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re: Recommend a WWII book
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:32 pm to gorillacoco
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:32 pm to gorillacoco
Forgotten soldier is a great book!! 
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Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:33 pm to corndawg85
I like Ernie Pyle. Don't know if that's the kind of thing you're looking for.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:38 pm to corndawg85
I have read a bunch of them, this was my favorite. A very undertold story:
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:39 pm to corndawg85
Thanks for all the suggestions guys! Keep them coming all seem to be great reads.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:42 pm to 1234567VFL
quote:frick
Do not rely on mass media to get the real picture of ww2, read as many books from every side as you possible can.
Movies are some of the worst sources when it comes to objectivity
YOU
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:47 pm to Kafka
That looks like the Italians. I was talking about the French.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:48 pm to northshorebamaman
Downvoting Ernie Pyle. 
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:50 pm to corndawg85
Ghosts of Pearl Harbor (great account life on the islands before and after dec7th, and of Japan's prep, attack, & after....awesome read)
Himmler (frightening look into the mind of a maniac, the SS, and nazi influence at its worst)
I'll post more when I can remember them. I've been known to read with a good buzz
Himmler (frightening look into the mind of a maniac, the SS, and nazi influence at its worst)
I'll post more when I can remember them. I've been known to read with a good buzz
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:56 pm to northshorebamaman
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:02 pm to Kafka
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:06 pm to corndawg85
Also check out In Harm's Way, about the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis. Those men spending all that time in the water like that. Alternately awe inspiring and horrific.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:10 pm to Kafka
Rocky Gause
if you survive - george wilson
Two of the best I have read. You will not be disappointed.
if you survive - george wilson
Two of the best I have read. You will not be disappointed.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:13 pm to corndawg85
Agent zig zag
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:17 pm to corndawg85
War and Genocide
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Had to read these for a History of the Holocaust class I took in college. Ordinary Men is pretty hard to read. It's VERY graphic. The argument made is that the German people weren't some monstrous people and that "ordinary men" anywhere in the world are capable of doing horrible things if put in the right circumstances.
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Had to read these for a History of the Holocaust class I took in college. Ordinary Men is pretty hard to read. It's VERY graphic. The argument made is that the German people weren't some monstrous people and that "ordinary men" anywhere in the world are capable of doing horrible things if put in the right circumstances.
This post was edited on 1/27/15 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:21 pm to corndawg85
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:24 pm to corndawg85
Up Front
by Bill Mauldin
by Bill Mauldin
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:25 pm to soccerfüt
Unbroken
don't let the movie turn you off. There was so much more to the book it could've easily been made into a mini series like BoB.
don't let the movie turn you off. There was so much more to the book it could've easily been made into a mini series like BoB.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:25 pm to corndawg85
Brothers, Rivals, Victors -Jonathan Jordan. Great book talks about the "Big 3" Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton.
Helmet For My Pillow -Robert Leckie
Neptune's Inferno
Bedford Boys
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Flags of our Fathers
Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich
Easy Co. -Don Malarky
There's so many good WWII books out there. Just gotta dig a little.
Helmet For My Pillow -Robert Leckie
Neptune's Inferno
Bedford Boys
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Flags of our Fathers
Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich
Easy Co. -Don Malarky
There's so many good WWII books out there. Just gotta dig a little.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:30 pm to corndawg85
How about a website?
Tales from the 91st Bomb Group
Click around, there's more to the website than just text.
Tales from the 91st Bomb Group
Click around, there's more to the website than just text.
Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:31 pm to corndawg85
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
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