What are you reading right now?

[Otto Harkaman]

Lately I've gotten totally fascinated in the relation between breaking the Enigma code and the Battle of the Atlantic.

[STEED]

Started re-reading again..
In the Bunker with Hitler by Berd Freytag Von Loinghoven

[kranz]

Originally Posted by STEED

Started re-reading again..
In the Bunker with Hitler by Berd Freytag Von Loinghoven

<spoiler>
someone dies at the end.
</spoiler>

[Red October1984]

Finished Roadside Picnic.

11/10....absolutely loved it.

[Jimbuna]

[ninja turtle]

This arrived in the post this morning (early Christmas present from my daughter). A little light reading me thinks.

[kranz]

got my order in the morning:
Norman Davies - Uprising '44.
Guido Knopp - Wehrmacht.
Paul Carell - Scorched Earth.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by ninja turtle

This arrived in the post this morning (early Christmas present from my daughter). A little light reading me thinks.

Very nice, I've a couple of similar books but would love one covering the WWI era.

[Otto Harkaman]

[STEED]

Re-reading the classic..

The Last 100 Days

John Toland

[Otto Harkaman]

Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Weapon by Roger Branfill-Cook
English | August 15, 2014 | ISBN: 1591141931 | 256 pages

The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel - and by extension a small, minor navy - to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required radical rethinking.

It had long been understood that the most effective way of sinking a ship is to make a hole below the waterline, but centuries of experiments had failed to produce an effective method of achieving this. After many false starts and developmental cul-de-sacs, the answer proved to be the 'locomotive' or self-propelled torpedo, which became a practical proposition in the late nineteenth century. This book is a broad-ranging international history of the weapon, tracing not only its origins and technical progress down to the present day, but also its massive impact on all subsequent naval wars.


Torpedo is the first dedicated study of this highly significant subject for over thirty years, a period in which much new information has come to light and the capabilities of the weapon itself have improved beyond recognition. Because of the crucial importance of the torpedo in naval history, this is a book no enthusiast or historian can afford to miss.

[tmccarthy]

The story of Destroyer Escort USS England

[Jimbuna]

[TorpX]

I recently finished:

Nothing Friendly in the Vicinity, by Claude C. Conner.

This is about the author's patrols on the USS Guardfish, and goes into a lot of detail about the sinking of the USS Extractor, which was accidently torpedoed by Guardfish.

and

Typhoon of Steel, by James H. Belote and William M. Belote.

This is about the Okinawa campaign. The main focus is on the land fighting, but there are also chapters on the kamikaze attacks, and the sad, final voyage of the Yamato.

[Jimbuna]