WW2 Literature

Mr.Vomish · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: WW2 Literature

Hello there all it's Mr.V here with some irrelevant and worthless info. With summer vacation underway (

) I have decided not to let my brain (or whatever is left of it after this past year's countless keggers) go to waste and keep it busy by reading a novel everyday for an hour or so. Anyhow I took my first steps towards intellectual curiosity by going to Borders and buying a WW2 narrative/ novel. I didn't want to buy a book with just names/battles/dates/casualty lists, so I looked for a book that was based on one soldier's everyday comabt experience in the European theater during WW2. After looking at the titles of every book on the shelf, I came across one that sounded promising. The book is a small paperback account of an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper's combat experience in battles such as Anzio, Operation Market Garden in Holland, Battle of the Bulge, and the remaining march across Western Germany to Berlin. The book is called "All the Way to Berlin" by James Megellas, and it looks very promising. So if you are now saying to yourself "thanx asshat for wasting 2 minutes of my life with your useless bigotry" then I apoligize and wish you a good day. But if you are someone who is pissed off at the fact that Hollywood has over the last couple of years abandoned the production of movies about classic WW2 battles and persosn, and enjoy reading WW2 literature, then I strongly urge you to give your local bookstore a shot and purchase books liek this one. Also, if you have read other novels pertainint to WW2 (preferably taking place only on the European continent) then please share with me and the rest of us WW2 buffs soem good reading material. Until next time, take care of yourselves and each other.

PS I didn't post under General Ramblings since the NS and TFC players woudln't know what the heck I was talking about.

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Violent Pacifist · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject:

I personally love reading about history, but I think I only have one book about WW2 written in a narrative fashion (it's really only dates, information, etc. but it's written sort of like a story). Just do a search on Amazon for world war 2 and see if there's anything you like.
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Shovel me Silly · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:20 pm Post subject:

A good WW2 book I read my senior year in highschool, was The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer. It is a long book and it is historical. It isn't just dates and battles, it discusses a lot of different things that went on with the top nazi officials. It discusses a lot of top secret stuff and is very interesting.

It might be boring for you though Vomish, there aren't any shiny pictures.

Mr.Vomish · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

Pornstar · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:40 am Post subject:

Well WWII is a big complex undertaking. There is tons tons tons tons tons tons tons tons and tons of material done on it. I concentrate mainly on Ancient Rome and Greece, but a few that I have read and mostly what has been recommended to me by WWII buffs.

SS General-Sven Hassel
The Forgotten-Guy Sajer
The War of the Running Dogs-Noel Barber
D-Day-Stephen Ambrose
Citizen Soldiers-Stephen Ambrose
Band of Brothers-Stephen Ambrose
Paratrooper: The Life of General James M. Gavin-T. Michael Booth
SOG-Plaster
Commandos and Rangers of WWII-Ladd
Currahee-Donald Burgett
Tarawa 20-23 November 1943: A Hell of a Way to Die-Derrick Wright
From a Dark Sky-Orr Kelly
The Devils Guard-George Robert Elford
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich-William Shirer
Knight's Cross:The Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel-David Fraser
Where the Hell are the Guns
The Guns of Normandy
The Guns of Victory
Red Devils:The 6th Airborne Division at Normandy-Georges Bernage
Gestapo:Instrument of Tyranny-Edward Crankshaw
Hear the Bugles Calling:My Three Wars as a Combat Infantryman-Lionel F. Pinn Frank Sikora
Popski's Private Army-Vladimir Peniakoff

Pornstar · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

Also I am currently reading Clive Staples Lewis's Mere Christianinty. It is a compelation of his Radio Addresses during the Battle of Britian. The British Parliament petitioned Lewis to do these radio addresses to remind the citizens why they were fighting and to boost moral while being carpet bombed.

JtH · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:11 am Post subject:

i looked for some good wwII books a while back and couldnt find any ones that looked interesting.

ill check the ones all of you have suggested and maybe pick up some of them.
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shockwave · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:07 am Post subject:

Another one - Roosevelt's Secret War - FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph E Persico
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Shovel me Silly · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:56 am Post subject:

It looks like I'll be giving my library some exercise this summer break.

Mr.Vomish · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:21 am Post subject:

Thanx Pornstar for your list of recommended reading. BTW have you guys ever read a book by Bevin Alexander called How Hitler Could Have Won World War II? It is a very intrigiung book that puts a new perspective on this historical setting and fills your mind with countless "what ifs'.
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