Resource Sites for Members

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Hear Hear Carl - I just need to convince my wife that this applies in all our rooms!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Love that quote, well done Carl!

[Lilo]

How about dozens of boxes with books that didn't fit into the 16 existing bookcases, have been moved from the guest room (to make it livable again) to the guest house, where they "decorated" the living room until yesterday when they were moved to one of the guest-house bedrooms to be sorted, waiting that I have an epiphany about where to put additional book shelves?

I really prefer paper books to e-books (as I have a hate-hate relationship with my touchpad), but I am afraid that if I buy any more paperbacks, my husband might have me admitted to an institution.

[Dj]

Lilo wrote: "How about dozens of boxes with books that didn't fit into the 16 existing bookcases, have been moved from the guest room (to make it livable again) to the guest house, where they "decorated" the li..."


I have a love hate relationship with my Kindle. Being 50 I much prefer books in my hand, but there are a number of things that are making the Kindle much easier for me to read.

Adjustable type: I am sure I am not the only one that has problems with their eyes, but I really do think that type in some books is getting smaller than it used to be.

Easy to take on Mass transit. I stopped owning a car about ten years ago and it is very handy on the bus and the Max.

However for research it really and truly is no good at all. Electronic media makes it very difficult to move back and forth between pages and even more between books to compare notes and look things up for citations and the like.

It is however really good for books that I want to read straight through and don't want to be taking up room in my house. Like, Game of Thrones. Great books but not something that I need to go back and flip through them to figure out unit figures, what time an attack was actually launched, what units were in Bastogne when 2nd Panzer slipped by to the North, that sort of thing.

So in a sense it has made my life less cluttered, but I still prefer the physical item in my hands.

[Lilo]

Dj wrote: "Lilo wrote: "How about dozens of boxes with books that didn't fit into the 16 existing bookcases, have been moved from the guest room (to make it livable again) to the guest house, where they "deco..."

No matter how much I hate my touchpad, I have to switch over to e-books (except for how-to books, where an e-book is hopeless because of the problem to find certain passages in the book). I am really drowning in paperbacks.

[Dj]

LOL, yeah I can relate, there are so many good used book stores in Oregon. At lest that lets me recycle books instead of having them around after I have read them and they would just be gathering dust on the shelf.

[Lilo]

Yeah! I have to get used to giving books away when I have read them (unless I want to read them a second time or need them otherwise), yet it is difficult to part with something you love; especially, when you grew up in Germany during "the bad time" (i.e. WWII and the years after), when there was deprivation.

[Rory]

Mentioned in another thread but here it is---great source for hearing many of our favorite authors talk about their books, as well as interviews and bios of real heroes---Medal of Honor winners!
http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.or...

Also, Dan Carlin did great series on Eastern Front called Ghosts of the OstFront....his other podcasts, especially Logical Insanity covering Hiroshima, Nagasaki and evolution of bombing of cities, and his one on the 1600's siege of Muenster are fascinating as well.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

Finally, BingeThinkingHistory is well done podcasts done from 2009-2012 and include a series on the Blitz and a series on rise of the Royal Navy.

http://bingethinkinghistory.libsyn.com/

I spend way too much time each week driving through New Jersey to work, more than is healthy for any human. Audible and podcasts are my only source of relief.

Enjoy!

[Colin]

Rory Gallagher wrote: "Mentioned in another thread but here it is---great source for hearing many of our favorite authors talk about their books, as well as interviews and bios of real heroes---Medal of Honor winners!
ht..."

The Pritzker forum is great, my friend, former CO and coauthor, Maj Gen James Livingston, as well as other friends of mine who received the MOH are featured. Good series.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Great links, thanks Rory, I am sure quite a few members will be checking them out!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Stumbled across this site covering Australia's involvement in WWII if anyone is interested:

http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Great site Rick. And if people are interested here's the Aussie official histories too: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/Au...

[Cold War Conversations Podcast]

May have already been posted but this is a great site for official documents produced by various agencies of the United States, United Kingdom and British Commonwealth governments.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Thanks for the link Mcrmilhist.

[Tytti]

100 photographs in three parts from Viipuri, taken mostly soon after liberation in 1941, in August and September, some during the Winter War.
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art...
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art...
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art...

(In other news, I just found my Karelian ancestors dating back to the 17th century. They had lived in the same area until 1940...)

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Thanks for those links Tytti and that is very interesting news about your ancestors!

[Flora]

WWII is well documented and there is no dearth of information out there. I listed several useful sites on my webpage www.apledgeofsilence.com. Since my book is about American nurse who served in the military, I also found memoirs, many out of print, but still available for purchase on Amazon, or borrowed from the library. One reference usually led to a several others.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Hi Flora and thank you for linking to your own page. Hyperwar in particular is excellent.

Please feel free to post details of your book on our page for authors by Flora J. Solomon

Thanks again.

