Enigma Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I want to start with; A polar bear reflects, Joe Hoadley Memoires of a 49th Recce and dear friend. We meet him at W&P each year and also in the Netherlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Signals Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Captured at Arnhem by Norman Hicks, written about his dad Tom Hicks. Amazing old gent, still going strong at 93, dancing every week and still plays tennis when the weather is fit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Zero Six Bravo read it on the flight home. I am a bit conflicted about it as not a bad read but has a huge disclaimer at the front and a lot of technical errors.. http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Six-Bravo-Special-Explosive/dp/1782060804 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxy Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 John Logie Baird: a life by Antony Kamm & Malcolm Baird ISBN 1 901663 76 0 A thick tome in comparison to the book (that IIRC is abt. 2 years newer) - Television and Me: The Memoirs of John Logie Baird The last chapter from memory was very interesting , (I have 4 qty. JLB books) You may ask , well that has sfa to do with WW1 , WW2 or MV's , - well there is the speculation that he was well into military Radar , & TV secret squirrel TV signal transmissions during WW2 until his death , also pre-WW2 research for the ministry(s) , he kept a lot very close , things just seem to dribble out a little over many years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Robert Harris. Gentelman and a spy. Fictionilised story of the Drefuss affair. Very relevant with the centinery of the Great War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 A wealth of interesting stuff in here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbatiti Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Agent Zigzag - Lover, Traiter, Hero, Spy. by Ben MacIntyre. The incredible and almost unbelievable but true story of wartime double agent, criminal and philanderer Eddie Chapman. Alan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken arrow Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Mr Browns War, ( a diary of the second ww ) Edited by Helen D. Millgate. a warden in Ipswich,member of the home guard and some time fire watcher and draughtsman at Revills in Ipswich, highly informative, covering 1939 through to 45. True Stories from the SAS and Elite Forces. edited by Jon E. Lewis. The Cockleshell Heroes. by C.E. Lucas Philips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 "Das Boot" - for the umpteenth time!! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeferret Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Ferret Scout Cars in Detail by Kevin Browne & Frantisek Koran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Armoured Guardsmen by Robert Boscawen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toner Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Armoured Farmer: A Tankies Tales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caddy Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Being Jonny Vegas by Michael Pennington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbatiti Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 We are at War - The diaries of five ordinary people in extraordinary times. by Simon Garfield Excerpts of 5 different peoples diaries taken from the Mass-Observation archives, the book covers the period from just before the outbreak of of WW2 until October 1940. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeferret Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 The Ferret Scout Car in Canadian Service by Colin MacGregor Stevens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 The much awaited book on the history the extraordinary & little known unit has just been published. Many have contributed of course but it was nice to get an acknowledgement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopa Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 (edited) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Valkyrie-Hitler-Philipp-von-Boeselager-ebook/dp/B002VBV1KY/ref=la_B0034Q4TV8_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401571787&sr=1-1 had this book on CD for my recent drive back from Central FL. Rather Germanic unemotional, but an excellent account of cavalry life on the eastern front, as well as the plot to assassinate hitler by one of the last living conspirators. Recently found Tramp in Armour by Colin Forbes on the web as a PDF. I read this as a youngster many moons ago, and it is still a good novel about a Matilda cut off behind enemy lines in France 1940. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5444980M/Tramp_in_armor Belton Cooper Death Traps. While many armour historians dispute his conclusions, this is an excellent memoir of his time spent recovering damaged Sherman's in the ETO, plugging the holes, repairing them, hosing out the previous crews and getting them ready for the next shift. After that duty I believe I'd be rather critical of the equipment and the brass's decisions too! http://www.amazon.com/Death-Traps-Survival-American-Division/dp/0891418148 Edited May 31, 2014 by Chopa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 The much awaited book on the history the extraordinary & little known unit has just been published. Many have contributed of course but it was nice to get an acknowledgement. [ATTACH=CONFIG]91787[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]91786[/ATTACH] Clive rules...:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Clive rules...:-D Well not quite. But I do get my picture in there, with 75 vets of the Sqn & Gen Sir Mike Jackson sat in front of the Hornet I restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Finnaly got over the Luddite and now have Kindle, mainly beacuse it came on my new computer. So I went nosng about. One joy is that it has acaess to a number of the Guntenberg Press free books. I have found a free copy of a book that I've been looking for , but printed copies have been ^&8) expensive. The book is Scapegoats of Empire by Gerorge Witton. It is the story of Witton's court martial as part of the infamous Breacker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbiners. Reffered to in the press of Australia at the time as the English Drefus Affair. The story will be well known to our Australian memebers and was the subject of the Fi;lm Breacker Morant staring Edward Woodward, and well worth watching! The basis is that during the Second South African (Boer) war in the early part of the 20th century. The Bushveldt Carbiners (BVC) were an irregular force officered by Australina's. Though to complicate matters Morant was English but lived in Australia, he and two others were charged with murder for excuting Boer Prioners and a German Missonary. The mater rested on wether Morant had been given legal orders from superior officers not to take prisoners. Morant under cros examination on orders for dealing with prisoners replied 'We applied rule 303'. The subject is complex covering when orders are legal, what would now be called Post Traumatic Stress, and genal British conduct during the war. As an aside because of this Austrlia and New Zealand would not allow their nationals to be courtmartiled by the British in WW1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Mailed Fist by John Foley Very interesting book by a Churchill tank Commander. On the front cover it states "Like an armoured battering ram they smashed through Hitlers Wehrmacht". Which is rather eye catching ( I bet John Foley winced when he read that). A better description might be "We sat around in our tank for a while getting bored until we met a Panther which brewed us up and we all ran away and hid". Still, a very good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJSB Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Reading Blind man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew. It is an excellent history of Cold War submarine espionage, told from an American view, but has some British sub history interspersed in it. ISBN 0 09 94098 4. Yours Toby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJSB Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Also read Beyond the Front Line by Tony Geraghty. It is a history of Brixmis - UK troops in East Germany in the Cold War. Highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Not to be confused with the Army List, this 87th edition of the War Office List makes interesting reading. Not least of which is the fact that it was the last ever edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rampant rivet Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Luck and a Lancaster by pilot and author Harry yates DFC very good plus Commando dispatch rider autobiography by Raymond Mitchell another very good read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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