Two of my favorites are The Thin Red Line and To the White Sea. I'll get a copy of Cruel Sea. Always glad to have new WW2 recommendations. Love your channel.
There's some very strong feelings about Winston. I have a different view of him but as with nearly every world leader on such a stage he leaves quite a tornado in his wake. Thanks for watching!
It doesn't stand much chance against the annual remembrance of D Day or the Battle of Britain and suffers from the less charismatic nature of Soviet generals.
There is an expanded edition out now that I mentioned in the memoir video for this. I'm experimenting with shorts to generate some more traffic for the channel. I think of them as commercials.
Need to find the Beevor book, he is a good writer.....I like the second book of the Atkins Trilogy between the three....the only book I have on the Battle for Crete, "Ten Days To Destiny:The Battle For Crete, 1941." By. G. C. Kiriakopoulos....what is your opinion of Martin Blumenson's books?.....by the way, I wish you would move over a bit so I can see what books are on that shelf behind you..lol..some of them I have and have read...the Med Theater of the war doesn't get talked about enough....and again, I look forward to your videos and reasons to buy more books.
I've read I think just the Patton book by Blumenson. I thought it quite good and had a good critical analysis of his personality issues and wasn't just a fanboy exercise. As for what's on the shelf behind me that's my ETO combat shelf. I have a separate shelf for ETO politics/war crimes/spies. Next to ETO combat is aviation and sometimes in frame next to that is my biography bookcase.
You convinced me, I've had The Liberation Trilogy for years, but I didn't feel like I needed an overview of things I've read about before. Guess it's time to finally tackle them. I've read several of Evelyn Waugh's books a long time ago and they were beautifully written.
I've heard the name Evelyn Waugh in years past and 'English literature' attached to the name so I've never given him any thought. I know how you feel about survey series and have been mildly upset at myself for buying them in the past but Atkinson really hits the mark. He knows how to set the tone and kind of put you in the room with these people and that makes a great difference.
I've read the first volume of the Atkinson Rev War trilogy. The second is set to release next month, I think. A note of caution: I found it to be extremely Quartermaster General inclined. Stats for everything under the sun, inventories galore and without fail, for every prominent Founding Father or soldier mentioned he has to tell you the wife's name and how many kids they had. I'm not big on the Rev War and hoped to really clue myself in on it but I found it to be endless shopping lists, more or less. Your mileage may vary!
I do look forward to your video's and recommendations.....have you read Walter R. Borneman's book, "The Admirals" I found it worth reading.....have the Terry Brighton book, and after all you said I need to read it now.....as for Patton, still reading the D'Este biography; certainly is long.....off topic, I note you have the TR Bio, did you like it?....again, I do look forward to your videos.
Thanks so much for your encouragement! I read that TR bio ages ago and Loved it. He's another smooth writer who can do nonfiction almost like a novelist. I've never seen The Admirals book. I have a few of D'este's books. I really liked the Churchill at War the best (not sure if that title is right. Something like that).
@@onepingonly1941 You're welcome....TR is a personal hero and favorite of mine; I even liked Tom Berenger as him in the movie "Rough Riders" (Better as TR than Longstreet)...will look into the Church book, again another personal favorite.....have read the Edmund Morris bio's on TR; I liked them.....
I remembered. Warlord is the D'Este book and it's just C's military stuff. Berenger was really out of his depth in a Civil War movie; he had no idea how to play the part. Gettysburg is really good for the combat stuff but the character studies are a real struggle. Still, it's light years better than Gods and Generals (to me).
Yes, the Clark book is good.....did you not like "Kursk." By. Llyod Clark.....have you read the Paul Carell's "Hitler Moves East, 1941-1943" and it's sequal?.....My friend Yogi, actual German who fought on Eastern Front, would always recommend, "Ivan's War:Life And Death In The Red Army, 1939-1945." By. Catherine Merridale....ah, WW2 is always interesting....need to see the movie "Cross Of Iron."
I just bought Clark's Kursk book in July. I believe you asked me about the Paul Carrell book when you saw the original version of this video. I have the first one, tattered, on my shelf of waiting for decades now. If you've never seen Cross of Iron you're in for a good one. The '60s and '70s are my go to era for great war movie making.
@@onepingonly1941 I probably did ask already about the Carrell book....will look for "Cross of Iron" today as I am going to the used bookstore today....
HBO nails most of their projects, that's for certain, although I am underwhelmed by The Pacific vs. Band of Brothers. It's just missing some oomph for me. Conspiracy is top notch.
