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This is the really good section. Those two bottom shelves cost more than my first year's pay in the Navy.

More books and some music. In the lower right is a picture of my beautiful wife during a rare Texas snowstorm.

And the last of it...

A book that I found absolutely fascinating and fills a number of holes for some ships in the beginning months was Winslow: "The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II". If you folks want to know what happened to the USS Pope for example, this is the book! I've only seen it in soft cover, but still worth getting for details of the US Asiatic Fleet.... Hal

For what it is worth, most of the Green Books can now be purchased in CD form from the GPO.

ORIGINAL: spence

I would recommend:

Shattered Sword (just another endorsement)

Great book! I have just finished reading it for the second time.

Impressive collection, Don [&o][/align] [/align]By any chance, do you have a copy of "Forgotten Fleet: a history of the part played by Australian men and ships in the U.S. Army Small Ships Section in New Guinea, 1942-1945" by Bill Lunney and Frank Finch? [/align] [/align][;)][/align]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Impressive collection, Don [&o][/align] [/align]By any chance, do you have a copy of "Forgotten Fleet: a history of the part played by Australian men and ships in the U.S. Army Small Ships Section in New Guinea, 1942-1945" by Bill Lunney and Frank Finch? [/align] [/align][;)][/align]

Sure don't. A friend of mine in Australia attempted to get one for me but got no reply after asking about it on the website. You got one?

Don

When I first got married it was sharing pictures of babies and weddings. Whe I moved south it was pictures of the latest kill dead dear, ducks and bear. Now I must be in heaven, Did the rapture happen?, BOOKS, BOOKS BOOKS I love it. Do you are a ma after my ow heart!

ORIGINAL: Skyros

Do you are a ma after my ow heart!

Skyros, I think your "n" key has been Raptured. [:D]

BTW, congrats on post 1000!

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Skyros

Skyros, I think your "n" key has been Raptured. [:D]

That's fu y CV66!!!![:D]

Uh-oh! Mi e too!!!![&:]

My wife just saw this thread and asked me why are the guys here bragging by showing pictures of their books! [:D]

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Impressive collection, Don [&o][/align] [/align]By any chance, do you have a copy of "Forgotten Fleet: a history of the part played by Australian men and ships in the U.S. Army Small Ships Section in New Guinea, 1942-1945" by Bill Lunney and Frank Finch? [/align] [/align][;)][/align]

Sure don't. A friend of mine in Australia attempted to get one for me but got no reply after asking about it on the website. You got one?

Don

Well, I have located a second-hand copy of the first edition at http://regimental-books.com.au

I'd prefer to get the updated and expanded 2nd edition - unfortunately it is "out of stock", "not available", "not found" or "Out of print"...

Very impressive,when i get all my books shelved I will attempt to show them here if I can figure out how to upload them to this forum.

Say Don?  For those of us without a bunch of time on our hands, would you please sort those for us?.

Shattered Sword is now out for the Kindle, so that just became my Memorial Day reading material. As much as I admire the above collection, I don't have any more room for bookshelves in my house. [:(]

I can recommend "Empires in Balance" and "The Barrier and the Javelin" by H.P. Willmott. These books covers the war in the first months and are excellent from a strategical and political point of view and describes also the battles in a very analytical style. There is also a 3rd volume but i have not read it.

well lets start with

Flying Buccaneers-the illustrated history of Kenneys fifth air force written by Steve Birdsall

Ding Hao-Americas air war in china 1937-1945 written by Wanda Cornelius and Thayne Short

Saga of The Superfortress-The dramatic story of the B-29 and the Twentieth Air force written by Steve Birdsall

I-Boat Captain written by Zenji Orita with Joseph D. Harrington

A Battle History of The Imperial Japanese Navy(1941-1945) written by Paul S. Dull

The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Adrian Stewart

Enola Gay by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts

Samurai by Saburo Sakai

Blue Skies and Blood-The Battle of the Coral Sea byEdwin P. Hoyt

Storm over the Gilberts by Edwin P.Hoyt

Point of No Return-The story of the Twentieth AF by Wilbur H. Morrison

Guadalcanal by Richard B. Frank(Highly recommended probably no other book as indepth about Guadalcanal)

Pacific Warriors-The US Marines in WWII by Eric Hammel

Silent Victory 1+2 by Clay Blair JR or United States Submarine Operations in WWII by Theodore Roscoe (the latter is much better they are basically the same as far as the writing but the latter has a few extra goodies like maps of all the sinkings and etc. but is probably extremely expensive cost like 200 bucks 15 yrs ago so have no idea what it is now!!!)

Speaking of books, I have some news. My latest title, Thunder in Its Courses: Essays on the Battlecruiser, is now available in Kindle and Nook editions. Hard copies should be out there in a couple weeks. Here's the promotional blurb.

Few subjects in naval history have elicited as much romance and disdain as the battlecruiser. And few subjects have gone so grossly misunderstood.
Fundamental errors regarding the battlecruiser's origins and the technology of the times continue to distort hindsight, obscuring the historical context of these powerful, majestic ships. Thunder in Its Courses clears away the misconceptions, with essays establishing the basic facts of the capital-ship cruiser as well as thorny issues regarding individual designs.
Richard Worth writes for the Warship and Warship International journals. His book titles include In the Shadow of the Battleship, Raising the Red Banner (with Vladimir Yakubov), On Seas Contested (edited with Vincent P. O'Hara and W. David Dickson), and Fleets of World War II.

Go ye therefore and order multiple copies!

ORIGINAL: Tiornu

Speaking of books, I have some news. My latest title, Thunder in Its Courses: Essays on the Battlecruiser, is now available in Kindle and Nook editions. Hard copies should be out there in a couple weeks. Here's the promotional blurb.

Few subjects in naval history have elicited as much romance and disdain as the battlecruiser. And few subjects have gone so grossly misunderstood.
Fundamental errors regarding the battlecruiser's origins and the technology of the times continue to distort hindsight, obscuring the historical context of these powerful, majestic ships. Thunder in Its Courses clears away the misconceptions, with essays establishing the basic facts of the capital-ship cruiser as well as thorny issues regarding individual designs.
Richard Worth writes for the Warship and Warship International journals. His book titles include In the Shadow of the Battleship, Raising the Red Banner (with Vladimir Yakubov), On Seas Contested (edited with Vincent P. O'Hara and W. David Dickson), and Fleets of World War II.

Go ye therefore and order multiple copies!

Thanks for the tip Richard....I just ordered and downloaded to my Kindle. I look forward to reading it. And I look forward to ordering my hard copy version. [:)]