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Posted: 9/26/2021 10:36:39 AM EDT
[Last Edit: AlvinYork]
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third in the Creasy series, The Blue Ring.
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Posted: 9/29/2021 7:42:21 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Originally Posted By 4v50: Thomas Taylor's The Simple Sounds of Freedom about 506th PIR (101 Airborne)'s Joe Beryle. Decades ago I read a book about Soviet Operational Strategy. They always used the term "Hitlerite" and never "Nazi." Here's why. As we know, Nazi stands for National Socialism and the Soviets could not stand to acknowledge the Nazis as fellow "socialists." Only Soviet socialism was true socialism so instead of saying Nazi, the Soviets said Hitlerite/Hitlerites. Lurn'd it right thar in that book. Finished From D-Day and Back and Sgt. Bearden was in the same Stalag IIIC as Berlye. He saw a female Russian tank commander send a man out to grab two Germans. The Germans were made to stand to face each other while the tank commander and the driver drew their pistols. They (the Germans) watched each other die. I wonder if it's the same major that Beryle served under. Onto Eugenio Conti's Few Returned. It's an Italian soldier's experience on the Russian Front. |
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Posted: 9/30/2021 12:02:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Onto Eugenio Conti's Few Returned. It's an Italian soldier's experience on the Russian Front. There's been some question regarding the authenticity of this book, but I still enjoyed it. Anything related to personal accounts form the Ostfront I'll read though! |
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Posted: 10/10/2021 4:58:48 PM EDT
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Put down Few Returned and finished Jeff Haward's Fighting Hitler From Dunkirk to D-Day.
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Posted: 10/13/2021 8:10:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Finished Few Returned and onto Stalin's Secret War: The NKVD on the Eastern Front.
About halfway done with the book. The NVKD was killing Polish Jews because they were Poles and Stalin hated Poles (for the humiliating defeat Poland handed the "Glorious" Red Army in 1922). Thousands were slaughtered before the NKVD retreated. In all fairness, the NKVD killed many of their own Soviet citizens too. Make a remark that the army wasn't getting food to you? Dissident defeatist! |
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Posted: 10/16/2021 11:16:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: LOL @piccolo - I shared your story with my cousin who recently retired as a full bird colonel with the Air Farce. She looked like a kid back then (even today despite being over 50 she still looks like a twenty-something) Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Originally Posted By piccolo: When I got out of army basic my mother thought an Air Force colonel was a skycap. The colonel picked up my bag, quietly whispered "Not one word!" to me and hauled my duffel bag all the way to the car. I was one shaken up private! LOL @piccolo - I shared your story with my cousin who recently retired as a full bird colonel with the Air Farce. She looked like a kid back then (even today despite being over 50 she still looks like a twenty-something) When I went to Disneyland as an Air Force Academy cadet in uniform, a stranger assumed I worked there and wanted to know where the bathroom was. A few years back I was pissed off at TSA for constantly singling me out for random whatevers. So I showed up for a flight in jodphurs, knee boots, leather jacket, scarf, helmet and goggles for a flight. What REALLY pissed me the fuck off is I just got whisked through and the only thing said was "Been a while since you've flown?" Anyway I ran into an Air Force Academy cadet (probably a Doolie freshman) and really wound him up about what it was like flying back in the day. He asked me what it was like after D-Day and I told him I had been killed in action about 6 months before that. Wide-eyed answer: "Really?" |
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Posted: 10/16/2021 11:39:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlvinYork: Rereading Sledge's book With the Old Breed. Just got done with a couple of Leckie's books including Helmet for My Pillow on the same subject. One of the things I liked about Leckie is that he pulled no punches and told it like it was. Like a lot of young men he copped an attitude with military chickenshit. He didn't cover up that he almost got courts-martialed a couple of times and that he sneaked off the ship a couple of times. He did have a good combat record and for the times that's the big thing that mattered. WW2 was won by Americans that didn't want to be there. |
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Posted: 10/16/2021 5:45:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piccolo: WW2 was won by Americans that didn't want to be there. Yep. They were drafted and did their duty. Most rather be home chasing girls, swing dancing, going to school (if they had money) and enjoying life. There are some here who wishes that Patton be allowed to attack the Soviet Union. Our guys were counting points to go home or dreading having to go to the Pacific to fight the Japanese. No one was mentally geared for another couple years of war. Stalin Secret War was a good read about the NKVD, NKGB and Smersh during the war. The horrors those bastages did to other people is amazing and to think there are idjits here who clamour for socialism. It does give a brief account of Beria's downfall and execution. Just rewards. The socialists go to camp too. Finished all my winter preps today and can start Robert Crisp's The Gods Were Neutral. Crisp wrote Brazen Chariots and this prequel is about his experience with 3 RTR in Greece. |
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Posted: 10/26/2021 8:45:01 AM EDT
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With the Black Devils about the experience of a member of the American-Canadian Special Service Force in WW 2.