Amazing channel... found this channel at 2am lol but Worth it ...can you plzz give me a few WW1 book recommendations?? And keep it up!! You are doing great 🎉❤
Thanks so much and welcome to the show! I've done one video on pre WW2 books, titled Before The War but only one book in that video concerns WW1. If you're thinking of a general history I really enjoyed Martin Gilbert's. Aside from that I am primarily interested in the naval war aspect of the Great War rather than the land or aerial stuff so my knowledge is pretty limited. For naval material there's Raiders of the Deep by Thomas Lowell and The Great War At Sea by Richard Hough. Happy reading!
@@onepingonly1941 thank you for recommending books..yeah I am reading Martin Gilbert's FIRST WORLD WAR and it's well written.. I heard that his book on WW2 is also very good!
Interesting as always, and sadly I only have one book on Heydrich....."The Assassination of Heydrich" by. Jan G. Wiener....which means I need more books, always need more books.....it never ends.
Excellent stuff.....I'm glade you mentioned "The Ghost Mountain Boys" as I am in the middle of reading that book; which I am finding good.....no mention of the Battle Of Okinawa? My first two books on WW2 I read were that subject, "Typhoon of Steel: Battle of Okinawa." and E B Sledges memoirs, (Mostly I read them because I lived on Okinawa for two years, military brat that I was.....and it got me into WW2 History and haven't regreted it)....I also read the Jove War Book of the Battle of Buna....anyway, excellent books, I have or read a few of them mentioned....
Iwo has my attention more than Okinawa as far as the land battle goes. I tend to focus on the kamikaze effort at Okinawa. I have one awful book called Bloody Buna by Lida Mayo put out by of all imprints.... Playboy Paperbacks. I've had it forever. It was a really tough haul for just 200 pages. And yet, I've kept it for the reason that Buna is an obscure moment in the war.
The book on the Hamburg Bombings I have is Martin Caidin's "The Night Hamburg Died....short little book, but I haven't read it yet...you?....I know it's a proganda movie of Wake Island made in 1942, have you ever seen it?.....
No I haven't seen the movie. Martin Caidin was prolific. I haven't seen the one on Hamburg. I own about 4 or 5 of his. I'll look for the movie. I am trying to catch up on a lot I've missed while raising kids.
@@onepingonly1941 I have five of his books, their pretty good....I liked mostly his "Ragged, Rugged Warriors." (The early air war against Japan and one of the first WW2 books I read)....yes, raising future WW2 Historians is work....remember the movie is more propaganda than history.
Thanks for another great video. I put Inferno on my public library's request list. I read his Savage Continent last year and it was very good. I read Martin Middlebrook's The Battle of Hamburg many years ago so it will be nice to get a different viewpoint.
Savage Continent was illuminating. I've tried a couple of Middlebrook's histories and his style is a bit of a sedative to me. I think the only one I got through was Battleship, about Prince of Wales and Repulse. Glad you liked it! Cheers!
@@onepingonly1941 I really liked Inferno. Lots of information on all the sides. Lowe writes well so reading about what the Hamburgers, always smiled to myself when he would write that, lived through was easier to take. Thanks again for the recommendation. I'm looking forward to his Naples 1944.
Must admit the only book I have read on the Battle of the Huertgen is Charles b. MacDonald; been a long time since I read it....obviously need more books on the subject....by the way, the author J. D. Salinger was at Huertgen....the only Neillands book I have is his history of the "Eigth Army"....have not read that yet.....
@@onepingonly1941 It is a MacDonald book...Battle of the Bulge Memior....he also wrote "A Time For Trumpets; The Untold Story Of The Battle Of The Bulge."....
@@davidsigler9690 Ok I found it. Battle of the Hurtgen F. I think I've looked at it b4 but man his writing is really a brick wall for me to get through. Just really can't handle after action reports as narrative voice. He was the official Army historian of the European campaign, too, which means more of the same tone.
@@onepingonly1941 I'm reading a bio of him and found it interesting.....he is one of those authors I find more interesting than what he wrote....he didn't like talking much about the Huertgen.
Excellent books.....have you read "Air War Normandy" by. Richard Townshend Bickers, opinion?......I have always viewed the movie "The Longest Day" more a character study of Normandy than actual-factual history....The Symonds book is good as well.
No I haven't heard of the Bickers book. I considered the Symonds book but was burning out on Normandy stuff so when I do another D Day vid I can put in that one. Longest Day film I really like, excepting the Duke, reflecting the time period it was made. I really like its feel and tone.
