Books that need publishing.

Why don't you get started on one?

 

A well-researched book on the NW Europe campaign that offers sensible opinions on the performance of 21 Army Group without once mentioning its C-in-C's personality, "caution", or "tea-making"!

Something along the lines of the recent books about the British Army in WW1 such as "Command and Control on the Western Front" ed. Gary Sheffield and Dan Todman which was a real eye-opner and to be recommended.

Regards

Tom

 

Glad I am not the only one to find the forum search function a bit......er....'hit and miss'.

Re LCTs there is a book being written about the early operations in Egypt/Greece/Crete which will include brief details of the development of the vessels.

It would be a shame not to write another detailing the design process and development - we have enough info about it.
Problems are:
1. Have I got the time to write it?
2. Will it sell?

 

1) Only you can decide
2) No, but that's no reason not to do it.

All the best

Andreas

 

Adam, I could help but notice that you fluffed over this suggestion.

Whatsamatter, you sceered?

 

1. Make time. I have lost a lot of sleep over the years researching and writing my books.
2. Who knows.

Every project I work on has to be of great interest to me because of the amount of work involved. I have a passing interest in a lot of topics that have been posted here and I would probably read a book on them if they were published. However, researching and writing one of them? Not going to happen.

 

The Lawnmowers of RAF Battle of Britain airfields.

 

Illustrated version would be even better!!

I've a soft spot for that thread.

 

As a grass cutter myself, I'd also purchase this title.

 

Coincidentally, I recently missed out on acquiring this medal at auction:

 

Secret War Production in the UK? Firms adapted to all sorts of clandestine malarkey

 

Resurrecting this thread as I've seen a topic pop up yet again on another forum concerning German logistics and the Desert War and how it was doable and blah blah blah. Creveld is still the go to in English for a lot of the logistical arguments on the Desert War.The subject is touched on in many of the books on the campaign but when you look at the footnotes Supplying War/Creveld is the reference.
This article is only available in German: Reinhard Stumpf, “Probleme der logistik im Afrikafeldzug 1941–1943,” contained in Vorträge zur Militärgeschichte 7. Die Bedeutung der Logistik für die militärische Führung von der Antike bis in die neueste Zeit but is probably the best look at German logistics in the theatre.
So I really believe there's a room for an indepth book in English looking at the logistics of the Desert War. It's a central factor for the campaign, is the subject of a lot of tenuous what ifs and half truths and could use a good thorough updated debunking study.

 

Something decent on Monte Cassino from a German perspective, please.

 

Something decent in English text regarding the French at Cassino would do. I know of a book that's going for about a score, the only thing is, its in that foreign language. Sugar, it would take some translating.

At school in the 1980's, we never did much on any languages.

 

I'd be happy to read a French account, too.

 

I guess this subject qualifies but one is getting published - a book focusing on tanks set to the USSR under lend-lease. I was asking about this on a modeling forum and Steve Zaloga has written something which will be published by Osprey in June. But this will apparently be the first English-language book on the subject?!

 

I would read this if it was in English. I am pretty sure that there has been a Polish version of Cassino in English, right?

 

On another forum here have been trying to find out if there were any books written about people who managed to avoid or evade conscription in the UK.No one has yet come up with any, so another subject for the list.