any good books on WWII ?

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War of The Rats by David Robbins is a great read.

It's the true story of Vasily Zeytsef and Heinz Thorvald, the 2 snipers of Stalingrad as butchered by the film Enemy at The Gates.
 
HMS Ulysses - Alistair Maclean

its fiction, but obviously based on real life convoys such as PQ-17

and you'll be raging against those german bastards at the end

:-(
 
Arnhem. The battle for survival by john nichol and tony reynold

10/10
 
Just about impossible to beat the Antony Beevor books, particularly Stalingrad and Berlin. I read that he's doing one on the Battle of Kursk which should be pretty good an arl.

I don't think there's as many good live accounts as they tend to be pretty patchy and a bit boys own. The best I've read is Primo Levi If this be a man - not the conflict as such but an account of his time in Auschwitz. There's a cracking read called the Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer who was a grenadier in the Gross Deutschland division which really conveys the horror of total war. Some dispute though as to whether he was really there of whether its a dramatized account. Either way its a good read.
 
I am currently reading The Long Walk by a Polish soldier. It is an account of how he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Russians and his escape from a Siberian camp.
Do not know if it is true although it is claimed that it is.
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Samer is a good read. About a German soldier on the Russian front, again claimed to be true but I'm not sure about that.
 
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Slaughterhouse 5
Catch 22

A very good book but based on ww1 is
' generals die in bed'

Amazing how a tragedy brings out the jingoists
 
Feed the Monster said:
Just about impossible to beat the Antony Beevor books, particularly Stalingrad and Berlin. I read that he's doing one on the Battle of Kursk which should be pretty good an arl.

I don't think there's as many good live accounts as they tend to be pretty patchy and a bit boys own. The best I've read is Primo Levi If this be a man - not the conflict as such but an account of his time in Auschwitz. There's a cracking read called the Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer who was a grenadier in the Gross Deutschland division which really conveys the horror of total war. Some dispute though as to whether he was really there of whether its a dramatized account. Either way its a good read.
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Agreed, I've just finished reading the Ardennes about the battle of the bulge, his book on the Spanish Civil (slightly off topic) is excellent as well

This is good read
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1088288/dam-busters/9781448123728/
Another author is Michael Nobbs, he's written some very good semi factual books about Churchill's war years
https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007183050/churchills-hour another good read
 
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