i just cracked open another SOG Book
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The cover made it look there would be some jungle action, but not a single Japanese soldier is killed in this book,
The only KIA’s are 5 German merchant sailors in a neutral country ,
i found it a boring read
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Rode my bike to the local Library today and picked up, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, and other tales, from the lobby shop.
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Some of his best work is in that volume.
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Indeed they are
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Those yellow and black ones helped get me through school!
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Currently reading The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. Hands-down the best book of history I’ve read.
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I am reading two books currently.
The first is Panzer Commander.
I really can’t recommend this. It reads as a German aristocrat touring WW2 locations. Who he meets and where he goes on leave is big. Combat and leadership is small.
I am also reading Angela Duckworths Grit.
This is one I can recommend, especially for those of you with multiple shelf queens…just sayin 
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I’ve watched a few videos about American POWs in Vietnam, all of which had been about the guys that were at the Hanoi Hilton and not much mention about the others captured in South Vietnam other than mentioning Bobby Garwood.
So i picked this up on ebay which gives a contrasting view of POWs that were in South Vietnam.
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Reading this one that I received from Casemate Publishers for a book review.
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The new Tankgrad Militärfahrzeug 4/2022 arrived at my door yesterday. Still have to read all but among others there are some interesting articles about a new upgrade for the Leopard 2A6M, a report about manoeuvre of the BAOR in the 1980’s and the US Army in the 1950’s in Germany and more …
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staying on the subject of Vietnam i had this arrive today (on my birthday). i had heard a lot about the F4 flyboys now i wanted to hear about the real fighter pilots
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Hey David, I see the cake behind your nick! So happy birthday! 
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Hey BlackWidow, thanks for thr birthday wishes, i wanted a book that focuses on the gunfighters rather than F4 missile Muppets as they serm to get all the glamour and there is very little way of crusader pilot combat interviews on youtube.
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Reading this one that I received from Casemate Publishers for a book review.
Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana, 22nd January 1879, Minute by Minute
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Another salty side entry… The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise by E. Stafford
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Just finished these 2 bad boys:
Reading these, makes you realize that the outcome of this epic sets of battles could have had a rather different outcome. Is also makes you painful aware of the seemingly endles screw ups by the US army. If it wasn’t for the airforce, the US army would have lost even MORE men and materiel. Recommended!
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Hmm I don’t think that’s altogether fair – after all the bigger/biggest mistakes were made by the Germans. Certainly there were some American deployment errors & wrong assumptions made, otherwise the Germans couldn’t have crossed their start lines & got as far as they did. Although that wasn’t very far at all & nowhere near their goals, the defense of Bastogne had already put a sufficiently large dent in the advance before the skies cleared. And the offensive depended on seizing way more fuel dumps than the relatively few which couldn’t be evacuated in time.
It was primarily an Intelligence failure due to the German build-up evading Ultra/Enigma interceptions, which (in hindsight) were being overly depended on by late ‘44 – by the British as well as the Americans.
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