@@onepingonly1941 Well, it was better than his performance in the "The Conquerer."....how about doing one on the Battle of Crete? That would be a change from Normandy. Just an idea....
I would have included "Operation Neptune" by Craig Symonds. Very good on the naval aspect in a way none of the other ones are. Most, if not all of your video, is from German sources, which is deceptive. You'd have no idea there were losing watching it.
I've considered the Symonds book but haven't committed to it yet. I am confused by what you mean by German sources. Do you mean the video clips I put in? Those appear to be either French collaborationist or German filmmakers, I'm honestly not sure which. I have to use what I can find as open domain as I'm not willing to go through pay walls for much of the archival footage. I thought it would be interesting to show the view of D Day from the other side of the hill.
A book or research (or an explanation) about the death of Martin Bormann, who probably (probably) died in Paraguay in 1959 and his crane was move to Germany to prove that he has died there....
I have done a video about the Rat Line, the clandestine network that helped Nazi war criminals escape to South America and I featured the book Hunting Evil by Guy Walters. But specifically about Bormann I haven't made a video on him but I can add it to my upcoming projects as I have read a biography on him. Cheers! And thanks for watching.
Yes I've been board gaming since 2016 and Manhattan Project is a game I found early on and played the hell out of. Pretty burned on it now but we still bring it out from time to time. I mention several board games in my Battle of Britain video, if you haven't seen that one. I'm pretty high on The G and the G; I hope I didn't oversell it for you.
Always interesting and some books worth looking for as usual.....no mention of Oppenheimer Biography or the movie?....(Question not related to subject, I found for $2 Hans Speidel's 'Invasion, 1944.' Opinion if you read).
Wow I didn't know Speidel wrote a book! Good find!. And I messed up a bit with the Oppie movie. I had just returned it to the library and I forgot about it entirely. The bio it's based on I've got a lot of issues with and I think I'm strictly contrarian on that matter but at a later date I can do another vid on the Bomb because there is some other material I didn't get to. But really, I had had enough at that point I couldn't stand any more for the moment.
@@onepingonly1941 Understandable....as for Hans Seidel, it's not a very long book, 160 pages, but I am always looking out for older books like this....now need to read it.
Thanks for the recommendations. I've been reading about WWII for over 20 years and have avoided the Holocaust. "Auschwitz" was not an easy read, but it was well written. It's the companion book to the PBS/BBC documentary "Inside the Nazi State" which I watched after reading the book. "Masters of Death" was also well done, but it was brutal. I ended up jumping around and I found it easier to take that way.
Yeah Masters of Death is up front and direct, no doubt about it. I haven't seen that companion doc but I did see a companion doc he did for another book several years ago, War of the Century. Thanks for watching!
You're welcome. I've watched many of your videos and it seems like you'll mention a book or two that I've read and one or two I haven't which I'll add to my list. Keep up the great work!
Is it ok if you can make a video reccomending books based on the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. I feel like that battle doesn’t get the recognition it deserves considering it was the longest single ground battle the US fought on German ground in WWII
Great suggestion! I've only read 1, I think, but I'll put this topic on my list and get to it when I can. There are a few films I can tie in to the Hurtgen, as well. Thanks for watching!
@@onepingonly1941 I’ve been reading “The Last Hill” by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, it does talk about the Hurtgen Forest and Hill 400, but it’s more of a story on the 2nd Ranger battalion.
I have two D Day books one from Stephen E Ambrose and Another one of Antony Beevor Waterstones version UK published. I see a D day book behind you sir wondering from which author is it. ???
The further you go, the bigger the need for a bottle of disbelief. It's enjoyable. I did call a halt after six or seven books, though. I may go back to it later.
I am reading Time/Life's Third Reich series Wolf Packs at present and had no idea that the Germans had electric U-boats toward the end of the war. They seem to have had, aside from the T-34, the best equipment, just too little of it.
I'd say in some fields yes they had some great gear but taking on the world's three largest economies all at once was never going to be a winning idea. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed the vid. Cheers.
@@onepingonly1941 They definitely had the monopoly on arrogance. I subscribed. I'm always interested in topics on The Big One and the aftermath. I look forward to more of your videos. Here's hoping no one ever has to reminisce about The Biggest One.
@@lunchhooks2253 Thanks so much for subscribing! Although I haven't done a video dedicated just to the dropping of the Bomb I have reviewed Richard Frank's Downfall on the channel.
Only the first book mentioned have I read, (My history group did the book).....only Massie book I have fread is his Peter The Great....so I will have to find his others, I already have his Catherine The Great.
