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Posted on 6/25/19 at 7:40 am to RoyalLSU
The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb.
About a group of Norwegians who worked undercover with the help of the English to foil Hitler's plan for a nuclear bomb.
A lot of sneaking around, sabotage type stuff. Great story that's not that well known.
About a group of Norwegians who worked undercover with the help of the English to foil Hitler's plan for a nuclear bomb.
A lot of sneaking around, sabotage type stuff. Great story that's not that well known.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:20 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
"The guns of Navarone" is a really good book and I think they made a movie about it back in the day
Posted on 7/1/19 at 3:15 pm to RoyalLSU
I have read scores of WW2 histories over the years and consider myself well informed on the subject. Most of the books mentioned in this thread I have read and recommend. I would add the recent The Second World Wars by Victor Hansen Davis. It raises and answers a few new questions regarding war production and economics that have been ignored or treated cursorily over the years and is very well written. If you specifically want to read about The Pacific War, Ian Toll’s trilogy (mentioned by others) is exceptional. The third book is due out later this year.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 7:11 pm to RoyalLSU
I am really enjoying "Hunting Eichmann" right now
Posted on 7/9/19 at 10:18 pm to thatguy
Behind Hitlers lines.
Posted on 7/13/19 at 10:03 am to RoyalLSU
I'll recommend a fiction book by a friend of mine who often posts on TigerDroppings:
We'll Meet Again
We'll Meet Again
This post was edited on 7/13/19 at 11:25 am
Posted on 7/14/19 at 9:26 am to blueridgeTiger
You recommended this book before, so I bought it from Amazon. Decent read and well researched, but more of a romance novel than a war story.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 12:23 pm to BondJamesBond
Currently reading Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor. Fascinating. Those dudes were some serious badasses.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 8:26 am to RoyalLSU
I haven't seen A Bridge too Far by Cornelius Ryan mentioned. An older book (1974) but a classic. Covers Operation Market-Garden, Montgomery's big plan to end the war in Europe by Christmas.
Three airborne divisions were dropped behind German lines to seize key bridges over the Rhine, with the plan being for the British XXX Corps to relieve them. Allied intel didn't know that an SS Panzer division had been sent to the Arnhem area to refit.
The XXX Corps didn't make it to Arnhem, and the British 1st Parachute Division was basically destroyed. The US 82nd & 101st Airborne Divisions did well to get out of there in the shape they did.
Three airborne divisions were dropped behind German lines to seize key bridges over the Rhine, with the plan being for the British XXX Corps to relieve them. Allied intel didn't know that an SS Panzer division had been sent to the Arnhem area to refit.
The XXX Corps didn't make it to Arnhem, and the British 1st Parachute Division was basically destroyed. The US 82nd & 101st Airborne Divisions did well to get out of there in the shape they did.
Posted on 8/12/19 at 9:38 pm to RoyalLSU
Flying Fortress.
Because my dad is mentioned in it. I’m biased.
Because my dad is mentioned in it. I’m biased.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 2:43 pm to RoyalLSU
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning. It's about how an seemingly normal people in a German police batallion were capable of following such extreme and inhumane orders during the Holocaust.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 4:20 pm to TeddyWestside
Currently reading Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and its great.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 6:11 pm to TaTa Toothy
Just finished "Bridge too Far", outstanding read. Over 7 years, Cornelius Ryan interviewed over 1500 eyewitnesses to the events, on both sides of the battles, from the generals to the civilians, and pulled it together into a cohesive account.
In the same fashion/format, he also wrote "The Last Battle", and "The Longest Day", about D-day, which like Bridge was also made into a big Hollywood flick with countless cameos from the big actors of the day (1970s), but a bit cheesy by today's standards, avoiding much of the brutal realism that is not whitewashed in the books.
The best (only?) book I have read on the cloak and dagger efforts of the war is an account of the British efforts, "A Man Called Intrepid", which is just outstanding!
In the same fashion/format, he also wrote "The Last Battle", and "The Longest Day", about D-day, which like Bridge was also made into a big Hollywood flick with countless cameos from the big actors of the day (1970s), but a bit cheesy by today's standards, avoiding much of the brutal realism that is not whitewashed in the books.
The best (only?) book I have read on the cloak and dagger efforts of the war is an account of the British efforts, "A Man Called Intrepid", which is just outstanding!
This post was edited on 8/16/19 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:01 pm to RoyalLSU
Mother Night by Vonnegut is great and under appreciated
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