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Mar 14, 2019 01:19AM
Sounds like one for the pre order Jerome, looking forward to that one
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An October release:
by Serhii PlokhyDescription:
At the conference held in Tehran November 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Though pushing relentlessly for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort - the Soviet body count was staggering - Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked. His concern was that the American presence would inflame regional and ideological differences. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 Superfortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltova region (in what is today Ukraine).
As Plokhy's fascinating and utterly original book shows, what happened on these airbases mirrors the fate of the Grand Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for Germany's unconditional surrender, differences arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret policeman watched over the Americans, shadowing every move, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American airmen and local women. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and the operations went south. Based on previously inaccessible archives, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance itself, showing how it first began to collapse on the airfields of World War II.
Jerome wrote: "An October release: by Serhii PlokhyD..."
The publisher's blurb writer should have known a B-17 was not a Superfortress.
Jerome wrote: "An October release: by Serhii PlokhyD..."
I knew Gen. James H. Doolittle who authorized the first shuttle mission, and Col. Don Blakeslee who led the first P-51 escort into the USSR. My next book has both of their interviews covering this subject. Great reading later when published.
Another October release, the first of two volumes:
by Lawrence PatersonDescription:
The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small dedicated maritime strike force was assembled, germinating during the Spanish Civil War before being committed to action from the first days of the invasion of Poland. Concurrently, the operational Luftwaffe developed its own maritime units that would eventually subsume all of the Kriegsmarine-controlled formations as the war years progressed. This new book by the well-known author of German naval operations in WWII offers, for the first time, an in-depth study of all the Luftwaffe maritime operations. This is the first of two volumes and takes the story up to 1942.
The story of Luftwaffe maritime operations has frequently been written about in fragmentary terms, delineating between the planned naval air arm operating under Kriegsmarine direction and the 'operational Luftwaffe'. Each branch of service -- and even aircraft type -- has usually been studied in isolation. This book, however, broadens the lens to study the development of German naval aircraft as a whole, not as separate independent services but rather as a concerted attempt to engage the enemy at sea in every theatre of operations, from Norway and Western Europe to the Mediterranean and the Eastern fronts, and, of course, over the Atlantic. Through ship-board aircraft, torpedo bomber attacks, minelaying and reconnaissance missions, Luftwaffe maritime aircraft played a vital role in Germany's naval war and the author analyses all the operations and the successes in the early years of the War. This first volume ends in 1942 when, despite great success, petty rivalry and naked arrogance combined to foreshadow the eventual defeat of the Luftwaffe's war at sea.
Heavily illustrated throughout, this detailed and exciting operational history will be of huge appeal to both naval and aviation historians and enthusiasts.
I recently finished reading the book D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by Sarah Rose.It is due to be published April 23rd and you can read my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is another one that I just recently finished reading and which will be published April 30th, 2019. Lightning Sky: A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured During WWII and His Father's Quest to Find Him
by R.C. GeorgeYou can read my review of this excellent biography here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A recent release that I have not seen before:
Countdown to D-Day: The German Perspective by Peter MargaritisIn December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness.
What he finds disgusts him. The famed Atlantikwall is nothing but a paper tiger, woefully unprepared for the forces being massed across the English Channel. His task—to turn back the Allied invasion—already seems hopeless.
His superior, theater commander, crusty old Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had led the Reich to victory in the early years of the war, is now fed up with the whole Nazi regime. He lives comfortably in a plush villa in a quiet Paris suburb, waiting for the inevitable Allied invasion that will bring about their final defeat.
General der Artillerie Erich Marcks, badly injured in Russia, is the corps commander on the ground in Normandy, trying to build up the coastal defenses with woefully inadequate supplies and a shortage of men to fulfill Rommel’s demands. Marcks is convinced that the Allies will land in his sector, but no one higher up the chain of command seems interested in what he thinks.
Meanwhile, aristocratic Generaloberst Hans von Salmuth, an outspoken, cocky, experienced veteran of the Russian Front, has been given responsibility for defending Fifteenth Army’s coastline at Calais—the area that the High Command thinks is most likely to be the Allies’ objective. General der Panzertruppen Geyr von Schweppenburg is preparing the élite panzer divisions for what may lie ahead. Generalmajor Max Pemsel struggles in coordinating efforts to prepare Seventh Army, suspecting that if an invasion comes he will be the hub of the German response. All of the Western Theater commanders are subject to the whims of Adolf Hitler, hundreds of miles away but continually issuing orders increasingly divorced from the reality of the war.
