What are you reading at the moment?

Am about to start the second stage of my China tour:

"The World's First SWAT Team: W. E. Fairbairn and the Shanghai Municipal Police Reserve Unit", by Leroy Thompson

 

I am researching "The Upper North Street School Poplar London" This school was bombed on 13 June 1917 with the lose of 18 Children 16 of which were aged between 4-6 years old, have found that one of the descendants has wrote a book about this event.
In the next two weeks will be receiving the book called "The First Blitz" by Andrew P Hyde.
Can't wait.

 

Currently reading Peter Thompson's 'Pacific Fury'.

 

Preparing a BFtour to the Huertgen Forest next November:

http://www.amazon.com/Zerschossene-Heimat-Grenadier-Regiments-Gressenich-Schevenh%C3%BCtte-Hamich-J%C3%BCngersdorf/dp/B00HLQD1RK/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444684541&sr=1-2&keywords=Zerschossene+Heimat

http://www.amazon.com/H%C3%B6he-554-H-J%C3%BCrgen-Siebertz/dp/3869330368/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444684636&sr=1-1&keywords=H%C3%B6he+554

http://www.amazon.com/Siegfried-Line-Campaing-European-Operations/dp/0794837697/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444684669&sr=1-1&keywords=Siegfried+Line+Campaign

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Huertgen-Forest-Charles-MacDonald/dp/0812218310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444684741&sr=1-1&keywords=Battle+for+the+Huertgen+Forest+MacDonald

http://www.amazon.com/Eight-Stars-Victory-Infantry-Divisional/dp/0898393191/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444684785&sr=1-1&keywords=Ninth+US+INfantry+Division

http://www.amazon.com/Hell-H%C3%BCrtgen-Forest-American-Infantry/dp/0700611282/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444684865&sr=1-3&keywords=Hell+in+the+Huertgen+Forest

 

Don't forget 'Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp'...
http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Beyond-Their-Grasp-Volks-Grenadier/dp/0977756327/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444732408&sr=1-2&keywords=victory+was+beyond+their+grasp

 

Thanks Hucks216.

I haven't read the book on 272 VGD myself, but from the bookreviews I saw that it was not very well received.

Anyway, I will 'do' the September battles in the Hürtgen Forest area. The 272 VGD arrived later in the area.

Focus will be on the operations of the 9th US Infantry Division (Stolberg Corridor, with Schevenhütte (47th Inf); Lammersdorf/Paustenbach (39th Inf); Höfen/Alzen ridge (60th Inf); and finally the operations inside the forest along the Weisser Weh Creek/Todtenbruch (60th Inf).

 

Two excellent books:
1) River Assault. Operation Duck: 3rd Canadian Division's attach on Leer April 1945 (ISBN987-1-927679-11-1)
2) The Storm Boat Kings. The 23rd R.C.E at Arnhem 1944.( ISBN978-1-55125-103-5)

I had the opportunity to meet the author, John Sliz last week as a follow up to the thread initiated by Stolpi.
He has produced two detailed accounts of little known action involving Canadian troops. One to assist the British in the evacuation at Arnhem and the other to attack Leer, Germany.

Well done, John.

 

Hitlers holy relic's by Sidney Kirkpatrick

 

I have just started reading 'Armoured Horseman - With The Bays and Eighth Army in North Africa and Italy' by Peter Willet (Pen & Sword) [http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Armoured-Horseman-Hardback/p/10733]

 

I'm about to begin 'Distinctly I Remember', by Harold Braund. A tale of Burma, from both work and then WW2 service in Special Forces. Been meaning to purchase this book for a good few years now, last month it appeared on Amazon for a decent price and so I finally acquired it. Bound to serve up some Chindit 1 connections I'm certain.

 

Starting to read 'Victory in Italy - 15th Army Group's Final Campaign 1945' by Richard Doherty, Pen & Sword (2015) http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Victory-in-Italy-Hardback/p/7942

 

Distinctly I Remember, by Harold Braund. Worked for Steels Bro. in Burma, joining the Chin Levies during WW2.

 

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

 

'Last Stand in Singapore-The Story of 488 Squadron RNZAF; by Graham Clayton.

 

I recently picked up some bargains at a British Red Cross shop in Cheltenham.

7 Dec 1941 - The day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour by Gordon W Prance
The Kamikazes by Edwin P Hoyt
Dicky Blood's War by- Geoff Blore (about a child evacuee)
Men of Air - The Doomed Youth of Bomber Command by Kevin Wilson
When the Children came home by Julie Summers (about child evacuees)

Cleared the bookcases at home today of around 20 Fiction books and donated them to the same place (because of lack of space) and came back with another 3.

The Last Escape (Allied POW's in Germany) by John Nicholl & Tony Renell
George Cross Heroes by Michael Ashcroft
Freedom's Battle - Volume 2, The War in the Air 1939-45 by Gavin Lyall

5 Hardbacks and 3 Paperbacks for £15. Really good value.

 

Flags of our Fathers, by James Bradley and Ron Powers - so far, so very good.

Edit: - finished. And I must say, excellent and very moving read.

 

A Higher Call by Adam Makos

Well written. The story of the damaged B-17 piloted by Charlie Brown and how he was spared by Me 109 pilot Franz Stigler over France. The two later connected long after the war. .

 

Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper

by Jody Mitic
Simon & Schuster

A twenty-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, Jody Mitic served as a Master Corporal and Sniper Team Leader on three active tours of duty over the course of seven years in Afghanistan.