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Posted: 10/31/2021 9:03:40 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Presently reading some guy's PhD dissertation on the local defense volunteers (UK).
With the Black Devils was not a useful read. Save your ducats and if you must read it, get it via the library or inter-library loan. |
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Posted: 11/4/2021 12:09:03 AM EDT
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NC, USA
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Posted: 11/11/2021 5:26:46 PM EDT
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The Terminal List by Jack Carr.
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Posted: 11/13/2021 4:58:16 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/13/2021 4:20:59 PM EDT
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Put down a master's dissertation about Dieppe to read Tucker-Jones' Stalin's Armour.
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Posted: 12/5/2021 10:11:16 AM EDT
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Just finished a book on Marine Raiders and it wasn't a very good one. No primary research as the author relied on published works. Starting on Arn's War.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:47:08 AM EDT
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For Stalin and the Motherland or In the Soviet Union without Toilet Paper by Roman Vladimir Skulski
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Posted: 12/7/2021 7:39:36 PM EDT
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Almost finished with The U.S. M14 Rifle: The Last Steel Warrior by Frank Iannamico
Next up will be Rhodesia Regiment 1899-1981 by Peter Baxter, Hugh Bomford, Gerry van Tonder, et al. |
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Posted: 12/8/2021 1:39:21 PM EDT
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Vilnis Bankovics' Driven West, Taken East about his experience as a Latvian being drafted into the Wehrmacht and then captured by the Soviets.
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NH, USA
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Posted: 12/11/2021 6:38:25 PM EDT
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Just started A Terrible Glory about Custer. First three chapters were riveting.
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Posted: 12/11/2021 11:53:28 PM EDT
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Obedient Unto Death by a Liebstandarte soldier.
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Posted: 12/13/2021 12:24:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/14/2021 6:17:04 PM EDT
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Reading The Moscow Rules by Tony Mendes.
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Posted: 12/15/2021 6:17:54 PM EDT
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Dan Marsh's Once a Raider.
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Posted: 12/16/2021 11:14:41 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Like Obedient Unto Death Marsh's Raiders is short on first hand experience. The former has a lot of diary excerpts from other members of Liebstandarte but I'd rather have the entire diary. The latter covers all four Raider battalions but is rather skimpy and is more of an assembly of blog posts. OK read, but not useful to me.
Onto Carole Avriett's Marine Raiders. She is also the author of the popular WW2 aviation book, Coffin Corner Boys. Her style of writing remimds me of Makoos who wrote A Higher Call (about Me-109 ace Franz Stigler and B-17 pilot Charlie Brown). Avriett's Marine Raiders is based on four individual accounts of Marine Raiders or one from each battalion. Much better than Marsh's book (don't waste your time). |
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Posted: 12/23/2021 10:13:22 AM EDT
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Richard Siegert's The Tiger From Poznan
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Posted: 12/25/2021 7:46:20 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Ira Wolfert's American Guerilla in the Philippines about Lt. Richardson of MTB Squadron #3 who refused to surrender and led a band of Filipino Guerillas during the war.
Thanks to working on the sniping book, I'm only halfway through this one. Richardson covers home made ammunition (what's a SAAMI or milspec?), home brewed alcohol for fuel, improvised telegraph system, uniform, orders, money (actually currency), and other measures to create a guerilla army. I can see totalitarian governments banning this book. |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:11:41 PM EDT
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Robert Lapham and Bernard Norling's Lapham's Raiders: Guerillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945.
