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Favourite WW2 Books / Publications
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For anybody looking for the opposing view they may find this book interesting. I haven't read it but I have it in my amazon wish list.http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=440069
Would really like this new title from RZM.
Looks really good.
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If you have the ATB trilogy on the Blitz you will find this to be an excellent addition covering the Bombing of GB from January 44 - June 44.
Published by Red Kite Books it covers the Luftwaffe raids on a night by night basis making use of Allied and German records , well illustrated and extremely useful.
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My latest purchase was Red Star against the Swastika by Vasily Emilianenko.
Until recently there was a dearth of autobiographies from Soviet pilots who fought on the eastern front. The author flew Sturmovik ground attack planes from June 1941 to 1944 and was shot down 3 times, twice landing in no-mans land and once behind enemy lines in the Caucasus, each time managing to make it back to Soviets lines. The author is particularly good at describing the chaos during operation Barbarossa and the desperate fight for survival of the red air force pilots, the losses that they took are almost unbelievable. He managed to survive till 1944 when he was taken out of the front line and became an instructor.
A book I'd like to recommend is one I bought just after Christmas last year, its called Green Hearts - First in Combat with the Dora 9 by Axel Urbanke.
The Dora 9 that the title references is the Focke-Wulf FW190 D-9, the ultimate piston engined fighter to enter widespread service with the Jagdwaffe in WW2. This book covers III Gruppe of JG54 from just after they withdrew after being decimated in Normandy to the end of the war. JG54 were nicknamed "The Green Hearts" by one of their commanders early in the war because they were originally stationed in Thuringia, the green heart of Germany. This group was the first to replace their FW190 A's with the faster and sleeker D variant.
Because the book deals with a relatively small unit (the equivalent of 3 RAF or USAAF squadrons), it gets into a lot of detail about the pilots. It is literally a day by day account of III/JG54's operations for the last 9 months of the war. It uses contemporary diaries, letters, logbooks and official documents combined with post-war interviews by the author to give a comprehensive narrative and describe the training and deployment of the gruppe and their fight against overwhelming odds. This is definitely the best unit history I've read of the Jagdwaffe from the latter part of the war. The "old hands" for the most part survive while trying to help as many of the younger cadets who join the gruppe as possible but its slightly unnerving looking at all the photos of pilots with KIA after their names, usually just weeks after joining the unit.
Its an expensive book for sure, it cost me $85 but you get what you pay for and for anyone with an interest in the Jadgwaffe or the air war in the latter part of the war, its a must have imo.0 -
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One I am reading at the moment , not a new book but one which is worth a look
"Stopped at Stalingrad - The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East 1942-1943" Joel Hayward. (Kansas University Press)1998.
The book describes not only the problems of the Luftwaffe but how downhill slope on which Germany was pinned in 1942 even when things appeared to be "going well" and how close total collapse came in 1942, that which the will of the Fuhrer only put off until a later date.
Copies can be had on ebay at a price which beats Amazon.0 -
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Not strictly relevant but I always find it interesting that he (Max Hastings) had a peripheral involvement in Bloody Sunday in Derry 1972. There was a recording released where he (as a then bbc journalist) rang the parachute regiment and said
'I was just going to ask what the latest score was ?'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286953/MAX-HASTINGS-This-grossly-misguided-excavation-past.html
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"Blood , Steel and Myth" - Received a copy on Saturday , excellent, for such a detailed study it reads well and is well illustrated and the maps ( when you get used to them are fine , at first glance the colour / presentation of them seems a little off),
If you have the RZM photographic volumes on the SS participation at Kursk you may have seen some of the photos before some also turn up in the large 2 volume books on Kursk by J Restayn but this is perhaps to be expected.
Have I read it yet , impossible but from what I have spent time with I am more than happy with.
Amazon Uk are doing the book for just over £30 which is a good price on an excellent book , you will not be disappointed.
Would also like to drop a recommendation on a new title from the Classic aviation series published by Ian Allen.
They have just released their 18th book in this excellent series "Focke-Wulf FW190 Volume One 1938-1943. (I Richard Smith and Eddie Creek.) Priced £30.
This is a top notch book on the 190 , will certainly take Volume two when it makes an appearance.
This charts the development from the drawing board, through testing and on to operational life, its use as a fighter and a fighter bomber are explored via the various marks and models .
Hugely well illustrated the book goes the extra mile it is a delight nothing less.0 -
Would also like to drop a recommendation on a new title from the Classic aviation series published by Ian Allen.
They have just released their 18th book in this excellent series "Focke-Wulf FW190 Volume One 1938-1943. (I Richard Smith and Eddie Creek.) Priced £30.
This is a top notch book on the 190 , will certainly take Volume two when it makes an appearance.
This charts the development from the drawing board, through testing and on to operational life, its use as a fighter and a fighter bomber are explored via the various marks and models .
Hugely well illustrated the book goes the extra mile it is a delight nothing less.
Oh god not another FW190 book lol, I already am going to drop about €70 on vol 2 of Jerry Crandall's FW190D series. I can very much recommend it though along with the Green Hearts book I mentioned earlier in the thread.
While I'm at it another one i could recommend thats a bit less expensive is the first volume of William Greens Aircraft of the Third Reich, its a marvellous reference on all the aircraft types (including captured allied planes) flown by the Luftwaffe. Its £37.09 on amazon at the moment, I paid almost £50 for it a few months ago gargh!
I'd love if they did similar books for the Soviets, British, US etc.0 -
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True some aspects of WW2 are overkilled , eg how many books on the "Tiger" do you really need ?
You can never have enough Tiger books !
2 of the hardback ones I would like are here for £360.00 280.00
http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=538385
Tigers in Combat, Vol. 1 & Tigers in Combat, Vol. 2 by Wolfgang Schneider.
On the subject of reference works, I would also recommend
Panzerfahrzeuge und Panzereinheiten der Ordnungspolizei 1936-1945. Regenberg, Werner
http://www.germanwarfilms.com/complete-selection-of-titles/armored-formations-of-the-ordnungspolizei-1936.htm
This is a German language reference book, (you can get for about €10-€15 on ebay) several hundred pages with high quality often obscure photographs showing German OrdnungsPolizei armoured vehicles and tanks throughout 1939-1945. Being in German isn't a huge problem as it's largely photo-reference and also giving dimensions and scale of assorted vehicles, date of service and so on, so the technical parts are easy to follow.
This includes information on a myriad of captured vehicles dating back to the mid 1920's, czech, Italian, Polish, Russian etc. All used in population resettlement and anti-partisan warfare against large scale bands of partisans in various locations
In trying to find a picture for this post just found an english language version which I will have to add to my list :
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Morlar for 10-15 Euros that is very well worth it.
I have bought a few books from Emilo over the past year , he sure knows how to pack them !
I definitely recommend it. I will probably get the english language version at some point. In the meantime here is that original German hardback one currently on ebay.de 'buy it now' @ €17.00
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Panzerfahrzeuge-Panzereinheiten-Ordnungspolizei-/320804613142?pt=Sach_Fachb%C3%BCcher&hash=item4ab171ec160 -
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I was in Auschwitz in 2002 and was in the gift shop at the end of the tour,i asked the lady behind the counter to reccomend a book,she picked up the book above and handed it to me and told me the author was outside being interviewed by Polish TV as part of a documentary,i bought the book and went out,i waited till he had finished the interview and asked him to sign the book for me,he signed the book and also put in his Auschwitz number and the Star of David0 -
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TerrorFirmer wrote: »Hey guys. Can anyone help in recommending *the* definitive WW2 photo collection series? I have a few large Time-Life collections, and plenty of assorted photo books, but when I was younger, my grandfather used to have a book collection- think it may have been monthly, it wasn't hard back but it had maybe 200 pages or so per issue,and had photos as well as spec sheets for vehicles and such alongside the history - and the pictures in it were astounding altogether, and several pictures in it, I've never been able to find anywhere else. It had some particularly amazing combat photos from Poland that I've never seen ANY of since,despite owning several photo books on that very subject. I actually bought a Time-Life collection lately and the standard said by this unknown publication left me feeling very disappointed even though it is of course, still a great collection. One of my favorite pictures in it was a trainload of German soldiers approaching Lodz in a traincar, but I can't find it anywhere since....