[Manray9]

The site listed below may be of interest to group members. It is called Five Books. Each month they interview authors and discuss five books recommended by each author on various subjects. On the home page, you may pick a section, such as "The World Wars" in the History and Biography category. There you will see five books recommended by each of: Antony Beevor, Paul Preston, Jonathan Fenby and others.

www.fivebooks.com

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Checking it out now as I type - great site, thanks for the link Manray9!

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Another topper of a site thanks :)

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Excellent site Manray9!

[happy]

Great site Manray9

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

The link to this site below "contains digitized copies of maps, still photos, and aerial photographs copied primarily from originals in the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. Library of Congress, and donations from fellow researchers". Check it out:

http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/

[Robert]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "The link to this site below "contains digitized copies of maps, still photos, and aerial photographs copied primarily from originals in the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. Library of Congress, and..."

Thank you, AR. Fantastic site!

[Manray9]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "The link to this site below "contains digitized copies of maps, still photos, and aerial photographs copied primarily from originals in the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. Library of Congress, and..."

Good find!

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Members may be interested in this publisher - the University of Nebraska Press - from whom I have sourced a number of space programmes books from. Their 2013 history catalogue has many interesting titles including some on the holocaust, military history and the American west. There are also some on Baseball which may interest Manray9, Carl and others too: http://issuu.com/nebraskapress/docs/u...

[Manray9]

Geevee wrote: "Members may be interested in this publisher - the University of Nebraska Press - from whom I have sourced a number of space programmes books from. Their 2013 history catalogue has many interesting..."

Thanks.

[carl]

Once again GV you have affected my productivity ....

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Trying to find a reason to be in Chicago on Nov 15th because this looks like it would be interesting:

http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.or...

[Manray9]

Mike wrote: "Trying to find a reason to be in Chicago on Nov 15th because this looks like it would be interesting:

http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.or..."

That does look great. Wow -- I see Karl Marlantes and Sir Max Hastings. I highly recommend Marlantes':

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. It is one of the best war novels of recent years.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Damn how unfair is that, I'm stuck in Australia :(

[Manray9]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Damn how unfair is that, I'm stuck in Australia :("

You can't hitch hike.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Damn right I can't and I'm a pretty crap swimmer as well!

[Manray9]

This is a link from RealClearHistory to Der Spiegel with an article about the assassination attempt against Hitler at a Munich beer hall in 1939. Today is the anniversary of the event.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/a...

[carl]

Interesting content on the carpenter. Seems like
the woulda coulda shouldas were padding for
a word count.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Some members may already be aware of this site but for those who are looking for the occasional good book at a very good price it would be worth your while to browse through some of the titles on special here:

http://www.naval-military-press.com/

[Manray9]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Some members may already be aware of this site but for those who are looking for the occasional good book at a very good price it would be worth your while to browse through some of the titles on s..."

AR: It's a great site and they've taken plenty of my money. I receive several email offers from them weekly.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Divisional and unit histories for WWI are their greatest holding for me.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Their latest catalogue has these two good books in hardback out for a pretty decent price:


by Henry Sakaida

by David M. Glantz

[happy]

Time-Life has a site with a bunch of photos taken by there photographers - many not published

Link to WW II photos

http://life.time.com/world-war-ii/

[Manray9]

Below are two recent obits from the NY Times related to WW II:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/wor...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/us/...

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Thanks Manray9 and I liked this quote from Mr Hawk which says much about him:
“I was home on R and R and had been wounded four different times when I got a phone call saying they were considering me for the Medal of Honor. I said, ‘Medal of Honor? For when? For what day? What place? What time? Are you sure you mean me?’ You see, none of us consider ourselves heroes.”

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

happy wrote: "Time-Life has a site with a bunch of photos taken by there photographers - many not published

Link to WW II phots

http://life.time.com/world-war-ii/"

Those are great photos Happy thanks.

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

This site has been mentioned before.

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/

Here are some good photos of the era.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org...

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Some classic photographs there Mike, thanks for the link.

[carl]

good pics mike, liked the crowd shots
especially. and those Stuart tanks on parade, look
like toys!

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

I wondered if people had seen this site - Naval History Net: http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm

It is quite superb and can offer much to general readers and interested parties to students and serious researcher alike on both World Wars and the years between but also since 1945.

There is also notably in advance of the centenary of WWI the site's administrators have made available a raft of new information for people.

This is one example of the new information all available free (as far as I can see and my usage has observed). The text is taken from the site:
Under the leadership of the University of Oxford's Zooniverse programme, the UK Meteorological Office and Naval-History.Net have worked with large numbers of online volunteers to transcribe historical weather data and naval events from the logbooks of over 300 Royal Navy ships of the World War 1-era.

I have no personal connection to the site except I have wandered around it many times over the years benefiting from the information within.

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Geevee wrote: "I wondered if people had seen this site - Naval History Net: http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm

It is quite superb and can offer much to general readers and interested parties to students and ..."

Have not seen that site before. Great resource. Quite the challenge to transcribe all that data.

[Manray9]

Rick Atkinson's The Guns at Last Light was named one of the ten best books of 2013 by The Washington Post. See link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/enterta...