What Are You Reading Now?

[Topper]

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[Sizzle]

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[UVACoug]

Anyone have any recommendations on a good non-fiction book about WWII?

[Donuthole]

What Are You Reading Now?

Anyone have any recommendations on a good non-fiction book about WWII?

summon happyone (or just go back to the start of this thread and read his posts).

[Mormon Red Death]

The walking drum by Louis L'Amour.

Kerbouchard is the ultimate bad ass.

[Blueintheface]

The walking drum by Louis L'Amour.

Kerbouchard is the ultimate bad ass.

Great book, though it's been years. the only one of Louie's I've ever read.

[CardiacCoug]

Anyone have any recommendations on a good non-fiction book about WWII?

I really liked this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Soldiers.../dp/038549565X

[happyone]

Anyone have any recommendations on a good non-fiction book about WWII?

Do you want an complete history or a specific campaign?

A couple of recent complete histories that I can recommend

Andrew Robert's

http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-War-...andrew+roberts

Sir Max Hastings'

http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-...rds=max+hastin

For a campaign

Rick Atkinson's

Liberation Trilogy is simply the best Military History I've read in the past 10 yrs or more - Even better than Sir Max!

http://www.amazon.com/Liberation-Tri...t+dawn+trilogy

Cardiac's rec is also excellent - one of the best of that particular genre of WWII book out there.

summon happyone (or just go back to the start of this thread and read his posts).

[UVACoug]

Do you want an complete history or a specific campaign?

A couple of recent complete histories that I can recommend

Andrew Robert's

http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-War-...andrew+roberts

Sir Max Hastings'

http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-...rds=max+hastin

For a campaign

Rick Atkinson's

Liberation Trilogy is simply the best Military History I've read in the past 10 yrs or more - Even better than Sir Max!

http://www.amazon.com/Liberation-Tri...t+dawn+trilogy

Cardiac's rec is also excellent - one of the best of that particular genre of WWII book out there.

I am a beginner when it comes to WWII history, so I thought I would look for something with a complete overview and then focus on more narrow details later. Thanks for the recommendations. I'll take a look.

[Blueintheface]

The Utopia Experiment. I like the premise but the story is a bit muddled. Good plane book.

[SteelBlue]

Finished Gilead by Marilynne Robinson last week. Liked it so much I read her next novel, Home, which portrayed the same events from Gilead told from a different character's point of view. Both were excellent novels. I liked Gilead so much, that I think I'd put it in my personal top 10. As I mentioned earlier, the novel is a long letter from a dying Congregationalist minister, John Ames, in Gilead, Iowa to his 7 year old son (to be read when the boy reaches adulthood).

It's an amazing book in that it deals with faith and belief in a very positive light, but still managed to garner a great deal of critical acclaim: The 2005 Pulitzer for fiction and the NBCC Award. I think that anyone here on CS would enjoy it, from the agnostic to the TBM, and especially those who spend any time in the foyer. Ames seems to have the Christian life boiled down to its essence and his way of thinking about life and belief really appealed to me. It's a very character driven book, so there is not a lot of plot, but Ames' reflections and sermons and hopes for his young son are profound and touching. Gilead gets my strongest recommendation. Home is also very good, and if you read and enjoy Gilead you'd enjoy Home as well (won 2009 Orange Prize).

I have heard Robinson referred to as one of the greatest living American novelists, but hadn't read her until now. I could not be more impressed.

[BigPiney]

Just finished the Taliban Cricket Club. I like it quite a bit despite it being predictable and and a somewhat sappy bollywood style love story. The Deus ex machina bugged me, but I thought the look in to Afghanistan from an affluent woman's perspective was very interesting. This would be good for ER's book club.

[happyone]

I am a beginner when it comes to WWII history, so I thought I would look for something with a complete overview and then focus on more narrow details later. Thanks for the recommendations. I'll take a look.

Here is one more for your consideration

http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-W...anthony+beevor

I haven't read it yet, but it is supposed to be very good. It is on my TBR list, but not a particularly high priority

I have read the authors books on the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front) - He ranks right up there with Hastings as one the best writing today

[Armenag]

I have heard Robinson referred to as one of the greatest living American novelists, but hadn't read her until now. I could not be more impressed.

Robinson is a great writer, one of the rare ones whose work is phenomenal all the way down to individual sentences. You should look for some of her interviews, which are always interesting and insightful.

[SteelBlue]

Robinson is a great writer, one of the rare ones whose work is phenomenal all the way down to individual sentences. You should look for some of her interviews, which are always interesting and insightful.

I found and watched several interviews in the days after finishing Gilead and Home. She's a very interesting interview.