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TorpX · 12-26-14, 08:48 PM

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.

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.

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.

Otto Harkaman · 01-11-15, 06:46 PM

Peter Padfield, "Dönitz: The Last Führer"

Dönitz and the Wolf Packs by Bernard Edwards

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.

Sailor Steve · 02-13-15, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dammit_Carl!

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.

TorpX · 02-13-15, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dammit_Carl!

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.

Subnuts · 02-18-15, 08:20 PM

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.

12-26-14, 08:48 PM	#1576
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	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.

12-26-14, 09:27 PM	#1577
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,065 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Reading Why Homer Matters; all about history's most famous amphibious operation. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

01-09-15, 09:17 AM	#1578
Otto Harkaman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Posts: 1,189 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Ordered a paperback from Amazon a month or so ago called "Very Special Intelligence" by Patrick Beesly. 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. __________________ "If you want to know the age of the Earth, look upon the sea in a storm." -Joseph Conrad USS Pompano (SS-181) https://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-pompano-181.htm

01-09-15, 10:16 AM	#1579
jacobston Watch Officer Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 338 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	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. Last edited by jacobston; 01-09-15 at 02:30 PM.

01-11-15, 06:46 PM	#1580
Otto Harkaman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Posts: 1,189 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Peter Padfield, "Dönitz: The Last Führer" Dönitz and the Wolf Packs by Bernard Edwards __________________ "If you want to know the age of the Earth, look upon the sea in a storm." -Joseph Conrad USS Pompano (SS-181) https://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-pompano-181.htm

01-20-15, 05:19 PM	#1581
Otto Harkaman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Posts: 1,189 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ "If you want to know the age of the Earth, look upon the sea in a storm." -Joseph Conrad USS Pompano (SS-181) https://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-pompano-181.htm

01-26-15, 09:41 AM	#1582
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Reading the new one from Osprey Publishing Essential Histories series. Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 Picked up for under a fiver! __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

01-29-15, 07:16 AM	#1583
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	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. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

02-10-15, 09:38 PM	#1584
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	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.

02-12-15, 12:10 PM	#1585
banryu79 Samurai Navy Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Italy Posts: 554 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 2	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.

02-13-15, 09:22 AM	#1586
Dammit_Carl! Torpedoman Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: WNC, USA Posts: 115 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	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.

02-13-15, 09:58 AM	#1587
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,876 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	This is one of my reference books on British ship losses. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-18-15, 08:20 PM	#1590
Subnuts The Old Man Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,658 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ My Amazon.com reviews