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Posted: 1/6/2022 4:31:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Robert Lapham and Bernard Norling's Lapham's Raiders: Guerillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945. Put that down temporarily for Innocent Killer. I learned of this book from the bibliography of another book I had read. |
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Posted: 1/15/2022 5:33:07 PM EDT
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Fire Mission! by Robert Weiss
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Posted: 1/19/2022 5:19:43 PM EDT
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Not in Vain: A Riflemen Remembers World War II by Leon Standifer. Learning alot about post Civil War South.
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Posted: 1/21/2022 8:13:16 PM EDT
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Bruce Zorns' I Walk Through the Valley
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Posted: 1/22/2022 4:37:47 PM EDT
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Naked Heart.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 5:57:51 PM EDT
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Sy Kahn's Between Tedium and Terror. Kahn served in the Philippines.
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Posted: 1/27/2022 10:44:05 PM EDT
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Dreams of Eldorado by HW Brands. Just finished our first civil war by him. It has been nice to do some deeper reading lately.
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Posted: 2/9/2022 1:17:07 PM EDT
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Lightning Joe: An Autobiography by Joe Collins who served in the Pacific before being given command of the 7th Corps in the ETO.
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Posted: 2/10/2022 5:38:08 PM EDT
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1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines by Alexander Strachan
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Posted: 2/19/2022 11:51:47 PM EDT
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Never Fear Anything
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Posted: 3/2/2022 11:57:47 AM EDT
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Finished Viktor Suvorov's The Liberators about the might Red Army of the 1960s and starting Heinz Gunter Guderian's From Normandy to the Ruhr. The former was written probably 5 decades ago but goes far to explain the clumsiness of the Russian Army in Ukraine today. Guderian is the son of the famous panzer general and post-war became a Bundeswehr general.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 3/2/2022 12:06:43 PM EDT
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"Flying Blind: The 737 Max tragedy and the fall of Boeing" by Peter Robison
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Posted: 3/5/2022 3:07:44 PM EDT
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Just finished On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. mini booklet thingy. Written in 2017. After the election.
Guy wrote Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (which I really liked) booklet is crap. a total screed against Trump. a few interesting points. But mostly just Leftist crap. |
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Posted: 3/8/2022 9:46:45 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/13/2022 12:17:59 PM EDT
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Started reading D-Day Tank Hunter by Hans Hoeller and finished reading it now.
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Posted: 4/13/2022 12:34:52 PM EDT
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Jordan B. Peterson "12 Rules for Life: The Antidote for Chaos"
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Posted: 4/13/2022 6:06:33 PM EDT
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Today I started reading Joseph Pell's Taking Risks. Pell was a Polish Jew whose family fled east when the Soviets pulled out of their part of Poland. They resettled in the Urkaine and couldn't get out in time before the Germans came. His family fell victim to the einsatzgruppen kommando (death squads) and he joined the partisans. Post-war he came to America.
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Posted: 4/14/2022 11:32:03 AM EDT
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Faye Schulman's A Partisan's Memoirs. A Polish Jew, she was the sole survivor of a pogom that wiped out her family.
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Posted: 4/18/2022 8:02:52 PM EDT
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Unfinished Journey: A World War II Remembrance by Kerry Redmann. Kerry Redmann is the younger brother Morris Redman who died while serving in the 94th Infantry Division. Kerry takes all his brother's letters as well as the letters his mother and father wrote to Morris and weaves them into a narrative of WW II. He met with several of his brother's platoon members who help fill in the gap.
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Posted: 4/23/2022 1:28:31 PM EDT
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Boy Soldier: Coming of Age During World War II by Russell McLogan. McLogan served in the 6th Infantry Division that fought in the Pacific and served as part of the occupation force in Japan.
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Posted: 5/19/2022 6:00:06 PM EDT
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Currently reading Never Quite a Soldier: A Rhodesian Policeman's War 1971-1982 by David Lemon.
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Posted: 5/19/2022 6:30:01 PM EDT
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Rereading the Warded Man and Failure in Civility.
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SC, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2022 6:32:14 PM EDT
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Feeling Great by David Burns, MD
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