It was the World at War of publications, I suppose! Bugs the hell out of me that I don't even have a name.
Here are those magazines I was thinking of, 'War Monthly'
Here are a couple of 'Heimdal Editions'
Here are another couple worth checking out :
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Jesus man, all those publications look exceptionally good. But no, none of them are the magazine in question. Unfortunately, when my grandfather died, those magazines simply disappeared, contrary to both my and my fathers efforts, so the name eluded me. But thanks for the help,and the effort - that's what makes this forum the best.
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TerrorFirmer wrote: »The cross section of the Stuka in War Monthly though, looks exactly like it -but it certainly wasn't said magazine, perhaps a later revision? I remember the RRP on the cover being far higher, maybe mid 90's, and it wasn't hardback, softback,but sustainsial, like a graphic novel....,
When you said "the world at war" of publications I thought you may have been on about Orbis' World War Two part work but that was published in the 70's (my brother has a full set and they are fantastic)
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Waterstones used to sell English-language versions of German-published picture books on the German armed forces in WW II, a lot of which were based on regimental histories and contained a lot of previously unpublished photos, many of which were privately taken, ie, not by unit or propaganda photographers. The books are very simply printed with a wavy colour pattern on the inside front cover and they use a lot of Gothic/germanic fonts. Some don't have sleeves and if they do, the sleeves are very simply designed. I have a very good one on Kurt Tank, the FW190 designer, which is from a publishing house called Schiffer.
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Stovepipe
Those sound like the kinds of books which always increase in value and are difficult to find. I really didn't know Waterstones published those kinds of books, though you do tend to find them on the web and on specialised forums. I'd be interested to know more about that range.
Another one which is difficult to find (at a reasonable price) is :
http://www.amazon.com/Uniforms-Organizations-History-German-Police/dp/0912138971
John R. Angolia/Hugh P. Taylor:
Uniforms, Organization & History of the German Police
Volume 1
It's another Bender Publishing one, difficult to find at a reasonable price.0 -
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This book arrived today :
Ordnungspolizei - Encyclopedia of the German Police Battalions September 1939 - July 1942
by Massimo Arico.
Some parts of it go into great detail, for example Pol Btl 93 - I have photographs of 2 Graves from men of 1st kompanie, Res. Pol.Btl 93, both men died on 27 December 1941. From this book I discovered this level of detail :
There are other areas where there are massive gaps but overall I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in Polizei Battalions of WW2.0 -
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http://www.afterthebattle.com/osCommerce/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=290
Current issue from "After The Battle" deals with the bombing of Dublin , might be of interest to folks.
If I might make a quick plug on a new guide to D-Day Beaches ;
"Walking D-Day" by Paul Reed (Pen and Sword) just published this month.
I bought a copy to take to Normandy (leaving on Wednesday), and having spent sometime with the book it is good.
The author Paul Reed is a well know author and historical adviser who has contributed to many good TV productions including "Dig WW2 Northern Ireland", which concludes on Monday night on BBC.
Paul is also a senior guide for Ledger tours.
Anyone going to Normandy , this is seriously worth packing to take with you, and is in its own right a good read.Publishers price of £15 , it can be had for about £10 on Amazon.
Friday next the fair at St.Mer Eglise and Sunday Tilly-sur-Seulles Book fair. 0 -
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