which WW2 books are you reading?

[georgesedlak]

"Retribution", the last year in the Pacific war, by Max Hastings. This book was a pleasant surprise, I figured just more of the same, but Hastings has some good insights and the chapters on Manchuria and Burma covered ground not often covered.

[Palle]

Jörg Muth, "Command Culture", comparing the culture and education of officers in Germany and USA up to and during WWII.

It is quite good and as I know Jörg he is not in fact one of those "we were better than you really"- German historians.

[georgesedlak]

Try "Retribution" by Max Hastings. The last year in the Pacific war, redone again, but with different insights and a focus on not well known events like Manchuria, worth the money.

[Aeraaa]

I'm just reading "Tigers at War", by Michael Green and James Brown. Intersting book, that focuses more on the technical part (though there are memoirs and anecdotal stories inside).

[georgesedlak]

James Hornfischer's "Neptune's Inferno", though it's a naval book, it's probably the best one on the naval battles around Guadalcanal, a good read.

[mkr8683]

Reading 'Frontsoldaten', a book about the German infantryman in WW2. If you ever wondered what the war was really like, especially on the Russian front, read this book. It's very depressing, frightening, and is putting me in a bad mood.. maybe because, in a much less intense way, I can relate to the terror of combat portrayed in the book. I certainly can't relate to the darker actions of both German and Soviet in that war, thankfully. But, a great read, certainly makes you appreciate simply being alive. I highly recommend this book. It's told mainly through the letters and diary entries of the landsers.

[Rodwonder]

The Devils Adjutant about KG Peiper in the Ardennes at the moment,very good read. Neptunes Inferno is a great book!

[StuFL]

I keep trying to read Arnhem 1944 by Middlebrook, but it's a bit of a struggle; the author's style is not to my taste. I keep drifting back to re-read my favorites, either Morison's Two-Ocean War or Lockwood's Sink 'Em All.

[mkr8683]

I've been switching back and forth between 'Frontsoldaten' and 'Exit the Colonel', a brand-new book about the downfall of Gaddafi, but my mother-in-law got me one called 'Operation Drumbeat', about Doenitz's U-Boat campaign. Skimming through it, it looks to be a very nice read. Again, I have a very small connection, as I live just outside Port Arthur, Texas, which is mentioned several times in the book and where many ships and sailors embarked on their last voyage before falling prey to the Wolf Packs.

[Wyke]

Just started reading Dog Boats at War. I very informative account of the MTB/E-Boat war in the North and Med Seas.

This appears to be a badly neglected part of the war on all front, be it MTB/E-boats in European/Russian waters or the US PT boats in the Pacific and which I am just starting to learn about