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wilcongr yes I have both of D. Williams nachtjäger books. i was unimpressed and with the mistakes therein the books sit on the shelves and that is about it. 2 pics I think on the Fw 189 used by NJG 100 which was a worthless machine, and it was used more for recon work once it was found that not even this slo-mo machine could stay with the twin winged bi-plane Soviet pilots. It really did not matter as in later 44 when NJG 100 had the Ju 88G-6, just a couple of rounds would vapourize the bi-planes

 

I am very disapointed in Wiki...

Once I thought you knew it all
You had what I was needing
Turns our that you blew it all
Really most of it was misleading

I think I will stick to books
No matter how many I need
Aviod getting those crazy looks
Good bye to copy and paste.

I guess that it is alot like a paper encyclopdia, except the paper ones mean that someone got paid to BS in a book.

 

Halfway through...

"With Geronimo across Europe" by Edward O´Brien

A dramatic and humorous account of a paratrooper medic in the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment during WWII.

A great book...!!

 

Louis Allens Burma the longest war 1941-45

almost finished it, what a great book packed with information.

 

Devil's Own Luck - Denis Edwards

Proving to be a very quick read the second time through.

 

some pdf files sent to me by US P-51 vets for their first person accts going to be done up in a new book of mine ............. soon

 

Hello gentlemen,

The Tank Killers, A History of America's World War II Tank Destroyer Force, by Harry Yeide, Casemate, 2004. A magnificent book !

Regards,
I-16 Rata

 

Robert Leckie - Helmet for My Pillow. Superbly written account by an ex Marine of his experiences on Guadalcanal, New Britain and Peleliu. The latter in particular is a superb short account of this terrible island battle. (Short becuase he was soon wounded!). There's also a great account of leave in Melbourne. One of the Pacific War's classic accounts, along with Eugene Sledge's 'With the Old Breed'.

Paul

 

Nuremberg Interviews - Leon Goldensohn, a shrink who interviewed the accused and a number of witnesses. Very very interesting, to me most especially the witnesses, like Bach-Zelewski, Franz Halder, Sepp Dietrich, Kesselring, von Kleist, Schellenberg, etc.

 

Some new books....

Jean-Paul Pallud Rückmarsch

Amazon.co.uk: Ruckmarsch Then and Now: The German Retreat from Normandy: Books: Jean-Paul Pallud

German Combat Engineers in WW Two/Riebenstahl

Panzer Grenadier, Motorcycle&Panzer-Recce Units/Scheibert

German Motorized Artillery and Panzer Artillery/Fleischer

 

"Ju 52 in Action" and another on Ju 52 specs. Gotta love the old 'Tante Ju'.

 

Hello. I just found this forum, and am surprised I had not run across it before. This looks like a great place, and am looking forward to posting/reading here.

I am reading the following books concurrently:

The Hinge of Fate, by Winston Churchill
I am reading the whole set, of course.

The Business of War, by Major-General Sir John Kennedy
This book is proving to be an interesting counter-point to Churchill's memoirs. Kennedy was director of Military Operations on the British army staff for most of the war. He seems to be involved in a bit more political intrigue than might be right, but I guess that you probably need something in addition to competence to reach high command...

War Plan Orange, The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945, by Edward S. Miller
Among this book's many shinning parts, I am particularly interested where military appraisals meet world political realities.

 

I am currently reading "The Trail Of The Fox" about Erwin Rommel. I have just started it about 100 pages so far. I really like it. Anyone else read it?

 

We're risking sailing into the choppy waters of controversy here because 'Trail Of The Fox' is written by David Irving ( the officially-disgraced historian ).

Now, although this title wasn't cited in his notorious court case, the problem is that all his work has been tainted by accusations of bias and unreliability.

However, in my own opinion, Trail Of The Fox is quite a good book - certainly a very readable one, and doesn't really focus on extreme Nazism , the Holocaust or alleged Allied 'war crimes' which are of course the 'danger zones' where Irving is concerned.

So , my advice FWIW is to read and enjoy the book - and I'd also recommend the book 'Knights Cross' by David Fraser which was written later and is presently regarded as the definitive Rommel biography.

 

i am re-reading nazi prisoners of war in america not sure of the author....just the title.........very interesting book

 

just finished volume 2 of JG 300 by Lorant/Goyat and translated in wonderful fashion by our member Falkeeins.

also going through some US 8th AF 364th fg vet reports along with the 355th that engaged JG 301. The US 78th fg next and then the 353rd fg

E ~

 

Shopping in a small supermarket in Crete , while on holidays in Greece, I came accross a 2007 Greek edition (in English ) of "ill met by Monnlight, the abduction of General Kreipe" by W. Stanley Moss. It's the fascination story of the kidnapping of the German commander of Crete in 1944 by an Anglo-Cretan elite commando and a huge hunt through the island until he could be evacuated by sea to Egypt. It almost ended up in the mass murdering of the civilan population. I visited some of the places mentionned (to a certain extend as the wife and the children prefered the beach)

 

..thank you very much Erich...

been a while since I read it through from start to finish..but some of the accounts of the hard-fought December 44/January 45 air battles were quite vivid I thought...

and while I'm here...

Richard Hargreaves 'The Germans in Normandy' (Pen & Sword)

 

By coincidence I'm reading that one right at this minute

It's more 'popular' than 'serious' history ( ie there is no original research/interviews, etc ) but the author/compiler has trawled through an enormous number of accounts ( many only published in German ) to create a first-person view of the Normandy campaign from the German POV.

I think he's succeeded quite well and it is certainly a compelling book to read.....and the huge bibliography will no doubt compel me to further spending....