I recently read his Catherine the Great to give me some kind of information on the person beyond the name. It was OK to good; meticulous and complete but just about beyond saturation point for my level of interest. I'm leery of the Peter The Great bio due to its extreme length. Castles of Steel really was a departure for him.
I've enjoyed Ian Toll's Pacific War Trilogy as my first book on that theater. They're long but I liked the parts he focused on and I have a clearer view of the timeline of the war. Glad to see you mentioned Retribution. That's next on my list!
I read Toll's earlier book, 6 Frigates, which I found fascinating. He has a real ability to tell the story. I have Pacific Crucible, but I'm not certain I need another trilogy general history (I overdose on this stuff). Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
I hate to admit to this about the movie, but as a young kid I for some reason thought this about WW1.....don't ask me why, I just did...I figured it out eventually that it wsn't....lol......do you remember the Johnny Horton song, "Sink The Bismark," ?
If there's a downside to it it's that he doesn't relate anything, really, about how officer and enlisted man interacted on his ships or his relationships with subordinate officers on his ships. He's pretty self focused and I don't know if that's a cultural thing, an IJN institutional thing, a desire not to bring others to attention out of politeness or something else. It could just be a huge ego at work, it's impossible to say.
@@onepingonly1941 Well, so far I like it, I don't expect a too indeph memoir, are they ever as indepth as we would like? No, but still it's interesting.
Being Jewish, yes I've read the Auschwitz book......have you ever read "Treblinka." By. Jean-Francois Steiner and his book on the Treblinka Uprising? There is also one on the Commandant of Treblinka, Franz Stangl?.....which I have yet to read but have....World War Two has so many stories to tell and so many still untold.
I have it in paperback, no memory of where I got it from but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Franz Stangl I just have the bio by Gitta Sereny which I thought missed the mark by quite a bit.
My friend Yogi, ex-WW2 Vet, yes he fought on the Russian Front, highly recommended the "Ivan's War" book.....he also didn't think much of the Desert Fox......have you ever read "Fighting In Hell: The German Ordeal On The Eastern Front." Edited by. Peter G. Tsouras and is it worth reading?
Thanks for the list of things to avoid in writing about History; as I do it on my social media stuff I do find myself doing a few of those things so I agree with you they should be avoided....as for footnotes, they have a use but a very limited one in my opinion.....
As you can tell it's a list of gripes but I consider it important from the end user aspect; I often think publishers just dismiss the audience when feeding new product through the process of getting the book to market like it's a pig or a cow. I could grind my axe on that issue for a long, long time.
@@onepingonly1941It's thinking that all those who read their book have the attention span of a goldfish so they over over over simplify the subject qith those things you mentioned....I generally just use the bibliography to see if I have the book already or not....
I really am a sucker for memoirs and these 2 are some of my earliest ones, not sure how many times I've reread each of them over the decades. They're also 2 out of maybe the ten best known in America. I'm gonna have to get back to memoirs sometime this year for some more obscure ones.
I read the MacArthur Biography, I like Manchester as an author, as for Doug, well, he's MacArthur so what else is there to say, ego of the highest order.....I read Speers "Inside The Third Reich." It was okay.
"With The Old Breed" was the first WW2 Memoir I read; excellent book. I also read it because I had just spent 2 years living on Okinawa, dad was military, and then I found "Typhoon Of Steel:The Battle For Okinawa." (Bantam War Book of course)....and my interest in WW2 began....also read, "Unbroken." Good book.,,,,need to find that third book you talked about, I enjoy reading about the other sides story of the war....
I was beginning to think you weren't going to cover Silent Victory. I didn't make the connection between that author and the three volume history on the Korean War that I read a long time ago. There is a new one on Submarine Tactics and Midway or something like that that you might find interesting.
Future ideas....well, books on POW experiences would be good......books on the German side of the Battle of The Bulge.....Books on the Battle of Kursk.....just a few ideas.
Well I know some POW books but in all honesty the Bulge is fairly new territory to me. I don't know offhand that I've ever read any book dedicated to it. Kursk is an odd animal... I've got material surrounding it and of course it's in Eastern Front general histories but I think I've only got one directly centered on it. Gonna have to do some digging on that one. Great ideas for the future!
@@onepingonly1941 Also have a few POW Books, as for Kursk I have Clark's book,....as for the Battle of the Bulge via the Germans I only have one that strictly about them, "Hitler's Ardennes Offensive:The German View Of The Battle Of The Bulge." Edited By. Danny S. Parker.....the WW2 Period is fascinating.
