What book are you reading now... - Page 4

Tom Houlihan · #31 (**permalink**) November 21st, 2006, 08:59 AM

I just started B.H. L-H's The Rommel Papers.

I still need to write a review of our Feldgrau buddy halder's book, The Germans in Normandy. May be a while, I loaned it to a guy at work....

Hagen · #32 (**permalink**) December 1st, 2006, 03:16 PM

Armored Battles of the Waffen SS by Will Fey.

Helmut Von Moltke · #33 (**permalink**) December 4th, 2006, 06:28 AM

Black Edelweiss by Johann Voss. Nice maps in there Tom! I still remember in the foreword that Herr Voss had some humourous exchanges with you via email?

It's a good read. Will post a review when finished.

K

Tom Houlihan · #34 (**permalink**) December 4th, 2006, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Helmut Von Moltke

Nice maps in there Tom! I still remember in the foreword that Herr Voss had some humourous exchanges with you via email?

Thanks, Kevin!

Well, I don't necessarily recall those e-mails being humorous, but he is a very nice man. I've been privileged to spend some time with him. Rather modest and soft spoken, but a good conversationalist and very knowledgeable on a wide range of subjects.

About two years or so ago, Kit Bonn received word that there was a petition to create a Johann Voss 1/6 figure. Herr Voss was aghast at the idea! It was almost as if some form of cult was growing around him. That idea was shot down to the best of my knowledge.

PatM · #35 (**permalink**) December 19th, 2006, 06:32 PM

Reading two right now-"Sea of Thunder" by Evan Thomas--a quadruple biography covering Halsey, Evans, Ugaki and Kurita and their actions at Leyte Gulf. Nothing new revealed but highly readble. And Joseph Alexander's "Closing In-The Marines on Iwo Jima". This is one of a 20-odd volume series of monographs put out by the USMC for the 50th Anniversary.They're short (about 50 to 100 pages) but well written, nicely illustrated covering the usual (Guadalcanal, etc) and offbeat (Marines in the ETO, role of women in the Marine Corps, etc)-very well done and worth having.

Jim O · #36 (**permalink**) December 19th, 2006, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by PatM

And Joseph Alexander's "Closing In-The Marines on Iwo Jima". This is one of a 20-odd volume series of monographs put out by the USMC for the 50th Anniversary.They're short (about 50 to 100 pages) but well written, nicely illustrated covering the usual (Guadalcanal, etc) and offbeat (Marines in the ETO, role of women in the Marine Corps, etc)-very well done and worth having.

Do you have all 20+ volumes?

Tom Houlihan · #37 (**permalink**) December 20th, 2006, 07:53 AM

RECON SCOUT, about a guy who enlisted in the horse cavalry just before they got rid of the horses. Went to Africa with the 91st Cav Recon Sqdn.

I just read the part where he and his buddy watched Churchill piss in front of their M3 Scout Car.

PatM · #38 (**permalink**) December 20th, 2006, 11:17 PM

No, unfortunately not, but I'm definitely on the lookout as most are out of print. CBI Media has a number of volumes along with the Govt. Printing Office and sometimes you get lucky with Alibris. If you're interested, some are on-line in their entirety. Am also trying to collect all the USMC monographs from WW2. Battery Press is your best bet as they have reprinted them all.

Helmut Von Moltke · #39 (**permalink**) December 24th, 2006, 08:25 AM

The Brandenburgers - Global Mission by Franz Kurowski
Servants of Evil by Bob Carruthers

K

PatM · #40 (**permalink**) January 15th, 2007, 04:00 AM

Thomas Cutler's "The Battle of Leyte Gulf"-so far it's pretty good, very readable, gives an even handed view of the battle-would chance it to say it's a must read for anyone interested in the naval war in the Pacific. Has anyone picked up a copy of Vego's "Leyte 1944" from the Naval Institute Press?