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u/swampmeister · 1 pointr/ww2

Great Read: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Trumpets-Untold-Story-Battle/dp/0688151574

and watch/ read
Band of Brothers TV series...

Short answer: given the overwhelming superiority in supplies and ammo/ fuel... doesn't really matter if you can't move it/ store it/ bring it to where it is needed most...

Old adage: Glory Hounds proclaim the weapon as ruler of the battle field... Smart/ old Generals know that it is Logistics which wins battles and wars...

The 101 st/ and 82 AB were Theater Reserve for Eisenhower... and had just gotten the shiat kicked out of them at Bridge too Far Battle... men, arms, radios... clothes and new boots... all in short supply/ need... they were is a Tent Camp... absorbing new replacements, training, resting... new promotions and new people... it was still a nice fall in Sept/ Oct/ Nov 1944... just wait till winter comes... Ouch.

Watch too "The Battle of the Bulge" old 1960's movie... shows how the men were bunkered down in old towns/ bunkers... enjoying the off sector... Hey, don't bother me mentality! We will wait out the winter, and invade Germany in the Spring!!!

And watch another good one: "Battleground" with Ricardo Montelban... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041163/

Again, shows how the men were hastily thrown into trucks... and driven up to Bastogne to plug the lines... ( and Mr. Roarke too!)...

And read about the "Red Ball Express" where supplies were transported up from Normandy to the front lines!!!

and finally:

Read about the conflict between the Supply Headquarters/ Supply troops in Paris... and the front lines in Summer/ Fall/ Winter of 1944... all the best cigarettes, winter boots, over coats... every swinging Richard had a nice warm coat in Paris... and then, all the left overs got moved up to the front lines... (Well, it was a common sentiment among the front line troops). Patton was said to have made the comment, if he had all the gas and all the jeeps which were tooling around Paris... he could move another division into Germany!!!

u/tking316 · 1 pointr/ww2

I'm currently reading Operation Paperclip. Its really interesting so far. It focuses more on after the war but still very interesting.

Unbroken is very good too if you treat it as a story and not a history book.

u/van_12 · 1 pointr/ww2

A couple that I've read from Antony Beevor:

Stalingrad, and its follow up book The Fall of Berlin 1945. Beevor has also written books on the Ardennes, D-Day, and an all encompassing book on WWII. I have yet to read those but can attest that his two Eastern Front focused books are fantastic

I would also highly recommend The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison Salisbury. Absolutely haunting stuff.

u/Max-Ray · 3 pointsr/ww2

Thanks for posting!

For those interested, read the book Ghost Soldiers which covers the internment and eventual raid & rescue of these POWs.

u/hunnicuttfan · 2 pointsr/ww2

I got it, but I’m reading the book in the link.wings of the Rising Sun and it is FABULOUS. Printed on GLOSSY paper...tons of photos.
No luck from me on British tanks either.

u/MinneapolisWisconsin · 2 pointsr/ww2

Rock Atkinson's trilogy is extremely well done. If you are just looking for D-Day onwards, then you can skip right to book three: "The Guns at Last Light" which covers 1944-45 in Europe: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1250037816/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YRWT5FWJBCRXSYME4TNH

If you have time, all three books are very good.

u/exbex · 3 pointsr/ww2

Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner is a great book about life on a U-boat.

u/Nagsheadlocal · 3 pointsr/ww2

Interesting!

You might also find interesting the book "Thank God for The Atom Bomb" by Paul Fussell. It's a collection of essays but the primary essay is about veterans' attitudes toward the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

u/Jonny_Muscle · 8 pointsr/ww2

Have you watched The Pacific?. They had a marathon on yesterday for 12/7 and it was awesome. I've watched it before, but it gets better every time. It's based on 3 individuals and follows them throughout the war. It is only 10 episodes so you should be able to get through it rather quickly. I also recommend the book With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge (one of the marines featured in The Pacific).

u/thefungineer · 1 pointr/ww2

"After Tunisia, [6th Armoured Division] participated in the Italian Campaign as part of the British Eighth Army and ended the war in Austria," there you go! source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Armoured_Division_(United_Kingdom)

It was hard fighting in Italy, the terrain was perfect for a long, protracted defensive war that the Germans utilised to great effect. If you'd like to know more, I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mailed-Fist-Armoured-Division-1940-1945/dp/0750935154/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549378765&sr=8-1&keywords=mailed+fist+6th+armoured+division

u/hobopenguin · 2 pointsr/ww2

Loved this one but it does focus mainly on the Pacific theater.

u/trauma88 · 1 pointr/ww2

This is most likely the book you're looking for: https://www.amazon.com/Colditz-Story-P-R-Reid/dp/0760346518

The escape attempt you are describing was a French officer that tried to escape from Colditz Castle. The author Pat Reid was a British Army officer.

u/Nicktator3 · 3 pointsr/ww2

I haven't read any myself, but the only one that comes to mind is The Infantry's Armor by Harry Yeide. I used some of it for research and reference when I was writing up a unit history of my grandfather's WWII Pacific-based amphibian tank battalion.

u/americanhistorybooks · 1 pointr/ww2

The book "Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941" by Daniel Todman might be of interest in how Britain (fortunately) sought to involve the United States in World War II. It also helps understand how Britain influenced American industrialists who were working closely with the New Deal administration. http://amzn.to/2iZsd7t

Hope this helps, Timothy

u/Jpf123 · 3 pointsr/ww2

For a higher calling. It's not just about the encounter but about the life of both the German and U.S flight crew leading up to and in the war.

"Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber’s tail—a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II. This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day—the American—2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17—and the German—2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.

A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz’s harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies’ planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of 1,000 bombers each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever."

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Unbroken as all too often, the book is a thousand times better than the movie. Same for this book it doesn't just talk about the incident and what happened after but there's some really interesting contextualization that helps you empathize with the characters.

"On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will."

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If you at all like aviation you'll love either of these books.