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[Terezi]

Hi everyone, my name is Terezi, and I am a military enthusiast. I'm interested in all wars and conflict ranging from post-WWI to modern-day militias and political turmoil, but I'm particularly interested in World War II. I'm hoping to educate my knowledge further through books I find through this group. Hopefully there are no biases in the texts I find, and I can learn about every aspect of the war from various perspectives and viewpoints, as that seems to be a significant problem in previous books that I've read. Thanks, and I can't wait to participate!

[Wade]

Welcome Terezi,nice to have you aboard. Just throw out a World War II topic of interest and i guarantee our great membership will respond thereupon.

[Gerald]

Welcome aboard, Terezi. I hope that you enjoy it here.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Terezi, good to see you here and a warm welcome to the group.

[Eric]

I'm dealing with many issues (financial, health, etc.) of my own, Lilo, so I understand 100% how it can affect your online hobby time. Remember action relieves depression/stress. Also, don't forget to take care of your health during the stressful times.

Luck!

~Eric

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Active body and mind are some of the best ways to deal with stress and depression, it just takes a bit to get started but do the best you can.

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Welcome Terezi! There are a lot of history buffs here to help you find some good books. Jump right in.

[happy]

Welcome Terezi!

[Ugo]

Hi everyone,

My name is Ugo and I hail from Montreal, Quebec. Have been an avid WW2 amateur and reader since I've had 16 or 17 (I'm now 43).

Over the years, I have built up quite a library of books on WW2. My interest seems to never wane. So much happened, there is always something new to discover or learn about what is possibly the most intense period of humankind's history.

On top of that, I am a wargamer. Played board wargames in my teens, but now play only PC-based wargames. Especially like the Panzer Campaigns series from John Tiller, as well as Command Ops series, which has such a fantastic game engine putting you in the CO shoes, with a very challenging AI.

I especially like to play a wargame related to my current reading. It just makes the whole thing more understandable and real when you are recreating through a wargame the actual events you are reading about.

[Manray9]

Ugo wrote: "Hi everyone,

My name is Ugo and I hail from Montreal, Quebec. Have been an avid WW2 amateur and reader since I've had 16 or 17 (I'm now 43).

Over the years, I have built up quite a library of boo..."

Welcome, Ugo. Please don't be reluctant to pitch in.

[Gerald]

Hello, Ugo. Welcome aboard.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Ugo, welcome to the group, good to see you here. I like your idea of reading a book on a WW2 battle or campaign and whilst playing a wargame, sounds like a lot of fun!

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Welcome Ugo. I like your idea of playing a game related to the book.

[Ugo]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Hi Ugo, welcome to the group, good to see you here. I like your idea of reading a book on a WW2 battle or campaign and whilst playing a wargame, sounds like a lot of fun!"

It is! Market Garden is an operation very well covered by a number of wargames, so to go along with the September reading about Arnhem, I will be playing Highway to the Reich. It recreates in much details, with historical realism and with the authentic order of battle, several engagements of the Market Garden operation. See here if you are curious: http://www.matrixgames.com/products/4...

[hunter]

hi

[hunter]

do you have a discussion on tanks

[Jerry]

Flying high after this review in Publishers Weekly:

"This meticulously constructed thriller from Carroll delivers healthy doses of political conspiracy, paranoia, and pulse-pounding suspense. Oral historian Harriet Gallatin gets more than she bargained for when she begins recording the recollections of former Navy Lt. Lowell Brady, who now resides in an old-age home, but who, during WWII, uncovered a terrible secret about Pearl Harbor. And when Gallatin is ordered to report what Brady shares, what began as a routine assignment becomes a race against time and a battle for survival. Military absurdity and governmental betrayal are depicted with wit and humor in this provocative portrait of outsiders whose honor transforms them from respectable citizens to demonized agitators. Cantankerous, lewd, vulgar, and skillfully rendered by the author, Brady is as warm as he is infuriating. Carroll has crafted a crowd-pleasing page-turner, replete with cultural criticism and refreshing honesty."

http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Liars...

