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By: 22nd June 2021 at 18:07 Permalink
-Try any of these:
War in the West - James Holland
Never Surrender - Robert Kershaw
Most Dangerous Enemy - Stephen Bungay ***
The War for the Seas - Evan Maudsley
The Storm of War - Andrew Roberts
Operation Pedestal - Max Hastings
Normandy 44 - James Holland
Nemesis - Max Hastings
Sicily 43 - James Holland
The Lost Continent - Gavin Hewitt
All, excellent accounts.
By: 15th August 2021 at 08:44 Permalink
-My suggestions are :
Sigh for a Merlin - Alex Henshaw
Malta Convoy - Peter Shankland (as part of 3 Great War Stories - Malta Convoy; Tinkerbelle & Unbroken)
By: 14th November 2021 at 16:45 Permalink
-Thanks for the recommendations. It is much appreciated.
I ordered all the books listed above and my father has read about 2/3 so far(except The Lost Continent which is book about the Euro crisis and is being read by me).
Therefore, I was wondering if anybody has any other recommendations. This is more for high quality general overview books f the war instead of detailed airplane books(which is what I tend to read).
Thanks
By: 15th November 2021 at 11:37 Permalink
-Tom Neils books are very readable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neil ,
By: 17th November 2021 at 10:55 Permalink
-BB
For a 'nuts and bolts' overview it's hard to better David Edgerton's 'Britains War Machine', ISBN: 978-0-14102-610-7 or, same author, 'England and the Aeroplane', ISBN: 978-0-14197-516-0
Best wishes to your dad !
By: 17th November 2021 at 17:15 Permalink - Edited 17th November 2021 at 17:20
-A book I enjoyed was return via Dunkirk by Gun Buster - a first hand account of the BEF in 1940. Apparently there were three other books from the same author ( a pseudonym).
I also have the Greatest Raid of All by CE Lucas Phillips- the one that Mr. Clarkson made a programme about on the St. Nazaire raid. The book is good.
By: 21st November 2021 at 02:12 Permalink
-As an aside, the programme was also very good. Personally, I quite like Clarkson anyway, but even if you don't his documentaries are excellent. St. Nazaire, the Arctic Convoys and Brunel are the ones I know about and have seen.
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By: buzzbeurling - 22nd June 2021 at 17:44
My father loves books on WWII. Not overly detailed and dry ones and not simplistic ones. He loves ones with good detail but backed up with pictures/diagrams. An example would be a good one on D-Day that he has read many times. It does not have to be aviation but inevitably, there will almost always be some aviation involved.
Any suggestions on what I should order for his birthday.
Thanks