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Jun 23, 2019 05:05PM
The Black Watch isn't Canadian. I must be missing something here.
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Elliot wrote: "The Black Watch isn't Canadian. I must be missing something here."The Canadians had a Black Watch Regiment:
https://www.blackwatchcanada.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bla...
'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Elliot wrote: "The Black Watch isn't Canadian. I must be missing something here."The Canadians had a Black Watch Regiment:
https://www.blackwatchcanada.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bl..."
Good to know. Thanks!
My pleasure, anywhere you find a Scotsman you'll find a bit if Scotland :)
Here's a title I just now heard about: The British Partisan: Capture, Imprisonment and Escape in Wartime Italy by Michael Ross
American Aircraft Development of the Second World War: Research, Experimentation and Modification 1939-1945 by William Norton
"This book presents a little-known aspect of America’s aircraft development of World War II in emphasizing unique and non-production aircraft or modifications for the purpose of research and experimentation in support of aircraft development, advancing technology, or meeting narrow combat needs. It describes some important areas of American aviation weapons maturation under the pressure of war with emphasis on advanced technology and experimental aircraft configurations.
"The great value of the work is illumination of little known or minimally documented projects that significantly advanced the science of aeronautics, propulsion, aircraft systems, and ordnance, but did not go into production. Each chapter introduces another topic by examining the state-of-the-art at the beginning of the war, advantages pursued, and results achieved during the conflict. This last is the vehicle to examine the secret modifications or experiments that are little known. Consequently, this is an important single-source for a fascinating and diverse collection of wartime efforts never before brought together under a single cover. The 'war stories' are those of military staffs, engineering teams, and test pilots struggling against short schedules and tight resource constraints to push the bounds of technology. These epic and sometimes life-threatening endeavors were as vital as actual combat operations."
Two more interesting books, thanks for posting the details Gregg & Komet.
This September 2019 (UK) release may interest a few of our group members:
The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible by Saul DavidDescription:
In December of 1943, as Nazi forces sprawled around the world and the future of civilization hung in the balance, a group of highly trained U.S. and Canadian soldiers from humble backgrounds was asked to do the impossible: capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The men were a rough-and-ready group, assembled from towns nested in North America's most unforgiving terrain, where many of them had struggled through the Great Depression relying on canny survival skills and the fearlessness of youth. Brought together by the promise to take part in the military's most elite missions, they formed a unique brotherhood tested first by the crucible of state-of-the-art training-including skiing, rock climbing, and parachuting-and then tragically by the vicious fighting they would face.
The early battle in the Italian theatre for the strategic fort cost the heroic U.S.-Canadian commando unit-their first special forces unit ever assembled-enormous casualties. Yet the victory put them in position to continue their drive into Italy, setting the stage for the Allies' resurgence toward victory in WWII. The unit, with its vast range of capabilities and mission-specific exercises, became a model for the "Green Berets" and other special forces groups that would go on to accomplish America's most challenging undertakings behind enemy lines.
Knitting first-hand accounts seamlessly into the narrative-drawing on interviews with surviving members and their families; the memoirs, letters, and diaries of Forcemen; and declassified documents in the American, Canadian, British, and German archives -- The Force tells a story that is as deeply personal as it is inspiring.
Hailed as "a monumental achievement!" (Douglas Brinkley) and "an essential part of anyone's library" (Doug Stanton), The Force tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers -- mountainmen, lumberjacks, hunters, and explorers -- who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible WWII mission.
For those keen on books covering the Eastern Front during WW2 this September 2019 release may be of interest:
Prelude to Stalingrad: The Red Army's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus in World War II by Igor SdvizhkovDescription:
In the summer of 1942, the Germans launched Case Blue, a strategic offensive into the Caucasus, a region rich in oil, birthplace of Stalin, and gateway to Iran and the Middle East, where the Germans could obtain more oil, cut off a vital corridor for Lend-Lease supplies to the Soviets, threaten the British Empire, and even perhaps link up with the Japanese (then advancing in Burma toward India). It was a pivotal moment of World War II, which history remembers primarily for the titanic clash at Stalingrad during the fall and early winter of 1942-43, but less well understood is the series of summer operations that led to and shaped that turning-point battle. In Prelude to Stalingrad, Igor Sdvizhkov reconstructs the fighting in the northern sector of the Case Blue offensive, near the city of Voronezh. Using German documents as well as previously classified Soviet sources, Sdvizhkov zooms in on the nine days of see-saw fighting―involving tens of thousands of men and hundreds of tanks and guns on both sides―that threatened to derail the German offensive north of Stalingrad. In response to the withdrawals and mass surrenders on the Eastern Front during the war’s early months a year before, Stalin ordered that no ground be given up, that his armies fight instead of pulling back, ensuring that the fighting would be brutal. Ultimately unsuccessful in denying the Germans a bridgehead on the Don River, the Red Army inflicted heavy losses, eroding the Wehrmacht’s fighting power before it even reached Stalingrad.
