book recomendations

hey everyone
I LOVE reading about and researching WWII. I have read many WWII books. I am currently reading DDay by Stephen Ambrosse but I'm looking for another. The ones I would like to read are fictional/historical WWII books like when the author is one of the soldiers or somthing like that. I dont like reading about the generals. Any suggestions???
Thanks!
-Josh

 

Well ww2 started in 1939 and ended in 1945 thats 6 years and a lot topics to cover which area of ww2 are you intrested in, then we can help suggest a little reading material

 

Well I am very interested in DDay and the Normandy invasion. Mostly the U.S. beaches(omaha and Utah). any fictional novels on normandy? Or nonfiction?

 

Surprised you want fiction tbh, especially with all the incredible stories which an author would have trouble matching. However I think Charles Whiting might deliver something, he wrote both, and was a veteran as well. Full list of his books here;
Charles Whiting

 

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I agree - Charles Whiting is very good for fiction.....

 

yea i looked him up but is there any fiction on DDay? Like the beaches. All i could find from him were stuff like bastogne and battle of the buldge. good books im sure but not really what im looking for.
thanks for the help!

 

A new book out called The meltin' Pot has been reccommened on Rob Morris's untold valor sight. I bought it from Amazon and it is a very memorable read. The story centres around a teenager who sailed out in 1942 to rescue an american aircrew from the plane The meltin' Pot. The pilot was Captain william curt melton who passed last year. Over 100 photos.

 

hey guys thanks again for all the recomendations. I think im gonna go pick up "WWII: A Day By Day History" by Peter Darman. Anyone read it before?

 

The Struggle for Europe
By Chester Wilmot

D-Day
by Warren Tute, John Costello, Terry Hughes
Forward By Lord Mountbatten

 

Josh-Pick up Currahee! by Donald R. Burgett (ISBN:0-440-2360304) it's a first person account of D-Day and is the first in a series of books by the same author which follows through to the end of the war in Europe. You won't be able to put it down, it's excellent! Ambrose wrote the Foreward to the book and states that this is, 'without qualification' the best book he's red.

 

You could try Irving's history of the D-day. He's an exciting writer and an original researcher (doesn't rely too heavily on secondary and tertiary sources or stuff that everyone already knows).

You can download it for free (and legally) here:

David Irving - The War Between the Generals

 

Ooooo no nooooo. AVOID anything byIrving like you would avoid visiting places that have a Plague epidemic!!! Even his so-called non-fictional works--are works of FICTION.

 

He doesn't use as many references as I would like (the flaw of historians in general), but can you name any specific fictions he uses, fictions so significant that he should be avoided? (I haven't really read much of his stuff yet.)

 

David Irving's work was discredited in the now-infamous 'Irving v. Penguin Books' case at the British High Court. As it would have been impossible to comb through his entire output of books, Penguin secured the services of historian Richard J Evans as expert witness. He and his team chose to dissect Irving's first-ever book, 'The Destruction Of Dresden' and showed that Irving had been very selective with his research in order to support his thesis ( in this case, the Dresden casualty figures ).

Thus, Irving's books cannot be trusted . It's a pity, because he has in the past done great research - it's just that the reader cannot be sure if the results of that research have been ignored or slightly twisted to fit the authors views.

I'd highly recommend the book 'Telling Lies About Hitler' by Evans for the complete story of Irving's fall from grace......

 

I find the amazing true stories of the Normandy landings far better than anything anyone could make up in the farthest reaches of their imagination. A great deal of what happened on that day are awe inspiring, hard to believe, and jaw-dropping. Just my two cents.

 

im reading dday by ambrose now and later im gonna read citzen soldiers. almost everything stated in ambroses books is sited and i love how he writes. thanks again for all the opinions...any more good books on the beach landings at normandy?(no airborne...ive read a lot of airborne)
-Josh

 

Taking Irvings books seriously is like saying that Enemy At the Gates was a true story. Meaning of course-a sniper duel that never took place. Also, if im not believed-try contating Author Jason Mark--about this. He's very approachable, and KNOWS Stalingrad history.

 

Try the Aberdeen Bookstore website-that guy has a great selection of books in any areas of interest. I just hit him today for three books that are already VERY hard to get. Also-he gives each purchase a 10% discount from shelf price.

Oh and-as another plug for his shop-he has over 500 or so titles dealing with the War on the Eastern Front-minus the three I just bought from him today.

 

hey thanks for the website...I looked but all i could find were soviet books. I mean cmon are there really NO books on the U.S. landing on Omaha beach????? PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you!
-Josh