What are the Forum members reading (6 Viewers)

[marco55]

The Upper Country.
Mark

 

[theBaron]

I wrapped up some "commemorative" re-reading. For the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, I read the Osprey Campaign number on the battle-the only book specifically on the battle that I have-followed up by John Lundstrom's "First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Miday". That includes the Coral Sea, naturally. Then I read Walter Lord's "Incredible Victory" and Parshall & Tully's "Shattered Sword" for the Midway anniversary. And today I read through Cornelius Ryan's "The Longest Day". So I'm good till the Fourth.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Deitz]

Wolf Pack " The American Submarine Strategy that Helped Defeat Japan" by Steven Trent Smith

 

[Mark Terbush]

The civil War by Shelby Foote.

 

[Combat]

"Hitler's Final Fortress - Breslau 1945" by Richard Hargreaves. A very well-written account of the brutal last months of the war. It doesn't just focus on the final battle but the preamble including the disastrous civilian evacuations. Hargreaves also has a new book "Opening the Gates of Hell" about the first two months of the invasion of Russia in 1941.

 

[Combat]

This one looks interesting:

Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West by Peter Cozzens.​

"Sifting through layers and layers of myth and legend—from nineteenth-century dime novels like Deadwood Dick, to HBO prestige dramas to the casino billboards outside of present-day Deadwood—Peter Cozzens unveils the true face of Deadwood, South Dakota, the storied mining town that sprang up in early 1876 and came raining down in ashes only three years later, destined to become food for the imagination and a nostalgic landmark that now brings in more than two and a half million visitors each year."