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01-23-07, 10:44 PM | #121 |
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Currently alternating between Of Ice And Steel and Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939-1956.
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01-24-07, 01:31 PM | #122 |
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Reading a modern sub thriller now, "Dangerous Ground", by Larry Bond. Nice fast read. Excellent.
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01-25-07, 05:48 AM | #123 |
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I am reading Australian Submarines, A history by Micheal W.D. White
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01-28-07, 08:21 PM | #124 |
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Just finished Steel Rain by Tim Ripley. Not a bad read, quick yet in-depth look at SS armor divisions in the West during 44 and 45. Plenty of good pics as well.
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02-01-07, 06:20 AM | #125 |
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What are you reading right now?
Still trying to get through Clay Blair's Hitler's U-Boat War The Hunters 1939-1942 after 18 months. Have managed to read and finish other books in the mean time, but Clay's book while being a great factual read is so full of information it is a bit heavy going.
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02-07-07, 04:04 PM | #126 |
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Currently slowly trudging my way through Norman Davies' Europe: A History. It's not as bad as it sounds, it's actually been a good read thus far.
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02-07-07, 09:58 PM | #127 |
Canadian Wolf
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Starting tommorow: U-Boat Commander's Handbook.
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02-08-07, 08:25 AM | #128 |
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Currently I read "Red Storm Rising" (Tom Clancy) ...in germany the book is called "Im Sturm"...have had finished "Hunt for Red October" (Jagd auf Roter Oktober) 5 days ago
Will be followed from "Das Boot" (have read it 2 times already), "Schlachtschiff Bismarck" (quite old that book from 1960 from Jochen Brennecke) and "Sum of all Fears" (das Echo aller Furcht) |
02-08-07, 08:49 AM | #129 | |
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02-09-07, 12:04 AM | #130 |
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Just finished reading USS Seawolf by Patrick Robinson. going to read The Shark Mutiny next(again) and then catch up with Robinsons newer books.
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02-09-07, 09:30 AM | #131 | |
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It took me a good three weeks or so to get through it, but that is because it I don't get as much time to read as I used to. Three year old son at home I just started volume II, "The Hunted". Bigger book, so it looks like it will take me a month or so.
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02-09-07, 01:06 PM | #132 |
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I am currently re-reading Clay Blair Jr.'s Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. The book overall is very good (although the author does interject some personal biases against certain members of the submarine leadership and sub captains for example) and it has several appendices that provide details on each war cruise, tonnage leaders, sub losses, etc. I recommend it to anyone wanting to get a good feel for this aspect of the war.
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02-09-07, 03:37 PM | #133 |
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Agree 100%. Silent Victory is my favorite Sub book. I'm finally getting back into his first U-boat volume and am just about finished. (had to take a break). I will probably start Vol II (which I already have).
Not sure why, but his Atlantic U-boat campaign was/is a more difficult read for me. I like both theaters. Strange.
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02-12-07, 02:33 PM | #134 |
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Had to put down Blair's first volume of Hitler's U-boat War...couldn't take his antagonistic stance and pooh-poohing of the German war effort any longer. (And I gave it 3/4 of the book.) Blair is more of a bean counter than an historian. Not much emotion here, or any appreciation of the bravery and dedication and sacrifice the Germans experienced, just dry facts and figures presented in prosaic form. A dry, uninspring book, but it remains the high bar because he does present so much information regarding tonnage, patrols, etc.
Reread Das Boot this week and finished it off with the photographic companion also by Buchheim, U-boat War. Next on the list is Submarine! by Edward L. Beach. I'll get to that later this week. Just from flipping through it doesn't look particularly promising. Beach might be a much better fiction writer than non-fiction writer....but I'm eager to find out.
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02-12-07, 02:35 PM | #135 | |
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