What do you read at the moment?

Richard Hargreaves · Post by **Richard Hargreaves** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:03 am

Fourteen Minutes by James Croall - the story of the loss of the Empress of Ireland in 1914. It's up there with Titanic for loss of lives and yet hardly anyone's heard of it. It capsized in 14 minutes, hence the name of the book.

Annelie · Post by **Annelie** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:51 am

The 12th SS

The Hisotry of the Hitler Youth
Panzer Division: Volume Two

Hubert Meyer.

Imad · Post by **Imad** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:02 pm

Annelie wrote:The 12th SS

The Hisotry of the Hitler Youth
Panzer Division: Volume Two

Hubert Meyer.

Good divisional history there Annelie. Right now I'm on "A History of Blitzkrieg" by Bryan Perrett.

sturm und drang · Post by **sturm und drang** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:57 am

Just finished "Sette rubli per il cappellano", WWII eastern front, written by a military chaplain. The final fight of Btg Saluzzo, Alpini, at the end of January 1943 and the years of prisony.
Now I'm started with "Last Laurel, the German defence of Upper Silesia", by Georg Gunter.

Lexxx · Post by **Lexxx** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:50 am

Leningrad Under Siege by Adamovich & Granin
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Montefiore
Hill 112: Cornerstone of the Normandy Campaign by How

and some of you are going to laugh (or cry) at this last one, but I couldn't resist when I accidently came across the anthology on Amazon:

Commando: The Dirty Dozen - The Best 12 Commando Comic Books Ever! This took me way back to the early 70s when my interest for military history was just beginning and my fortune consisted of 10p pocket money. The stories are juvenile, but perfect for igniting passions within a young boy that have consumed me as an adult.

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:58 am

"Operation Sealion" by Peter Fleming.

Lexxx - what are the twelve titles in the anthology???

Me, I preferred the rival War Picture Library! Less..."fantastic"?...than the Commando stories, and the artwork was sometimes better. They released Summer School Hols anthologies of four or five old titles right up into the early '80s.

Lexxx · Post by **Lexxx** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:47 am

After learning of the Commando Anthology, I also found the War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library Anthologies as well. There are 6 anthologies total.

Commando: The Dirty Dozen
Commando: All Guns Blazing
Commando: True Brit
Commando: Anzacs at War
Battle Picture Library: Death or Glory
War Picture Library: Unleash Hell

None appear to be available on the U.S. Amazon site. You have to go to Amazon U.K.

They are certainly a good read down nostalgia lane -- now if someone would just reprint my favorite stories from Battle and Battle Action for Boys, my life will have come full circle and be complete.

Imad · Post by **Imad** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:48 am

"World War II in the Mediterranean" by Carlo D'Este

Jan-Hendrik · Post by **Jan-Hendrik** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:14 am

Hans-Otto Wachter ...und nur für das!...about SS-Kavallerie in its raising from the SS-TK-Reiterregimenter to the SS-Kavalleriedivision

Contains some of the best Kavallerie pictures I have ever seen!

Jan-Hendrik

cuileann · Post by **cuileann** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:31 pm

I am reading two books at the moment

Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments by Henrich Graf Von Einsiedel & Joachim Wieder

Brandenburg Divison: Commandos of the Reich (special operations) by
Eric Lefevre

and have just finished

The Forsaken Army by Heinrich Gerlach

cuileann

ericv · Post by **ericv** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:50 pm

started reading "Hirschberger Jäger" an excellent regimental history!

Stephan H. · Post by **Stephan H.** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:44 am

cuileann wrote: Brandenburg Divison: Commandos of the Reich (special operations) by
Eric Lefevre
cuileann

I'd like to know if the above book is any good as I always thought about buying a copy myself.

I just finished Giles MacDonogh's After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation and it was one of the most gut-wrenching books I ever read about a little known topic.

To shift gears, I am now reading Yaroslav Trofimov's The Siege of Mecca: The forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda--alrihgt it isn't WWII related, but I needed a change of pace

Stephan

cuileann · Post by **cuileann** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:18 am

Stephan

I am mid way through the Brandenburg book so far I've found it really interesting, it details their success and also their failures, the author has done his research well, the book isn't a complete start to finish history of the division I believe there is a book called The Brandenburgrs by Franz Kurowski which shows that. I think this books so far is a must read.

I have just ordered After the Reich was you have along with a book called A Mind in prison: The memoir of a son and soldier of the Third Reich by Bruno Manz.

cuileann

Brendan Hunt · Post by **Brendan Hunt** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:47 am

"A Stranger to Myself" by Willy Peter Reese.

Annelie · Post by **Annelie** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:07 pm

Just finnished

"voices From The Third Reich" an oral history
by

Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel and Dennis Showalter.

Several recollections confirm what Gerhard spoke of
several times especially his experience as an POW.

Feldgrau.net

What do you read at the moment?

Books

Old Boys Comics