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[Manray9]

Jerome wrote: "Would any know of any books on the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945, or on Soviet policy toward Japan during the war in general?"

Jerome wrote: "Would any know of any books on the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945, or on Soviet policy toward Japan during the war in general?"

Can't help with '45, but this is well thought of:

Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin Coox.

[Jerome]

Nice, these look rather good (Halsam's book looks pricey for 208 pages, geez).

Another request: would anyone know of any good books on either the dambuster raids or the air raids on the V-2 site at Peenemünde?

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

I thought you'd say that on Haslam!! On Peenemunde I'd recommend one of my favourite military authors:

The Peenemunde Raid: The Night of 17-18 August 1943 by Martin Middlebrook

[Jerome]

Nice, thanks.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

100% with Geevee, hard to be Martin Middlebrook!

[Dj]

I just picked up:

For the tidy net sum of 0.00 by trading in some books at Bob's Books at the Beach.

Also got

for ten bucks, since it made me feel nostalgic, but I will take the book over going back for a visit.

[Dimitri]

Dj wrote: "I just picked up:

For the tidy net sum of 0.00 by trading in some books at Bob's Books at the Beach.

Also..."

A free copy of the wages of destruction, lucky you :)

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Dj wrote: "I just picked up:

For the tidy net sum of 0.00 by trading in some books at Bob's Books at the Beach.

Also..."

Dj that has to be steal of the month for such a well regarded book!

[Feliks]

Following Aussie Rick's instructions!

'I'm looking for a book' ...I read once, it was the biography of John Dortch Lewis, The 'Cooler King' which Steve McQueen's character was based from (in that you know...that film they made..cant recall the name.. :P)

Just want to make sure I have it listed correctly in my shelves. Google and Wikipedia are both too bland/unhelpful in this case, they give me news articles from The UK Guardian about Lewis' death from pancreatic cancer.

Halp!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Not a book I know but hopefully someone in the group will be able to help you Feliks.

[Dj]

Not books, per se, but these should help get you a running start.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peo...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknew...

http://www.engagingnews.us/select/Eri...

[Feliks]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Not a book I know but hopefully someone in the group will be able to help you Feliks."

If there's anyone on earth who can generate the answer to this question, they will surely be in this group. This is the place to be for WWII factoids. Never seen the beat of it. There's plenty of WWII websites but not live, responsive, people-- as found here..

p.s. thank you DJ for those links..will follow when have a moment

[Feliks]

I have another for y' all

I was once reading one of the early novels of W.E.B. Griffin and it was set in Korea, or perhaps Vietnam.

In one chapter, the scene is an army base during a lull in the campaign. Soldiers and officers are fighting boredom, lounging around with not much to do.

One particular officer is re-reading his favorite manual of military tactics for the 3rd or 4th time. It is heavily annotated and underlined.

One day a fellow officer strikes up a friendship with him and, finding that each other are both avid readers and that both in possession of a couple of titles, eagerly bring them to borrow from each other.

Except, when they each produce their paperbacks, they discover that they favor the exact same titles. They laugh and realize that at least now they have someone to discuss their two-favorite-books-of-all-time with, which is better than getting a new paperback to flip through.

My question is: what were these two technical manuals which impressed these fictional characters so much?

I hope I haven't asked this before, around here..

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

That's a good one Feliks, if I still had my W.E.B. Griffin novels I'd go check them out to see if I could find the answer but alas they all went in the last book cull :(

[Gerald]

I am looking for a book on resident aliens in other countries or naturalized citizens of other countries (for example, a naturalized American from Italy or an Italian resident alien in the United States) who found themselves in their countries of origin when those countries entered World War II and who were drafted into those countries' armed forces. Any ideas?

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Interesting subject matter Gerald, I hope you find some books of interest on the subject and a few recommendations from some of the group members.

[Jerome]

Here's some:

[Gerald]

Jerome wrote: "Here's some:


[bookcover:Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States in World War ..."

Thanks, Jerome.

[Gerald]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Interesting subject matter Gerald, I hope you find some books of interest on the subject and a few recommendations from some of the group members."

Thanks, Rick. The subject came to mind because I am reading a book on the Battle of Camp Matapan in 1941. When sailors from the British destroyer Jervis rescued an Italian sailor, the latter bellowed in an unmistakably American accent, "I'm f------ fed up with this war!" He was a resident alien in the United States who happened to be visiting his family when Italy declared war on Great Britain in June 1940. Of course, he received an invitation to join Il Duce's armed forces.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

That's a great story Gerald. I read something similar in a book recently covering the war in the desert when some Australians captured a number of Italian soldiers and one of the prisoners yelled out to one of the diggers by name. The Italian use to live and work in the same small town in Victoria and use to cut his hair.

[Gerald]

I cannot get the story told in Antony Beevor's "The Second World War" out of my head. A Korean was drafted by the Imperial Japanese Army, captured by the Soviets during the Manchurian border fighting in 1938, and thrown into the Gulag. The Soviets press ganged him into the Red Army, and he was captured at Kharkov in 1943. The Wehrmacht then press ganged him and sent him to Normandy, where he was captured. He was imprisoned in camps in Great Britain and the United States and was allowed to stay in the U.S. when he was freed in 1947. He married and fathered three daughters who did not know of his adventures when he died in 1993. They found out only when a journalist at work on a story contacted them and gave them more information then he or she got from them.

And to think that all that the poor b------ probably ever wanted was to be left alone.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Another great story Gerald! That's the one WW2 book of Beevor's I haven't read yet. I better try and make some room for it soon by the sounds of it!

[Gerald]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Another great story Gerald! That's the one WW2 book of Beevor's I haven't read yet. I better try and make some room for it soon by the sounds of it!"