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Nice Jerry!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

hunter wrote: "do you have a discussion on tanks"

Hi Hunter and welcome to the group. We don't have a specific thread on tanks but we have this thread on WW2 weapons where we have discussed some tanks:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Welcome to the group hunter.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Hello to Terezi, Ugo and Hunter you are all very welcome to the group.

[Doubledf99.99]

Eric wrote: "I'm dealing with many issues (financial, health, etc.) of my own, Lilo, so I understand 100% how it can affect your online hobby time. Remember action relieves depression/stress. Also, don't forget..."

Your spot on Eric, I had some intense health issues a while back, once I was home but still pretty much immobile, these blogs helped me tremendously, to plant the seeds of joy, happiness and the feeling of camaraderie and belonging.

[happy]

let me add my welcome to Ugo and Hunter

Welcome, Welcome - please feel free to add to the discussions. Also, be prepared to have your TBR list expand exponentially :)

[Magreda]

hello!!, As a new guy in the group, I want to present me:
My name is Miguel, I´m from Spain, well pased my prime, and I´m a lover of History, and ainly of military History...I´m more focused in the XIX century wars, Napoleonic, Victorian "Colonial Wars", Crimean war, Unification of Germany wars (Schleswig-holstein war, Austro prussian war 1866, Franco-Prussian war of 1870, Balkan wars 1912-1913, Spain-USA war, mexican-Usa, war, Russo japanes war 1904-1905...a lot of books because, of course I´m an avid reader of WW1 and WW2 books and tecnology, air, naval, and tanks...
A short life to read all the books on the matter...I know. I´m reading The book "The Bloody Triangle", of Kamenir, on the destruction of the USSR armoured forces in the Ukrania in 1941 (Barbarrossa).
I´m just finishing the Book, "Frederick the Great and the Seven Years War", of FW.Longman

[Edward]

Magreda wrote: "hello!!, As a new guy in the group, I want to present me:
My name is Miguel, I´m from Spain, well pased my prime, and I´m a lover of History, and ainly of military History...I´m more focused in th..."

Hi Magreda and welcome to the group.

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Magreda wrote: "hello!!, As a new guy in the group, I want to present me:
My name is Miguel, I´m from Spain, well pased my prime, and I´m a lover of History, and ainly of military History...I´m more focused in th..."

Hi Miguel, welcome to the group. You are sure to find more books here to add to your list. Jump right in to the discussions wherever you like.

[Manray9]

Magreda wrote: "hello!!, As a new guy in the group, I want to present me:
My name is Miguel, I´m from Spain, well pased my prime, and I´m a lover of History, and ainly of military History...I´m more focused in th..."

Welcome, Miguel. Please pitch in!

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Welcome Miguel and do please join in. I think you'll find many of us have a interest in some/all of the areas you mention. I know some of the people here are also members of a Napoleonic group which you might like too.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Miguel and welcome to the group, you seem to have a great range of interests so I am sure you will fit in here and I hope you enjoy yourself.

[happy]

Magreda/Miguel - let me add my welcome to the group

Welcome

Please don't be shy and feel free to contribute as you see fit!

[Rosalind]

Hi, thanks for the welcome. I got interested in WWII through researching for my trilogy A Relative Invasion. The Origins of the Second World War was a history text that had always stayed with me, and I wanted to write about those same emotions (resentment, desire for territory) played out in micro (two young boys) and also ending in mutual damage with long lasting results. I am now reading The Miracle of Dunkirk, Walter Lord.
Look forward to new interesting reads here. Rosalind

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Rosalind, good to see you here and I hope you enjoy your time in the group. Good book you are reading at the moment, I hope you are enjoying it.

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Welcome to the group Rosalind, nice to have you here.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Welcome to the group Rosalind. Walter Lord is a good writer able to tell a story about real events. His book on Titanic is good too.

[Grafakos]

Hi all, I recently joined the group as I've been reading several books on WWI, and in fact I discovered this group via this excellent discussion thread about the Great War:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm looking to start reading about WWII. Thus far, the only book I have read on the subject is by David M. Kennedy, which was a decent overview from the U.S. perspective, although as the title indicates, it was only partly about the war itself.

