Thought this would be interesting!

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Facta non verba. "Deeds, not words"

Well...Stephen Ambrose should be on the list.

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I think you are going to catch some flak over Ambrose around here Mussolini. He has a bit of a reputation of a borrower, but the fact that he is responsible for the creation of the Band of Brothers TV series makes him OK in my books.

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"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." Socrates

OK, I'll go with ( in no particular order ) :-

Martin Middlebrook

Roger A Freeman

Charles B MacDonald

John Sweetman

'Paul Carell' ( controversial, I know ; but one of my favourites nonetheless... )

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

Stephen Ambrose
Kenneth Mackey MC
Raymond Lamont-Brown

3 is good enough

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"GARRY OWEN"-Traditional war-cry of the US 7th Cavalry.
"CURRAHEE"-War-cry of the US 506th PIR.
"Everybody thinks that they are going to get the chance to punch some Nazi in the face at Normandy-and those days are over, they are long gone"-Lt Chris Burnett

Second thoughts on my list : -

Delete John Sweetman ( relegated to top 10... )

Insert Richard Overy......

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MAN...I thought I would get more replies than this?? Hmmm..

I thought there there were some hardcore readers here?

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Facta non verba. "Deeds, not words"

Maybe it's true - 'the book is dead' - and the internet rules...?

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Well, I buy most of my books on the Internet, but before that I made intense use of mail order.

The most obvious for me are at random:

- David Glantz
- Ian Kershaw
- John Erickson
- John Keegan
- David Fletcher
- Albert Seaton
- Richard Pipes on the USSR in general
- etc

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Bah!

Edward Jablonski
Winston Churchill
Janusz Piekalkiewicz
Wolfgang Schneider
Jack Coggins
von Senger und Etterlin
Belton Cooper
Gavan Daws
Anthony Preston
Stephen Ambrose as well

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"Danger Will Robinson!"

Hello gentlemen,

In random order:
- Christer Bergstrom
- Martin Middlebrook
- Charles B MacDonald
- Jesus Salas Larrazabal ( on SCW air war )
- Peter Hart

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Tomorrow is ours !!

Edward Ellsburg
Williamson Murray
Trevor Dupuy
Charles MacDonald
Brian Perrett

My 3 favourite authors on aerial warfare are:

Christopher Shores
Brian Cull
Norman Franks

And for general history:
Antony Beevor
Norman Davies

and I have to include Gordon Corrigan just because I like the way he stirs things up (even though his WW1 books are better).

Max Hastings.
John Keegan.
David Fletcher.
George Forty.
Walter Spielberger.
JP Pallud.
Terry Gander.
Jentz/Doyle/Chamberlain/Ellis.. kind of blur into one for me.

Whoops, that's more than 5, best stop there, not easy though is it.

Cheers,
Adam.

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"Wars cannot be fought with dream stuff" - Sir Percy Hobart.

Mine:

George Robert Elford.
Anthony Beevor.
Mitcham.
Walther-Peer Fellgiebel.
Franz Kurowski.

List is always subject to change from time-to-time.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Steve Darlow (St leu, V1 sites etc..)
J. B. Frappé (Luftwaffe in France)
E. Mombeek (Luftwaffe expert)
W.R Chorley (Bomber Command losses)
Paul Carell (D-Day from German point of view)

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so, what is the opinion around here of Donald Miller (Masters of the Air, The Story of WW2, D-Days in the Pacific)?

Most of my reading comes in the form of someone, reading the book to me in the form of "audiobooks".

I chose my books by topic, content, and reader reviews and ratings.

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Take the Point!

Martin

You surprise me. Missing from your list are:

Chorley : RAF Bomber Command Losses
Tavender : DFM Register for WWII

but I guess these are more reference material? and they are not counted?

Robin www.156Squadron

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Ahhh...but this thread's for 'Authors' so books of reference are excluded. I think that with an author, one is also inevitably getting an insight into that person's character/opinions.....

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From Cambridge dictionary:
author
noun [C]
1 the writer of a book, article, play, etc:
He is the author of two books on French history.

2 FORMAL a person who begins or creates something:
She's the author of the company's recent success/of all our troubles.

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Interesting sample sentence "He is the author of two books on French history."
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I rest my case.

Robin www.156Squadron

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Dang ! Then I'd also have to include Guy Gibson twice, author of the success of the Dams Raid and Author of 'Enemy Coast Ahead'.....

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I have no favorite authors as I choose books on cost and write ups or recommendations. Authors have different styles from by heck I just can not put this book down to help this is so hard going.

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Regards, Richard