Countdown to D-Day takes a detailed day-to-day journal approach, tracing the daily activities and machinations of the German High Command as they try to prepare for the Allied invasion
Should be an interesting read Mike.
Published in March. *Wile E. Coyote cloud to the bookshop*an Operation Dragoon, Robert Kershaw doing eyewitnesses, Peter Caddick-Adams mixing sand & blood, a German perspective ... this is why 2019 has a "D-Day budget" even if you don't make it to the beachhead!
It's hard to contain oneself! I have a number of the D-Day books on order awaiting publication 😋😁🤓
A few days ago, I placed an order for the new book "Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France" (paperback edition) by James Holland , whom I highly regard as a military historian and writer. 
D-DAY has a special resonance for me as my father (sadly now deceased as of March 2019) was a GI with a racially segregated U.S. Army unit stationed in Hull, England on June 6, 1944. Previously, he had been in Scotland and Northern Ireland (he had received some amphibious warfare training in Belfast).
Two weeks after the invasion, my Dad's unit sailed from Southampton, England for Utah Beach.
I look forward to reading this book. I guess it'll take me full circle, because I read my first book about D-Day ---
by Bruce Bliven Jr. -- back in 1975, when I was in elementary school.
Nicholas A. Veronico has a book coming out about D Day. Don't have details and hope Nick posts them here.
This was released 8 weeks ago, just found it. 
Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars
Anyone know when Ian Toll's third book "Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945" is due out? I thought it was suppose to be last year and then in got delayed to june 2019 but still can't seem to find an official date.
https://www.ianwtoll.com says merely 2019, but someone wrote in a GR thread that, as of October 2018, the publisher's projection was mid-June 2019.
Given how next month's group read focuses on both D-Day and 1944 battles, the timing of this new release is pretty good:
Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War IIJust received my copy today. Looks to cover both the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Saipan.
I have a copy on order Marc so hopefully mine should arrive soon. I have enjoyed the author's books on Okinawa and Peleliu so I have high hopes for this new book.
A September release:
by Roger MoorhouseDescription:
Drawing for the first time on Polish, German and Soviet sources, First to Fight is the definitive history of the German invasion of Poland, which opened the war in September 1939. Roger Moorhouse provides a dramatic narrative of military events, brought to life by a select cast of generals and politicians, soldiers and civilians from all sides. In the process, First to Fight explodes many of the myths that still surround the campaign and challenge our understanding of how Britain and France entered the war.
Did Britain and France assist their Polish ally to the best of their abilities when the German armies crossed the border on 1 September 1939? While they went to war with Germany, why did they not declare war on the Soviet Union when its troops invaded Poland from the east later in the month? And if the violation of Poland had been the reason to go to war in 1939, how could the Western Allies justify handing the country over on a plate to Stalin in 1945?
Published to tie in with the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, First to Fight explodes many of the myths around what is a shameful chapter in both British and French history, and forensically examines a pivotal moment in the war’s history.
Jerome wrote: "A September release: by Roger MoorhouseDescription:
Drawing for the first time on Polish, German and Soviet sources, First..."
That should be an interesting book, thanks for posting the details Jerome.
A January 2020 release:
by John R. BruningDescription:
In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces"-the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker-offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of twenty-six enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to call the "race of aces" as a way of boosting the spirits of his war-weary command.
What developed was a wild three-year sprint for fame and glory, and the chance to be called America's greatest fighter pilot. The story has never been told until now.
Based on new research and full of revelations, John Bruning's brilliant, original book tells the story of how five American pilots contended for personal glory in the Pacific while leading Kenney's resurgent air force against the most formidable enemy America ever faced.
The pilots-Richard Bong, Tommy McGuire, Neel Kearby, Charles MacDonald and Gerald Johnson-riveted the nation as they contended for Rickenbacker's crown. As their scores mounted, they transformed themselves from farm boys and aspiring dentists into artists of the modern dogfight.
But as the race reached its climax, some of the pilots began to see how the spotlight warped their sense of duty. They emerged as leaders, beloved by their men as they chose selfless devotion over national accolades.
Teeming with action all across the vast Pacific theater, Race of Aces is a fascinating exploration of the boundary between honorable duty, personal glory, and the complex landscape of the human heart
That one has a reserved spot on my shelf! Thanks Jerome.
