What are you reading at the moment?

[Kiwiwriter]

Originally Posted by Cpl Rootes

Some exallent books that i have read are:
The forgotten voices of the Second World War and The forgotten voices of the Great war. They are really good because they tell the stories of the people who lived and fought in WW1 and WW2

I have the book on WW2, but not on WW1.

Still plowing through Richard Evans, but with temperatures at 106F in Newark, I broke out David Howarth's "Sledge Patrol," about the German weather stations in Greenland and how Danes defeated them. Nice cool reading on a hot day.

[morse1001]

Originally Posted by Cpl Rootes

Some exallent books that i have read are:
The forgotten voices of the Second World War and The forgotten voices of the Great war. They are really good because they tell the stories of the people who lived and fought in WW1 and WW2

I have the one on WW1 and there is also one on the forgotten voices of the holocaust as well.

[VonLuck]

Just got the brand new book called "The Jew with the Iron Cross" by Georg Rauch. Its the memoirs of an Austrian soldier with Jewish ancestry being drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front. It promises to be a very good read and the personality of the writer is first class. Hard to get since its a iUniverse published book but well worth the effort in my opinion.
Before that I'd just read "Sniper in the Eastern Front" by Sepp Allerberger. This is without a doubt the most raw set of memoirs I've ever read. Parts of it are so strong they are hard to get through. Very good book but no for the faint of heart.

[wright61]

The Fall of France
The nazi Invasion of 1940
By Julian Jackson

[Kitty]

Originally Posted by morse1001

I have the one on WW1 and there is also one on the forgotten voices of the holocaust as well.

Of which I saw all three today, along with a similar one from the Home Front.
Just about to start on a local history book of the Peak District at war (bought primarily for the 617 and air crash chapters), another on the development of night fighter squadrons and a wonderful book on the best air battles of WW2 written by Jonny Johnson and Laddy Lucas. Add to that at least another half dozen waiting to be read and I have a lot to cram in before back at uni.

[von Poop]

Originally Posted by mosquito617

Of which I saw all three today, along with a similar one from the Home Front.
Just about to start on a local history book of the Peak District at war (bought primarily for the 617 and air crash chapters), another on the development of night fighter squadrons and a wonderful book on the best air battles of WW2 written by Jonny Johnson and Laddy Lucas. Add to that at least another half dozen waiting to be read and I have a lot to cram in before back at uni.

Have you trekked up to any of these aircrash sites Mossie? My dad took us to one in Wales when we were kids and though I couldn't say what the aircraft was I've never quite forgotten the debris and memorial.

[lancesergeant]

Armageddon by Max Hastings.

[Kitty]

Originally Posted by Von Poop

Have you trekked up to any of these aircrash sites Mossie? My dad took us to one in Wales when we were kids and though I couldn't say what the aircraft was I've never quite forgotten the debris and memorial.

Been to a few Von T, but not many. There are 40 within a 10 mile radius alone, and as some of the others further out are miles into exposed moorland I am not that silly. I am just not good enough with a map and compass to risk it.

[lancesergeant]

Can anyone recommend some good books on the Eastern Front, from the soldier's perspective. Only one that springs to mind is The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sayer. Can anyone recommend the ww1 book by Ernst Junger about life in the trenches.

[Samlind]

Originally Posted by spidge

Many people do not realise how nasty the Pacific theatre was! Mud, Rain, Disease, Heat, Slaughter..........................

The Aussies on the Kokoda Trail. Stuff of legends.