Colin’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2012)

Colin’s comments from the THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP group.

Michael wrote: "I had a teenage daughter of a friend asked me if I was a white supremist because I has so many books on Hitler and stuff."

I was labeled a closet Nazi because I have published interviews with German vets when I was an undergrad. Been there.

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "I am pretty sure that this future release (November 2013) will attract the attention of a few members. It sounds like a pretty interesting story to me:

[bookcover:A Death in San Pietro: The Untold..."

Good post. I interviewed a couple of German veterans of that battle, very intense

True, he and Sara live there. He was my regimental commander, now my coauthor and colleague. Strange world. See pics at our website during the book signing tour.

I flew in most of the old warbirds, including the B-17. Loud bastard, like the B-24. have pics at my website www.lewisheatonbooks.com

You may like our book Noble Warrior, coauthored with Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient from Vietnam, Maj Gen james E. Livingston.

KOMET wrote: "Here are the final recommendations for aviation books pertaining to the Second World War that I'll make this month:

1) In the Skies Over Europe: The Memoirs of Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Günther Scho..."

I interviewed many of the Zemke Wolfpack aces, such as Mahurin, Johnson, Zemke, Rankin, Gabreski, and also many Germans who served in the Condor Legion. Great stories, such as Galland, Trautloft, Rodel, Ihlefeld, Neumann, all interesting men.

Gerald wrote: "Colin wrote: "Gerald wrote: "Colin wrote: "A.L. wrote: "'Aussie Rick' wrote: "We have all heard of the many actions of De Gaulle and the type of person he was, a born politician most would say, thi..."

The account I have from two Frenchmen I interviewed was that he was in the rear, leading nothing, issued orders, and evaded capture

Gerald wrote: "Colin wrote: "A.L. wrote: "'Aussie Rick' wrote: "We have all heard of the many actions of De Gaulle and the type of person he was, a born politician most would say, this account speaks volumes

I j..."

Sorry, I should have ben more clear, he did not lead troops in WW II

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "happy wrote: "One thing I thought was interesting from "Guns Last Night" was DeGaulle's instanance of swaping out Colonials from the 1st French Army for resistance fighters and the resulting declin..."

Ironically, only the Communist resistance fighters accomplished anything of real value in France. Pierre Deshayes said that there were only 30,000 known resistance fighters before 1945, but by 1945 every Frenchman and his dead brother was a resistance hero.

Gerald wrote: "happy wrote: "One thing I thought was interesting from "Guns Last Night" was DeGaulle's instanance of swaping out Colonials from the 1st French Army for resistance fighters and the resulting declin..."

When I interviewed Pierre Deshayes (look him up), he told me that no one with an IQ in three digits thought DeGaulle was any good for France. He was just the best choice on a heap of rubbish.

A.L. wrote: "'Aussie Rick' wrote: "We have all heard of the many actions of De Gaulle and the type of person he was, a born politician most would say, this account speaks volumes

I just read this about De Gaul..."

In my book German Anti-Partisan Warfare, I described the war crimes DeGaulle should have been charged with, and convicted of, due to his orders he issued to his officers in Italy. he should have been hanged along with the chief Nazis. Gen. Mark Clark wanted his officers and Moroccan mercenaries in Italy executed. Remember that DeGaulle never led troops in combat, and when he fled the German invasion, he took his mistress to England, but left his wife. Churchill called him untrsutworthy, and Patton called him a 'goddamed fraud'. That was when I coined his name Charles DeFraud.

You may all like to read my book, Occupation and Insurgency, which has interviews with S officers/generals, and details the Holocaust from the field perspective, and analyzes the Geneva and hague Conventions with specific actions that occured.

I am waiting for my ride in the two seat Me-262 flying now. If that happens will give a sit rep.

On the Crimea, read Cross of Iron by Capt. Willi Heinrich, became a film by Sam peckinpah in 1977, starring James Mason, james Coburn, max Schell, Senta Berger, etc. I am not aware of novels on the Caucasus.

Outstanding title, i will also add to my list. i interviewed several former German POWs in the USSR, and vets of the Eastern Front. In fact the new book I am writing had an interview with Erich Hartmann, 10.5 years in the gulags.

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Hi Colin, put in a link to those pictures if you like."

OK the link is below, but I also have pics of me with other birds I have flown in on other pages of the website

http://www.lewisheatonbooks.com/camar...

carl wrote: "Were you visiting Hitler's brain?"

Not sure how to respond to that.

I was in Peru and Bolivia

Have great pic of me with a 190 and other WW II birds oin my website

I knew Galland very well, see his interview chapter in The German Aces Speak vol. 1. The original German version was even longer, Die Ertzten und Die Letzten. He was a great guy.