The book is a good one, and I recommend it. In the 1930s and 40s, the United States had many more "off the boat" Germans, Italians, and Japanese than it has now, and I suspect that a number of them found themselves in the same situation that our sailor friend did. When you look at immigration and travel worldwide, you can see how a lot of people who had made their lives in other countries and just happened to be visiting their countries of origin when the latter became engulfed in the war got more than they expected from a trip home.

[Dimitri]

Gerald wrote: "I cannot get the story told in Antony Beevor's "The Second World War" out of my head. A Korean was drafted by the Imperial Japanese Army, captured by the Soviets during the Manchurian border fighti..."

There's a good movie about this :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606384/

[Dimitri]

Gerald wrote: "I am looking for a book on resident aliens in other countries or naturalized citizens of other countries (for example, a naturalized American from Italy or an Italian resident alien in the United S..."

are you also interested in the internment of the nisei ?

[Colin]

My friend Harald Bauer was born in NY to an American mother, German diplomatic father. When the family returned to Germany before reassignment, the war started. Harald was a 15 year old flak gunner, who then became a 16 year old He-162 Volksjaeger jet pilot, ferrying planes to JG-1 under another old friend, Col. Herbert Ihlefeld. He was shot down by a Mustang, wounded, captured, placed in a US field hospital, and then reunited with his parents, and came back to America. He is still alive living in California.

[Gerald]

Dimitri wrote: "Gerald wrote: "I am looking for a book on resident aliens in other countries or naturalized citizens of other countries (for example, a naturalized American from Italy or an Italian resident alien ..."

Yes, but not in this instance. The Nisei were American citizens. Colin's example is in my ballpark.

[carl]

Gerald wrote: " And to think that all that the poor b------ probably ever wanted was to be left alone. "

no kidding! talk about the full tour !

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

This book may interest you Gerald:


Panzer Gunner: From My Native Canada to the German Osfront and Back: In Action with 25th Panzer Regiment, 7th Panzer Division 1944-45 by Bruno Friesen

[Gerald]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "This book may interest you Gerald:


[book:P..."

It looks interesting, Rick. I will give it a read.

[Robert]

Gerald wrote: "I cannot get the story told in Antony Beevor's "The Second World War" out of my head. A Korean was drafted by the Imperial Japanese Army, captured by the Soviets during the Manchurian border fighti..."

A very lucky man.

[Colin]

See the film Europa! Europa!

[Gerald]

Colin wrote: "See the film Europa! Europa!"

Colin, I saw that film and loved it. It is marvelous.

In the mid 1990s, I attended graduate school at the University of Maryland College Park. A speakers' bureau on campus had engaged Solomon Perel, who wrote the memoir that the film is based on. I could not wait to attend until I realized that I had class the night of Perel's talk. An ongoing disappointment!

[Jerome]

Would anyone know of a general history of the Balkan theater, or any of the relevant campaigns there (particularly Greece)?

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

This one off the top of my head Jerome but its from an Australian perspective:


Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece, 1941 by Peter Ewer

[Jerome]

That looks quite good anyway, thanks, Rick.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

My pleasure :)

[carl]

Colin wrote: "See the film Europa! Europa!"

oh yeah a good one !

[Superangela]

Guys I saw a documentary during the weekend on the aftermath of WW2 and how Germans living in Poland and other countries were thrown out and their possessions taken...does anyone know of a book about it? Thank you!

[Manray9]

Superangela wrote: "Guys I saw a documentary during the weekend on the aftermath of WW2 and how Germans living in Poland and other countries were thrown out and their possessions taken...does anyone know of a book abo..."

Here are three on the subject:

1945: The War That Never Ended by Gregor Dallas

Iron Curtain : The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

[Superangela]

Manray9 wrote: "Superangela wrote: "Guys I saw a documentary during the weekend on the aftermath of WW2 and how Germans living in Poland and other countries were thrown out and their possessions taken...does anyon..."

Thanks!!!!

[Gerald]

Manray9 wrote: "Superangela wrote: "Guys I saw a documentary during the weekend on the aftermath of WW2 and how Germans living in Poland and other countries were thrown out and their possessions taken...does anyon..."

I have just started Iron Curtain : The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956, and I recommend it.

[Superangela]

Gerald wrote: "Manray9 wrote: "Superangela wrote: "Guys I saw a documentary during the weekend on the aftermath of WW2 and how Germans living in Poland and other countries were thrown out and their possessions ta..."

Thanks, I have just ordered it on my kindle :) That one and the bloodlands (real book)1945 I need to order it from the US :)

[Colin]

That happened to many, including my late friend, Luftwaffe ace fighter pilot Walter Krupinski, whose family property was taken by the communists. He managed to go back in 1992, and in his old house his mother's sewing machine was still there being used.

[Superangela]

Colin wrote: "That happened to many, including my late friend, Luftwaffe ace fighter pilot Walter Krupinski, whose family property was taken by the communists. He managed to go back in 1992, and in his old house..."

O.O wow, what a story

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Superangela wrote: "Guys I saw a documentary during the weekend on the aftermath of WW2 and how Germans living in Poland and other countries were thrown out and their possessions taken...does anyone know of a book abo..."

One more book on the subject:

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe

[Manray9]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Superangela wrote: "Guys I saw a documentary during the weekend on the aftermath of WW2 and how Germans living in Poland and other countries were thrown out and their possessions taken...does anyon..."

AR: I have a copy too, still unread.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Same here Manray9! :)

[Superangela]

Great, thanks guys I think I ordered that one too Aussie Rick :)

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Well done! :)