So, I Currently have 3 books I’m reading.
1 Winged Victory by V.M. Yates
2 Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius
3 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3 I have finished lately.
I have read this book and Going Downtown and I thought they were very excellent reads.
Cool. I’ll keep my eyes open for that one.
I just finished another book that I can heartily recommend. It is titled: “Luck was Lacking, but Valor was not; The Italian Army in North Africa 1940-1943” For modelers it has many wonderful pictures of Italian equipment and many of which I have never seen. There are numerous references, many individual stories, but also a comprehensive overview of Italian participation in the war in North Africa with particular reference to combat effectiveness and bravery against better supplied and equiped foes. I wish there were more models of Italian soft skins. The had many pieces of artillery mounted ‘en portee’ on trucks and since most of all the supplies used by both German and Italian forces were carried to the front by Italian vehicles, there were many types in service. The authors are: Ralph Riccio & Massimiliano Afriero. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the war in North Africa or interested in modeling Italian WWII vehicles.
Thats a Great read. I read it decades ago in a paperback I got in the Stars & Stripes bookstore.
Five Years to Freedom another great read.
@Elefant6 Cool. I’m planning on making a start once I’ve finished one of the Star Wars novels I’m in the middle of.
The next one seems to be difficult to find in the UK, but I’ll keep looking.
It’s perhaps peculiar how Col. Rowe was assassinated.
Fascinating part of our war history.
Watto 
The author does an excellent job in listing out the conditions leading up to the battle, showing the orders of battle on both sides, providing backgrounds on all of the major characters involved as well as accounts from soldiers in the trenches.
He goes seamlessly from describing things at the tactical level to the operational level which I find extremely valuable.
The most fascinating thing about this battle is its location. It further emphasizes just how difficult it has been to live in this part of the world for the last 100 years.
The author has written a number of other books, and I have enjoyed his work so much that I have read an additional work already, and have four more on my bookshelf in my “next up” stack.
Just picked up a copy of
The Damned Engineers about the 291st Engineer Battalion in WW2. I read it many moons back its to be started very soon
‘Die Panther-Abteilung “Brandenburg” 1945’ by Wolfgang Ockert and Axel Urbanke
It covers the operational history of I./Pz.Reg26 from Cherkassy in early 1944 through the battles around Târgu Frumos in România in the spring, Memel, Budapest and the final days around Berlin.
The book is replete with personal accounts and never before seen photos. The amount of research that went into this book is quite amazing: in the last chapters regarding the breakout from the Halbe kessel almost every Panther tank loss is described and most are also identified in photos.
The book has full German and English text, however the maps are only in German. I would have liked to see some color camouflage profiles, but alas, the book isn’t primarily written for scale modellers.
Highly recommended.
This one is on deck. One of my favorite historical authors
Oh and finished this one - short but includes history, profiles and builds
Keavdog,The one on the Spanish Civil war is really good,if you like the subject I recommend The Spanish Holocaust,by Paul Preston,another good author
