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If you are interested in learning or reading more about this, check out “Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning.
It is very heavy subject matter but the basic premises is that given the right circumstances ordinary people can become mass murderers.
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I wrote an article about this Kamikaze attack: World War 2 History: Kamikaze Attack on the Battleship USS Missouri and Controversy
Let me know if these links don't work. Wasn't sure of the best way to share a pdf.
USS Johnston Action report for the Battle off Samar. This pdf is is 26 pages and also includes a list of the crew killed/injured.
Report of the loss of the Johnston. Just a short 2 page pdf briefly describing the action and the decision to abandon ship.
Anyone interested in read about a Soviet Il-2 pilot should read this.
Some of the writing is lost in translation but it is an incredible story. It is not full of Soviet drivel either.
Losses were not just common but expected. Can’t imagine what these guys are thinking.
This book makes the case that Hitler escaped rather than be killed, wether you believe that the book does a great job of showing how money was being transferred and stockpiled.
https://www.amazon.com/Grey-Wolf-Escape-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1402796196
MMC (Ret.) here. I've seen things just as bad.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
by James D. Hornfischer | Jan 25, 2011
The Pacific War 1941 - 1945 by John Costello would be a good candidate for your interest towards the Pacific Theater.
The Mediterranean era died with the discovery of America; the Atlantic era is now at the height of its development and must soon exhaust the resources at its command; the Pacific era, destined to be the greatest of all, is just at its dawn.
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
The first couple of chapters will bring you up to speed on the growing influences of Japan and the US from the late 1800s into the early 1900s at opposite ends of the Pacific. The book generally focuses on the military command structures of Japan and the US (it also brings up Chinese, Australian and British roles) as well as major political figures from any given nation and their influences on the conflict. Coming in at 650+ pages I'd give the book a 5/5 for being a one-volume account of the conflict and you can pick it up for around $5 in the Amazon used section. (see link above)
Also watch the Band of Brothers TV movies ( find the full length ones, not just the U-tube clips!). It is a wonderful introduction to the US Army in WWII.
For Battle of the Bulge, read "Time for Trumpets" ( plus get a map of Germany/ Lux/ Belgium and France!). Make arrows/ pin flags... circle towns and cities... really helps you understand all about the Battle. https://www.amazon.com/Time-Trumpets-Untold-Story-Battle/dp/0688151574
Don't switch over to the Pacific so quick ( although the USMC/ US Navy in the Pacific did a super hella good job...); The European Theater of Operations ( plus No. Africa) is a pretty big bite of History to chew on first... spend a year or two reading about it, and of course watching movies... Both "Longest Day" and "Patton" are must sees... oh, and add "A Bridge too Far" too!
This is what I found on German Amazon https://www.amazon.de/Aristo-Herren-Messerschmitt-Fliegeruhr-109-42R7/dp/B00IK9H970
A Watch from the famous Bf109 Warbird
Or from the Me262, the first jetfighter: https://www.amazon.de/Messerschmitt-Titan-Fliegeruhr-262-262-M/dp/B005E02X10/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=me+262+watch&qid=1601563054&sr=8-2
https://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Fateful-1942-1943-Antony-Beevor-ebook/dp/B002UZDTG0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1D52WSOF44GX9&keywords=stalingrad+anthony+beevor&qid=1670277615&s=digital-text&sprefix=stalingrad%2Cdigital-text%2C141&sr=1-1 This book by Anthony Beevor will let you know just how dark it was. Beevor is a tremendous historian.
Probably the best single volume mork on the subject by an acclaimed expert on the war in the East.
To save money I sometimes get books that I want to read, but don’t want for my personal collection via a local library’s Interlibrary Loan program.
https://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Modern-Studies-David-Glantz/dp/0700623825
The Desert Training Center was established by the US Army. Patton was appointed commander of the armored forces that trained there by his superior, Chief of the Armored Force Major General Jacob L. Devers. Previously, Patton was discovered to have been circumventing the chain of command in an effort to influence the Sec. of War to eliminate medium tanks and use all light tanks in an old style cavalry manner. Gen. Marshall wanted to fire Patton, but left the decision up to Devers. Patton and Devers were old friends. He chose to give Patton a second chance after chewing him out and ordering him to stop circumventing the chain of command or attempting to control the Armored Force decisions. Scott Wheeler’s biography of Gen. Devers for more information.
https://www.amazon.com/Jacob-L-Devers-Generals-American/dp/0813166020
Mostly US Army. Check the link I provided above. Also here is an excellent book about the Comanche Code Talkers. https://www.amazon.com/Comanche-Code-Talkers-World-War/dp/0292752741
You have a very good list. To help place things into context I recommend Weinberg’s "Visions of Victory" which examines the long term goals of the various world leaders. Weinberg’s chapter on Hitler contains some very interesting information on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Victory-Hopes-Eight-Leaders/dp/0521708753
I thought Frozen Hell was good and was available for “free” on Kindle Unlimited.
