Book Recommendations Wanted

I particularly enjoy reading about the common soldier in World War II and would like book recommendations on this subject from other forum members. What is your favorite book/memoir written by or about a WW II soldier?

 

I have recently enjoyed:
'Guns have Eyes' by Peter Ryder (alias)
and currently reading a selection of letters 'Some Letters and Other Writings of Donald Albert Duncan' a CANLOAN Lieutenant who was killed whilst serving in A Company, 4 Welch.

 

Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser

 

"Not all of us were brave" - Stan Scislowski - Perth regt 5th Canadian Armoured Division
Cheers

 

Are you wanting any specific nationality?

 

"Not all of us were brave" - Stan Scislowski - Perth regt 5th Canadian Armoured Division
Cheers


Mr. Canning:

A friend of my who serves with the PPCLI sent me a copy of NOT ALL OF US WERE BRAVE last year and I enjoyed it immensely. It's one of the best books I've read on the Canadian soldier of WW II.

Thanks for your recommendation.

 

Are you wanting any specific nationality?


Any nationality Jeff.

 

Scout -
If you think Stan's book was worth reading then you will understand why i think that everyone should read his article of his return to Cassino as this gives a great account of what went on there in those days to those who don't know the violence of war...

Return to Cassino

Cheers

 

Tom
Thanks for the recommendation.
A great read is Dunkirk Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, I also referred to some of Drews posts whilst reading the book they added further flesh to the bones

 

A couple that spring to mind

"The Guns of War" by George G. Blackburn ISBN 1-84119-210-4
Following a Canadian Artillery Regiment from D-Day to war's end

"The D-Days of Europe" by Sydney Earl Wright ISBN 0-7388-2581-6
An Assault Boater's Memoir

"The Forgotten Dead" by Ken Small ISBN 0-7475-0433-4
About the recovery of a Sherman tank lost during a German E Boat attack on US / British exercise Tiger.

"The Magic Army" by Leslie Thomas, sorry don't know the ISBN
If I recall it is mostly fictional based on US forces based in Devon prior to D-Day but lots of factual detail about the area and also covers Operation Tiger and the almost 950 lives lost. It has been a long time since I last read this though.

Cheers
Kevin

 

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'Beyond Band of Brothers', the memoirs of Major Richard 'Dick' Winters from Easy Company, 506th PIR, US 101st Airbourne.

'The Forgotten Highlander' by Alistair Urquhart, amazing story of survival as a Jap POW working on the death railway/ bridge over the River Kwai etc etc

 

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/book-reviews/36579-ultra-versus-u-boats.html

Kicking myself for not buying it months ago.

 

'Beyond Band of Brothers', the memoirs of Major Richard 'Dick' Winters from Easy Company, 506th PIR, US 101st Airbourne.

I agree. A great read. In the same genre, might I add Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster and Tonight We Die As Men by Ian Gardner and Roger Day.

 

"Because We Are Canadians" by Charles D. Kipp ISBN 1-55054-955-3
"Ghosts of Targets Past" by Philip Gray ISBN 1-904943-18-7
"And No Birds Sang" by Farley Mowat ISBN 1-55263-246-6

 

Have you read Once A Patricia by C. Sydney Frost ?
A superb book by a former PPCLI officer .

Roger that!
An excellent book.

 

Have you read Once A Patricia by C. Sydney Frost ?
A superb book by a former PPCLI officer .



Yes, ONCE A PATRICIA is another excellent book.

 

Here are a few other books on Canadians which I enjoyed:

LUCKY GUY: Memoir of a World War II Canadian Soldier by Tom Didmon.

DIEPPE AND BEYOND: For A Dollar And A Half A Day by John Patrick Grogan.

NEW BRUNSWICK HUSSAR by Harold Aage Skarrup.

 

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

A really well written and excellent book.

Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption