thejester

Yeah, the name of the guy who wrote it escapes me at the moment. It's interesting but not the greatest read (I'm fairly sure he copy/pasted every description of combat), and only covers the American Army.

Meanwhile, on the list:

Anything by Richard Overy, but particularly Why The Allies Won and Russia's War - probably the best single volume history of the Eastern Front in English at the moment.

Stephen Bungay's The Most Dangerous Enemy is probably the best analysis of the Battle of Britain to date.

Max Hastings - I disagree with most of what he writes, but still worth a look.

Robin Niellands - Controversial, to say the least. Usually seeks to challenge what he sees a prevailing myths on topics such as generalship on the Western Front, the effects/morality of the Combined Bomber Offensive and the Battle of Normandy.

xerxes

i am soo sick of WWII literature materials ... its like being addicted to smoking ... finally i got out few years ago .. thank you very much


I heard in this forum that Cobra II is perhapes a good literature work on the Iraq war, what others do you suggest ...

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BudW

America Caesar-William Manchester

Panzer Leader-Hienz Guderian

Scorched Earth-Paul Carrel
Desert Foxes-Paul Carrel

Guadal Canal-Richard Frank

dalem

"There's a War to be Won!: The U.S. Army in WWII" - Geoffrey Peret.

"Angel in the Whirlwind" - Benson Bobrick. (American Revolutionary War)

"To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy 1775 - 1991" - Stephen Howarth

Those are three on 3 different subjects that stand out in my mind.

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temujin77

The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester

WW2DB: The Arms of Krupp

Shattered Sword by Jon Parshall and Tony Tully

WW2DB: Shattered Sword

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Shek

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Guinnessman

"The Last Valley - The French Defeat at Dien Bien Phu" by Martin Windrow. Excellent book, covers the Indo-China war in a fair bit of detail before taking a really in-depth look at Dien Bien Phu. Destroys a lot of the myths that have been built up about that battle as well.

"The Fall of the Roman Empire" by Peter Heather is really good as well - he does a good job at arguing against the conclusions reached in Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".

"1812 - Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow" by Adam Zamoyski is an excellent account of that campaign. Very wel written and researched.