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[Tony]

I've got Ghosts of Targets Past: The Lives and Losses of a Lancaster Crew in 1944-45 sat on my shelf waiting to be opened.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Some excellent recommendations Jonny, I'll add one more for operational histories:

The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book by Martin Middlebrook

Its an excellent reference for book for every raid conducted by RAF Bomber Command.

Plus these:

Ops - Victory at All Costs: On Operations Over Hitler's Reich With the Crews of Bomber Command 1939-1945, Their War--Their Words by Andrew Simpson

Reap the Whirlwind: The Untold Story of 6 Group, Canada's Bomber Force of World War II by Spencer Dunmore

[Matthew]

Jonny wrote: "You could try
Bomber Command
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940-1945
[bookcove..."



Thank you, Jonny Have you read Bomber Boys fighting back? any good?

[Matthew]

Jonny wrote: "You could try
Bomber Command
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940-1945
[bookcove..."



Thnaks Jonny, Is Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940-1945 any Good?

[Matthew]

Again thank You Jonny, tonny, Aussie Rick!!

Have's anyone read Kevin Wilson's books Bomber Boys: The RAF Offensive of 1943 , Journey's End ,Men of Air: The Doomed Youth of Bomber Command ?

[Marc]

Matthew wrote: "Ok I've searched amazon high and low and I can't find what I'm looking for so I'm asking for some help!

I'm looking for a book that cover British Lancasters and the Operational history ie raids a..."

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but here are some more recommendations:

Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory

Martin Bowman has a 5-volume set on the RAF's Bomber Command during World War II:







For a personal view, this one might work:

No Moon Tonight

And for a light and quick read there are these two:

Lancaster Squadrons 1942–43
Lancaster Squadrons 1944–45

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Matthew wrote: "Again thank You Jonny, tonny, Aussie Rick!!

Have's anyone read Kevin Wilson's books Bomber Boys: The RAF Offensive of 1943 , Journey's End ,Men of Air: The Doomed Youth of Bomber Command ?"

I've read some of Kevin Wilson's books, I think the first two out of his Bomber Command trilogy. They are decent books with lots of first-hand accounts.

[Jonny]

Matthew wrote: "Again thank You Jonny, tonny, Aussie Rick!!

Have's anyone read Kevin Wilson's books Bomber Boys: The RAF Offensive of 1943 , Journey's End ,Men of Air: The Doomed Youth of Bomber Command ?"

I've been through them a couple of times, as Rick says they're good accounts of Bomber Command's later war with plenty of personal experiences. Highly recommended.

[Dimitri]

Matthew wrote: "Ok I've searched amazon high and low and I can't find what I'm looking for so I'm asking for some help!

I'm looking for a book that cover British Lancasters and the Operational history ie raids a..."

Can't bear to leave you void. A lil' context might come from John Terraine. If not, he's always a fun read.


The Right Of The Line: The Royal Air Force In The European War 1939-1945

[Betsy]

Would anyone be able to suggest a book on African-American POWs during WWII? I found one on a Tuskeegee airman but no others. Thanks.

[Liz V.]

Wikipedia cites Africans and African Americans in Enemy Hands by David Killingray, though I didn't find it listed among his books on Goodreads.

[Betsy]

Thanks. I just found one on Africans fighting for Britain. Will have to keep looking.

[carl]

Was the airman Alex Jefferson? if not, there is a chapter on him in "We were each other's prisoners'. (ok I'm a few months behind on this reply)



Betsy wrote: "Would anyone be able to suggest a book on African-American POWs during WWII? I found one on a Tuskeegee airman but no others. Thanks."

[Liz V.]

Liz V. wrote: "Wikipedia cites Africans and African Americans in Enemy Hands by David Killingray, though I didn't find it listed among his books on Goodreads."
Looking at the citation again, the book is Prisoners-of-War and Their Captors in World War II, edited by Bob Moore, to which perhaps David Killingray contributed.