Patton was almost certainly not the best Allied or even American general. He was certainly the loudest, self promoting general of the bunch, but Simpson, Patch, Devers, and several others come to mind as his betters. See “Patton’s Peers” by John English for an enlightening examination of the generals who went quietly about winning the war. https://www.amazon.com/Pattons-Peers-Forgotten-Commanders-Western/dp/0811705013
Weinberg, A World At Arms: A Global History of WWII.
This is unquestionably the best English languages, academic, single volume history of the war.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Arms-Global-History-War/dp/0521618266
If you want a look into what men like your grandfather did on a daily basis in combat read https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Life-Albert-Cowdrey/dp/0684863790
The book discusses Combat Medics a great deal.
It is complicated. And by complicated as with all racial supremacy proponents, ideas go out the window when they do not suit the personal needs of the believers.
Rainer Zitelmann's book goes into some detail about this.
You can get it on amazon.co.uk.
I’m reading a book about the called The Mascot. Only about halfway through but it shines a light on one of the craziest stories of the war. Crazy part this kid was Jewish. Yeah, Jewish. And he ‘fought’ with the Nazis and Latvian police.
1969Malibu has got it 100% correct.
This Spitfire "MJ755" wasn't even built yet (three years short), until 1943.
Even then, it WAS an RAF (Royal Air Force) British Spitfire, until 1947.
"MJ755" became "A Greek" Spitfire in 1947 = TWO YEARS after WW.II ENDED.
My guess is that the Greek guy is crying because, as an icon, what it means.
There's "no-way-Jose" that HE flew THIS Spitfire "MJ755" during WW.II
It's a "clipped-wing" LF.IX & was restored at Biggin Hill, in Kent.
Links c/o Myrong, my mate, in Athens...
Details of it's Restoration AND "MJ.755's History"
I think it's because most of the German propaganda photos are of mechanised units, not horse-drawn ones, as the Nazis wanted to show their own people (as well as the rest of the world,) that the Wehrmacht was a modern fighting force. Eighty years later we are still feeling the effects of Nazi propaganda
I first learned about the German Army's lack of mechanical transport from reading Len Deighton's Blitzkreig in the 1980s. (Published in 1979.) I was astonished that German industry couldn't produce trucks in sufficient quality or quantity for the Army, and that even captured enemy vehicles and the production from occupied countries didn't make a dent in the needs of the Germans.
You should check out <em>Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich</em>. This is a well researched book by a professional historian that explores Hitler’s personal religious beliefs in-depth and basically concludes Hitler believed in some type of natural god, but it wasn’t the Christian god and he was far from a Christian despite any claims he himself may have made. Also, anyone can throw a Christmas party without believing in the religious part.
If you don’t feel like reading the whole book This review from Reading Religion gives an excellent overview on the work and cites the text directly.
Here is a book about the Gutloff in particular.
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1137279192/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_PFEX7JTAB5GXYGE0JGYZ
i no discover nothing about your great-grandfather but i discover one list with names of people in united states who went to war
this is website
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8939/?name=\_Hoffman&name\_x=\_1
This is explained in this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Interrogations-Nazi-Elite-Allied-Hands/dp/0142001589
Many did not want to see him on trial as he would have turned it into a soapbox for his dellusions.
Back of the painting:
It was supposedly given to a guard by the POW. I can't read the name of the artist, but the rest says:
"Remember
From German POW Camp
Clanton 1944-1945"
Yep, he did! (lucky for me, since my mom wasn’t born until 1947!)
Unfortunately, he died a few months after I was born in the mid 80s, so I never really got to know him. I guess he was a character. I feel super lucky to have this article, since it gives me some idea of his personality.
I did some research:
On the following site I found his name:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Gunnard_Lindquist&event=_usa_2&birth=1924&name_x=1
While you might not be a member of this site it might give you more specific info to sites for more information.
He was for instance enlisted in Marquette Michigan on February 11, 1943.
I hope it brings your search a stap further.
Even better, read a book:
https://www.amazon.com/When-Titans-Clashed-Stopped-Studies/dp/0700608990
From Appendix Table N, on June 22, 1941:
German frontline strength: 3,050,000
Axis total frontline strength: 3,957,910
Soviet total frontline strength: 2,743,000
You can find rolls of burlap ribbon at most craft stores or even on Amazon. We used to cut up burlap feed sacks for this but those are all plastic nowadays.
