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kar43		#141	[-]
Posts: 1605 (08/01/08 11:58:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've just started *The Bicycle In Wartime: An Illustrated History* by Jim Fitzpatrick. So far it pretty interesting.
kar43		#142	[-]
Posts: 1607 (08/04/08 12:55:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just got started on *Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story* by Burkard von Mullenheim-Rechberg.
B Hellqvist		#143	[-]
Posts: 2459 (08/09/08 19:29:46) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"Blixtkrig!" by Niklas Zetterling (author of "Kursk 1943 - A Statistical Analysis"), where he explodes the Blitzkrieg myth. War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.
kar43		#144	[-]
Posts: 1612 (08/16/08 06:44:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm currently reading *A Stranger To Myself The Inhumanity Of War: Russia, 1941-1944* by Willy Peter Reese.
B Hellqvist		#145	[-]
Posts: 2461 (08/16/08 16:19:58) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's a good one, even if I don't remember any specifics. A bit different than most German accounts. Seeing the photo of him aged four, with his cousin, and knowing the ultimate fate of the guy really drives home what war does to people. War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.
kar43		#146	[-]
Posts: 1613 (08/24/08 21:58:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*A Stranger To Myself* was a pretty good book. I've just finished *Red Army Uniforms And Insignia, 1944* published by Arms and Armour Press. Now I'm reading *Hitler's Raid To Save Mussolini: The Most Infamous Commando Operation Of World War II* by Greg Annussek.
B Hellqvist		#147	[-]
Posts: 2473 (08/25/08 12:08:57) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"War Without Garlands" by Robert Kershaw for a review on Axis History Forum. The book covers Operation Barbarossa, and more specifically the soldiers involved, their attitudes, thoughts, etc. Interesting read so far. War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.
Fox223		#148	[-]
Posts: 802 (08/25/08 18:24:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hey Dave, I read "Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini" last year and enjoyed it. I am waiting for Col. David M. Glantz's book "The Battle of Kursk" to arrive. My first account of the battle since reading Martin Caidin's book "The Tigers are Burning" some 20+ years ago. While I'm waiting I'm finishing up T.C. Boyle's collection of short stories "Tooth and Claw". I have to take a break from military history every now and then...
kar43		#149	[-]
Posts: 1615 (08/30/08 09:42:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I enjoyed the book on the Gran Sasso raid although I'll admit that I almost put it aside when the author referred to the "Herman Goring" Division as an SS Panzer Division. Now I'm reading *The Unknown Battle Of Midway: The Destruction Of The American Torpedo Squadrons* by Alvin Kernan.
kar43		#150	[-]
Posts: 1616 (09/01/08 08:26:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Currently reading *The War Merit Cross* by Gordon Williamson and Josef Charita.
B Hellqvist		#151	[-]
Posts: 2481 (09/01/08 11:57:25) Master Artist Division Regular Bronze Björns svärdssida Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	kar43 wrote: "Currently reading The War Merit Cross by Gordon Williamson and Josef Charita." The WMC wasn't well regarded among the "real soldiers"; their names for it speaks volumes: Feldküchensturmabzeichen: "field kitchen assault badge" Fernkampfmedaille: "long distance combat medal"; (suggesting the holders were far from the actual fighting when they earned it) Kantinenorden: "Order of the Cafeteria" War is best enjoyed in 1/6th scale.
kar43		#152	[-]
Posts: 1617 (09/03/08 05:53:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Now I'm reading *Military History's Top 10 Lists: Great Commanders, Improbable Victories, Unlikely Heroes And Other Martial Oddities* by M. Evan Brooks.
kar43		#153	[-]
Posts: 1620 (09/17/08 19:09:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I just finished *Aces* by W. Wayne Patton and now I'm reading *Aces 2* and *Aces 3* by the same author.
kar43		#154	[-]
Posts: 1624 (09/24/08 06:20:52) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just finishing up a few short ones: *Luftwaffe Field And Flak Divisions* by Robert Kirchubel and Dmitriy Zgonnik, *Barbarossa* by Robert Kirchubel and Ramiro Bujeiro, *Battle In The East: The German Army In Russia* by Gordon Rottman and Stephen Andrew and *Two Great* *Naval Battles Of World War II* by Angus Konstam and Chris Henry, which is a combination book about the hunt for the Bismarck and the Battle of the Coral Sea.
kar43		#155	[-]
Posts: 1630 (10/01/08 11:16:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just got through with some more Concord books. These were *Axis Forces In North Africa 1940-43* by Claudio Antonucci, *The Fall Of* *Monte Cassino* by Robert Michulec and Dmitriy Zgonnik and *September Storm: The German Invasion Of Poland* by Gordon Rottman and Stephen Andrew.
kar43		#156	[-]
Posts: 1633 (10/06/08 06:32:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm just finishing up a handful of books. The first is *British Military Uniforms* by James Laver. Then there were some original guides from World War I and World War II. These included A Handbook Of Civilian Defense: What Every Loyal American Can Do To Help The U.S. Win The War by Robert H. Rankin (1942), *Uniforms, Badges And Intelligence Data Etc. Of The German Forces* compiled by "Factus" and published by Bernard's (Publishers) LTD., *A Guide To U.S. Army Insignia and Decorations* by Gordon A.J. Petersen (1941), A *Guide To U.S. Navy Insignia, Flags And Decorations Including U.S. Marine Corps And Coast Guard* by Gordon A.J. Petersen (1942), *Pocket Guide Of Uniform Insignia United States, British Empire, U.S.S.R., France, China, Poland* prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces United States Army (1943) and *What The Uniform Tells Army - Navy - Marines* published by Frederick A. Stokes Company (World War I era).
pzrwest		#157	[-]
Posts: 195 (10/06/08 20:16:26) Master Artificer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm a Jack Higgins fan re-reading Cold Harbor for the umpteenth time
kar43		#158	[-]
Posts: 1635 (10/09/08 06:27:25) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I currently reading *Die Waffen-SS* compiled and illustrated by Peter Stahl.
kar43		#159	[-]
Posts: 1636 (10/09/08 22:45:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just finished Feldbluse: *The German Soldier's Field Tunic 1933-45* by Laurent Huart and Jean-Plilippe Borg. Now I'm reading *The German* *Army 1870-1945* by August Paul Wooster.
kar43		#160	[-]
Posts: 1638 (10/16/08 06:44:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm in the midst of reading a bunch of non-military stuff right now, but the last two military subjects I read were *Divisional Insignia: Sleeve &* *Shoulder Patches Of The U.S. Armed Forces* by Clarence P. Hornung and *Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Insignia Of Rank, Service Ribbons,* *Decorations And Insignia Of The U.S. Armed Forces* published by Joel & Aronoff.

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