What are you reading at the moment?

Got these in today, more reading:

Battle for Crete by John Spencer



Fortune Favours the Brave: The Battle of the Hook Korea 1952-53 by A J Baker

 

I'll be taking this to bed with me tonight:

Tigers at Dunkirk: The Leicestershire Regiment and the Fall of France by Matthew Richardson

 

Warpath: The story of the Algonquin regiment 1939-1945
Major G.L. Cassidy

Just arrived today. I finally found a decently priced copy as it has been out of print for years. Well written and an excellent description of the Algonquin campaigns.

 

Just began another two jobs about North Africa:

"Alamein, War Without Hate", by John Bierman and Colin Smith, and "The Valentine in North Africa, 1942-43", from the Armour in Action Series, by Bryan Perrett.

 

Tom Neil's Gun Button to Fire.

 

And its fabulous..

 

Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin" (2010).

 

Just a heads up for a book I have recently read.

'The man who broke into Auschwitz'

Written by Denis Avery (along with Bob Broomby of the BBC)

Avery was in 2nd battalion the Rifle Brigade after active service in Africa and capture by the Afrika Korp he ended up in Austchwitz 111 Buna-Monowitz a short distance from the killing factories of Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz-Birkenau...His experience is not to be missed. His life has truly been one of contrasts.

I promise you will have tears on your cheeks

Isbn...978-1-444-71416-6

Cover price £20 but you will no doubt find it cheaper

 

I've just finished reading Maj Gen Julian Thompson's Dunkirk: Retreat to Victory. Whilst there have been a few comments on the forum that were less than flattering, I found it an interesting read; although, I cannot vouch for the accuracy or otherwise - there are more erudite members than I on this forum who can do that. Maj Gen Thompson has few kind words to say about the French.

Roxy

 

On a break from military books and have gone for 'Rich' Melvyn Bragg's biography of Richard Burton.

Read it some years ago and enjoyed it immensely.

 

Finishing of a very good history of the Siege of Derry 1689 by Richard Doherty , I had set this aside for a time and am glad to pick it up again.
Also starting on "Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class"

 

by Brigadier Guy F Gough DSO and MC.

about the Royal Irish Fusiliers in France during May 1940.

 

Bought this book yesterday. Looks interesting with (among others) many details about river crossing of 51st HD (capture of Rees and fierce battles for Speldrop and Bienen), all accompanied by detailed maps.

http://www.google.nl/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://images.letsbuyit.co.uk/original/86/36/operation-plunder-and-varsity-the-british-and-canadian-rhine-crossing-battleground-europe-2553686.jpeg&sa=X&ei=fGDSTZyxJ8Ps-gaY3anOCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNGsOybOLw-aoCKqvtIwbvSwba5WJA

The region is almost in my backyard.... B)

 

"The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Postwar Europe" by Greg Behrman.

Should be required reading for all politicians and everyone at the IMF. If only someone had the vision now that they had back then.

[Although I'm very glad the US title of the book - "The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe" - was changed!!!]

 

Band of Brigands
The tank and its early days, great book recommended reading for all AFV lovers

 

Focke-Wulf Condor Scourge of the Atlantic

 

The Warrior Queens.
The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in WWII

By Daniel Allen Butler

This was a great read.


Fighter Pilot

By Christina Olds and Ed Rasimus

I didn't come away from this one with a positive view of Robin Olds.

 

CL1
Focke-Wulf Condor Scourge of the Atlantic

Pubglished back in the early 80's , a good read K. Poolman.

Currently finishing off " "Battleships of The Bismarck Class" ( Gerhard Koop and K-P Schmolke , published by Greenhill / N.I.P.).
In terms of what the book says about Bismarck , well it is a very, very, very poor account of Bismarck - photographic coverage quite good but the overall impression is still rather poor - the book is more about Tirpitz in terms of the combined approach of line drawings, photos and text - although all in all the format upon which this series has been founded does run out a little in this volume , the written text about Tirpitz is also very inadequate and anyone reading about either ship fore the first time would be buying a bad deal.
The size and format of the book just fails good photographs are rendered poor by the size and cost limitations of the project and even as an introduction to this "class" of ship this book comes up short.
( Perhaps a hard view but for me this volume within the format and restrictions of the production just does not work.)

 

Ok, I may be getting the wrong end of the stick but I'm reading:

The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason and D-Day - Antony Beevor.
One is a 'work' book, the other for bedtime.

 

About to begin (tonight) "An Army at Dawn", by Rick Atkinson.

Wish me luck, lads!