Actually Robert S. Johnson of the 56th Fighter Group broke Rickenbacker's record first in the ETO, Bong was right behind him. They were both pulled out of operations for a war bond tour.
Colin wrote: "Actually Robert S. Johnson of the 56th Fighter Group broke Rickenbacker's record first in the ETO, Bong was right behind him. They were both pulled out of operations for a war bond tour."Bong broke the record on April 12, 1944, while Johnson did so on May 8, 1944.
Bong's was backdated per the confirmation, Johnson's was confirmed that daw, his victory was witnessed by 12 other pilots. Bong's was not, claim had to be verified. But yes, given the verification and backdating Bong would be the first, but the papers heralded Johnson as the first due to the immediacy of the confirmation. Strange, but it sometimes happened.
'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Here is a book due out in early 2019 that is sure to interest a few group members:
. btw - Spearhead was my favorite book of the year so far. It was really really enjoyable. I didn't realize just how bad our Sherman's were...especially with the 75mm gun. I watched an interview with Clarence Smoyer (the gunner and main character in Spearhead) and he called the Sherman tank a death trap and even mentioned the book by the same name by Belton Cooper
I am currently reading Death Traps on my Kindle and it does talk about the deficiencies of our tanks in greater detail. Cooper said that the ability to penetrate inches of armor is the sq. rt. of the muzzle velocity. The 75 MM gun had a muzzle velocity of 1500 FPS and the German tanks guns by then had a muzzle velocity that was nearly twice that. Cooper also said that the Pershing's could have been made available to the European theater much sooner and the CO of the 3rd Division (General Rose) was all for it. However, Patton was against it due to US armor doctrine. He didn't want the Pershing because it burned more fuel and he didn't want his tanks dueling with Panthers anyway. He wanted them to get in the enemies rear and take out artillery. Cooper said that this was a huge mistake.
I am about a 1/4 way through Death Traps and I am enjoying it and I finished an audio version of Kershaw's the First Wave and that is a good book too (the narrator is awesome with all the different accents.) But Spearhead is about as good as With the Old Breed. There I said it. It is that good. You really get acquainted with the men of Eagle Company and you start to pull for them to get through the war alive and in one piece.
Glad to hear you enjoyed "Spearhead", it was an excellent book and a great introduction to the Pershing tank in the ETO.
An October release:
by Blaine T. BrowneDescription:
In Mighty Endeavor: The American Nation and the Second World War historian Blaine Browne provides a highly readable introduction to the war’s military course and its domestic consequences. World War II represented a major transformative event for America, laying the foundations for a modern postwar superpower.
Browne chronicles the political, diplomatic, military, economic, and social developments from the end of World War I to the Cold War and economic boom of the postwar years. Each chapter features opening and closing biographies of individuals, some famous, some forgotten, who helped shape the war effort. The profiles represent a wide variety of Americans, civilian and military, men and women, and representing diverse races and ethnicities. Readers who recall the war years to those students studying it for the first time will find The Mighty Endeavor a superb gateway to a pivotal period of American and world history.
Here is a September 2019 (UK) release that may interest a few group members:
Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship by Angus KonstamDescription:
Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.
Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured protection earned her the reputation of being unsinkable. This claim was finally put to the test in May 1941, when she sortied into the Atlantic and fought the legendary battle of the Denmark Strait, destroying HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy. Bismarck was now loose in the North Atlantic. However, damage sustained in the battle limited her ability to roam at will, while the Royal Navy deployed the Home Fleet to revenge the Hood. The stage was set for the greatest chase story in the history of naval warfare.
Drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts, and intertwining extensive research into a fast-paced narrative, this is the most readable and accurate account of Bismarck's epic voyage ever produced.
Konstam does Bismarck.woohoohoo ! woohoohoo! (runs in circles, flapping like a chicken)
Dimitri wrote: "Konstam does Bismarck.woohoohoo ! woohoohoo! (runs in circles, flapping like a chicken)"
Totally agree, just that I can't run in circles!
