Jack Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Anybody know an author called.........Charles Whiting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Ashby Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Hi Jack yes author of Massacre at Malmedy,Death of a Division, 48 hours to Hammelburg and Werewolf all published in the late 1970's Why? Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Just on my second book by him. I found him a fascinating author.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Charles Whiting also wrote a good book about Arnhem which I think appeared around the same time as the better known and much more pro-American histriography A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan. One of his best books was about the German Paras which is well worth finding - I still have my late Dad's in my library somewhere. His older books aren't in print at the moment. Whiting is a Yorkshireman based in Germany and one website with a biog of him records he has written 327 books. Which puts my dozen or so articles for CMV well in the shade!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Ashby Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Just on my second book by him. I found him a fascinating author.......... Agreed did you know that Leo Kessler was one of his several writting pseudonyms ? the others being Duncan Harding and John Kerrigan Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 good info. I've remembered that his Fallschirmjaeger book is called Hunters From The Sky - which I think is almost a literal translation.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardyferret Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Jak you will have to get on to Sven Hassel and porta, tiny thr legionnaire and heidi try wheels of terror or legion of the damned when you arriving at the weekend ?????????? Jerry alias sfs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Not sure mate, what time do you want me :? Bringing Pop, so not to sure what time he will be here....make sure everyone looks after him :mrgreen: 8-) And I have something here for you that I brought back from the US :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Yes Jack, I've read a number of his books,but it has been said that quite a lot of his stuff is somewhat inaccurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 Yes Jack, I've read a number of his books,but it has been said that quite a lot of his stuff is somewhat inaccurate. I must say with dissapointment that you are right :oops: he states that the Rangers where the only volunteer force in the US Army and that they captured the guns at Point Du Hoc - there weren't any guns and that even the Airborne couldn't take Point Du Hoc - they didn't even try! But a lot of facts and figures have change since the war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 Inaccurate is being polite. I bought two of his "factual" books and gave them away i thought they were so awful. I got the impression that with a couple of facts or a chance meeting with some one famous he put together his account of how he thought things happened. Did he not say that the Bulge in the Ardennes was actually a US plan to feign retreat so that they could destroy all the German tank divisions that were remaining. The Leo Kessler books i bought and read when i was about 10. They were one step up from the Commando comics, which i have just sold on E bay for a tidy sum. Never got round to reading his book "SS Stuka Squadron" but i am sure i didn't miss out. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I know being diplomatic is not something that comes naturally to me but I don't have money to defend libel actions. :roll: :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Just finished Poor Bloody Infantry, by him;................a dam good read. Re the Battle of the Bulge book, already mentioned, I'm certainly NO expert on that battle, but it was good to find an author stating that British forces were involved;..........most other authors,(american mainly) ignore this fact. to date, I've read quite a few of his titles,(thank goodness for a good local libary), and would rate him alongside Patrick Delaforce,Ken Tout and Ken Ford,..all of whoms (in my 'umble opinion), are well worth reading. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted August 24, 2006 Author Share Posted August 24, 2006 Have to agree. I am on my second book by him - The Battle of Hurtgen Forest. My kiddies bought for me to read on flight to and within the US a couple of weeks. I was reading even before the plane took off. A great insight into Eisenhower, my god weren't the top brass so out of touch. I intend to work my way through them all, I have never read work like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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