Books - What are you reading?

[Legioneod]

Almost a Miracle The American victory in the war of independence by John Ferling

[Tyberan]

12 hours ago, Plurp said:

For Hs-129 fans. You can order a new revised edition of Pegg's Panzerjager here:  296 pages and 415 photos.

 

https://www.chandospublications.co.uk/hs-129/

 

 

It's cheaper if you buy from panzerwrecks. I nearly choked on my Weet-Bix when the publisher wanted 22 pounds for postage to Australia.

[Bremspropeller]

 

Might seem a bit flashy by the cover, but it's a very good pilot's account.

I'm now over 400 pages into it, and there's about 250 more to go.

[Legioneod]

Landscape Turned Red. The Battle of Antietam.

 

My family fought at this battle, they were part of the 20th Georgia Toombs/Bennings Brigade. They defended the Confederate right flank on the heights above the bridge shown on the cover of the book (Burnsides Bridge)

[cardboard_killer]

 

It's okay so far.

[Feathered_IV]

On ‎11‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 10:15 AM, Bremspropeller said:

Might seem a bit flashy by the cover, but it's a very good pilot's account.

I'm now over 400 pages into it, and there's about 250 more to go.

 

Nice one brems, I read that one too and it is a fantastic book.  Definitely deserves a better cover though!

[ZachariasX]

Just got my signed copies the other day:

 

Just got my signed copies two days ago. Christer really puts a lot of books on the subject to shame.

Edited November 14, 2019 by ZachariasX

[LLv34_Flanker]

S! 

 

@ZachariasX Bergström really makes excellent books. Placed order, sendin money his way tomorrow. I need a bigger bookshelf! ?

 

What I am reading now is about a Finnish WW2 Ace. Never shot down by enemy, but died in a tragic accident when another shot down plane plunged into his from above. Lauri "Lapra" Nissinen was his name. 

 

 

[cardboard_killer]

Fiction and non on and off. First the fiction:

 

 

Then the non-

 

Germany and the Second World War: Volume IV The Attack on the Soviet Union. I'd read some parts, but am trying to get through all 1,200 pages consecutively in my spare time.

 

[Bremspropeller]

Just finished Bergström's "Luftwaffe Pilots in WW2 Vol.1".

 

Good read and some interesting perspectives, sub-stories and facts that I hadn't come across before.

Although I have both "standard" volumes about Marseille in my bookshelves (both unread yet, d'oh), I had never read a compelling explanation for his metal/ psychologocal demise before.

 

The first chapter and the next-to-last were probably the most perspective giving chapters.

Hopefully there's more to come. He already has signalled there will be a chapter about jewish-origin Luftwaffe pilots in vol. 2.

[161snails]

Anything by James Holland....War in the West series vol 1.2  Burma 44, Normandy 44 and yet to read the Big Week.

also Boyd (as in Major John) is an unmissable read for any aviation nut, icouldnt put in down and was depressing to finnish it...so read it again

[CanadaOne]

I'm reading 1984 again, and looking deeper in the cheap ass fearful mindset that seeks to control and exclude language and ideas that threaten the petty glory of The Party.

 

Orwell was a genius.

 

[CanadaOne]

49 minutes ago, raaaid said:

1984 its going on:

 

i always thought that the word confabulation means conspiracy but actually means false memory

 

mandela effect all the way

 

 

Confabulation is what you say to someone when they've had a baby or got married.

[ST_ami7b5]

Winged Victory

for the third time

[CanadaOne]

Started reading Animal Farm again.

 

Pretty funny how the pigs who demand that everyone follow their rules, and kill off those who disagree, end up looking like humans. And even as humans they are still weak and need the dogs to defend them. Excellent book, well worth revisiting.

 

Orwell was a genius.

 

[RhumbaAzul]

2 hours ago, raaaid said:

i read more comic books

 

one of the lasts was about the young uncle scrooge in the klondike by carl banks

 

imho the best book ive ever read

Ever considered a career as a book reviewer?

 

I'm getting through these at the moment ; 

On 11/19/2018 at 4:10 PM, InProgress said:

hehe

 

Or in English? How i met my Wife

[Bremspropeller]

Does anybody know if there is a unit-history on 474th Fighter Group?

 

Maybe @Gambit21, @Jaegermeister, @busdriver and the other usual suspects do know...

 

?

Edited December 25, 2019 by Bremspropeller

[busdriver]

@Bremspropeller I can't think of a specific title. Schiffer Publishing would be my first guess as to likely publisher, my other search resource is Stone & Stone. At Stone & Stone using a basic search "474th" I found nothing, But here's a page of 9th AF titles. I've not scrolled through them.

Edited December 25, 2019 by busdriver

[Jaegermeister]

13 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Does anybody know if there is a unit-history on 474th Fighter Group?

 

Nothing I have seen. The 370th history was written by the son of one of the pilots that went to all the reunions and knew all the pilots. I don’t think that has been done for the 474th. They have a very similar war record to the 370th, stationed at Florennes together October 44 to January or later 45

[Bremspropeller]

Thanks you guys - I just realized I had more than 80% of the books that Schiffer offers with "Fighter Group". ?

Seems like there really is nothing on the 474th out there...

[RAY-EU]

The Battle For Stalingrad 

 

Edited December 25, 2019 by RAY-EU

[sevenless]

Incredible detail (german language) about the Me 410 and Me 262 period of KG 51.

