What are you reading?

[Owen]

Just about to finish "Diary of a Desert Rat" by RL Crimp.
First read it about 24 years ago.
Got it on eBay for 50p.
Just recieved Chris Johnson's book 14th Army's Box of Lion's.
http://www.e-pao.net/epSubPageExtrac...y_Box_of_Lions
Look forward to that, Full of Veterans stories, photos and many maps, including Japanese ones.Looks good. Will report more in due course.

[Stephen White]

I have just finished reading for about the 10th/11th time "I flew for the Fuhrer" by Heinz Knoke a Luftwaffe fighter pilot. I first bought it for about 10p at a jumble sale many many years ago. I have recently bought a brand new copy has it has been re-issued/published by Cassell Military Paperbacks.

Superb read and should prove to be and interesting comparison to Fighter Pilot by Paul Ritchie a Battle of Britain fighter pilot.

Stephen

[DMcNay]

Just finished "The Most Dangerous Enemy" by Stephen Bungay. Great book on the Battle of Britain. Debunked a couple of myths, but told the story well at the same time. I'd recommend it.

[Axis Trooper]

I am finishing, for the third time "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".

Absolutely incredible book, I love it.


- A.T

[von Poop]

Chieftain. By Rob Griffin.
Excellent, though not as good as Conqueror by the same author.

[Erich]

JG 300 volume 1 by Lorant and Goyat, I know the translator and the two of us have our own web-site .......

E ~

Just finished Pegasus Bridge by Stephen Ambrose.

Just starting Inside Hitlers Bunker by Joachim fest, dont expect to find anything new but I like to read everyones perspective on the last days.

I then have the unwritten order by Peter Longerich to read after

[Onaway417]

I have Pegasus Bridge also. Good book.
I am currently reading "The Plot Against America," by Phillip Roth.
It is an alternate history novel with the premise that Charles Lindburgh defeats FDR in '40 and starts a "Jewidh Solution" kind of thing.
Pretty interesting.

[J_McAllister]

Reading "Pinochet in Piccadilly" by Andy Beckett. It deals with Pinochet's close ties with Britain.
I'm through the first half of it and so far it reads as an extensive travelogue of Chile. Hoping for a big finish!

[Samlind]

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.