A note of caution though, this new release may be a paperback edition of this 2017 HB release:
Confronting Case Blue: Briansk Front's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942 by Igor' Sdvizhkov
Wonder if he covers the covert Brandenburg detachment led by Adrian von Folkersam in taking the oil fields, even if only briefly.
Colin wrote: "Wonder if he covers the covert Brandenburg detachment led by Adrian von Folkersam in taking the oil fields, even if only briefly."Might make an interesting footnote Colin - shame it was such a waste of resources.
Colin wrote: "Wonder if he covers the covert Brandenburg detachment led by Adrian von Folkersam in taking the oil fields, even if only briefly."And if he doesn't, there's always the new Brandenburger book in the "Special Forces" thread. My best friend & WWII mentor was impressed with it.
The paperback edition of this new book has just started appearing in the bookshops over here in Australia:
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945 by Florian HuberDescription:
One of the last untold stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but by thousands of ordinary Germans, in the war's closing period. Some of these were provoked by straightforward terror in the face of advancing Soviet troops or by personal guilt, but many could not be explained in such relatively straightforward terms.
Florian Huber's remarkable book, a bestseller in Germany, confronts this terrible phenomenon. Other countries have suffered defeat, but not responded in the same way. What drove whole families, who in many cases had already withstood years of deprivation, aerial bombing and deaths in battle, to do this?
In a brilliantly written, thoughtful and original work, Huber sees the entire project of the Third Reich as a sequence of almost overwhelming emotions and scenes for many Germans. He describes some of the key events which shaped the period from the First World War to the end of the Second, showing how the sheer intensity, allure and ferocity of Hitler's regime swept along millions. Its sudden end was, for many of them, simply impossible to absorb.
I will be on the lookout for that one Rick.
4triplezed wrote: "I will be on the lookout for that one Rick."I've seen it in a few local book shops and it looks quite interesting.
A March 2020 release:
by Joseph WheelanDescription:
The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. The island of Okinawa was just 350 miles from mainland Japan, and the Allies planned to use it as its forward base for its invasion.
On the island, nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers resisted the US-led assault with suicidal tenacity from a Gibraltar of hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, U.S. troops fought ferociously, battered the Japanese with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. The battle also marked the apotheosis of kamikaze air attacks, which sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others and killed almost 5,000 seamen.
When the brutal slugfest ended, more than 125,00 enemy had been killed -- and 7,500 American ground troops had died. And tragically, at least hundred thousand Okinawa civilians died violently while trapped between the battling armies. The Japanese had succeeded in preventing invasion, but the bloody campaign had convinced US leaders that only an atomic bomb could end the war.
Utilizing vivid accounts written by US combatants, along with previously unused Japanese sources, Joseph Wheelan brings a strong human dimension to this rich story of the war's last great battle waged against an determined enemy and extreme conditions.
One to keep an eye out for, thanks for posting the details Jerome.
The Volunteer: One Man’s Mission to Lead an Underground Army in Auschwitz and Expose the Greatest Nazi CrimesReview from The Spectator uk
On 14 October 1942, the 23 Swiss members of the International Committee of the Red Cross met in Geneva to decide whether or not to go public with what they then knew about Auschwitz and the Nazis’ extermination plans. When they emerged two hours later they had voted, almost unanimously, to remain silent. As did the US state department, the British government and the Vatican — all in possession of the same evidence of mass murder across German-occupied Europe.
The reasons given ranged from the danger of reprisals against Allied PoWs to the need to focus on military targets, and thus shorten the war. And, most importantly, because of a profound unwillingness to believe what they had been told. It was not until late December that public statements of condemnation were made, and Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the Nazis were ‘pursuing a bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination’. Even then, no action was taken.
Exactly who knew what when about the Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, debates, reports and articles since the end of the second world war. Jack Fairweather, a former war correspondent for the Washington Post, has now unearthed remarkable, long-neglected material about the early days of Auschwitz, and how, from the camp’s very beginnings in 1940, information was emerging regularly about its murderous purpose.
In 2011 Fairweather learned about a band of Polish resisters who had repeatedly risked death to get accurate documentation about the killings in Auschwitz to the underground in Warsaw and from there to the Allies in London. A report by a man called Witold Pilecki had come to light in the 1960s, but it was some time before its coded entries were deciphered and not until after the collapse of the Soviet Union that more material was discovered buried in Poland’s state archives. It was only then that Pilecki’s son Andrzej obtained a large briefcase containing not just his father’s files but his codes. The story they tell is extraordinary.
At the time of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Pilecki was living as a small landowner near the border between East Prussia and Lithuania, and was married with two children. Having been mobilised to fight a doomed war against the invaders, he helped set up an information network on German atrocities. As news reached him of a camp being established at Auschwitz, where prisoners were dying at an alarming rate, Pilecki decided to get himself arrested and sent there to gather intelligence.
Between September 1941 and April 1943, when he escaped in order to convey himself the news of what was happening, Pilecki, who as a Polish prisoner was employed in a variety of labouring jobs, sent out report after report via couriers, other brave men who often died for their efforts. Full of statistics, they detailed the number of deaths, as well as facts about the arrival of Jewish families, the trains, the typhus, the starvation, the crematorium and the gas chambers, though it took Pilecki a long time to comprehend that Auschwitz was in fact the epicentre for the Nazi programme of extermination.
These reports, received by the Warsaw underground and got out to London and Washington, were for the most part dismissed as rumours. Whether bombing the camp (something Pilecki urged, on the grounds that it might, at the very least, give a number of prisoners a chance to escape) would in fact have changed anything is hard to say, and the Allies were in any case hard pressed militarily. But as Fairweather shows, there was no desire to believe them, particularly as the horrific killings were often watered down in the telling. ‘Poles,’ observed one man at the foreign office, ‘are being very irritating over this.’ An American official spoke of the documentation as being ‘too Semitic’. It was not until April 1944, when two Slovak Jewish prisoners escaped from Auschwitz with very precise descriptions of the gas chambers, that the world finally took notice — though still nothing was done. But, as Fairweather convincingly notes, it was Pilecki and his group of brave and tenacious friends who laid the groundwork.
Pilecki’s own story is tragic, and Fairweather tells it well. A man of exceptional courage, he spent the rest of the war fighting with the Polish underground, took part in the Warsaw uprising against the Germans and was eventually accused of treason and put on trial in 1948 by the Polish communists and shot. Since 2000, when an account of his life was published in Poland, he has been considered a national hero.
What distinguishes The Volunteer is Fairweather’s meticulous attention to accuracy. He spent five years in the archives in Poland, the UK, the USA, Israel and Germany unearthing more family papers and interviewing the surviving men who had fought with Pilecki. His notes and bibliography run to almost 100 pages, and he uses speculation only very sparingly and when the facts seem irrefutable.
The fascination of his book lies not just in the story of Witold Pilecki and his brave friends, nor in its punctilious chronicle of the information reaching the Allies, but the light it throws on Auschwitz’s early days, before it turned into a mass-killing centre for Europe’s Jews. If it sometimes seems as though there is nothing left to uncover about the Holocaust, Fairweather’s gripping book proves otherwise.
Tim wrote: "The Volunteer: One Man’s Mission to Lead an Underground Army in Auschwitz and Expose the Greatest Nazi Crimes"Ah yes, the man who wanted to go to Auschwitz.
An October release:
by Kaushik RoyDescription:
Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not. Focusing on the learning culture of the British Imperial Forces, it looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. The volume highlights the hitherto unexplored yet key role of the British Indian Army, the largest volunteer force in the world. It also introduces ‘learning culture’ as a heuristic device. Further, it goes on to analyse military innovation on the battlefield, in victory and defeat.
A major intervention in the study of the Second World War, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, especially British and German, battlefield history and defence and strategic studies.
Looks like something a bit different, thanks for posting the details Jerome.
Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich by Mary M. Lane was full of information.Though at times overwhelming with details of fine arts and the artists themselves, it was interesting and I found myself highlighting a lot.
To be published September 10, 2019.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just found out about this one yesterday. Slated for an October release:
Alarmstart South and Final Defeat: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Mediterranean Theatre 1941-44 and Normandy, Norway and Germany 1944-45
Something light for October... what's everybody's take on this new Osprey series "Air Campaign" anyway ?[no cover]Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries by Steven J. Zaloga
SYNOPSIS:
Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). At the time, the Romanian Ploesti oil fields produced about a third of all Axis oil, and was Germany's single most important fuel source. In the summer of 1943, the USAAF decided to stage a major raid on Ploesti from air bases in Libya. The resulting Operation Tidal Wave raid on 1 August 1943 was one of the costliest to date, losing 53 aircraft, about a third of the starting force. Of the more than 150 bombers that took part in the raid, only 88 B-24s returned to Libya, 55 of which were damaged. On the other hand, of the 17 Medals of Honor awarded to US soldiers and airmen from Pearl Harbor in 1941 to D-Day in 1944, 5 were awarded to pilots of the Tidal Wave mission in recognition of their extraordinary performance. Although undoubtedly bold and heroic, the mission had questionable results. Initial assessments argued that the mission caused 40% of the refinery capacity at Ploesti to be lost but subsequent studies concluded that the damage was quickly repaired and that output had exceeded August levels within a month.
This new study examines the raid in detail, exploring the reasons why its dubious success came at such a high price. Supported by maps, diagrams, and full-colour artwork including battlescenes and bird's-eye views, this is the full story of the audacious Ploesti raid of 1943.
Just finished Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal. It is a must own for those in the classroom, since it will provide great comparative literature excerpts from this time. There are countless entries of her babbling about boys or parties, but that's what you get with a teenage diary.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It is set to release September 24, 2019.
Dimitri wrote: "Something light for October... what's everybody's take on this new Osprey series "Air Campaign" anyway ?[no cover]Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries..."
I have several of the Air Campaign books, but haven't read any of them yet. An author I know has referred to Osprey's books as the "Cliff Notes of History", and he's not too far off I think.
A new release that I may have to get for my library:
Les Knight: Australia's Dambuster by Marcus FieldingDescription:
Les Knight, a young man from Camberwell, Victoria was like many who joined to serve his country during the Second World War. But unlike many others his skill as a Lancaster pilot enabled him to successfully breach the Eder Dam in the now infamous Dambusters Raid. At the age of 22 Les was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and became a national hero.
But his war service continued and four months after the Dambusters Raid his aircraft was badly damaged. On this occasion Les' skill and bravery were again on display as he held the stricken plane steady to allow his seven crewmates to be able to bale out.
Then, as he searched for a place to ditch the aircraft, he steered clear of a Dutch village in order to avoid any civilian injuries. The aircraft hit the ground hard, cartwheeled and Les was killed.
Five of the seven crew members were able to evade being captured by the Germans and with the help of underground movements were returned to England. The other two were captured and detained in POW camps until war's end. All seven returned home to continue their lives, marry and have children. Their lives are Les' legacy.
This is the remarkable story of one brave Australian who answered his country's calling and who demonstrated courage far beyond expectation. His gravestone carries the inscription 'Let us be Worthy'. The village of Den Ham have never forgotten the bravery of this young Australian pilot. His grave has always been immaculately kept.
Publishers web site with some links to a few video clips and documentaries:
https://www.echobooks.com.au/military...
'Aussie Rick' wrote: "A new release that I may have to get for my library:Les Knight: Australia's Dambuster by Marcus FieldingDes..."
Highly likely to wind up on my shelf too.
I wondered if we could start a new section on 'Women in WW II"? I have mainly been reading from this perspective in 2019, Julie Kelly's "Light over London", "Lillac Girls". More on my reading list. Young women were very successful ally spies before the Normandy landings, as young men were usually caught by the Germans.
