What are you reading at the moment?

German grave registration forms, want to compile a list of the MG casualties, lot of work, but it keeps you off the street

 

Once and awhile there also have to be some research to be done,as their is still some room in one the closets

 

I have been reading band of brothers

 

Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55, by N.W.Routledge.

Really well written. I just got it out in order to read about AA defense in the Far East; but I enjoyed it so much I have read the whole thing! The demands met for AA command throughout the whole war from every theatre was incredible.

Recommended.

Millsy

 

Technically not reading but just won on ebay:

"Agents Extraordinary" Stowers Johnson


"This book tells the true adventures of the young British parachutists who by invading Bulgaria led the German High Command to pour anti-invasion forces into South Serbia and to move the Hungarian Army of Occupation into the Central Balkans, thus aiding both D Day in Normandy and the Red Army in the East."

Does anybody know anything about this operation?

And does wikipedia count as valid reading material - I keep returning to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_involved_in_World_War_II

 

I am reading Forgotten Voices of the Second World War really good to hear it from the people who fought not just a history

 

One man's justice - Akira Yoshimura.

 

Sharpe's Battle

 

Focus on Courage, The 59 Victoria Crosses of The Royal Green Jackets.
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A really well researched book.

 

[By Hugh Levinson
Producer, BBC Radio 4's The Long Walk
An epic story of human endurance is being challenged. Did wartime prisoners really walk from Siberia to India?]


That reminds me of another great and probably authentic story Beasts, Men and Gods by F. Ossendowski. The novel, a description of his travels during the Russian Civil War.

 

This week, I will be mostly reading; "Shake Hands With the devil" by Lt Gen Romeo Dallaire" Commander of the UN Forces in Rwanda!

Belated question: what did youi think of the book? I thought it was very well written and scathing in it's analysis of all the parties involved. But I've yetto meet anyone else who's read it, so I'd be interested in your opinion.

 

POW Allied prisoners in Europe 1939-1945 by Adrian Gilbert.
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Tenth Man Down - Chris Ryan

 

Dick Winters' Beyond Band of Brothers

 

got all these for christmas and i'm reading them all now

An Illustrated History of World War II: Crisis and Courage: Humanity on the Brink


Flags of our Fathers


Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship