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.Arnhem 1944: Operation Market Garden (Osprey Campaign S.): Operation Market Garden (Osprey Military Campaign)
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by: Stephen Badsey

May 27, 1993

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.Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II
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from: Presidio Press

March 15, 2008
It used to be that historians looked down upon anybody who dared to write a 'what if' scenario for the public. They thought this was a mere parlour game; the domain of journalists and other hacks who'd failed (in their eyes) to become 'proper' academic scholars.

Now of course the boot is on the other foot, and such counter-factual writings (to give their posh title) or 'what ifs' are very much in vogue.

Third Reich Victorious is nice romp through World War 2 (mainly the European theatre of operations) with separate chapters on a whole range of battles and campaigns, and how things might have turned out differently. What I liked about this book is that the scenarios were not too outlandish, and the authors stuck to ... Read More:
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.The Big Show (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
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by: Pierre Clostermann

March 09, 2006
This book, along with Geoff Wellum's First Light and Jim Goodson's Tumult in the Clouds really stands head and shoulders above the rest of the bunch and will have you hooked from start to finish.

Just one thing I would really like to know more about is the claim that Rommel was killed in the attack on his staff car in Normandy in July 44 by a pair of Spitfires - one Canadian and one Kiwi pilot, and not forced to commit suicide later, after being implicated in the plot to asassinate Hitler.

Can anyone shed any more light on this?
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.One of the Few: A Triumphant Story of Combat in the Battle of Britain
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by: Johnny A. Kent

June 06, 2008
This is the autobiography of a Canadian who just cannot get enough of flying. He is already a proficient pilot by his late teens. To earn his keep, he goes on to fly in the RAF and eventually finds himself a test pilot and later, the CO of a Polish fighter squadron during the Battle of Britain. The Poles held a vendetta for Hitler and were more than a handful for him to control.

Perhaps the more interesting parts of his story are his test pilot exploits. He tells of his nerve-wrecking experience of testing with barrage balloons, where he flys, quite literally, into them and still manages to land his damaged craft for the scientists to inspect! Needless to say, losses in the test pilot squadrons are very high, but he survived to continue ... Read More:
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.The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944
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by: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson

August 09, 2008
This is the autobiography of a Canadian who just cannot get enough of flying. He is already a proficient pilot by his late teens. To earn his keep, he goes on to fly in the RAF and eventually finds himself a test pilot and later, the CO of a Polish fighter squadron during the Battle of Britain. The Poles held a vendetta for Hitler and were more than a handful for him to control.

Perhaps the more interesting parts of his story are his test pilot exploits. He tells of his nerve-wrecking experience of testing with barrage balloons, where he flys, quite literally, into them and still manages to land his damaged craft for the scientists to inspect! Needless to say, losses in the test pilot squadrons are very high, but he survived to continue ... Read More:
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.The D-day Landing Beaches: The Guide
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by: Georges Bernage

December 11, 2001
This is the autobiography of a Canadian who just cannot get enough of flying. He is already a proficient pilot by his late teens. To earn his keep, he goes on to fly in the RAF and eventually finds himself a test pilot and later, the CO of a Polish fighter squadron during the Battle of Britain. The Poles held a vendetta for Hitler and were more than a handful for him to control.

Perhaps the more interesting parts of his story are his test pilot exploits. He tells of his nerve-wrecking experience of testing with barrage balloons, where he flys, quite literally, into them and still manages to land his damaged craft for the scientists to inspect! Needless to say, losses in the test pilot squadrons are very high, but he survived to continue ... Read More:
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.Arnhem (Pen & Sword Military Classics)
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by: R.E. Urquhart

January 17, 2008
Urquharts account of the battle comes across as honest and straight forward.
He is not trying to hide the fact that he could do very little to influence the battle that was based on a plan that started to fall apart even before the first troops landed. You get a good look at the business of a division commander but also the odds and ends that make this a personal account. Fortunately I did not detect any attemps by Urquhart to "dress up" his decisions and actions leading up to and throughout the battle.
At times the "stiff upper lip" attitude is laid on a little too generously to my liking, but I imagine that was the way they delt with things back then.
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.101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles in World War II
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by: Mark Brando

September 01, 2007
Urquharts account of the battle comes across as honest and straight forward.
He is not trying to hide the fact that he could do very little to influence the battle that was based on a plan that started to fall apart even before the first troops landed. You get a good look at the business of a division commander but also the odds and ends that make this a personal account. Fortunately I did not detect any attemps by Urquhart to "dress up" his decisions and actions leading up to and throughout the battle.
At times the "stiff upper lip" attitude is laid on a little too generously to my liking, but I imagine that was the way they delt with things back then.
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.The Berlin Diaries, 1940-45
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by: Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov

October 07, 1999
These are the absorbing wartime diaries of Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov, a White Russian who worked in a German foreign office in Berlin from 1940-45. Idealistic, vivacious and observant, Missie was a diarist of the first order, and her book is both a detailed portrait of 1940's Berlin and a gripping account of political conspiracy. She wrote her diary in English and is very detailed throughout with occasional humour. Her accounts of the bombing raids are so descriptive you can almost imagine being there yourself, brushing off the dust. Missie was also unwittingly in the centre of the most famous plot which led to the failed assassination of Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Towards the end of the war she became a nursing Helferin before finally fleeing the ... Read More:
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.3 Para: Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle (Elite Forces Operations Series)
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by: Jon Cooksey

July 30, 2004
Having seen an advance copy of this book, I can only compliment Jon Cooksey on the accuracy of 99% of the content.

Reading some of the comments from the contributors, one can only imagine the horror of war and the terrible aftermath of what must have been a truly bloody battle.

I believe this will soon become one of the 'Must have' books covering the Falklands campaign and Mount Longdon in particular.

Outstanding...
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