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20-04-2008, 08:40 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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 | A present from my girlfriend, just started 'The Hitler Book'. 'The Hitler Book' is from a secret dossier prepared for Stalin. From interviews over the course of two years of two of Hitler's closest aides.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE agent Andree Borrel killed at Natzweiler 6th July 1944.  |
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21-04-2008, 08:44 AM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Reading a back issue of ATB (issue 104) that arrived last week, bit of background info for summer holiday. Look out for more Then & Nows from me later this year. THE BATTLE FOR COLOGNE - Karel Margry tells the story of the battle for this great and historic city on the Rhine  |
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21-04-2008, 09:23 AM
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| I Like Tanks.   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders, An Intimate History of Damage and Denial. - Stephan Lebert.  Odd & slim book, more of an essay based on interviews his father did with the subjects in 1959 & follow-ups to those interviews in the last years of the 20th century. An almost prurient glimpse into the minds of people who's fathers were monsters, with much reflection on Germany's modern state of mind regarding the Nazis. The book's something of a mirror of itself as the very fascination of finding more on Wolf-Rudiger Hess & Gudrun Himmler's bitterness, Nicklaus Frank's Hatred, Martin Bormann Jr's work as a priest/missionary & Edda Goering's apparently still respected position in a way just adds to the burden these people carry. Worth a shufti, if only for an afternoon's read & some interesting anecdotes. Cheers, Adam
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21-04-2008, 09:49 AM
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| Vejovis   Join Date: Feb 2004
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| Currently reading "Ieper, Mei 1940" (based on the diary of burgemeester Jan Van der Ghote) by Hubert Ronse de Craene. Not bad, if a little basic in parts. However, one massive plus point is the inclusion of a map that I was in desperate need of! Dave
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21-04-2008, 09:55 AM
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| Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Dave, would that be in Dutch or English version? First 66 pages of the book can be read here, Ieper, Mei 1940 | Vuurwacht in Dutch. Last edited by Owen; 21-04-2008 at 10:03 AM. |
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21-04-2008, 10:26 AM
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| In Dutch, Owen (as far as I know there isn't an English version). I see that the on-line book finishes just before the interesting and important bit! Typical! Dave
__________________ In memory of 1440313 Gnr.Michael O'Mara, 155th Bty, 52nd (East Lancs) L.A.A.Regt (TA) R.A. - severely wounded near Arras in May 1940 and who took nearly 21 years to eventually die of his injuries. website: http://pathsofglory.co.uk |
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21-04-2008, 07:58 PM
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| Partisan   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cheshire, England
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| I'm now halfway through Ivan's war, too busy reading to be on here much. Life is busy right now. Finding the book a fascinating read though, very engaging and a different perspective, but very anti-Soviet at the same time. I really do want to move onto Russian veterans' accounts of the GPW though. Any recommendations?
__________________  The Motherland, bent over her daughter's ashes, Sings this tender maternal song About Zoya, the girl, who has become a legend, Who died and was born for eternal life. Dimitri Shostakovich Song for Zoya (1944) The War in the East |
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23-04-2008, 10:34 PM
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| Cheers, Owen, I've added them to my wish list on Amazon! I've actually started reading a book about Queen Katherine of Aragon ~ another period of history altogether! 
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