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Subject: Great books on World War II
Date Posted: 8/24/2011 8:22 PM ET
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I amended this opening entry over a year after I started this forum. For some, it may seem like I am describing every book I read more...
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Date Posted: 8/25/2011 4:45 PM ET
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All three are o more...
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Date Posted: 8/26/2011 10:53 PM ET
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I loved The Thousand Mile War!  And the one on the tin c more...
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Date Posted: 8/26/2011 11:20 PM ET
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Beyond the Beachhead Sounds like a wonderful s more...
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Date Posted: 10/25/2011 10:34 PM ET
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The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw Ever wonder why we won the Battle of the Bulge when 250,000 Germans and their tanks hit our soldiers like ten tons of bricks?  It wa more...
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Date Posted: 12/15/2011 7:03 PM ET
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If you have read much on World War II, you know that without Enimga and Magic, the war might have turned out differently.  Ordinary generals look so much better when they can read the enemy's secret mail, as the Allies did with Enimga (code name for reading the German code) and Magic (code name for reading the more...
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Date Posted: 12/16/2011 5:48 AM ET
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THomas, I added that book to my TBR, it sounds really interesting. Have you read  Navajo Weapon: The Navajo more...
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Date Posted: 12/16/2011 11:41 AM ET
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Navajo Weapon polbio, Yes, I have read about the Navajo code talk more...
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I have not seen either movie. more...
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polbio, As an aside, since you are interested in World War I, have you read The Ravi Lancers? It is a novel about an Indian regiment ( more...
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Date Posted: 12/17/2011 8:01 AM ET
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IT is true. The European theater is more talked about, though, in recent years the Pacific more...
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Date Posted: 1/22/2012 6:38 PM ET
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Thomas, more...
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Date Posted: 1/22/2012 7:07 PM ET
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Kat, Somewhere around here I have a book on the battle for Crete, but I can't find it. I do have Ill Met By Moonlight (Ill is ILL)  about the British c more...
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Date Posted: 1/26/2012 8:23 PM ET
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Here is another good one:  Danger's Hour by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy. A fascinating account of the development of Americ more...
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Date Posted: 3/15/2012 8:22 PM ET
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I just finished reading: The Flame Keepers: The True Story of An American Soldier's Survival Inside Stalag 17. An 8th Air Force engin more...
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Here is a completely different book for you history buffs.  It is called Fighting for Life: American Military Medicine in World War II. I am about half way through it a more...
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And from another different angle: Brothers In more...
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And from another di more...
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Picking up on the military medical theme, I recent more...
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I am looking for the 12 O'clock more...
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Date Posted: 8/14/2012 9:09 PM ET
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I just finshed reading The Women Who Wrote the War, about more...
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Date Posted: 8/30/2012 10:34 PM ET
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Once Upon a Time in War by Robert Humphrey is about the 9 more...
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With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific is a rare tale more...
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