Read any good books lately?

GMorrison

I just finished "A Glorious Way to Die" by Russell Spurr, an account of the final action of the battleship Yamato. I really only had a passing knowledge of the event, so this filled in quite a few details.

Reccommended.

 

I read that one several years back. Excellent book!

I just finished "A Glorious Way to Die" by Russell Spurr, an account of the final action of the battleship Yamato. I really only had a passing knowledge of the event, so this filled in quite a few details.

As for a model, the thought terrifies me.

Reccommended.

Since we're still going: A History Of Warfare, John Keegan.  Just finished: The Liberator. Felix Sparks ,157th Inf/45th Div, Thunderbirds. 500 days combat Anzio to Dachau.

GMorrison

I just started a book "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson. Highly reccommended.

The title refers to near zero visibility diving 200 feet down. It's about a couple of experienced wreck divers who discover a U Boat off the coast of New Jersey in 1991 that was unknown.

Anyone interested in U Boats; this is a must read. And if wreck diving is the thing, really well written, harrowing but informative.

It's crammed with a million little details.

No spoiler because this is in the intro, but it took the two divers 6 YEARS to make a positive ID of the boat. One major problem was that because the boat was built in mid 1944, the various plaques and plates were made from an alloy that dissolved in salt watr much more quickly than brass. Of course, exposure to salt water was not a recurring maintenace concern.

There's a Nova series I want to find about this one.

Hunter

I just finished reading "How to Model" Basic Skills and Techniques and getting ready to read Basic and Advance Airbrushing Skills and Techniques for Beginners. Dang Newbie's LOL

 

I just finished reading "How to Model" Basic Skills and Techniques and getting ready to read Basic and Advance Airbrushing Skills and Techniques for Beginners. Dang Newbie's LOL

That Bismark book is really good. I found a copy in a used book store. I had no idea it was written.

I just started a book "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson. Highly reccommended.

The title refers to near zero visibility diving 200 feet down. It's about a couple of experienced wreck divers who discover a U Boat off the coast of New Jersey in 1991 that was unknown.

How was the Norman book, Moose? I'm thinking about building a model of a ship from the Bayeux Tapestry, as I am just finishing a Viking ship. I made an effort way back when and went the see it. One of the more incredible things I have ever seen.

1066 by Peter Rex

ISBN 978-1-4456-0384-1

Just finished "A Higher Call" about Franz Stigler during WWII.  Interesting story and perspective on how there are good people on all sides of a war.  Will be starting to re-read "Battleship Bismark", written by the highest ranking surviving officer of the Bismark.  Interesting and sad story, given what happened during the sinking.

John

I finished reading "The White Rose of Stalingrad" and I have to tell you, it's well worth reading. Starts out a little slow talking about the history about the Great Purge, Stalin, Russia involvement into war, her early history, her dogfights against some of the top German aces during WW2, and so on. She is certainly a fighter and heroine in many Russians' eyes even after the war.

This makes me want to go buy the book and read it again because the stories and exploits of Lily is almost as mythical as Emelia Earhart's disappearance. 

Go and check it out at your local library and read it. You won't be disappointed.

Now I gotta get Yak-1 kits for White 02, White 23, and Yellow 44! LOL!

My next book to read is a toss-up between 2 books I got for Christmas:

Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945

or....

Airborne: The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company.

Started reading "Navajo Weapon" this morning.  Picked up an autographed copy while on our trip out west a couple of months ago.  Heard it was a great book and wanted to check it out.  It's about the Navajo code talkers in WWII.

Jim  

Currently reading a fiction thriller called The Pope's Assassin. Once I'm done readinng that, I checked out The White Rose of Stalingrad: The Real-Life Adventure of Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the Highest Scoring Female Air Ace of All Time.

I had read a sample on my Nook a couple years ago and it sounded like a very interesting read. Can't wait to read it!

Newbie, just perused this thread. Better late than never : " Once An Eagle ", Anton Myrer, "The Conquest of Mexico / The Conquest of Peru ", William H Prescott, currently "The Impossible State", Victor Cha.

I'm about to finish Fields of Fire by James Webb again; just as good a book second time around. I'm at a loss as of what to read next, however. I'm asking for Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century by Alistair Horne.  I read a couple of his books last Spring for some classes. The downside of graduating is that I can read whatever I want now, yet I'm so used to reading on one specific topic for a research paper or for a class that I don't know where to go now. I'm like a kid in a candy shop with so many options I spend more time wondering what I want to read than actually reading.

I just wrapped up the autobiography of "Wolfgang Falck, The Happy Falcon" over the Thanksgiving weekend.  Great book.  Started "Hitler's Last Days" on Sunday evening.  Pretty good so far.  "Hitler's Eagles: The Luftwaffe 1933-45" by Chris McNab is on deck.

"Movie was better than the book."

LOL's both excellent.

My daughter just picked up "Dune".

I told her, whatever you do, DON'T see the movie. My friend Ramon and I actually got thrown out of that one for LMAO activity.

Almost done with "Band of Brothers" the boys of Easy Company....AWESOME Read

I just finished Unflinching by Master Corporal (Ret'd.) Jody Mitic of the Canadian Armed Forces.  He was a sniper in the Royal Canadain Regiment.  Long story short, he lost both his legs below the knees when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan.  He overcame the loss of his legs and runs in road races, participated in the Amazing Race Canada with his brother Cory (they finished 2nd) and he's now a city councillor here in Ottawa.  I quit enjoyed it.

Last week, I finished The Wrong Stuff and enjoyed it.

Got it, and I forgot to say, need to read Taipan before Noble House anyways.

Shogun is impossible to top though.

GMorrison

Baron, did you ever read "Noble House"?

Hi, GM, no, but I'm familiar with the story.  That particular plot doesn't really do it for me, though I think about reading it, just because it's Clavell.  I have yet to read "King Rat", too.

I just finished reading "Devotion" by Adam Makos. It is the story of two Corsair pilots in the Korean War, Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown. Brown was the Navy's first African-American carrier pilot.  Jesse was shot down in the battle of the Chosen Reservoir. Hudner crashed his airplane and hoped to rescue his fellow pilot with whom he had trained with and became his close friend. As the sub-title of the book says it is an "epic story of heroism, friendship and sacrifice." I could not put the book down once I started reading it. 

Hi;

  I just finished reading the " Saucer " trilogy by Stephen Coonts. Interesting reading and relaxing with a lot of " What If's " .     Tanker - Builder

Shogun is another fantastic book.  Truly worth the investment of time it takes to read it!  I'll have to pick up Noble House during my next Half Price Books annual excursion.  I've seen it on the shelf but it looks like one of those long books I settle in to over the winter.  

Intersting hypothetical.  History is filled with examples of someone doing just the right thing at the right time to change the course of a battle.  I found Shattered Sword explaining why the myths that the other books and the popular history were wrong, even through the lens of history.  I found the level of research they did and the fact they were willing to start from scratch and challenge the standard line really impressive. 

John

Baron, did you ever read "Noble House"?

Mopar Madness

Just finished "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."  Fantastic book!

That's one that I reread every year.  It still holds up, nearly 70 years after Shirer wrote it.

I usually reread James Clavell's "Shogun", and Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" once a year, too.

Just finished "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."  Fantastic book!

"Trumpets" is a very excellent book.  I have read it twice since I bought it in 1989 at Ramstein AB, Germany.  I found out in 2008 that my now retired boss and now a consultant contributed to the book as a part of the team of German Order of Battle researchers mentioned in the back of the book.  He used to work at Aberdeen Proving Ground, and would do research on the Bulge straight from the boxes of documents and data from the dusty US Army archives in his spare time.