Reading List

[groundhog]

Tell us what you're reading at the moment or recommend a book you've read. Remember this is a military history forum so if you're a Wuthering Heights fan we don't need to know. ;D

I've just started re-reading Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves. Most of the book is taken up with his service in the Royal Welch Fusiliers during WW1

[TallyhoBob]

Just finished reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand-The story of Lt Louie Zamberini-USAAF Bombardier who with a crewmate survived the longest ever time adrift in a Crew Raft after their B24 crashed into the Pacific(46 days I think), was captured by the Japanese and endured horrific torture but survived the war.
Interestingly he ran the 5000mtr race in the 1936 Olympics and into his 90's learnt how to skateboard..A fascinating read

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004HD686G/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=clonmhunggark-21&link_code=as3&camp=2506&creative=9298&creativeASIN=B004HD686G

[TallyhoBob]

Before the above read I read Boldness be my Friend by Richard Pape, another USAAF crew member whose bomber crashed in Holland and was intent on escape despite being captured 3 times after previous attempts, changed identities with another inmate to aid another escape attempt,ended up working in a coalmine in Silesia as slave labour and eventually feigned serious illness(in an ingenious way) to be repatriated..Another very good read.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0755316266/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=clonmhunggark-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0755316266&adid=0G63GS3Q717MAJGNZHEN&

[TallyhoBob]

Just started reading "The Secret War in Italy" by William Fowler-Special Forces,Covert Operations and Partisans 1943-1945..will let you know how I get on

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0711035288/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=clonmhunggark-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0711035288&adid=05C54ZQCF29WZSGY7JMR&

[TallyhoBob]

The above books are available in Clonmel Library or the County Library in Thurles..when I give them back that is:)

[groundhog]

I'm sure I read "Boldness be my Friend" way back when. There was another "Unbroken" by Alastair Mars who commanded the submarine of that name in WW2. I got it for Christmas about 1973 in an omnibus. "Malta Convoy" was one of the other books.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Mars

[groundhog]

Aug 10, 2011 12:29:07 GMT TallyhoBob said:

Just started reading "The Secret War in Italy" by William Fowler-Special Forces,Covert Operations and Partisans 1943-1945..will let you know how I get on

An excellent book on the war in Italy is The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson.

[groundhog]

The first book of Rick Atkinson's trilogy is An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

[digger20]

Reading "The Thin Yellow Line" by William Moore, the history of capital punishment in the British Army. Excellent read

[TallyhoBob]

Aug 10, 2011 12:29:07 GMT TallyhoBob said:

Just started reading "The Secret War in Italy" by William Fowler-Special Forces,Covert Operations and Partisans 1943-1945..will let you know how I get on

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0711035288/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=clonmhunggark-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0711035288&adid=05C54ZQCF29WZSGY7JMR&

Just finished reading this book, a bit disappointing-definitely didnt do what it said on the cover-more about the whole Italian campaign than Special Forces and Secret War-except for the last 2 chapters

[groundhog]

Just finished reading this book, a bit disappointing-definitely didnt do what it said on the cover-more about the whole Italian campaign than Special Forces and Secret War-except for the last 2 chapters

As a rule of thumb I find it best to avoid books with the word "Secret" in the title. ;D

[TallyhoBob]

As a rule of thumb I find it best to avoid books with the word "Secret" in the title.

Read more: stmhs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=7#ixzz1VKD9ci00

Aint that the truth groundhog..must remember that in future

[groundhog]

I'm reading There's a Devil in the Drum at the moment. It was written by John F Lucey from Cork who joined the Royal Irish Rifles with his brother in 1912 and served through WW1. His brother Denis was killed on the Aisne in 1914. The book gives a good account of training and service in the army before the war.

[groundhog]

Something that came up at our last lecture was the subject of the George Cross. I haven't read this book but it's available from Amazon and should be worthwhile.

[groundhog]

Went out today to spend my birthday money in Easons ;D

Looks like a good one from William Sheehan

The fifth in Mercier Press excellent series Military History of the Irish Civil War. I can't wait for Prout's campaign in Waterford and Tipperary.

www.mercierpress.ie/history/civilwarhistory/