This November 2019 release will be a definite purchase for me and it may interest other group members:
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun: IV SS Panzer Corps: From Warsaw to Vienna, 1944-45 by Douglas E NashDescription:
During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich’s dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany’s defeat in May 1945. Not satisfied with allowing his nascent force to be commanded in combat by army headquarters of the Wehrmacht, Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS, began to create his own SS corps and army headquarters beginning with the SS-Panzerkorps in July 1942. As the number of Waffen-SS divisions increased, so did the number of corps headquarters, with 18 corps and two armies being planned or activated by the war’s end. While the histories of the first three SS corps are well known, the IV SS-Panzerkorps – which never fought in the west or in Berlin but participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war – has been overlooked. Activated during the initial stages of the defence of Warsaw in late July 1944, the corps, consisting of both the 3. and 5. SS-Panzer Divisions (Totenkopf and Wiking, respectively) was born in battle and spent the last ten months of the war in combat, figuring prominently in the battles of Warsaw, the attempted Relief of Budapest, Operation Spring Awakening, the defence of Vienna, and the withdrawal into Austria where it finally surrendered to American forces in May 1945. Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps was renowned for its tenacity, high morale and, above all, its lethality, whether conducting a hard-hitting counterattack or a stubborn defense in situations where its divisions were hopelessly outnumbered. Often embroiled in heated disputes with its immediate Wehrmacht higher headquarters over his seemingly cavalier conduct of operations, Gille’s corps remained to the bitter end one of the Third Reich’s most reliable and formidable field formations.
Here are another two of a number of new titles due for release covering Poland and the start of WW2:
Poland and the Second World War, 1938-1948 by Evan McGilvrayDescription:
The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined by their then-allies the Soviets) ignited the Second World War. Despite determined resistance, Poland was quickly conquered but Poles continued the struggle to the very last day of the war against Germany, resisting the occupier within their homeland and fighting in exile with the Allied forces. Evan McGilvray, drawing on intensive research in Polish sources, gives a comprehensive account of Poland's war. He reveals the complexities of Poland's relationship with the Allies (forced to accept their Soviet enemies as allies after 1941, then betrayed to Soviet occupation in the post-war settlement), as well as the divisions between Polish factions that led to civil war even before the defeat of Germany. The author narrates all the fighting involving Polish forces, including such famous actions as the Battle of Britain, Tobruk, Normandy, Arnhem and the Warsaw Rising, but also lesser known aspects such as Kopinski's Carpathian Brigade in Italy, Polish troops under Soviet command and the capture of Wilhelmshaven on the last day of the war.
Poland's Struggle: Before, During and After the Second World War by Andrew RawsonDescription:
Poland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about expanding its control on Europe. The Wehrmacht's attack on 1 September 1939 was followed by a Red Army invasion two weeks later. The people of Poland were then subjected to a terrifying campaign of murder, imprisonment and enslavement which only increased as the war dragged on. Polish Catholics faced violence and deportation as they adapted to the draconian laws implemented by the German authorities. Meanwhile, the Polish Jews were forced into ghettos while the plans for the Final Solution were implemented. They then faced annihilation in the Holocaust, code named Operation Reinhard. Despite the dangers, many Poles joined the underground war against their oppressors, while those who escaped sought to fight for their nation's freedom from abroad. They sent intelligence to the west, attacked German installations, carried out assassinations and rose up to confront their enemy, all against impossible odds. The advance of the Red Army brought new problems, as the Soviet's dreaded NKVD introduced its own form of terror, hunting down anyone who fought for an independent nation. The story concludes with Poland's experience behind the Iron Curtain, ending with the return of democracy by 1991.
Operation Reinhard was the liquidation of several cities and towns in Czechoslovakia following his death in June 1942, with Lidice being the one example of retaliatory action against innocent civilians. It was not in Poland. Hans Frank handled that operation under Himmler's orders.
Evan McGilvray looks promising given his earlier work on the Eastern Front , but I find Andrew Rawson uneven: he tries & fails to be good at everything WW1&2
More titles to come: Operation Crusader, Tobruk 1941: Tank Warfare in the Desert by Hermann Buschleb, On to Stalingrad: Operation Winter Storm and the Attempt to Relieve Sixth Army, December 1942 by Horst Scheibert, Operation Don's Left Wing: The Trans-Caucasus Front's Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942 - February 1943 by David M. Glantz, and Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin by A. Stephen Hamilton
Some more good books there Gregg, thanks for posting the details.
A July release:
by William Alan WebbDescription:
In the dying days of World War Two, when the fate of nations was being decided by the triumvirate of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin, Hitler’s Austrian homeland provided a scenic backdrop for the last stand of Army Group South. Killing Hitler’s Reich, The Battle For Austria 1945, is the history of the bloody Battle for Austria in 1945.
Austria’s fate held major ramifications for postwar Europe and the entire free world, yet there is no complete account of the campaign written in English. Given the scale of the fighting and the scope of the consequences, this book fills a major gap in the literature of World War Two.
