(Part 2) Top products from r/WWII

Yep. Hans Von Luck talks about this idea in good detail in Panzer Commander.

Jonathon Dimbleby Battle of the Atlantic is a good start point! Lots of nice little things I didn't know about and talks about it from both a very high level strategic point of view and also a down to earth sailors view point. Very good!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0241972108/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482092169&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=battle+of+atlantic+dimbleby&dpPl=1&dpID=5101rb2eqlL&ref=plSrch

http://www.amazon.com/Delivered-Evil-Complete-One-Volume-History/dp/0060915358

I liked this book quite a bit. Pretty dang long

I found this to be the single best strategic review of the Wehrmacht...

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Wehrmacht-German-Campaigns-Studies/dp/0700617914

Read up on these in "Between Silk and Cyanide." Easy reading and fascinating. Silk was durable and quiet. No rustling in the dark.

https://www.amazon.com/Between-Silk-Cyanide-Codemakers-1941-1945/dp/068486780X

Where did you get these?

I cannot recommend [Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer: B-17s over Germany] (http://www.amazon.com/Half-Wing-Three-Engines-Prayer/dp/0071341455). Fantastic book with some unbelievable stories.

These assignments were usually made at the end of primary based on the cadet's personality. Aggressive, loner types normally got shunted to fighters. Cool, team players ended up in bombers. I've read both Robert Morgan (Pilot of the Memphis Belle) and Robin Olds (Air Force Ace in WWII, Korea, & Vietnam) autobiographies and they both echoed this. So far as specific airframes, who got a B-17 and who got a B-24 as best as I can tell it's just whatever they happened to need more of that particular day.

I'd recommend The Second World War and World War Two Day by Day.

My first WW2 book was Rise and Fall of the Third Reich but it just covers Germany. Good book though add it to your list.

I have read accounts of German planes firing rockets into Allied bomber formations. There have also been cases of Allied bombers dropping bombs on top of each other as well. If you want a good book that discusses this and a lot of other incredible stuff that happened, I highly recommend Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II by Jay A Stout.

Toland's on Hitler.

http://www.amazon.ca/Adolf-Hitler-The-Definitive-Biography/dp/0385420536

There are many including Savage Continent Europe and After the Reich. There are many many books written on the subject. Google book post ww2.

a book : http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Snow-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0760321981/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1418522034&sr=1-26

I'm loving the lists others have put up.

I have to add O'kanes Wahoo and Clear the Bridge

And a few of the europian air war: The Dam Busters and Reach for the Sky

For a well paced German perspective on the battle for Poland, France and Russia, check out Von Mamstein's memoirs. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0760320543?pc_redir=1404151296&robot_redir=1

Three of my favorite first person views of war in the ETO:

Roll Me Over by Raymond Gantter

Visions From a Foxhole by William Foley

Company Commander by Charles B Macdonald

i at least have a gaming monitor that has an option to put on a dead center crosshair to help out.

No gold necessary! This is a quote from A Bullock "Hitler: A Study in Tyranny"

"The Fuhrer has stated that Saint Petersburg [Leningrad] is to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The problem of feeding the civil population is one that could not, and should not, be solved by us" German Military Communique.

This statement indicating an order which essentially ensured that the Russian civilians were to be left to die of hunger is typical of the attitude of the period.


If this period interests you, I would recommend you invest in (when you can afford it!) Noakes and Pridham, who do a superb job of providing excellent evidentiary supports (chiefly through contemporary documents) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nazism-1919-1945-Volume-Extermination-Documentary/dp/0859896021

Be warned. A study of The Holocaust is a deeply saddening experience. It is also important to remember, The Holocaust was more than just the persecution of The Jews; the plan was to wipe out the population of what is now European Russia, Ukraine, Poland, The Baltic States and a considerable portion of all Europe as well. And the Germans nearly won. Thank God for Churchill, Roosevelt and (I hate to say it, because the man was an evil monster) Stalin too.