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and Pow, Revised Edition by Alexander Jefferson.

No Way Out: The War Story Of A Wwii Black Buffalo Soldier by Rothacker Smith

We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History Of World War II American And German Prisoners Of War by Lewis H. Carlson

[Colin]

Of interest, Johannes Steinhoff was Kommodore of JG-77 and his group had shot down some bombers and a couple of fighters in northern Italy. They were accustomed to collecting Allied airmen, but one was a black American pilot. Steinhoff knew enough to keep him out of the hands of others. After calling Galland, he and the other senior officers ensured that he was placed in a proper Luftwaffe operated temporary camp. I am not sure to this day which pilot that was, but would be interested to know.

[Paige]

Are there any other books about this besides the one written by Iris Chang? The Rape of Nanking

I ordered a couple of the Unit 731 books on Amazon, and was disappointed to say the least.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Paige,

None specifically on the 'Rape of Nanking' but recently I read this book on the Battle for Nanking which covered the Japanese atrocities as part of the bigger story of the battle:

Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City by Peter Harmsen

Another book on Unit 731 that may interest you but which I have not read yet is this new title:

Hidden Atrocities: Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial by Jeanne Guillemin

[Paige]

Thanks, Aussie Rick. I am leaning towards Peter Harmsen!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

His books are not too bad, he has another book on Shanghai:

Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze by Peter Harmsen

[A.L.]

Does anyone have recommendations for nonfiction books on refugees fleeing Europe as the Nazis took over early in the war? (Kind of like The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

A. L. wrote: "Does anyone have recommendations for nonfiction books on refugees fleeing Europe as the Nazis took over early in the war? (Kind of like The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)"

That's a good one A.L. I'm not aware of any but I am sure some of the group members may have a few ideas, fingers crossed!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

This one might be of interest:

Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz Scheyer

[Manray9]

A. L. wrote: "Does anyone have recommendations for nonfiction books on refugees fleeing Europe as the Nazis took over early in the war? (Kind of like The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)"

Arthur Koestler wrote an account of his time incarcerated in France after the Spanish Civil War and his eventual escape to England as an illegal alien. It gives the flavor of the time without the specifics of fleeing the Nazis.

Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler.

[A.L.]

Thank you, Aussie Rick and Manray9! I will take a look at those!

[Paige]

A. L. wrote: "Thank you, Aussie Rick and Manray9! I will take a look at those!"

Kindertransport
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Sarinka: A Sephardic Holocaust Journey: From Yugoslavia to an Internment Camp in America

There is a book that I am anticipating Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey that you might consider ordering when it is published.

Felix Salten, the author of Bambi, is considered an early refugee. There is information of his plight online but not in a book alone.
Not sure if Albert Einstein would be considered a refugee, I'll leave that up to you.

This does not fall directly into the category you are asking for, but you might find some refugee stories through researching The White Rose Resistance group and other resistance groups. I do not own any nonfiction on resistance groups, but I'm sure there are publications out there.

Maybe looking into the Aufbau archives as well.

[Bev]

A. L. wrote: "Does anyone have recommendations for nonfiction books on refugees fleeing Europe as the Nazis took over early in the war? (Kind of like The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)"

I'll check my bookshelves.

[carl]

Well not the whole book, but a couple of interesting chapters ... covers various emigres to Southern California and Hollywood in the 30s and 40s. Chapters 12 & 13

Ich bin ein Sudkalifornier: Life and Art Among the Emigres and

From Catastrophe to Convenant: Jews and Christians in exile together

The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s

[A.L.]

Paige wrote: "A. L. wrote: "Thank you, Aussie Rick and Manray9! I will take a look at those!"

Kindertransport
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
[book:Sarink..."

Thank you for those ideas, Paige!

[A.L.]

Bev wrote: "A. L. wrote: "Does anyone have recommendations for nonfiction books on refugees fleeing Europe as the Nazis took over early in the war? (Kind of like [book:The Story of the Trapp Family Singers|554..."

Thanks, Bev!

[A.L.]

carl wrote: "Well not the whole book, but a couple of interesting chapters ... covers various emigres to Southern California and Hollywood in the 30s and 40s. Chapters 12 & 13

Ich bin ein Sudkalifornier: Life..."

Thank you, Carl! I'll take a look!

[Colin]

See Bruce Henderson's Sons and Soldiers. My blurb is on the back with Leon Panetta's. Good book, he just secured the film rights.

[David]

We’re In America Now: A Survivor’s Stories might fit what you are looking for...

[David]

Also check out From Holocaust to Harvard: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom...

[A.L.]

Colin wrote: "See Bruce Henderson's Sons and Soldiers. My blurb is on the back with Leon Panetta's. Good book, he just secured the film rights."

Thanks for the suggestion, Colin! I really enjoyed Henderson's book Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II. Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler sounds really good.

[A.L.]

David wrote: "Also check out From Holocaust to Harvard: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom..."

Thanks for both of those suggestions, David! I read a textbook by John G. Stoessinger when I was in college. It mentioned part of his story, so I would love to read a more detailed version.

[Marilyn]

I thought I had downloaded “Sons and Soldiers “. I’ll do it now. Right now I’m reading “Sand and Steel” by Peter Caddick-Adams. Can’t wait to finish to see who won. 😉

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Marilyn wrote: "I thought I had downloaded “Sons and Soldiers “. I’ll do it now. Right now I’m reading “Sand and Steel” by Peter Caddick-Adams. Can’t wait to finish to see who won. 😉"

Taking a guess, the good guys<?>

[Marilyn]

Very good! When I was in college the professor (a veteran pilot of the war) said to us, “Seriously, you kids don’t know how close you came to speaking German.” Re: Sand and Steel, I am enjoying it immensely. So much more info available now to read that wasn’t available before.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Marilyn wrote: "Very good! When I was in college the professor (a veteran pilot of the war) said to us, “Seriously, you kids don’t know how close you came to speaking German.” Re: Sand and Steel, I am enjoying it ..."

Its a very good book Marilyn so I'm glad to hear you are enjoying it.

[carl]

Yes just finished Henderson's "Rescue at Los Banos" a compelling read !

[Colin]

Bruce writes good books

[Boudewijn]

Am currently reading (listening ...) to a general Marshall biography. Any suggestions on a biography of general McArthur to follow it up with?

[John]

I read American Caesar quite some time ago. I thought it was good.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Likely a tad dated but I remember liking American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

I also quite enjoyed "American Caesar" as well.

American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester

There is this new book that has picked up some good reviews:

Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior by Arthur Herman

Plus I have a copy of this book on Douglas MacArthur which I am yet to read:

Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life and Legend of Douglas MacArthur by Geoffrey Perrett

[Eric]

Any recommendations on life under German occupation especially in Poland, Holland, and/or France? Thanks in advance for the suggestions.

[Manray9]

Eric wrote: "Any recommendations on life under German occupation especially in Poland, Holland, and/or France? Thanks in advance for the suggestions."

Eric: For a good account of life in occupied Holland, I recommend

The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the Wartorn Netherlands by Kristen Den Hartog.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Here are a few suggestions in regards to occupied France:

France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian T. Jackson

Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940-1944 by Ian Ousby

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Eric wrote: "Any recommendations on life under German occupation especially in Poland, Holland, and/or France? Thanks in advance for the suggestions."

Germany did not occupy Leningrad in part because Hitler's intention was to starve it to death. If you will allow for that variation in your request, this is at once uplifting and horrific; Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

[Manray9]

Eric wrote: "Any recommendations on life under German occupation especially in Poland, Holland, and/or France? Thanks in advance for the suggestions."

Eric: Halik Kochanski's The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is excellent on Poland during the war.