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cottonbaler3bn	Book: Changing Orders	#121	[-]
Posts: 132 (03/19/08 19:25:03) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I just finished "Changing Orders" a study of the evolution of the world's armies, from 1945 to about 1990. The US Army went through several changes. Trianglar to Pentomic to ROAD to AirLand (or Korea, Peace, Vietnam and Iraq). I liked it, but then I may be considered weird because I like Order of Battle and Tables of Equipment and Organization. Also picked up the 7 volume OB for the German Army in World War 1 (for reference). Dave R.
kar43		#122	[-]
Posts: 1574 (03/23/08 05:54:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've just finished "12-Inch Action Figures Second World War" by Raymond Giuliani and "The World War II Black Regiment That Built The Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History" by William E. Griggs. Currently I'm reading "The Boys' Crusade American GIs In Eorope: Chaos And Fear In World War Two" by Paul Fussell.
kar43		#123	[-]
Posts: 1579 (04/13/08 20:51:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just finished "Unexplained Mysteries Of World War II" by William B. Breuer. Now I'm reading "SS-Fallschirmjager Bataillon 500/600" by Rolf Michaelis.
B Hellqvist		#124	[-]
Posts: 2386 (05/07/08 14:48:50) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've read "The Last Enemy" by Richard Hillary, a WW2 Spitfire pilot who was killed in 1943, "With the Old Breed" by E.B. Sledge, a Marine who fought on Peleliu and Okinawa, and am currently reading "The Wrong Stuff" by Truman Smith, a B-17 pilot in the ETO. War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.
dthstrk		#125	[-]
Posts: 359 (05/14/08 21:20:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	tigers in combat volumes I and II good historical account of the operational wins and losses as well as lots of pictures
kar43		#126	[-]
Posts: 1586 (05/22/08 19:06:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Currently reading three short ones from Histoire & Collections by Alexandre Thers. They are Soldiers In Normandy: The Americans, Soldiers In Normandy: The British and Soldiers In Normandy: The Germans. They're good basic introductions to the subject of the three combatant's armed forces.
germansoldier mp44		#127	[-]
Posts: 561 (05/28/08 06:12:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Storm on the Horizon: The battle of kafagi (sp?) the turning point of the gulf war. "One shot to kill them all and start a war" germansoldiermp44
kar43		#128	[-]
Posts: 1590 (06/08/08 08:39:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just finishing The Nazis And The Occult: The Dark Forces Unleashed By The Third Reich by Paul Roland. Don't know whether to take this one seriously or not. There are a lot of factual errors with dates. He also has Feldmarschal von Bock surrendering his army at Stalingrad. Interesting ideas nevertheless, but how do you prove them?
B Hellqvist		#129	[-]
Posts: 2406 (06/08/08 09:05:09) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	kar43 wrote: Just finishing The Nazis And The Occult: The Dark Forces Unleashed By The Third Reich by Paul Roland. Don't know whether to take this one seriously or not. There are a lot of factual errors with dates. He also has Feldmarschal von Bock surrendering his army at Stalingrad. Interesting ideas nevertheless, but how do you prove them? I found Heather Pringle's "The Master Plan" a good read, and probably better than Roland's book. War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.
kar43		#130	[-]
Posts: 1591 (06/08/08 12:18:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I agree about *The Master Plan* by Heather Pringle.
Fox223		#131	[-]
Posts: 765 (06/11/08 12:12:04) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm currently reading "The Secret King, Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes, The Real Documents of Nazi Occultism". Translated by Dr. Stephen E. Flowers and edited by Michael Moynihan. I find the occult and esoteric aspects of the Third Reich quite interesting.
germansoldier mp44		#132	[-]
Posts: 582 (06/13/08 18:26:53) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tiger Force: A story of Men and War "One shot to kill them all and start a war" germansoldiermp44
Dubar1		#133	[-]
Posts: 5158 (06/14/08 14:12:53) Master Artificer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm about 1/2 way thru "Masters of The Air", it's about the USAF in Europe. I also got "The Day of Battle" about the war in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 and "Capital Navy" about the Confederate Navy during the Civil War, both for an early father's Day gift!!! Smell the plastic
kar43		#134	[-]
Posts: 1593 (06/17/08 19:01:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Currently reading a couple: *The Fighting 109* by Uwe Feist, Norman E. Harms and Mike Dario and *The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando* *Dirlewanger Hitler's Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Unit* by French L. MacLean.
B Hellqvist		#135	[-]
Posts: 2414 (06/18/08 13:38:24) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby" by Alex Bowlby. So far a very interesting memoir from the Italian Campaign, which gives a slightly different view of the British Army. Considered by John Keegan to be a classic. War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.
Schmeisser07		#136	[-]
Posts: 27 (06/22/08 08:20:59) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just got "Tali Ihantala: The film and the history" and "German insignia of World War II"
kar43		#137	[-]
Posts: 1596 (07/14/08 19:27:36) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just finished German Pistols And Holsters 1934/1945 Military - Police - NSDAP by Robert D. Whittington, III. Now I'm reading *Foreign Volunteers Of Hitler's Germany* by Warren W. Odegard and Richard E. Deeter.
Fox223		#138	[-]
Posts: 784 (07/21/08 08:50:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I enjoyed Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad" so much I picked up "The Fall of Berlin", which I am reading now. Absolutely heart breaking the amount of death and destruction on both sides.
kar43		#139	[-]
Posts: 1600 (07/21/08 19:22:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just finished a couple of short ones on the American Civil War: *Ironclads At War: The Monitor vs The Merrimac* by Dan Abnett and *Stonewall Jackson: Great Generals Series* by Donald A Davis. Now I'm reading *Tapping Hitler's Generals: Transcripts Of Secret* *Conversations, 1942-45* edited by Sonke Neitzel.
B Hellqvist		#140	[-]
Posts: 2445 (07/22/08 04:17:40) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've just begun the Swedish translation of "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. This is the first time it is released in Swedish, and I've already noticed some differences between it and the English translation. War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.

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