What Book Are You Reading at the moment?

[RFalvo69]

Kasserine Pass 1943 in the Osprey Campaign series. It makes for a nice companion to the TOAW IV scenario. [:)]

[sapper32]

The Tank War by Mark Urban it follows the fortunes of a regular British Army Tank Regiment the 5th Royal Tank Regiment from its evacuation from France in 1940 to capturing Hamburg in 1945 great read

Cheers

Ian

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: mikkey

I started reading Jack Broughton's Thud Ridge: F-105 Thunderchief missions over Vietnam, it's look interesting

Good read. The sequel, Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington, goes into the Turkestan Incident in some depth.

These are worth a read IMHO: Fast Movers: Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience by John Sherwood. Alpha Strike Vietnam: Navy's Air War, 1964-73 by Jeffrey L. Levinson

[nelmsm1]

A Time for Trumpets.

[slpatgun]

"Fire In The Sky" by Eric Bergerud for the 2nd time.

[warspite1]

Back in 2012 I got much of the way through Target London (Campbell) but didn't finish it. It was a good book (about the V-1s) if I recall correctly and I'm not sure why I didn't get to the end, so I intend to rectify that [:)]

[Zorch]

'Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness' by Andrew Lambert.

[mikkey]

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

ORIGINAL: mikkey
I started reading Jack Broughton's Thud Ridge: F-105 Thunderchief missions over Vietnam, it's look interesting

Good read. The sequel, Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington, goes into the Turkestan Incident in some depth.

These are worth a read IMHO: Fast Movers: Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience by John Sherwood. Alpha Strike Vietnam: Navy's Air War, 1964-73 by Jeffrey L. Levinson

Thanks for the interesting tips. I plan to read Bell's 100 Missions North and then go to Rasimus's When Thunder Rolled. Do you have some good tips about Wild Weasels in Vietnam (Hampton's The Hunter Killers I read)? Thanks.

[RFalvo69]

“1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War”, by Benny Morris.

For some reason there is a tendency to forget that there was an Arab-Israeli War right after WWII and even before the Korean War. I admit that I knew next to nothing about this conflict, and that I’m learning a lot. Warmly suggested.

[Mac Linehan]

As a big fan of the Bernie Gunther series, am very sorry to hear of Mr. Kerr's passing.

Thud Ridge is absolutely outstanding - it took guts and courage to fly "downtown" into the most heavily defended airspace of that time. Broughton was a professional, planning missions carefully and then leading (102 missions) from the front.

I would also recommend John Master's "The Road Past Mandalay," one of the finest narratives about exceptional leadership in war.

Gents, my thanks to you all for your many excellent recommendations.

Also: loki100, as I reread the WitW rules and relearn the game, your comments and posts are (among several others) an excellent guide, often clarifying concepts that I do not fully understand.

Mac

[Zorch]

'The Hunter Hunted: Submarine versus Submarine Encounters from World War I to the Present' by Robert Stern.

[loki100]

ORIGINAL: Mac Linehan


As a big fan of the Bernie Gunther series, am very sorry to hear of Mr. Kerr's passing.

...

Also: loki100, as I reread the WitW rules and relearn the game, your comments and posts are (among several others) an excellent guide, often clarifying concepts that I do not fully understand.

Mac

Yes, I'll miss the bi-annual 'Bernie', the original trilogy was spell binding and some of the later ones equally good

and glad the WiTW commentary helps. I'm writing the manual for WiTE2 and am feeding in a lot of the WiTW questions - in effect if its not clear in the WiTW documentation can we explain it better this time. But of course there is the unavoidable problem of sheer length.

Anyway, I've praised one of her earlier books The Unwomanly face of War (interviews with women members of the Soviet army and partisan movements in WW2) and have just finished another. If you have a strong stomach, would really reccomend Svetlana Alexievich's Boys in Zinc, interviews with members (or their surviving relatives in many cases) of the Soviet forces that fought in Afghanistan. There are sections that are so grim as to be almost unreadable but, like the earlier, book its a masterpiece of oral history - I'd put her with Lynn MacDonald for her ability to handle this style of writing.

[Gmay]

"The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn for history,
and Sandy Mitchell's "Ciaphas Cain Hero of the Imperium" for fun.

[Chickenboy]

Just finishing volume 4 of the Devlin Haskell Mystery series by Mike Faricy. Fun noir / hard-boiled detective fiction.

[nelmsm1]

Cold Harbor by Gordon Rhea. Fourth book in his series on the Overland Campaign.

[Chickenboy]

Starting in on one of my favorite official histories:

History of the United States Marine Corps in World War II: Volume 4: Western Pacific Operations

(covers Pelileu, Iwo Jima and the Philippines)

[whalus]

Just finished the 21 volume Dave Robicheaux mystery series by James Lee Burke. I found all the books to be either good or excellent.
Now starting A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard Weinberg.

[uyenthuy]

I'm currently reading 'Disturbing the Peace' by Richard Yates. I saw the film 'Revolutionary Road' and went on to read the book and I enjoyed it

[warspite1]

I have Hitler's Pre-Emptive War coming to me for my birthday - hussah! This is another work on the Battle for Norway in 1940. It looks like it may concentrate too much on Narvik to the detriment of the rest of the campaign, but we'll see....

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

I have Hitler's Pre-Emptive War coming to me for my birthday - hussah! This is another work on the Battle for Norway in 1940. It looks like it may concentrate too much on Narvik to the detriment of the rest of the campaign, but we'll see....

Happy Birthday, old bean! Lemme guess: 62? You can't be a day over 63 then?