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Samlind · 19-07-2006, 04:48 AM

Lessee, in the last 3 months...

The Imperial Japanese Navy by Paul Dull - pretty interesting, lots of detail, but, Shattered Sword, The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Johnathon Parshall and Anthony Tully just blows everything else away. Besides blowing up a pile of myths about the battle, they show Yamamoto to be.... well not a genius. These guys make a lot of PhD's look like monkeys.

Also, Sweet Pea at War, by William Thomas Generous, the operational and battle history of the USS Portland, an Indianapolis class heavy cruiser. Interesting ship, survived 7 Japanese topedo hits (and if you know anything about Japanese torpedoes.... but really most of them were duds. Lucky ship.)

Also Dick Winters war and aftermath biography - Biggest Brother by Larry Alexander. Dick Winters you may remember as Lt./Capt./Major Winters in 'Band of Brothers". This is his say, not Stephen E. Ambrose's.

In the middle of Silent Warriors by Lance Q Zedrick. This is the story of the Alamo Scouts, the predecessor to today's Spec Ops and Recon units. 106 missions behind Japanese lines, never lost a man.

This year is "Pacific Theater" year for me. I'm also slowly working my way through the US Army's Hyperwar (http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/) treatment of the Okinawa campaign. A very nasty piece of business indeed.

19-07-2006, 04:48 AM	#10 (permalink)
Samlind Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6	Re: What are you reading? Lessee, in the last 3 months... The Imperial Japanese Navy by Paul Dull - pretty interesting, lots of detail, but, Shattered Sword, The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Johnathon Parshall and Anthony Tully just blows everything else away. Besides blowing up a pile of myths about the battle, they show Yamamoto to be.... well not a genius. These guys make a lot of PhD's look like monkeys. Also, Sweet Pea at War, by William Thomas Generous, the operational and battle history of the USS Portland, an Indianapolis class heavy cruiser. Interesting ship, survived 7 Japanese topedo hits (and if you know anything about Japanese torpedoes.... but really most of them were duds. Lucky ship.) Also Dick Winters war and aftermath biography - Biggest Brother by Larry Alexander. Dick Winters you may remember as Lt./Capt./Major Winters in 'Band of Brothers". This is his say, not Stephen E. Ambrose's. In the middle of Silent Warriors by Lance Q Zedrick. This is the story of the Alamo Scouts, the predecessor to today's Spec Ops and Recon units. 106 missions behind Japanese lines, never lost a man. This year is "Pacific Theater" year for me. I'm also slowly working my way through the US Army's Hyperwar (http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/) treatment of the Okinawa campaign. A very nasty piece of business indeed.