On VE Day Army Group South listed 450,000 men still under arms in four armies. It was this massive force that made General Dwight Eisenhower change the entire focus of American ground operations to cut off Germans from retreating into the National Redoubt. Moreover, it was Austria not Berlin, that proved to be the graveyard of the Waffen SS. No less than 15 of Himmler’s divisions ended the war there.
And as the German war effort disintegrated into chaos, high ranking Nazis fled the dying Reich through Austria and into Italy. Some made it, many didn’t. Killing Hitler’s Reich follows the chase and capture of some of the most notorious, such as Himmler’s Second in Command, Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
Long overlooked by historians, Killing Hitler’s Reich finally places this critical campaign in its proper historical place.
That could be a future purchase except for the price - £45.00
I just got my copy of Sand & Steel: The D-Day Invasions and the Liberation of France
by Peter Caddick-Adams. It is over 1,000 pages long, but I plan to read it. It looks terrific.
Only 10 months to go until the release of this post-45 book:
Emergency in Malaya: Soldiers, Spies and Victory in the Dying Days of Empire, 1948-1960Here's the blurb:
"The story of the Malayan Emergency remains a relatively unknown yet fascinating part of twentieth-century history. It represents the last real military victory led by Britain in the dying years of the British Empire – and its political aspects still resonate in the world today. From the inauspicious circumstances of 1948, when communist revolutionaries tried to leap into the vacuum left by the Japanese vacating Malaya at the end of the Second World War, and to overthrow the complacent vestiges of British colonial rule, the Emergency led to years of bloodshed, political uncertainty and turmoil in the stifling humidity of the Far Eastern jungles.
What emerged, eventually, was a triumph for pragmatism, policing, secret intelligence and military prowess combining in what is often cited as an exemplar of how to wage war against guerrilla forces. Yet for all that the success has been hailed, allegations of torture and other war crimes by the British have tarnished the achievements.
Emergency tells this complex story in a readable, engaging style, and will set the conflict in its full context, both militarily and politically, as well as socially, exploring the challenges facing a virtually bankrupt Britain. Drawing on archive material and the first-hand accounts of people who served in the Emergency, this is an accessible and comprehensive single-volume survey of this last great colonial war."
Should be an interesting book, thanks for posting the details Jonny.
A February 2020 release:
by Sinclair McKayDescription:
On Feb. 13, 1945 at 9:45 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death. Early the next day, American bombers finished off what was left.
Sinclair McKay’s The Fire and the Darkness is a pulse-pounding work of history that looks at the life of the city in the days before the attack, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. The Fire and the Darkness is powered by McKay’s reconstruction of this unthinkable terror from the points of view of the ordinary civilians: Margot Hille, an apprentice brewery worker; Anita Auerbach, a waitress; boys conscripted into the Hitler Youth; choristers of the Kreuzkirche choir; artists, factory floor managers, shop assistants, and classical musicians, as well as the Nazi officials stationed there. What happened that night in Dresden was calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over. Sinclair McKay’s brilliant Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness takes a complex, human, view of this terrible night and its aftermath in a gripping book that will be remembered long after the last page is turned.
Looks like a book that I will have to keep an eye out for, thanks for posting the details Jerome.
An October release:
by David O'KeefeDescription:
Centred around one of Canada's most storied regiments, Seven Days in Hell tells the epic story of the men from the Black Watch during the bloody battle for Verrières Ridge, a dramatic saga that unfolded just weeks after one of Canada's greatest military triumphs of the Second World War.
O'Keefe takes us on a heart-pounding journey at the sharp end of combat during the infamous Normandy campaign. More than 300 soldiers from the Black Watch found themselves pinned down, as the result of strategic blunders and the fog of war, and only a handful walked away. Thrust into a nightmare, Black Watch Highlanders who hailed from across Canada, the United States, Great Britain and the Allied world found themselves embroiled in a mortal contest against elite Waffen-SS units and grizzled Eastern Front veterans, where station, rank, race and religion mattered little, and only character won the day.
Drawing on formerly classified documents and rare first-person testimony of the men who fought on the front lines, O'Keefe follows the footsteps of the ghosts of Normandy, giving a voice yet again to the men who sacrificed everything in the summer of 1944.
Jerome wrote: "An October release: by David O'KeefeDescription:
Centred around one ..."
Looks interesting Jerome. I'm currently reading his book on the Dieppe Raid and he writes quite well.
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