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Old May 30th, 2009, 02:31 AM
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Being a Grognard, it's sure for all of us to have some military or history books sitting on the shelf. To own a spesific book for a grognard is as good as hunting a jewel on a forest, particularly if the book is a classic and not distributed anymore.
So, tell the people about your books, maybe some of us who don't have the specific book yet may borrow one's own.

Here are the books I own currently, to name some :

- Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
- The Fall of Berlin 1945, Antony Beevor
- Hitler Moves East 1941-1943, Paul Carrel
- The Face of Battle, John Keegan
- Battle for Budapest:100 Days in World War II, Krisztián Ungváry
- Hitler's War and The War Path, David Irving
- The Art of War, Sun Zu
- Coming of Age 1939-1946, John Cox
- Dirty Little Secret of World War II, James F. Dunnigan
- On War, von Clausewitz
- Osprey Battle Orders: Rommel's Afrika Korps
- Osprey Campaign: El Alamein 1942
- Osprey Campaign: Iwo Jima 1945
- Osprey Campaign: Normandy 1944
- Osprey Campaign: Operation Barbarossa AG Center
- Osprey Campaign: Sevastopol 1942
- Osprey Campaign: Stalingrad 1942

Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin have been my favorite, well written by the famous historian Antony Beevor
What about you guys?

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Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin have been my favorite, well written by the famous historian Antony Beevor
The Daily Mail just published an article today by Anthony Beevor:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-Sarkozy.html

He certainly doesn't gloss over the brutality.

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365 Days, by Ronald Glasser.
... nothing more need(ed) to be said ...
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IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN D-DAY
What? Forget about D-Day? We always play that battle at least once a week

Never heard that Normandy book from Antony, I thought he is an Eastern Front historian...

The fact that operation in the west (in terms of brutality) is overshadowed by the Ostfront isn't an uncommon thing.
When talking about Ostfront, one suddenly imagine of the harsh winter, muddy terrain, millions of hordes of Bolsheviks, and especially the swarming lice. The latter, depicted in the book Stalingrad as "swarming and bulging on beards and eyebrows like grapes" really makes me chilled.

I'll give that book a try.
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Thanks for that Cross nice read.
Im even tempted to get some of his books.
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Among others:

Cutthroats by Robert C Dick, a memoir on his actions as a tanker in the PTO.

Submarine, Edward L Beach

A Perfect Hell, John Nadler. The story of the First Special Services Force. A great read, and good fodder for to build a campaign on when I'm snowed in next winter.

Red Scorpion, Peter Sasgen. The story of the USS Rasher against the Japanese.

Dak To, Edward Murphy. Vietnam.

Two others that are not strictly military but still apply.

The Prince, Machaveilli

The Qabus Nama (A mirror for princes), trans. by Rueben Levy
a similar text to The Prince, written by a Persian king in the 11th century. More broadly reaching than The Prince, with less backstabbing but the same empthesis on intrige.


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Never heard that Normandy book from Antony, I thought he is an Eastern Front historian...
Beevor have written many books, not only Stalingrad and Berlin about the war on the Eastern front.

I have in my collection Beevors Paris after the Liberation 1944 - 1949, Crete - The Battle and the Resistance and The Battle for Spain. I haven’t bought the Normandy book yet, but I will. And of course Stalingrad and Berlin.

When it comes to books and movies I collect, so I have a pretty big collection, some of them rare. I also have a huge electronic collection of books and material.

Maybe I take some time one day and make a list of my collection.
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When it comes to books and movies I collect, so I have a pretty big collection, some of them rare. I also have a huge electronic collection of books and material.

Maybe I take some time one day and make a list of my collection.

Lots of electronic books, did you mean eBooks?
I'm curious about your list, maybe you can share it with me? Rather than to own physical book, it'll be good to have the eBook. Maybe I can "borrow" some of yours?
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Lots of electronic books, did you mean eBooks?
I'm curious about your list, maybe you can share it with me? Rather than to own physical book, it'll be good to have the eBook. Maybe I can "borrow" some of yours?
Yes, I have lots of eBooks’, but I don’t have any list of them.
I use a program called WhereIsIt, where I have scanned all my CD/DVDs. With this program I have control of what I have where.

There would be no problem sharing, but again there is no time to go through my collection yet, to make a list.

Maybe during summer break, maybe.
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Lots of electronic books, did you mean eBooks?
I'm curious about your list, maybe you can share it with me? Rather than to own physical book, it'll be good to have the eBook. Maybe I can "borrow" some of yours?
He could make a list & rate them but as to "swaping" ebooks tend to be cheap as chips but still as you said breaking the law. This is a game company run forum so if you want to save a few bucks suggest think about doing it elsewhere as I can see little choice for them but to delete or lock this thread.
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