July 2013~readings

Happy 4th of July! Patton's Oracle: Gen. Oscar Koch, as I Knew Him ...touchstones must have taken the day off!

Folksy, anecdotal story of Patton's superb G-2.

I'm reading Kiev 1941 by David Stahel.

#2, I've read 3 of us books, liked' em all.

Reading Salerno 1943: The Allies invade southern Italy, typical little Osprey & not one of their best.

Now zipping through Blood Red Snow, an Ostfront memoir by German infantryman. Fast read.

Off to the coasts of Massachusetts & Maine for a week, packed The Boat; hoping to find some good used book stores. Cheers, A

The Russian Convoys, brrrrr! (Kennebunktport)

The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943, airplane book for the trip back to Annapolis.

#6 Have you read The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17 or the fictional San Andreas ? Great books, nobody does ice like Alistair MacLean.

#8, I've read PQ17 & I concur on MacLean (Ice Station Zebra, brrr)

The Mighty Eighth & The Real Cruel Sea, some impressive stories. Started Stalin's General, pretty good so far.

Rereading In Deadly Combat : A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front.

And on to Five Years, Four Fronts: The War Years of Georg Grossjohann.

Reread When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies); IMO the most readable of all the Glantz books. Several of his have made my head explode! Seriously tho, the community owes him a great debt for all his Ostfront scholarship/