If you aren't planning on it, Gross-Rosen is a good place chock full of history. Its a bit west of Wroclaw, while its a bit off your route I would say its worth it.
That looks like it could be it! Its from a still from this video. Definitely looks very close to the plane you described. I couldn't find any German, American or British plane that had landing gear that matched.
Fairbairn Sykes. check out this video .
Osprey Publishing has a wonderful book about it as well. click this link to checkout the book.
Aussie infantry also manned captured Italian anti-aircraft guns to supplement a British anti-aircraft regiment there, defending against Stukas.
Read Tobruk 1941 by Chester Wilmot, an Australian war correspondent based there.
I had that same book, with a different design and stuff. If you like it, there is another book, done in the exact same style called “Great Battles of World War II”. I actually have both books in the same style (approximately 8”-6” or something and with the same cover design style), though I additionally have the book of battles that is like 14”-10” or something and with a completely different cover design.
I’m tired of trying to explain it:
This is the same book you have: https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-of-World-War-II/dp/B008SLJQKI
This is the other book in the series in the same style: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Battles-World-War-II/dp/1445469251
They weren’t going to attack Germany in 1941.
These are two pretty good books I’ve read recently that deal with Stalin’s actions and goals in the lead up to Barbarossa. Neither really substantiate what you are saying.
OK, of all things that I am, nazi apologist / sympathiser is pretty wide of the mark. I'm quite the snowflakey liberal, to be honest. But I can see from your history you like to call people things like that, and that you've already branded someone else the same on a post about the Dresden bombings. My comment is not a controversial take, even Churchill thought it was overkill. If you think that literally melting thousands of civilians trapped inside an air raid shelter into a green and brown sludge inches deep is fair dos because they're the women and children of a country you're at war against, then frankly you can go fuck yourself, you psycho cunt.
I haven't looked, but I doubt it. I believe it is a relatively uncommon book, but I could be wrong. Kerstein wrote it in 1947 to be the actual record on what life was like in post-war Poland, as he believed most of the news from Poland in the American press was soviet propaganda that was indiscernible to the American public who had limited understanding of Polish culture.
I did find a copy on Amazon though. Thankfully, it's scarcity doesn't make it very expensive. Great book, not too long, well worth the read.
The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 by Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann is a good read covering the topic.
There’s a great little memoir by Dr. Heinrich Haape called “Moscow Tram Stop.” It is a a German doctor’s adventures on the Eastern Front. Haape claims his hnit made it as far as the Moscow tram stop and that he specifically remembers seeing the signage. Shortly after, his unit retreats and the entire front begins rubber-banding back to Berlin.
I recommend "Six Armies in Normandy" by John Keegan. This is a "popular" history written by a very serious British historian. Written in very lively prose, it is accessible, authoritative, and relatively brief (333 pages for the Penguin paperback edition).
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Armies-Normandy-Liberation-Revised/dp/0140235426
No Moon Tonight - is one of my favourite war memoirs, following a Pilot in WW2 (he's Australian technically but the book is set in Britain)
Winged Dagger - another favourite WW2 memoir of mine, following one of the original SAS members Roy Farren.
>Osprey's Pegasus Bridge: Bénouville D-Day 1944, by Will Fowler.
Very interesting book:
The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang
https://www.amazon.com/Bravest-Man-Richard-Submarine-Adventures/dp/089141889X
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Book describes what submarine warfare was like in the Pacific.
It's a really good book if you want to know everything specifically.
My stepdad just wrote this book and had it published and sold on Amazon. I'm very proud of him and I'd like to support him by getting honest, thoughtful reviews on Amazon.
I'd be willing to send a $5 gift card to anyone that PMs me a photo of the book in your hand and a link to your review on Amazon.
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Any questions or suggestions are welcome!
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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.
If you want to some reading, I highly recommend Making the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. A fascinating read that starts at the turn of the century (1900) with odd things happening in chemistry and ends with the politics of nuclear weapons at the end of WW2.
The story starts back at the end of WW1 really.
Off the top of my head I can't think of a book about the run up to war, but anything written by Max Hastings is worth reading. Antony Beevor, Joshua Levine, Patrick Bishop are also great authors (along with many others).
Also, look out for a TV Series called "The world at war" - its quite a few years old now but is a very good introduction, you can get it on DVD http://www.amazon.com/World-at-War-Laurence-Olivier/dp/B0002F6AH0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433092856&sr=8-1&keywords=the+world+at+war
Amazing, absolutely amazing what they did. I doubt we would have even come close to winning the War without them. I recently read a short book, called Code Talker, Book here Anyway, it shows a story of the authors grandfather, who was a Navajo marine. Thanks for your time.
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.