“The thrilling wartime novel that inspired Wolfgang Petersen’s Academy Award-nominated, blockbuster film! Written by an actual survivor of Germany’s U-boat fleet, Das Boot is one of the most exciting stories of naval warfare ever published, a tale filled with almost unbearable tension and suspense. In autumn 1941, a German U-boat commander and his crew set…
Category: World War Two Book’s Worth A Damn
Know Your Weapons: The Lewes Bomb
WHO DARES WINS with a Lewes Bomb! BBC is currently running a Six episode series titled SAS Rogue Heroes based on the book by Ben MacIntyre. I have only watched half of it so far but from what I have seen I like it.
Know Your History: The Cancer of Communism
The Greatest Battle in the History of the World Just Remember
Know Your WW2 History: Operation Barbarossa
The Nazi-Soviet War was the Largest Land Battle Ever Fought Excellent read on Operation Barbarossa with some really nice pictures. For all my fellow Military Historians out there, here is a short list on the subject: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Russia’s War: A History of the…
This Book Will Give You Nightmares – Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2004)
This Book Will Give You Nightmares – Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2004) I read this book several years ago while going through my “Major Leaders of WW2” Biography challenge and although it was a LONG read, it was extremely well researched. Stalin was in my opinion ten times the monster that…
Know Your WW2 History: The Forgotten Soldier – Guy Sajer
The Forgotten Soldier – Guy Sajer Fantastic snippet from the book The Forgotten Soldier. Some of the BEST Military History of WW2 was written by German Soldiers and their experiences during the War. Keep in mind while you are reading that this is a 16 year old boy witnessing and enduring the horrors of…
Urban Warfare, Back in the Day
URBAN WARFARE, BACK IN THE DAY Current headlines are replete with stories of urban warfare. Be it Aleppo, Ramadi, Tripoli or some Ukrainian city you only learned of last year, there appears to be no shortage of combatants that want to fight in/over/for some piece of urban terrain. Perhaps a brief step back in to…
Know Your WW2 History: The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
The Heroic Tin Can Sailors Held Off the Japanese Saving Thousands of Lives in WWII When asked about great naval WW2 books I always tell people The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer is in my top 5. It’s an amazing story of heroism and never say die grit…
How this BADASS US Unit didn’t Lose a Single Man While TERRORISING the Japanese
How this BADASS US Unit didn’t Lose a Single Man While TERRORISING the Japanese I had read a book on the Alamo Scouts a few years back and the desctiption of the training here was accurate. Just to make it fun the blind fold test was done at night in the Pacific Jungle! Ouch….
Three Must Read WW2 Trilogies
The Liberation Trilogy Rick Atkinson The Pacific War Trilogy Ian Toll The History of the Third Reich Trilogy Richard J. Evans