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Reading The Luck of the Draw, by Captain C. Kenneth Ruiz, USN (Ret.).

The author was in the Silent Service, but his first duty was on the cruiser USS Vincennes in the Guadalcanal campaign.

Also, rereading Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer.

I was in the mood to read this one over Christmas; seems very appropriate these days. I can't recommend this too highly.

Aktungbby

12-26-14 09:27 PM

Reading Why Homer Matters; all about history's most famous amphibious operation.:D

Otto Harkaman

01-09-15 09:17 AM

Ordered a paperback from Amazon a month or so ago called "Very Special Intelligence" by Patrick Beesly.

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I am finally just starting into this book. Its dry but very interesting, more fact over prose.

Operational Intelligence Centre was the nerve centre of British naval operations during World War II. Patrick Beesly served there from 1940 to 1945 and describes how intelligence was gathered and how it was used to defeat Hitler and his admirals.

jacobston

01-09-15 10:16 AM

I am currently reading the Foxes of the Desert, which was given to me by my grandfather. Apart from El-Alamein and Malta (which I read about extensively) I did't know much about the Mediterranean theater, so this is quite interesting to me.

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Otto Harkaman

01-11-15 06:46 PM

Peter Padfield, "Dönitz: The Last Führer"
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Dönitz and the Wolf Packs by Bernard Edwards
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Otto Harkaman

01-20-15 05:19 PM

Still plugging away at Peter Padfield's book "Dönitz: The Last Führer." I wouldn't recommend it but its hard to find any books on Dönitz in print.

STEED

01-26-15 09:41 AM

Reading the new one from Osprey Publishing Essential Histories series.

Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009

Picked up for under a fiver! :)

STEED

01-29-15 07:16 AM

Moved on to my next book now..

THE RZHEV SLAUGHTERHOUSE
THE RED ARMY'S FORGOTTEN 15-MONTH CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMY GROUP CENTER, 1942-1943

By Svetlana Gerasimova

This was known as the meat grinder by the Russians.

TorpX

02-10-15 09:38 PM

I just started:

NEPTUNE'S INFERNO , by James D. Hornfischer.

It covers the US Navy's Guadalcanal campaign. I've been kind of excited about it.

I also bought:

US DESTROYER OPERATIONS IN WWII , by Theodore Roscoe.

It will be a nice companion to his work on sub ops.

I ordered these, and some others through Amazon just in time to beat the new Illinois tax law that went into effect Feb. 1. The greedy bastards in this state always want more.

banryu79

02-12-15 12:10 PM

A week ago I started reading: "Ideology of death. Why the Holocaust happened in Germany" by John Weiss.

This book is amazing, the analysis it contains and the wealth of information it supplies is huge, very well organized and written.
A total buy for me. I strongly raccomend it to anybody intrested with the topic it address.

Dammit_Carl!

02-13-15 09:22 AM

I'm rounding the corner with John Toland's The Rising Sun and starting on another book about kamikazes whose name escapes me at this point (but I almost swear that I've bought it and read it before at some point).

p.s. Came across a nifty book detailing merchant marine losses during WW2 - it lists specific ships, where they were sunk and how and so on. May get it to just have it, if that makes any sense.

Jimbuna

02-13-15 09:58 AM

This is one of my reference books on British ship losses.

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Sailor Steve

02-13-15 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dammit_Carl! (Post 2287189)

May get it to just have it, if that makes any sense.

Pretty much all of my naval and aviation books fall into that category, so it makes perfect sense to me. :sunny:

TorpX

02-13-15 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dammit_Carl! (Post 2287189)

p.s. Came across a nifty book detailing merchant marine losses during WW2 - it lists specific ships, where they were sunk and how and so on. May get it to just have it, if that makes any sense.

Oh, I understand completely. :yep:

Subnuts

02-18-15 08:20 PM

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Finally getting around to reading this after buying it as a Christmas gift for myself. Lots of detail, maps, rare photographs, wartime reports, plans and diagrams, and descriptions of damage...but the actual operational histories of the ships are really kind of tedious to read. Lots of "Seydlitz left Schillig Roads at 10:45, traveled to Grid Square 182, performed gunnery evolutions with 1AG, returned at 14:45 the next morning and anchored at buoy 5B." I paraphrase, of course, but there is such a thing as too much detail.

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