Now I would like to read more deeply. Would appreciate pointers to any threads about the best single-volume treatment of WWII, for starters. A few that I am considering are:

by John Keegan

by Max Hastings

by Martin Gilbert

I'm also looking for a good WWII military atlas.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Hi Grafakos and welcome to the group. The ones you list are all good - a couple of others without trying to overload you:

by Antony Beevor

by Andrew Roberts

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Grafakos and welcome to the group. You have picked out some very good books to start off with on WW2 and Geevee has offered you a few more, I don't think you could beat those already mentioned.

[Grafakos]

Thanks Geevee and Rick, I'll make a selection and get started soon. The sheer number of books on the subject is daunting, so it's good to have some recommendations from knowledgeable experts. I look forward to participating in the group.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Will look forward to chatting with you further once you start reading some of those books, I hope you enjoy yourself.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

One of the perils of this group is the sheer amount of books that people make you aware of that end up on one's TBR. Be sure to let us know how you get on and please feel free to join in on the threads too.

[Dawn]

Welcome Grafakos

I just read Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings last month on a recommendation from a group member here and thought it was a great introduction into WWII.

[Manray9]

Grafakos wrote: "Hi all, I recently joined the group as I've been reading several books on WWI, and in fact I discovered this group via this excellent discussion thread about the Great War:

https://www.goodreads.c..."

Welcome, Grafakos. Please don't be shy about pitching in. I liked Kennedy's book too -- gave it 4 Stars.

[Positive Kate]

Hi everyone,
I am interested in learning more about Japan attacking the Philippines at the start of WW2. Does anyone have any recommendations? I am reading: Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

Thank you!

[Grafakos]

Thanks Dawn and Manray9, based on the reviews I've read here and at Amazon, I decided to order the books by Hastings and Keegan for now. Once they arrive, I'll decide which one to read first, perhaps by reading the first paragraph in each one, or using a scientific approach such as a coin flip. :-) I'll be sure to participate in the threads as I learn more. Just as Geevee predicted, my TBR pile is already growing.

[Armin]

Nighttime is the right time to say Hello.

As my other Goodreads friends don't share my Interest in History especially in WW II I am sometimes very lonely, so I joined the Group as soon as I became aware of it.
My Interest in History started when I was ten, at the age of thirteen I started building Planes, my first one was a Focke-Wulff 190 and while building my own Luftwaffe in 1:72 I started reading WW II Pulp „Landser“, the more russian tanks or bunkers were destroyed, the more I liked them. In 1979 the abc-Mini Series Holocaust impressed me very much and the next 15 years or so, I avoided anything that had to do with WW II, except some Hitler Biographies and some novels by Willi Heinrich.
At the University I graduated later about Weimarer Republik in History and Hitler Speeches in Linguistics. In 1995 a Computer Magazin contained the notorious Panzer General and while playing it, I started reading WW II Books about the planes and Tanks some Memoirs or Monographies.
This year Goodreads recommandations motivated me to buy Andrew Roberts „The Storm of war“, which was a major disappointment, especially for a relatively new book.
So I decided to go back to classics: In the middle of Roberts I started Liddle-Harts History of the second world war, which is fairly better written, delivers often a brilliant analysis, but seems sometimes very remote from the action. For that Reason I read Carells „Wüstenfüchse“https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... for the african Theatre, Mansteins „Verlorene Siege“ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... for a closer perpective on the war in Russia.
Other Books for other Periods of WW II will follow.

[Noor]

hello everyone. hope you are all well.
anyone interested in literature and criticism?

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Stacy and Armin, good to see you both here and thanks for dropping in and saying hi to the group. I also quite enjoyed reading Erich von Manstein's book as well as Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian.

Stacy I have moved your request for any good books and recommendations on the start of the war in the Philippines to this thread:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Positive Kate]

I wanted to say thank you, Rick, and to say hello to everyone here. It's nice to meet others interested in the same period in history.
Have a wonderful weekend!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

You too Stacy :)

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Grafakos wrote: "Thanks Dawn and Manray9, based on the reviews I've read here and at Amazon, I decided to order the books by Hastings and Keegan for now. Once they arrive, I'll decide which one to read first, perha..."

Welcome Grafakos, nice to have you in the group. You picked two good ones there. Hastings is always excellent and Keegan too.