 

 

http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2011/01/das-flurschaden-geschwader-die-chronik.html

 

https://www.vdmedien24.de/Das-Flurschaden-Geschwader-Die-Chronik-des-Kampfgeschwaders-51-Edelweiss-zwischen-dem-1-Januar-1944-bis-Kriegsende-Jan-Horn

Edited December 25, 2019 by sevenless

[Uufflakke]

On 12/25/2019 at 12:15 AM, Bremspropeller said:

Does anybody know if there is a unit-history on 474th Fighter Group?

 

 

The only book about the 474th FG that popped up was this one on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00071O7DS?SubscriptionId=0D2DHPR4QZK90GRWYP02&tag=porfessionalp7-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=386001&creativeASIN=B00071O7DS

 

Edit:

Several copies available at AbeBooks.com:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&kn=The+474th+Fighter+Group+in+World+War+II&an=&tn=&isbn=

 

 

Edited December 26, 2019 by Uufflakke

[Vig]

I'm reading this right now, but Santa brought me a dozen new titles - have to step it up.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 A book of German Special forces 1939-45, the Brandenburg troops, written by Lawrence Paterson.

[CanadaOne]

I was back rereading 1984 again. I'm always taken with the conversation between O'Brien and Smith that takes place late in the book.

 

You see O'Brien alludes endlessly to his authority and lords it over Smith, but he can only do so while Smith is restrained and while O'Brien has an even higher authority to back him up. On his own, O'Brien is nothing. Possibly a completely useless POS. Smith has to be restrained so that O'Brien can pretend to lord his authority over him. Without the restraints imposed upon Smith, O'Brien, as Orwell alludes, is really the frightened one. He fears Smith. Everything he does is because he fears Smith. And while Orwell sets up Smith's fear as the tool through which the story reaches it's climax, it is, in the end, O'Brien's fear of Smith which is the true statement. Thus Orwell's genius.

 

I guess O'Brien, given his position, was merely lucky.

 

Gonna jump into Boethius again. That's a book that never gets old.

[Reggie_Mental]

I found a copy of 1984 at work recently. I started reading it. I took it home.

 

Then I worried about taking it without permission and if any CCTV cameras saw me reading it and putting it in my bag.

 

Oh, the irony...

[CanadaOne]

6 minutes ago, Reggie_Mental said:

I found a copy of 1984 at work recently. I started reading it. I took it home.

 

Then I worried about taking it without permission and if any CCTV cameras saw me reading it and putting it in my bag.

 

Oh, the irony...

 

That's excellent!

 

I've read the book many, many times. Definitely one of my favorites. The idea of cheap ass people exercising authority as if they own it is a classic theme that goes back to the Iliad and beyond. In that case you had Agamemnon acting like an idiot because he felt offended.

 

Nothing has changed. It's still a hot topic in literature today.

 

 

[Enceladus828]

I’m starting to read this book. BTW the 61st anniversary happened yesterday 

 

[Reggie_Mental]

2 hours ago, Novice-Flyer said:

I’m starting to read this book. BTW the 61st anniversary happened yesterday 

 

Slightly off-putting Marketing department hype at work here...

 

The Dyatlov Pass incident is not an 'UNTOLD TRUE STORY' at all. It has been told many times before and repeated in paranormal journals and forums often for decades.

 

And as for the truth, that is up to the reader whether they believe it and the explanations offered. 

 

Is it any good though?

[Vig]

The event itself is interesting but the story is not particularly well-told.  There are a few cringe-worthy misspellings, e.g., "taking a peak" through a window.  The author is trying to be Krakauer but he doesn't have the chops.  

[161snails]

The severn pillars of wisdom by T E Lawrence is a fantastic book, for anyone who studies the middle east or (like me) works out there its a must read, not much has changed other than Mobile phones and the internet. the underlying tribal element is as strong as ever

[cardboard_killer]

 

[DetCord12B]

Just finished reading The Fall of Berlin '45 by Beevor for a third time, having first read it in in 2009 while in Afghanistan for my second deployment there. An unreal read to be sure.

 

Currently reading a newly published book on the Waffen-SS: Hitler's Army at War by Adrian Gilbert. He doesn't quite have the knack of weaving historical facts, AAR's, and soldiers stories together into what reads like a compelling story like Beevor does, but it's an eye opening and dramatic account of their exploits, horrendous crimes, and complete and utter failures nonetheless. Highly recommended.

 

 

 

[Plurp]

The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron by Juzo Mori

 

Torpedo bomber pilot that fought in China; was at Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Guadalcanal. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Torpedo-Squadron-Jūzõ-Mori-ebook/dp/B00THSCSS8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OBWTYFK3C4PN&keywords=the+miraculous+torpedo+squadron&qid=1582831905&sprefix=miraculous+torp%2Caps%2C196&sr=8-1

Edited February 27, 2020 by Plurp

[Uufflakke]

 

The Unwomanly Face of War: an Oral History of Women in WWII by Svetlana Alexievich

 

It is not an easy read these harrowing and shocking testemonies of women serving the Red Army.

 

[1/JSpan_Wind75]

1 hour ago, raaaid said:

 i tried again enders game by orson scott card, its pretty good

 

i wonder if jane the singularity is already around

 

I recommend this book to you

https://www.amazon.es/Don-Quixote-English-Miguel-Cervantes-ebook/dp/B06XSZ1QQ7

Edited February 28, 2020 by 1/JSpan_Guerrero

[JG7_X-Man]

[busdriver]

[Garven]