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#61: Author: AT_Stalky,

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:32 pm
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Been much books latly, much 18xx, but on the WW2 front im reread Halders diary... Its a must read for any WW2 intrested..

#62: Author: mooxe,

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:41 pm
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I am off for another month long training ex. I am brining with me....

The Reason Why
The Bear Went Over The Mountain
Frontsoldaten
Blood Red Snow

#63: Author: mooxe,

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:25 am
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mooxe wrote:

I am off for another month long training ex. I am brining with me....

The Reason Why
The Bear Went Over The Mountain
Frontsoldaten
Blood Red Snow

The Bear Went Over The Mountain was a very easy read. Very plain and to the point. Basically a series of AARs of battles with Mujahdeen and Taliban. For the purposes of studying mistakes and learning from them.

Frontsoldaten was an ok book. I feel it quoted the Forgotten Soldier way to much. This book conveys to you the state of mind of a German soldier through letters and books. I wouldnt recommend it.

Blood Red Snow was good. About a machine gunner on the East front. The book was made up from his notes that he took during his time on the front. Very easy read and some very suspenseful entries. I finished it in less than a week. Kept me reading.

#64: Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:18 am
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Already finished: Charles Blondes, Battle of the Marne. Mainly french perspective, but accurate on the german ans french general staffs and their way of command and control in the early WWI.

#65: Author: AT_Stalky,

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:54 am
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Hmm, been so many books lastly, ”Skåda Sovjetunionen i vitögat” translated to English that would be something like ”Looking the Soviet union in the eyeball?”.. Book stretches from WW2 to Cold war ends. Interesting to read more about the Soviet plan during WW2 to occupy Sweden’s north parts, rather “similar” plan as the British and French had when they wanted to move troops over Narvik – Kiruna in 1940 (to occupy Sweden’s iron ore district).. And some Swedish books, like Hägglöfs book Swedish trade during WW2, “Svensk krigshandelspolitik UAVK”
Apart from that it has just been “fun” books about National Economy, World Trade, and Tax Law, Free trade, Tariffs and non tariff trade barriers, and Finances and Calculations, advanced business economics… Not really that fun in compare to WW2..

#66: Author: Kallen,

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:57 pm
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Books I've read lately are...

Panzer Commander, the memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck(Written by Hans von Luck, of course.)
The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara
First Strike by Eric Nylund

And right now I'm reading The Assassins by Oliver North

#67: Author: Fitch,

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:16 am
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Currently reading The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara.

If you haven't read it or it's Prequel The Rising Tide, I suggest you get them. Great, Great Read.. But then I've never picked up a Jeff Shaara book I didn't like.

After this one, I dunno, I may go back and try to Finish The Forgotten Soldier, or Through Hell for Hitler, or even Steel Inferno. Then again, I may pick up O'Brian's Aubry/Mautrin series again.

#68: Author: Popov, Location: Warsaw,Poland

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:09 pm
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"Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger. A thorough analysis of what's been happening in diplomacy/war for the last 200 years. Interesting to see an outsider's opinion on big events in Europe. Very good read about how diplomacy can literally make an impact on how our world looks like. with a lot of maps to illustrate .

#69: Author: RedScorpion, Location: Neverland

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:37 pm
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I got Niklas Zetterlings new book called Blitzkrieg, a dissection of this type of warfare basically and its history... Got through the first chapters and seems promising.

#70: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:59 pm
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Started today Adolf Hitler´s Mein Kampf.
Tried to loan it from library but there is like 50 people in the line before me. Was lucky to find that from one site (e-book) in finnish.

#71: Author: pzjager, Location: Paris

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:05 am
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Tippi-Simo wrote:

Started today Adolf Hitler´s Mein Kampf.
Tried to loan it from library but there is like 50 people in the line before me. Was lucky to find that from one site (e-book) in finnish.

I could send you the General de gaulle memories.... Don't know if they exist in finnish

PJ

#72: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:57 pm
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I could send you the General de gaulle memories.... Don't know if they exist in finnish

Name of the original is: Mémoires d'espoir?
It is in finnish. Totally three books available atm.

#73: Author: pzjager, Location: Paris

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:07 pm
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Tippi-Simo wrote:

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I could send you the General de gaulle memories.... Don't know if they exist in finnish

Name of the original is: Mémoires d'espoir?
It is in finnish. Totally three books available atm.

Mmmm! Very happy to learn that CDG memories are available in Finland in finnish language!

Anyway, always happy to see that CDG behaviour is alive, and angry

when young guys Idea

want to teach to
their older Razz

Anyway, throw your Mein Kampf in the next dustbin and read again "Memoires d'Espoir". You can also buy some good books related to what TRULY happened in the Balkans.

PJ

#74: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:41 pm
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You can also buy some good books related to what TRULY happened in the Balkans.

Yes I know, but still we are civilized europeans right? But if you think there are some books worth reading about that just PM or post here. Going to start CdG on monday.

#75: Author: mooxe,

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:43 pm
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Just got my new pile of books to read...

One Soldier's War - The Battle for Chechnya
Combat Officer - A Memoir of the war in the South Pacific
Guadacanal Diary
Goodbye Darkness - A Memoir of the Pacific War
Requiem for Battleship Yamato
One Square Mile of Hell - The Battle for Tarwara
The Jungle is neutral - A Soldier's Two Year Jungle Escape from the Japanese Army
Cutthroats - The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific

#76: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:53 pm
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U-Boat Ace - The Story of Wolfgang Lüth
Mein Kriegstagenbuch - Hans-Ulrich Rudel
White Death - Simo Häyhä
Red Army Panzers (1918-1945) - Pekka Kantakoski This book is huuuge!
With Napoleon in Russia;The Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt Duke of Vicenza
That Clausewitz book about war

^ those are in finnish of course.

First 2 are from book publish company my friend´s friend own (named Koala).
Bought those 6 books from book fair today.

#77: Author: Bungarra, Location: Murchison region, West Australia

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:42 am
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Roberts Ridge

Chinook inserts a Seal team on prepared positions atop a mountain peak in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy7ySLKaM7I

Documentary on same, or just google Roberts Ridge

#78: Author: ronson, Location: England

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:29 pm
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Interesting book I picked up just before Christmas:-

'The Polar Bears' by Patrick Delaforce.........ISBN 0 7509 3194 9

Covers the story of the 49th Infantry Divison from Normandy to Holland 1944-45.

Mostly drawn from Regimental histories and personal recollections, its a rare study at Battalion/company level of the Liberation, describing the weapons used and the small unit tactics employed and the evolution of these during combat.

Most of the operations of the Normandy campaign are touched upon here, Epsom, Cormorant, Goodwood, plus some of the less well know like Martlet.

Of particular interest is the description of the battle fought around Rauray during the German counter-attack by the 70th Brigade supported by the Shermans of the 24th Lancers at the start of July '44, in which 31 Panthers were destroyed in one day.

Cheers
Ronson

#79: Author: flick,

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:57 pm
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My mum found the above book in a second hand book store, made a nice suprise present.

It was interesting reading about what happens when a battalion has to be dispanded, due to casualties.

#80: Author: Tippi-Simo, Location: Helsinki

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:54 pm
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The Terror of Morocco - A book about finnish army captain Aarne Juutilainen.

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