As I expected there was no response to this suggestion. Does this say something about the site? Aussie Rick, can I suggest a theme? This is, books about events or activities that were one step back from the front line but still could only have happened in wartime. A theme like that would include women's role within it but have a wider scope. As an example, I have lately been caught up in 'A Town Like Alice', Neville Shute's brilliant story of a group wandering around Malaya during the Japanese occupation, and after the war in Australia. It's a novel but closely based on fact.There was so much more to the experience of World War Two than the actual battles and strategies, and many of those experiences were just as dangerous as front line battle itself (Think of SOE). And there is a very rich literature to go at in this area.
I also suggested a women's role focus group as well for WW II.
At the end of very year I ask group members for suggestions for the following years theme reads, you can suggest your idea for women in WW2 then if you like. Also I can't react to each post straight away as I am on a different time zone, usually while you guys are posting/chatting away I am asleep. Within the group there are pages/threads that easily can encompass the role of women during the war:
Home Front:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Intel & Special Forces
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Plus there is no stopping you from posting details or discussing the role of women in any of the threads of group theme reads as long as it fits the general theme.
I will look at setting up a specific thread for women in WW2 and let you know the details.
'Aussie Rick' wrote: "At the end of very year I ask group members for suggestions for the following years theme reads, you can suggest your idea for women in WW2 then if you like. Also I can't react to each post strai..."
I think you're doing a great job, AR. There are numerous places in the group to post about the roles of women in WW II.
Thanks MR9, much appreciated.
There are so many underlying investigations that can be looked at about WW II that are very important historically for the present and future, and my Uncle Fred often talked about the following:1) Underlying causes of WW II - Psychological studies of "group think".
2) Other key players in the War, including women, that to date have not been given as much attention as they should.
3) The refugee crises that swirled around the entire WW II theatres globally, and the amazing response to these crises without computers.
4) International and US policies that hindered or helped the advent of WW II and afterwards, post- WW I, the Marshal Plan, and the MacArthur Plan.
5) Non-profit groups that helped the WW II efforts etc.
My Uncle, Dr. Fred M. Stoker, went to England at age 17 to learn how to become an aviator in WW II. He eventually joined a team that flew missions over Berlin, and was a tail gunner. Raised in rural east Texas, his earlier hunting experience helped make him a sure shot. When he first started flying missions, there were no armed escort planes. I learned about WW II at his knee. Only 1 in 10 men made it back from each mission, and he sadly described to me how the cots of men that did not make it back were silently rolled up, and their personals quietly disappeared.
He met the number of missions he was required, but the number of missions was raised at that point. In battle, surrounding US planes were shot and, "disintegrated into confetti".
Once, his plane was shot down, but the pilot was able to land without any serious injuries to his crew, except a broken arm. The crew, including my uncle, landed in territory that had only been occupied by the Germans the day before. They slept in beds that Germans had slept in the night before. Uncle Fred often talked of the team's wonderful pilot.
As a Baptist young man, my uncle did not smoke, drink, womanize, or play cards. The American Red Cross were very nice to him. They found English families that would open their homes during his leave. At one point, he stayed with the family at Raynham Hall, which turns out to be one of our families' ancestral homes.
On returning home, my uncle eventually joined the American Red Cross due to their many kindnesses to him. Eventually, he served on the American Red Cross National Board of Directors. Out of reverence to him, I also work with the American Red Cross. He became a college professor, and eventually the President of his college, and gave back a great deal to his community and nation.
After he got back to the US, my uncle had trouble watching news reels at the movies, and he usually had to leave if they were played. He was very quiet for years about his experiences. Later in his life, he finally watched the movie, "The Memphis Belle" with me, but tears silently rolled down his cheeks.
I was one of the younger kids in our family, but I will never forget Uncle Fred's war record, his poignant stories, or the points he was most interested in after WW II. Today, I am greatly concerned about the lack of understanding and knowledge about WW II by younger generations, and it does not bode well.
