(Part 2) Top products from r/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!!!

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.

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.

Thanks for posting!

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

Enjoy, great read. After this I would suggest Soldat. https://www.amazon.ca/Soldat-Reflections-German-Soldier-1936-1949/dp/0440215269

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

https://www.amazon.com/Day-June-Climactic-Battle-World/dp/068480137X

I always felt Stephen Ambrose did great work on his books.

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.

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

Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie.