What Are You Reading?

Now I'm reading The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger for school over spring break. I finished it today and I thought it was a good read, although it was kinda depressing and I cant see how it got to be such a huge hit as it became bck in the '40s.

 

I am reading Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. AFter I finish I plan on reading the rest of the ww2 library books I have, Currahee, Steel Inferno, and A Blood Dimmed tide.

 

Just recieved by mail today from a great discount book company "The Luftwaffe: A History" By John Killen, "Kommando: German Special Forces of World War II" by James Lucas,"Hunters From The Sky:The German Parachute Corps,1940-45 " by Charles Whiting. These to replace copies I had lost over the years. And Osprey Men At Arms #238 "Foreign Volunteers of the Allied Forces 1939-45. All for 20 dollars .

 

One from the bargain basement a so-so book that had the odd bit of interesting info.

Hitler
Military Commander

By Rupert Matthews

 

Finished everything else, started:

The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brian

Ghost Soldiers
by Hampton Sides

Both are excellent so far.

As a FYI, I can be a rather multitaker when it comes to reading (even though I lack skill at multitaking at anything else, lol).

 

Next book:

Defending the Reich by David Littlejohn

In this work the author gives a history of the air war, year by year, and then introduces the reader to the active ground defenses...Flak, radar, searchlights, etc. The picture is completed with Littlejohns coverage of Germany's civil defense structure which included the Luftschutz, TeNo, Police and Fire Services, Werkfeuerwehr, Luftschutzpolizei, Fire Services (Youth), etc. All of the above organizations are richly illustrated in color and period photos, and show related uniforms, rank and specialty insignia, daggers, flags, medals, helmets...actually everything these organizations wore and used. Be prepared to see rare and unique uniform items in brilliant color, many never before identified.

Amazon.com: Defending the Reich: David Littlejohn: Books

 

Just started into both A.Beevor's "Stalingrad" and R. Frank's "Guadalcanal."

 

I got these from Amazon this week
Accidental Warrior: In the front line from Normandy to Victory by Geoffrey Picot
Stalingrad:Memories and Reassessments by Heinrich Graf Von Einsiedel & Joachim Wieder
A MInd in Prison: The Memoir of a son and soldier of the Third Reich by Bruno Manz
and finally
The Devil's Birthday:Bridges to Arnhem 1944 by Geoffrey Powell
56th Evac Hospital WWII by Lynne Collins

Just need to get my reading glasses fixed and I shall get started.

 

Just made an order for the brand new Thomas Fischer´s " Soldiers of Leibstandarte".

Notice: nearly 700 previously unpublished photos of the soldiers of the division, its leading personalities and their equipment and weapons.

Soldiers of the Leibstandarte :: JJ FEDOROWICZ BOOKS :: Landmark Military Books

 

Am about halfway into Admiral Halsey's Story by you guessed it William F. Halsey

When Amazon begins to deliver I plan on begining the list of books recommended by T. A. Gardner.

 

Flyboys, gut wrenching but accurate.

I just started the Battle of Kursk, this is for Slonik.

 

classic weapons series
the 88.the flack/pak 8.8.. chris ellis . peter chamberlain
just picked this one up a wile ago not one for reading much but this one looks very interesting .. best krieg

 

Yep, then think about all of the chance that goes into life everyday. CRAZY!

 

REINHARD HEYDRICH THE BIOGRAPHY: Volume one and two, Max Williams

BAYERLEIN: FROM AFRIKAKORPS TO PANZER LEHR, THE LIFE OF ROMMEL'S CHIEF-OF-STAFF GENERALLEUTNANT FRITZ BAYERLEIN by P.A. Spayd

 

..be interested to read your thoughts on this ... IMHO a forty year old text, full of errors I'm afraid...

 

..and for me, freshly arrived from the US, Martin Blumenson's The Battle Of The Generals, about the Falaise Pocket controversy.....

 

..BTW new Falaise title due from Pen & Sword at the end of month;

Falaise: The Flawed Victory by Anthony Tucker-Jones

".....The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes misunderstood. This compelling book gives a graphic account of the conflict and dispels the misconceptions that have arisen.

In this meticulously researched and perceptive study Anthony Tucker-Jones takes a broad view of the sequence of operations that culminated in the battle of Falaise, tracing the course of the campaign mainly from the German viewpoint. For two bloody months, following the D-Day landings, the Germans held the Allies at bay. But then they were blocked in at Falaise and the area became a killing ground. Yet was the event similar to Hitler’s defeat at Stalingrad, as some historians argue, or was victory flawed because so many German troops escaped?..."

 

This should be interesting:

Amazon.co.uk: Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich: Ulf Schmidt: Books