#booklopnik

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 03/12/2019 at 20:25 • Filed to: None

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Aw yiss. Out of print WWII tank warfare paperback get.

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RacinBob > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/12/2019 at 21:54

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I’ll match you. Iron Coffins is one of the best I’ve read. By one of the few surviving U Boat captains that had multiple year experience.

Other recommendations

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RacinBob 03/12/2019 at 21:59

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I have that same edition of Shinano.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/12/2019 at 22:23

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I just found this at a second hand book shop about the U Boat war off the US coast in 1942 when things were going very badly

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/12/2019 at 23:08

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In a similar vein, I can certainly recommend Guderian’s Panzer Leader.

https://www.amazon.com/Panzer-Leader-Heinz-Guderian/dp/0306811014

Sadly, I don’t own this. I borrowed it from a friend, and it mistakenly sat on my sh elf for long enough that I wrapped it up and gave it back to him as a gag gift the followed Christmas.

RacinBob > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/12/2019 at 23:34

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Cool! How about “ A glorious way to die which is about the suicide mission of the Yamato....

RacinBob > RacinBob 03/12/2019 at 23:45

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I’ll give you 2 more.

War as I knew it by Patton - really good read dictated on his death bed.

Also any book by Ernie Pyle - Brave men being one.

Also “Is Paris Burning” an d “The Last Battle” are amazing.

RacinBob > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 03/12/2019 at 23:48

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Excellent book. 

RacinBob > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 03/12/2019 at 23:57

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Thanks, just bought it for $5.23 paperback on Amazon....

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 03/12/2019 at 23:58

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Ooh, Homer Hickham. I’ve got Operation: Drumbeat by Michael Gannon, but it’s obviously not by Homer Hickham.

RacinBob > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 03/13/2019 at 00:03

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Yes, I read that, Seemed like  a professional soldier fighting for the wrong army.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RacinBob 03/13/2019 at 12:11

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Expanding my “I have that book!” list, I believe I also have Ludlum’s Road to Gandolfo (and other Road books), Day of Infamy, Flyboys, Up Periscope!, and a couple of others. I might have a Cornelius Ryan or two.

Outside that, I’ve been needing a copy of Gulag Archipelago. I already have at least 3-4 Barbara Tuchman: Guns of August, Stillwell & the American Experience in China, and at least one other.

Recommended on military aviation: JG26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald Caldwell, Fighter by Len Deighton, and The Naval Air War in Korea, by Richard Hallion.

RacinBob > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/13/2019 at 13:56

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Thanks for the suggestions. 

The Ryan books are very good in that he’d interviewed the people who were there. The Last Battle (Fall of Berlin), Is Paris Burning, and Longest Day are all worth it because it’s in the words of the people that were there as recorded within 15 years of the event....

Also Patton - war as I knew it which is his war diary and Omar Bradley’s book will let you know about everything on the American European front.

RacinBob > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/13/2019 at 19:09

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I just bought the three air wars books. Thanks for the suggestions. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RacinBob 03/13/2019 at 19:46

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I bookmarked this thread to remind me I have a list for my next splurge.

RacinBob > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/13/2019 at 23:42

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Nice, there is an eclectic list of WW2 reading that is being lost. Thanks for the suggestions.....

RacinBob > RacinBob 03/13/2019 at 23:43

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Ps - A glorious way to die re the sinking of the Yamato is highly recommended.