I don't know if anyone has added this title to the list:
A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army: The Fight Across Europe with the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division in World War II
Gregg wrote: "I don't know if anyone has added this title to the list:[book..."Bob replied: Add to the list the award winning Kindle WWII memoir: The Gift of Significance; GI Joe's Extraordinary Story of War
Gregg wrote: "I don't know if anyone has added this title to the list:[book..."Add to the list the award-winning Kindle WWII memoir: The Gift of Significance: GI Joe's Extraordinary Story of War
Robert wrote: "Add to the list the award-winning Kindle WWII memoir: The Gift of Significance: GI Joe's Extraordinary Story of War|..."
The Gift of Significance: GI Joe's American Story of War by Robert DeBard looks pretty good.
For those interested here is an article on General Hermann Balck by Stephen Robinson, author of "Panzer Commander", which has just been released this month:https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/0...
Panzer Commander Hermann Balck: Germany's Master Tactician by Stephen Robinson
Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division by Don M. Fox is getting a sequel!"Final Battles of Patton’s Vanguard
The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, 1945–1946"
It's avaliable for pre-order, released next year & the details on the publisher's site or so scarce there isn't even a page count or synopsis...[will need GR librarian to complete]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
A May 2020 release:
by Victor “Tory” FailmezgerDescription
In September 1943, following wave upon wave of Allied bombing, Italy announced an armistice with the Allies. Shortly afterwards, the German army disarmed Italian forces and, despite military and partisan resistance, quickly overran Rome: City in Terror is a comprehensive history of the nine-month-long German occupation of the city that followed.
The Gestapo wasted no time enforcing an iron grip on the city once the occupation was in place. They swiftly eliminated the Carabinieri, the Italian paramilitary force, rounded up thousands of Italians to build extensive defensive lines across Italy, and, at 5am one morning, arrested more than 1,000 Roman Jews and sent them to Auschwitz. Resistance, however, remained strong. To aid the thousands of Allied POWs who escaped after the dissolution of the Italian army, priests, diplomats, and escaped ex-POWs operating out of the Vatican formed a nationwide organization called the “Escape Line.” More than 4,000 Allied POWs scattered all over Italy were sheltered, clothed, and fed by these courageous Italians, whose lives were forfeit if their activities were discovered. Meanwhile, as food became scarce and the Gestapo began to raid on homes and institutions, Italian partisan fighters launched attack after attack on German military units in the city, with the threat of execution never far away.
This is the compelling story of an Eternal City brought low, of the terror and hardship of occupation, and of the disparate army of partisan fighters, displaced aristocrats, Vatican priests, Allied POWs, and ordinary citizens who battled for the liberation of Rome.
Jerome wrote: "A May 2020 release:
by Victor “Tory” Failmezger "A first time Osprey author. Am a bit sceptical.
Tim wrote: "The Volunteer: One Man’s Mission to Lead an Underground Army in Auschwitz and Expose the Greatest Nazi CrimesReview from The Spectator uk
On 14 October 1942, the 23 Swiss members..."
'Aussie Rick' wrote: "One to keep an eye out for, thanks for posting the details Jerome."
This sounds fascinating!
Jerome wrote: "A May 2020 release: by Victor “Tory” FailmezgerDescription
In September 1943, following wave upon wave of Allied bombing, Ital..."
I would be interested in reading this one. When we were in Italy we visited the Museum of Liberation on Via Tasso in the building where the Gestapo held and tortured their prisoners.
'Aussie Rick' wrote: "For those interested here is an article on General Hermann Balck by Stephen Robinson, author of "Panzer Commander", which has just been released this month:https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/08/..."
Thanks Rick, really interesting commentary on the post war clean up of German military history
This is marked for release in Oktober, but Peter Caddick-Adams shows on his FB the paperback's already piled up at the Bastogne War Museum....Correction: HB release was in June.
Consensus of reviewers: jumps around. Not a good sign at 256 pages only.
The Battle of the Bulge: The Allies' Greatest Conflict on the Western Front by Martin King
Dimitri wrote: "This is marked for release in Oktober, but Peter Caddick-Adams shows on his FB the paperback's already piled up at the Bastogne War Museum....Correction: HB release was in June.
Consensus of revi..."
I'd think it would be hard to beat Peter Caddick-Adams own book on the subject; "Snow & Steel".
'Aussie Rick' wrote: "The paperback edition of this new book has just started appearing in the bookshops over here in Australia:[bookcover:Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945|43685..."
Thanks for the heads up on the Rick. Right up my alley.
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