What are you reading at the moment?

Hi Warlord, what's Malta Convoy like? Worth the money do you think?

 

Just finished Nella Last's Peace. Should have read the first book before this but it was still a well written account of life in the late 40s when rationing and shortages were still making life difficult.

 

IMHO, yes, mate. With the right balance between personal accounts and general research, it does the trick as a very readable and enlightening story.

Add this to the fact that I got the mass market paperback edition for about a penny, and it can be said that I consider myself well served

 

Been into "The Air War for Malta: The Diaries of a Spitifire Pilot", by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, since Friday.

 

I'm not sure if I've posted this earlier
"Not I" by Joachim Fest - translated recently from german.
A partial autobiography by a german catholic who grew up in the '30s, was forced to join the german army and was imprisoned by the americans.
A very thoughtful book which covers the conflicts of pro and contra nazism within Germany before during and after the war.

 

I'm about to start reading 'The Road to Kabul' by Brian Robson. The History of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

 

Well into Human Game the search for the men behind the murder of the great escape 50.
Excellent book well worth reading gives plenty of details as to how they found the culprits
and the number who committed suicide be whilst in custody

 

just finished "monte cassino" by david hapgood and david richardson and am now reading "silence on monte sole" by jack olsen and im just on my way to collect 4 more books i ordered from the library about the italian campaign . i must say that the essex libraries have an excellent collection of ww2 books to choose from .
cheers
dave

 

Just began "Operation Husky", by Mark Zuehlke

 

just finished "silence on monte sole" which was a very sad book to read , my next one lined up is "a hard way to make a war" the allied campaign in italy in ww2 by ian gooderson . on a different note i visited a couple of charity shops today and bought "nothing less than victory" the oral history of d-day by russell miller for the princely sum of £1 and then i got "the war illustrated" vol7 no 175 from 3rd march 1944 for the princely sum of 75p. :biggrin:

 

Have just finished 'Flights Of Passage' by Samuel Hynes. If you have seen Ken Burns doco 'The War' you will know who he is, I enjoyed the book but he seemed rather arrogant in being an officer and didn't think much of enlisted men. Have just started 'Spitfire into Battle' by Duncan Smith.

 

On vacation this week and with some time to tackle the 900 pages of The Regeneration Trilogy, by Pat Barker. Absolutely excellent.

Anyone with an interest in the subject of shell shock is well advised to give this a look.

 

Again on the related-subject basis, have been reading "On Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two", by John Carr, and "Fighters over the Aegean: Hurricanes over Crete, Spitfires over Kos, Beaufighters over the Aegean 1943 - 44", by Brian Cull, since two days ago.

Have to find ways to deal with the reading backlog, you know... :biggrin:

 

"Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" by Peter Harmsen.

 

Excellent choice, mate!

 

I finished first two chapters and so far it's a great reading.

 

Well, that's very good news; I had great expectations for that volume. It's already on my shelf, but will be read in the long-term (reading backlog, you know :wink.

 

I'm enjoying 'Jocks in the Jungle' on my birthday Kindle.

 

Bristol Blenheim, the Yugoslav Story, an operational record 1937-1958

publishers website here: http://www.leadenskybooks.com/

Excellent research, great pictures and profiles. Covers British Blenheims active over Yugoslavia as well as other users of Ikarus Blenheims like Finland and Roumania

 

Recently purchased Bruce Gamble's Rabaul Trilogy 'Invasion Rabaul', 'Fortress Rabaul' and 'Target Rabaul'. Have finished Invasion Rabaul and currently half way through Fortress Rabaul.