contemporary Security Issues. I'm taking a fourth unit from the History department, Europe 1500-1800.
As for Keegan, I'm ploughing through it at a fair old lick, it's proving readable and straightforward if not particularly eye-opening.
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October 2nd, 2004, 08:28 PM
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About your trip to Normandy, with any luck the department should be taking a trip to Arnhem some time either this autumn or in the new year, looking forward to it.
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Excellent! Would be useful for my Masters on Airborne Effectiveness! Any spare places... Let me know!!!
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im reading "cassino: the hollow victory" by John Ellis, again, while i wait for "arnhem 1944: the airborne battle" by Martin Middlebrook to come (ive ordered it)
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October 3rd, 2004, 12:58 PM
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Figjam,
GEt yourself a copy of 'It Never Snows In September' by Robert Kershaw to read along with 'Arnhem 1944'. This gives the German account of Operation Market-Garden. Excellent book.
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ok, thanks mate!
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October 3rd, 2004, 09:15 PM
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Reading DRESDEN, Tuesday 13 February 1945, by Frederick Taylor.
So far a good book. Lots of myths laid to rest, but he doesn't give the Allies a 'free get out of jail card' over the raid either.
Also re-reading CONVOY, Drama in Arctic Waters by Paul Kemp.
Interesting book, amongst other things he points out that the Germans lost over twice the amount of men attacking the convoys than the allies suffered
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I want to get my hands on a copy of 'Dresden' at some point, it's always been an interesting raid.
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October 4th, 2004, 03:12 PM
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Right now reading 'The Price of Glory' by Alistair Horne. Amazing book!
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